Callsheet: Find Cast & Crew
Movie/TV cast & crew search
Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Redesigned to feel right at home in visionOS 26, with lots of improvements to help you find what you're looking for even faster!
Have you ever wondered “who is that actor?”, or perhaps “when was this movie released?”, or “what was the title of that one episode of that show I love”? Maybe you're a film aficionado, and wonder “how old was this person when this movie was released”?
Have you wanted to answer those questions *without* being prompted to log in every five seconds? Without advertisements, and without auto-playing videos? Without relying on a multinational conglomerate that is trying to sell you things?
You'll love Callsheet.
Callsheet is the best way to quickly look up information about the cast and crew in TV and movies. It respects your time, doesn't try to sell you stuff you don't need, and is designed to answer your questions quickly and easily.
Callsheet also has some novel features that your previous favorite database app does not:
• Prevent spoilers when watching TV shows by optionally hiding character names, episode counts, episode titles, or episode thumbnails.
Don't let yourself get spoiled on a character's secret identity, or that they'll leave the show quickly, by hiding those hints.
• Quick access to trivia, Wikipedia, parental guidance, and where to watch (provided by JustWatch).
• Pin shows, movies, or people for quick access.
• Find things you've searched for before using recent searches and search history.
• Easily see the age of cast members *when a film was released* right inline with the cast list
• Easily see the age of a person for each entry in their filmography
• Easily see the height of actors (when possible)
• Dark mode support
• VoiceOver support
• Alternate app icons for subscribers
• Automatic, no-login integration with the wonderful Channels app
• Experimental, no-login integration with Plex
Callsheet is written by one person, who REALLY cares about respecting your time. Callsheet is designed to let you drop in, find what you need with no fuss, and then get back to the movie or show you really care about. No distractions, and no requests to log in.
Callsheet offers 20 searches for free, and then requires a subscription. Subscriptions all come with a 1-week free trial. They support Family Sharing.
Give Callsheet a try. You won't believe how much better it is than the app you were using before.
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more An elegant, ad-free cast and crew database with interesting trivia – all the features a film connoisseur craves, including options to hide spoiler info.
An elegant, ad-free cast and crew database with interesting trivia – all the features a film connoisseur craves, including options to hide spoiler info.
This release is a fast-follow to 2026.1.
In this release, 2026.2, I fixed a bug [that I also created] that prevented age calculations from showing in movies more than 20 years old.
Since many of you probably didn't get a chance to see the release notes for 2026.1, I've repeated those below:
Happy [belated] New Year! Lots and lots of changes in this build!
As Callsheet rounds out its third year, I'm thankful for anyone who has downloaded the app, and incredibly thankful for those who subscribe. Thank you for helping me make an app I'm really proud of.
NEW FEATURES
- As of the prior version, you could enable/disable sections within the Discover screen. Now, you can reorder them as well!
- When looking at a person, the drop-down that lets you filter cast/crew/etc now *also* lets you exclude roles of "Self"
- Additionally, if you tap-and-hold on a credit for "Self", the context menu also allows you to toggle off "Self" credits
- Where possible, TV series will show the approximate ages of cast/crew during the run of the show.
- Add a context menu for Search History on the Discover screen
ENHANCEMENTS
- Increased contrast & size on the search bar
- Allow for more than 100 pins in a single list. Recents are limited to 100 and search history to 50.
- For TV episodes released today, the popover shows "today" instead of answering the question "how many hours has it been since midnight?"
- Added a "More info…" link to the integrations section, with additional information on how to get Plex working
BUG FIXES
- Fix an issue where opening a link in the system browser would cause the search bar to disappear
- The "Upcoming" section for people is consistently ordered now
- Fix some occasional wonkiness with the search prompt for the local search scope
- The up/down arrows for movie collections now use chevrons for better consistency
- The URL scheme callsheet://activateInput works again. Sorry about that!
- The keyboard will dismiss interactively on the Discover screen
- Fix issue where the subscribe button would flash to "0" for a moment when it was being hidden
- Small fixes to the Norwegian translation
- Prevent edge case where the paywall could be avoided by using URL schemes
- Reduce the size of the URLSession cache to prevent runaway filesystem usage
- Additional logging around Region Override to see if I can track down a rare but nasty bug
2026.2 11 Feb
Happy [belated] New Year! Lots and lots of changes in this build!
