diff --git a/frontend/src/components/Playlists.tsx b/frontend/src/components/Playlists.tsx
index 2dc648a0..5870281f 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/Playlists.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/Playlists.tsx
@@ -21,8 +21,13 @@ import {
 import { CSS } from "@dnd-kit/utilities";
 import {
   AlertTriangle,
+  ArrowDown,
+  ArrowDownToLine,
+  ArrowUp,
+  ArrowUpToLine,
   Check,
   ExternalLink,
+  FolderInput,
   GripVertical,
   ListPlus,
   Pencil,
@@ -31,9 +36,10 @@ import {
   RotateCcw,
   Trash2,
   Upload,
+  X,
   Youtube,
 } from "lucide-react";
-import { api, HttpError, type Video } from "../lib/api";
+import { api, type Playlist, type Video } from "../lib/api";
 import { notify } from "../lib/notifications";
 import { notifyYouTubeActionError } from "../lib/youtubeErrors";
 import { playlistName } from "../lib/playlistName";
@@ -43,10 +49,14 @@ import { formatRuntime } from "../lib/format";
 import { applyView, sameOrder } from "../lib/playlistView";
 const PlayerModal = lazy(() => import("./PlayerModal"));
 import { Button } from "./ui/Button";
+import { type ActionMenuItem } from "./ui/ActionMenu";
+import { ContextMenu } from "./ui/ContextMenu";
+import { useContextMenu } from "./ui/useContextMenu";
 import UndoToolbar from "./ui/UndoToolbar";
 import { PageToolbar } from "./ui/PageShell";
-import { useChoice, useConfirm } from "./ConfirmProvider";
-import { usePlaylists, usePlaylistsActions } from "./PlaylistsProvider";
+import { useConfirm } from "./ConfirmProvider";
+import { usePlaylistActions } from "./usePlaylistActions";
+import { usePlaylists } from "./PlaylistsProvider";
 import { useMe } from "../lib/useMe";
 import {
   ColumnHead,
@@ -88,11 +98,16 @@ function Row({
   columns,
   dragDisabled,
   dragHint,
+  menuProps,
 }: {
   video: Video;
   columns: Column<Video>[];
   dragDisabled: boolean;
   dragHint: string;
+  /** useContextMenu's trigger props. On the WHOLE row, not a handle: a right-click anywhere in the
+   *  row opens the menu, the way a native list does. The row's own buttons keep their left-click
+   *  behaviour — a right-click just isn't a button press. */
+  menuProps: Record<string, unknown>;
 }) {
   const { t } = useTranslation();
   const { attributes, listeners, setNodeRef, transform, transition, isDragging } = useSortable({
@@ -112,6 +127,7 @@ function Row({
       // transition-COLORS, not `transition` — the bare utility animates transform too, which is
       // the same lag by another route (150ms behind the pointer, on every row).
       className="border-b border-border/50 hover:bg-card/40 transition-colors"
+      {...menuProps}
     >
       {columns.map((col) => (
         <td
@@ -153,11 +169,10 @@ export default function Playlists() {
   // The selected playlist lives in PlaylistsProvider, shared with the PlaylistsRail (which owns the
   // list + its rail controls). This detail pane reacts to the selection.
   const { selectedId } = usePlaylists();
-  const { setSelectedId } = usePlaylistsActions();
   const { t } = useTranslation();
   const qc = useQueryClient();
   const confirm = useConfirm();
-  const choose = useChoice();
+  const plActions = usePlaylistActions();
   const [renaming, setRenaming] = useState(false);
   const [renameValue, setRenameValue] = useState("");
   // The stored order is undoable: drag and "save this order" both go through `order.set`, so each
@@ -202,6 +217,9 @@ export default function Playlists() {
   // a change of view would otherwise slide a different video under the index — or unmount the player
   // mid-playback. PlayerModal already tracks its own queue by id; this is the parent half of that.
   const [playingId, setPlayingId] = useState<string | null>(null);
+  // ONE context menu for the whole table, not one popover per <tr> (see ui/ContextMenu): the row it
+  // belongs to is `rowMenu.target`, and the panel anchors to the pointer.
+  const rowMenu = useContextMenu<Video>();
 
   const listQuery = useQuery({
     queryKey: qk.playlists(),
@@ -483,58 +501,52 @@ export default function Playlists() {
   const removeRef = useRef(removeItem);
   removeRef.current = removeItem;
 
