With a plethora of movies and TV shows on Netflix, sometimes it’s hard to decide what do you want to watch next. Netflix used to show some ratings, later it choose to go with match percent which doesn’t show any detail about the movie.
Earlier I was using chrome extension like NEnhancer, Rateflix, and Netflix Rate extension, which adds IMDB ratings to Netflix desktop. But, after a recent Netflix update with the UI, none of them seem to work. Enter Trim, it’s a new Google Chrome extension, that adds IMDB & Rotten Tomatoes ratings on the new version of Netflix
How to add IMDB Rating to Netflix
Install Trim from Google Chrome Store.
Head over to Netflix (if it’s already opened then refresh the page), you can take a look at IMDB & Rotten Tomatoes ratings at the top-right corner of thumbnails on the Netflix Home page.
Clicking on the ratings will open IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes websites of that Movie or TV Show. But it doesn’t provide episode wide ratings like the RateFlix extension used to show.
Anyhow, Trim has the option to fade out movies or tv shows with low ratings. To enable that, click on the extension icon and set the “IMBD rating Threshold” and “Rotten Tomatoes rating threshold” and click on the “Fade out low rated items” option.
This will fade out all the movies and TV shows that have a low rating than the threshold you have set.
Add IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes Ratings on Netflix (Android | iOS)
Apparently, there doesn’t seem to be any quick way to check IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes rating on your Android or iOS devices. As of now, I use Google Assistance (or you can use Siri if you have an iPhone) to find the IMDB rating.
For instance, say I’m planning to watch ‘Dark Knight’ on Netflix and want to know how people have rated it on IMDB, then simply press the home button while on the Netflix app, and say, ‘Dark Knight IMDB rating‘. Ideally, Google assistance should speak up the rating directly, but instead, it takes you to a new page and open the IMDB page of that movie. It takes a few extra taps to get back, but it works.
Update:
Finally, there is an Android app that will display IMDb ratings in the Netflix app. Simply download Flutter form the Google Play Store. Open the app and tap on Configure settings > Manage supported apps > Toggle the Netflix option to On. Next, tap on the Activate Flutter button at the bottom of the screen. Next, Flutter will ask you to enable accessibility in the settings. Go ahead and do it. Once done, the next time you open Netflix app, you’ll see a small popup with an IMDB rating of that movie and TV shows.
Our friends at Fixed has developed a chrome extension to implement IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes ratings on Hulu. You can find it here.