As Callsheet rounds out its third year, I'm thankful for anyone who has downloaded the app, and incredibly thankful for those who subscribe. Thank you for helping me make an app I'm really proud of.
NEW FEATURES
- As of the prior version, you could enable/disable sections within the Discover screen. Now, you can reorder them as well!
- When looking at a person, the drop-down that lets you filter cast/crew/etc now *also* lets you exclude roles of "Self"
- Additionally, if you tap-and-hold on a credit for "Self", the context menu also allows you to toggle off "Self" credits
- Where possible, TV series will show the approximate ages of cast/crew during the run of the show.
- Add a context menu for Search History on the Discover screen
ENHANCEMENTS
- Increased contrast & size on the search bar
- Allow for more than 100 pins in a single list. Recents are limited to 100 and search history to 50.
- For TV episodes released today, the popover shows "today" instead of answering the question "how many hours has it been since midnight?"
- Added a "More info…" link to the integrations section, with additional information on how to get Plex working
BUG FIXES
- Fix an issue where opening a link in the system browser would cause the search bar to disappear
- The "Upcoming" section for people is consistently ordered now
- Fix some occasional wonkiness with the search prompt for the local search scope
- The up/down arrows for movie collections now use chevrons for better consistency
- The URL scheme callsheet://activateInput works again. Sorry about that!
- The keyboard will dismiss interactively on the Discover screen
- Fix issue where the subscribe button would flash to "0" for a moment when it was being hidden
- Small fixes to the Norwegian translation
- Prevent edge case where the paywall could be avoided by using URL schemes
- Reduce the size of the URLSession cache to prevent runaway filesystem usage
- Additional logging around Region Override to see if I can track down a rare but nasty bug
2026.1 6 Feb
- In Persnickety Preferences, you can now toggle the different Discover sections on or off
- Remove huge gap below the season carousel/link on TV shows
- Add additional padding in the search box when Dynamic Type is set to smaller font sizes
- Tightened up Search History presentation on Discover
- Fix presentation for season carousel when Show Borders is enabled
- Fix wonky presentation of the Theme picker in Persnickety Preferences
2025.10 14/11/2025
A lot of work has been done on Callsheet over the summer and early fall to make it better than ever. I appreciate your patience as I worked to bring things to a place where I'm proud of them. If you encounter any issues, please use the in-app feedback feature (located in Settings) to let me know.
Callsheet now requires iOS 18. For users still on iOS 18, Callsheet continues to work with iOS 18; however, most of the visual changes below are only applicable to users running iOS 26 or later.
The icons have *not* been updated yet; those will receive updates at a later time.
VISUAL REFRESH
- Refreshed to fit in with iOS 26 and Liquid Glass design
- All-new search affordance at the bottom that lets you quickly swap between searching films/shows/people, OR searching the particular film/show/person you're already viewing.
- Moved Recent Searches onto the Discover screen, below Pinned Items
- Moved Search History to the top toolbar
- When viewing a show/film, you can now see a union of cast & crew credits by using the drop-down on the left and choosing "Everything"
- When no results are available for something, the messaging is much clearer
- Change the pin icon (due in no small part to some SwiftUI limitations in Liquid Glass)
OTHER FIXES
- For users on iOS 26+, you can now swipe back from Search Results to get back to Discover
- Fix collection navigation (the up/down buttons on the top toolbar when viewing a movie) for non-English users
- Fix Known For occasionally showing duplicates
- Fix Settings layout for pickers in non-English languages
- Fixed a race condition that could prevent Now Playing from working properly
- Improvements to Callsheet clearing Now Playing items that… aren't playing anymore
- Improve search results for searches that accidentally contain curly quotes
- Fixed issue with release dates not showing in rare cases
- Will no longer navigate to a TV episode you're already viewing when opening Callsheet by URL
- Fix off-by-one episode errors in some rare cases
- Bad data about a movie collection won't cause the app to get confused
- Scrolling longer views downward will now dismiss the keyboard
OTHER IMPROVEMENTS
- Search results are shown in the device's native language, or the app's language if the device language has been overridden
- Switching between lists is more consistent, particularly on the Discover screen
2025.9 05/11/2025
This release does **not** include any updates for iOS 26; that release is coming soon.
