Seat Watch for BookMyShow

Watches BookMyShow seat maps and tells you when a block of adjacent seats opens up.

A big release is never as sold out as it looks. Cinemas hold seats back — for distributors, for staff, for corporate blocks, for whoever might still call. When nobody calls, those seats go back on sale. Often in the last hours before the show, sometimes minutes before it. On an opening weekend that is frequently the only inventory left. Nobody announces it. The listing just quietly changes, and by the time you think to look again the good rows are gone. Refreshing a page every few minutes for three hours is the manual version of this extension, and it's a bad way to spend an evening. The other reason to use it is simpler: you want THAT screen. The IMAX one, the one with the right rake, the one where the sound is actually set up. The same film in a worse room isn't the same evening out — so "sold out" there is worth waiting on rather than settling around. Both cases have the same shape. You don't want a seat, you want THOSE seats. So pick the showtimes you care about, say how many seats you need together and where in the hall you'll accept them, and get a notification the moment a matching block appears. Click it to land straight on the seat map. HOW YOU ADD A SHOW Search BookMyShow the way you normally would — by cinema or by film — and open its showtimes. Every showtime picks up a small + in its corner. Click it. The film, format, cinema and start time are filled in for you. Sold-out showtimes get the button too, and they're the ones worth using it on. WHAT COUNTS AS A MATCH Not just "a seat is free" — the seats you'd actually buy: • How many free seats side by side, with no aisle between them • Where in the hall: anywhere, the middle half, or dead centre • How many rows to skip at the front • Only the seats BookMyShow marks as its best, if you like Set them once as defaults, or per show. HOW OFTEN IT CHECKS Every show runs on its own clock, so tonight's screening is watched hard while one next week is barely touched — 90 seconds under three hours to showtime, half an hour when it's more than a day away. All five intervals are yours to change. A show is dropped six hours after it has played. WHERE ALERTS GO A desktop notification, always. Optionally also to Telegram or to a webhook — a Discord channel or an ntfy.sh topic both work with a single address pasted in. WHAT IT DOESN'T DO There is no server behind this. Nobody operates a service, so there is nowhere for your data to be collected or sold. Your watch list and settings live in your own browser. Checks run in your own Chrome, using the session you're already signed in with — nothing is proxied, nothing is replayed, and no credentials are handled. It does not book, hold, or pay for anything. It tells you, and you decide. ONE THING TO SET UP Nothing runs while your machine is asleep — and the release you're waiting for tends to land late in the evening, exactly when a laptop has nodded off. Stop it sleeping for the evening, and keep the display on: on a Mac, "caffeinate -dis" in Terminal; on Windows, Settings > System > Power & battery > Screen and sleep > Never. The welcome page and the settings page both walk through it. Reading the seat map means loading the seat map, so Chrome needs to be running for checks to happen. Checks are spaced out and randomly jittered, and never run faster than once a minute. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to BookMyShow.