Watch Netflix, Hulu, Peacock or YouTube with friends in other places, or upload a video of your own. Play, pause and seek stay in sync for everyone, and the chat on the side is end-to-end encrypted.
Jules paused at 41:02
wait who is that
the brother. keep watching
Maya played from 41:02
Grab backrow-extension.zip. It's small and has no trackers or remote code.
Double-click the file. Keep the backrow-extension folder somewhere it won't get deleted, since Chrome loads it from there.
Paste this into the address bar, then flip the Developer mode switch in the top right.
Click Load unpacked and pick the unzipped folder. Pin Backrow from the puzzle-piece menu so it's easy to reach.
Open a show and press play. Click the Backrow icon, choose Start party and send the invite link. Friends who open it land on the same episode, at the same second.
Yes. No accounts, ads or paid tier. It runs on Cloudflare's free plan, and the code is MIT licensed, so you can host your own copy.
For Netflix, Hulu and Peacock, yes. Each person streams from their own account, and Backrow only keeps the players in sync. YouTube and uploaded videos need no account.
Not yet. Loading it in Developer mode takes a minute and runs the same code you can read on GitHub.
The extension is Chromium-only for now. Uploaded videos play in any modern browser, phones included.
Only encrypted chunks ever reach the server. The file is deleted once the party has been empty for a few hours, and within a day at most.
Pauses and seeks reach everyone in well under a second. If someone drifts a little, Backrow speeds them up or slows them down slightly until they catch up, instead of jumping.