- For people, Callsheet can now optionally show their cast and crew credits in one list; previously, they were always separate lists
- Fixed race condition that prevented Now Playing from working properly
- Fixed issue with collection navigation (↑↓) not working when the app is not using English
- Callsheet now shows native-language search results instead of English, where possible
- Fixed issue with shared TV episodes being off by 1
- Fixed issue that should prevent duplicates in "You may know them from"
- Fixed issue where, if you have a TV episode open, tapping on a URL for that same episode doesn't re-open it
- Fixed rare issue where release dates weren't shown
- Fixed rare issue where Plex wasn't providing the correct TMDB ID
- Fix small localisation issue for French
- Add a bunch of Finnish translations
2025.8 01/10/2025
Fixed issue where the "died age X" calculation — shown in cast/crew lists — was made from birthday to release day, instead of birthday to death day.
2025.7 08/06/2025
New features:
- Add age at death for posthumous credits
Bug fixes:
- Correct age handling for releases in the future
- Fix collection ordering; in rare cases flipping between movies in a collection was not ordered correctly. (You can do this using the up and down arrows in the top toolbar when viewing a movie such as Star Wars).
- Add missing localisation for "Choose Links" in Settings
- Remove a simulator-only workaround for how Apple accidentally busted URLSession in the prior version of Xcode
2025.6 07/06/2025
New Features:
- Death year and age added to a person's credit when viewing a film/episode
(Wow, that was kinda morose. Sorry.)
Bug fixes:
- Fix completely jacked-up Upcoming section in people's filmographies
- Fix wonky quick links presentation on iPad & Mac
- Fix visual glitch in Settings → Select Link
- Fix episode trivia link being off by one. I am now living proof the computer science joke is real.
"There are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." —Leon Bambrick
2025.5 22/05/2025
New Features:
- When viewing a person, TV appearances are correctly placed in the year of their first appearance. The short-lived section for "long-running series" is gone!
- Ages in cast/crew lists now show the person's age at the time of release *and* the age they are now
- People who are pinned are now highlighted when looking at cast/crew lists
- New Quick Link to Letterboxd for movies
- Quick Links you don't want can be hidden
- Added credit counts for people — they can be found all the way at the bottom of the credit lists
- Added tool tips for Quick Links and toolbar on macOS
- You can now paste TMDB URLs in the Search box, and once you hit "Search" Callsheet will jump to the right spot
Bug fixes:
- Fixed behavior for TV shows with non-contiguous season numbers
- Fixed share links from context menus not using universal links
- People's "Known For" should now more heavily weight shows and movies you've pinned
- Actor heights are now back, where possible
- Searches will trim whitespace by default
- Fix weird visual glitch with the fourth (and only fourth) person on a cast/crew list
- Fix visual glitch with "Released" for TV episodes
- When running on the Mac, now requires macOS 15.0
- German localization fixes
2025.4 20/05/2025
New Features:
- Full context menus in the Discover screen for adding/removing pins
- Vastly improved and simplified sharing, thanks to the new callsheetapp.com. This includes universal deep link support
- Live activities can be started — manually — for movies and TV episodes. This allows you to one-tap return to Callsheet on your phone
Bug fixes:
- Fix leaky Finnish translations, particularly when long-pressing the app icon
- Fix Pretty in Pink app icon
- Improve list ordering and make more consistent
- Add missing dark variant icons
- Add VoiceOver/accessibility labels for app icons
- Improve verbiage for buttons in a delete dialog
- The mark used in the years a show ran is now an endash
2025.3 01/04/2025
New features:
2025.2 includes a fix for a situation when a pin list can't be deleted.
2025.1 — which most users did not receive — includes the following:
- MULTIPLE LISTS OF PINS!
- There is only one "active" list at a time
- You can switch lists on the Discover screen
- You can see all the pins in the active list by tapping the list name on the Discover screen
- You can add the same pin to multiple lists
- You can move/copy pins between lists (open your list and then tap-and-hold on a pin)
- You can add/remove pins from non-active lists by tapping-and-holding on the pin button in the toolbar
- Add support for ⌘F on iPad and macOS
- Add ability to "roll the dice" and choose a random pin
- Add support for automatic switchover between dark mode and light mode icons for the OG icon set
- Add shortcuts for Spotlight/Shortcuts
- Add Control Center controls
- Can now un-hide spoilers in Known For
- When looking at a person, long-running series (think Saturday Night Live) are now grouped together. This should cut down on the amount of times you see someone born in 2000 credited for a show in 1975.
- Add Pretty in Pink icon
- Add TipKit to a couple of spots, which will give you hints on how to use every part of Callsheet to the fullest
Bug fixes:
- Fix episode summaries not honoring spoiler settings
- Fix broken episode counts for roles that have been coalesced
- Small VoiceOver fixes
- Fix oddball case when a Wikipedia title has a question mark in it would lead to Callsheet getting confused when opening Wikipedia
- Fix a plurality mismatch on the pre-sale screen
- Nerds: some work toward Swift 6 Strict Concurrency. This work may never end, however.
2025.2 14/02/2025
New Features:
- MULTIPLE LISTS OF PINS!
- There is only one "active" list at a time
- You can switch lists on the Discover screen
- You can see all the pins in the active list by tapping the list name on the Discover screen
- You can add the same pin to multiple lists
- You can move/copy pins between lists (open your list and then tap-and-hold on a pin)
- You can add/remove pins from non-active lists by tapping-and-holding on the pin button in the toolbar
- Add support for ⌘F on iPad and macOS
- Add ability to "roll the dice" and choose a random pin
- Add support for automatic switchover between dark mode and light mode icons for the OG icon set
- Add shortcuts for Spotlight/Shortcuts
- Add Control Center controls
- Can now un-hide spoilers in Known For
- When looking at a person, long-running series (think Saturday Night Live) are now grouped together. This should cut down on the amount of times you see someone born in 2000 credited for a show in 1975.
- Add Pretty in Pink icon
- Add TipKit to a couple of spots, which will give you hints on how to use every part of Callsheet to the fullest
Bug fixes:
- Fix episode summaries not honoring spoiler settings
- Fix broken episode counts for roles that have been coalesced
- Small VoiceOver fixes
- Fix oddball case when a Wikipedia title has a question mark in it would lead to Callsheet getting confused when opening Wikipedia
- Fix a plurality mismatch on the pre-sale screen
- Nerds: some work toward Swift 6 Strict Concurrency. This work may never end, however.
2025.1 04/02/2025
Headline Features:
- The black "Subscribe" button should no longer flash on-screen for subscribers. _Finally_.
- Dramatically revamp filtering when looking at a person, so you can hone in on, say, just their movie roles, or TV jobs
Improvements:
- Add awards as a Quick Access link
- When viewing a TV season, use chevrons rather than arrows to page between seasons
- When viewing a TV season, honor the oldest-first vs. newest-first preference
- Change "Safari" → "System Default" in Persnickety Preferences
- Add "Open in browser" item to share sheet menus where appropriate
- More explicit search prompts when searching on-screen by swiping down slightly
- Additional logging around purchase errors
Bug fixes:
- Allow for instances where a "known for" job isn't provided by TMDB
- Fix a rare issue where searching by callsheet:// search did not return results if you had trailing whitespace
- Fix workaround by which pinning can be used as a way to get free searches
- Fix a rare issue where a mostly-invalid URL returned from TMDB could cause a crash
2024.14 11/09/2024
- New OG icon variants
- You can now optionally force the app to be in light mode or dark mode
- When looking at a TV show's season, you can now use ↑ ↓ to page between seasons
- Improved localizations
- Callsheet will now be shown as a result when you search some basic terms in Spotlight, like "movie", "tv", etc.
- Fixes issue where a movie's local release date was used for calculating cast and crew ages, rather than the international release date
- Fixes issue where adult content was not filtered out of "Known For" sections
- Fixes scroll hitches for TV shows
2024.13 09/08/2024
- Localize for Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian
- New dark-themed OG icons
- Add ↑ ↓ buttons to page through movies that are part of a collection/series. (Say, the nine Star Wars movies)
- Add spoiler prevention option for summaries, as some of them have no chill. (Looking at you, Handmaid's Tale season 5)
- Slightly rearrange Settings & add a link to set the app's language (shown only if you have more than one language enabled on your device)
- Fix Spoiler Settings insta-closing the first time you open it
- Fix weird kerning issue in Spoiler Settings
- Some improved logging around subscription verification so I can see if me blaming StoreKit2 is justified or not O:-)
2024.12 27/06/2024
- You can now search for films that two people worked on together. Tap the "Find shared film credits" on a person's details. Note this only works for films and not shows.
- Add Pride & Trans icon sets (see Persnickety Preferences)
- Loading people was slow due to the request that tries to load a person's height. That's now been separated out, so the view should load far faster.
- Rejigger purchase detection in order to add lots more logging and also be more forgiving.
- Add context menus for zoomed-in posters & profile photos
- Fix issue where some bad data coming back from a search result would cause all results to be ignored
- Fix issue with TV episode titles not updating when using the up/down chevrons
2024.11 23/04/2024
- Movie/show titles will show in the language you specify in Language Override, or your device's native language, whenever possible.
- To see titles in a movie/show's original language, tap the title when looking at the details of that item.
- If you tap on a movie or TV show's rating, a popover will show the genres for that movie/show
- Small accessibility improvement for TV ratings
- Performance improvements for movies & shows
Add ugly in-app log viewer; you can see it by opening callsheet://logs in Safari
2024.10 03/04/2024
- Slightly change the default icon. The original is available in the in-app Settings → Persnickety Preferences → App Icon.
- Hide search box when an image is zoomed in
- Some refinements to the TV season carousel: when a show has only one season, the larger button is used — the same as multiple-season shows; when a show has more than 10 seasons, the dates of those seasons are now shown.
- When you scroll laterally in the main/Discover screen, and then drill into a movie/show, and then return to Discover, it should remember[-ish] your scroll position.
- When you are in an episode view and switch between Guests/Cast/Crew, and then drill into a person, and then return to the episode, your prior G/C/C selection is no longer ignored
- Tapping an item in Search History will move it to the top of the list.
- Fix edge case where, if an actor was in a show and movie with the same ID number, only one would show on their filmography. In this case, Bruce Willis, Die Hard, and The Ellen Degeneres Show
- Fix some small layout issues, mostly in iPad
2024.9 22/03/2024
- Now available on visionOS! If you're subscribed to this version, you'll automatically be subscribed on visionOS once you download the app there. (Note that in visionOS the icon is different!)
- Now requires iOS 17.0
- Attempt to show buttons for all quick access links rather than one and the More… button. This is most visible on People and on everything on iPadOS
2024.8 09/03/2024
Add heights to actor screen, where possible. Not every actor will have their height listed, but many will.
The units are specified by your phone's settings. Within the Settings app:
General → Language & Region → Measurement System
However, to see the alternative unit, simply tap the actor's height. If the height shown is in feet/inches, the popover will show centimeters, and vice/versa.
2024.7 14/02/2024
- Fixes an issue with the layout/behavior or spoiler settings
From version 2024.5, which was only out for a day or so:
- The same pull-down-to-search on movies from TV shows, and TV episodes in the last version is now added to people as well!
- Fixes an issue where up/down chevrons for TV episodes weren't refreshing the cast/crew lists
- When you do a pull-down-to-search, the app will scroll to the cast list automatically; this is particularly useful for regular-sized phones
- Fixes an issue where the Cast/Crew label was tappable if a person has only cast or only crew credits
- Pins will now be hidden if you don't have any AND you've searched 10+ times, or, now, if it's been at least a week since you've purchased
2024.6 08/02/2024
- The same pull-down-to-search on movies from TV shows, and TV episodes in the last version is now added to people as well!
- Fixes an issue where up/down chevrons for TV episodes weren't refreshing the cast/crew lists
- When you do a pull-down-to-search, the app will scroll to the cast list automatically; this is particularly useful for regular-sized phones
- Fixes an issue where the Cast/Crew label was tappable if a person has only cast or only crew credits
- Pins will now be hidden if you don't have any AND you've searched 10+ times, or, now, if it's been at least a week since you've purchased
2024.5 07/02/2024
- You can now pull-down-to-search on movies, TV shows, and TV episodes! This is far and away the most frequent request I get. Now it's there!
- When you share a person/movie/show/season/episode, you'll now be presented with a menu, offering to share a web link, or a Callsheet link. The latter is super useful for sending to other Callsheet users.
2024.4 18/01/2024
- Fix broken segmented control on TV episode view when using larger font sizes
- Fix episode counts not being summed for actors that have multiple roles on the same show
- Fix ages being shown in movie/episode details even if "Show Ages" was disabled in Persnickety Preferences
2024.3 13/01/2024
Upgrades & Updates:
- Support season-level cast for ensemble shows like Fargo, True Detective, etc. You can see this in an episode's cast list.
- Attempt to prevent spoilers from showing while data/images are loaded
- Account for spoiler settings in "You may know them from" section
- Add shortcut in search to load by TMDB ID: "tmdb[m|s|p]:#". For example, "tmdbm:1669" will jump you directly to The Hunt for Red October. Use 's' for shows and 'p' for people
Bugs busted:
- Fix an issue (that most of you probably didn't see unless you had 2024.1) wherein character names were always hidden on episode cast lists
- Fix a rare issue where a TV show had a Specials season, but it wasn't being displayed
- Fix issue where using the search URL scheme wouldn't work when the app is not already in memory (It would previously ignore your search if the app wasn't backgrounded).
- Fix icon selector not showing the correct state in some circumstances
- Fix hang in "More Purchase Options" screen when reached via Search History
- Fix issue where releases without associated ratings were being ignored, leading to incorrect release dates
Modifications made:
- Add debug logging around language/region overrides and iCloud status
- Update to latest version of TelemetryDeck package
- Use native SwiftUI review requests rather than dropping down to UIKit
2024.2 10/01/2024
This release is a fast-follow to 2026.1.
In this release, 2026.2, I fixed a bug [that I also created] that prevented age calculations from showing in movies more than 20 years old.
Since many of you probably didn't get a chance to see the release notes for 2026.1, I've repeated those below:
Happy [belated] New Year! Lots and lots of changes in this build!
As Callsheet rounds out its third year, I'm thankful for anyone who has downloaded the app, and incredibly thankful for those who subscribe. Thank you for helping me make an app I'm really proud of.
NEW FEATURES
- As of the prior version, you could enable/disable sections within the Discover screen. Now, you can reorder them as well!
- When looking at a person, the drop-down that lets you filter cast/crew/etc now *also* lets you exclude roles of "Self"
- Additionally, if you tap-and-hold on a credit for "Self", the context menu also allows you to toggle off "Self" credits
- Where possible, TV series will show the approximate ages of cast/crew during the run of the show.
- Add a context menu for Search History on the Discover screen
ENHANCEMENTS
- Increased contrast & size on the search bar
- Allow for more than 100 pins in a single list. Recents are limited to 100 and search history to 50.
- For TV episodes released today, the popover shows "today" instead of answering the question "how many hours has it been since midnight?"
- Added a "More info…" link to the integrations section, with additional information on how to get Plex working
BUG FIXES
- Fix an issue where opening a link in the system browser would cause the search bar to disappear
- The "Upcoming" section for people is consistently ordered now
- Fix some occasional wonkiness with the search prompt for the local search scope
- The up/down arrows for movie collections now use chevrons for better consistency
- The URL scheme callsheet://activateInput works again. Sorry about that!
- The keyboard will dismiss interactively on the Discover screen
- Fix issue where the subscribe button would flash to "0" for a moment when it was being hidden
- Small fixes to the Norwegian translation
- Prevent edge case where the paywall could be avoided by using URL schemes
- Reduce the size of the URLSession cache to prevent runaway filesystem usage
- Additional logging around Region Override to see if I can track down a rare but nasty bug
more Version 2026.2 11 Feb
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