+  async function moveItemTo(video: Video, target: Playlist) {
+    if (selectedId == null) return;
+    // Optimistic, exactly like removeItem: from THIS list's point of view a move is a removal, and
+    // rebasing keeps the undo stack valid for what's left instead of throwing it away.
+    const next = items.filter((v) => v.id !== video.id);
+    order.rebase((list) => list.filter((v) => v.id !== video.id));
+    lastSetRef.current = `${selectedId}:${idsKey(next)}`;
+    try {
+      // ONE request. The two-call version (add there, remove here) leaves the video in BOTH lists
+      // whenever the second call fails — see the endpoint's docstring.
+      await api.moveToPlaylist(selectedId, video.id, target.id);
+      notify({
+        level: "success",
+        message: t("playlists.movedToast", { title: video.title, name: plName(target) }),
+      });
+    } catch {
+      // api.req already surfaced the reason; the refetch below puts the row back.
+    }
+    refreshAll();
+  }
+
+  // Keyboard/menu reordering, for the same stored order the drag handle writes — so it goes through
+  // `order.set` (undoable + persisted), not a direct API call. Gated by the same rule as the drag
+  // handle: a view (sort/group/filter) is not the stored order, so moving "up" inside one would
+  // write something the user never saw.
+  function moveInOrder(video: Video, to: "top" | "up" | "down" | "bottom") {
+    const from = items.findIndex((v) => v.id === video.id);
+    if (from < 0) return;
+    const target =
+      to === "top" ? 0 : to === "bottom" ? items.length - 1 : to === "up" ? from - 1 : from + 1;
+    if (target === from || target < 0 || target >= items.length) return;
+    order.set(arrayMove(items, from, target)); // onApply persists
+  }
+
   async function saveRename() {
     if (selectedId == null) return;
     const name = renameValue.trim();
     setRenaming(false);
-    if (name && name !== detail?.name) {
-      try {
-        await api.renamePlaylist(selectedId, name);
-      } catch (e) {
-        notifyYouTubeActionError(e, t("playlists.renameFailed"));
-      }
-      refreshAll();
-    }
+    if (name && name !== detail?.name) await plActions.rename(selectedId, name);
   }
 
   async function deletePlaylist() {
-    if (selectedId == null || !detail) return;
-    // ONE dialog with every outcome. It used to be two chained confirms, where the second one's
-    // Cancel/Escape/backdrop meant "delete here only" — dismissing the dialog deleted the playlist.
-    const offerYoutube = linked && canWrite;
-    const picked = await choose({
-      title: t("playlists.delete"),
-      message: offerYoutube
-        ? t("playlists.confirmDeleteLinked", { name: plName(detail) })
-        : t("playlists.confirmDelete", { name: plName(detail) }),
-      choices: offerYoutube
-        ? [
-            { id: "here", label: t("playlists.deleteHereOnly"), danger: true },
-            { id: "both", label: t("playlists.deleteBoth"), danger: true },
-          ]
-        : [{ id: "here", label: t("playlists.delete"), danger: true }],
-    });
-    if (picked == null) return;
-    const onYoutube = picked === "both";
-    const deletedId = selectedId;
-    // Pick the next selection from what's left *now* (don't go via null, or the
-    // auto-select effect would re-pick the just-deleted id from the stale list).
-    const remaining = playlists.filter((p) => p.id !== deletedId);
-    setSelectedId(remaining[0]?.id ?? null);
-    try {
-      await api.deletePlaylist(deletedId, onYoutube);
-    } catch (err) {
-      // Prefer the server's specific reason (e.g. a local vs YouTube-side failure) over a blanket
-      // "couldn't delete on YouTube" that misleads when the failure wasn't the YouTube side.
-      notify({
-        level: "warning",
-        message:
-          (err instanceof HttpError && err.detail) ||
-          (onYoutube ? t("playlists.deleteYtFailed") : t("playlists.deleteFailed")),
-      });
-    }
-    qc.removeQueries({ queryKey: qk.playlist(deletedId) });
-    qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.playlists() });
+    if (!detail) return;
+    // The dialog, the "delete on YouTube too?" branch and the re-selection live in
+    // usePlaylistActions — the rail's context menu deletes through the SAME code.
+    await plActions.remove(detail);
   }
 
   function playerState(id: string, status: string) {
@@ -574,6 +586,81 @@ export default function Playlists() {
       : t("playlists.dragBlockedSort");
   const playingIndex = playingId ? shown.findIndex((v) => v.id === playingId) : -1;
 
+  // The row menu, built from the row the user right-clicked. Same item shape (and therefore same
+  // rows, same paint, same keyboard model) as any ⋯ ActionMenu in the app.
+  const moveTargets = playlists.filter((p) => p.id !== selectedId);
+  const storedOrderEditable = canEdit && !viewActive;
+  const ctxRow = rowMenu.target;
+  const ctxItems: ActionMenuItem[] = !ctxRow
+    ? []
+    : [
+        {
+          id: "play",
+          label: t("card.play"),
+          icon: <Play className="w-4 h-4" />,
+          onSelect: () => setPlayingId(ctxRow.id),
+        },
+        ...(canEdit
+          ? ([
+              moveTargets.length
+                ? {
+                    id: "move",
+                    label: t("playlists.moveTo"),
+                    icon: <FolderInput className="w-4 h-4" />,
+                    separatorBefore: true,
+                    items: moveTargets.map((pl) => ({
+                      id: `move-${pl.id}`,
+                      label: plName(pl),
+                      icon:
+                        pl.source === "youtube" || pl.yt_playlist_id ? (
+                          <Youtube className="w-4 h-4" />
+                        ) : (
+                          <ListPlus className="w-4 h-4" />
+                        ),
+                      onSelect: () => void moveItemTo(ctxRow, pl),
+                    })),
+                  }
+                : // Kept visible and disabled rather than dropped: an action that vanishes teaches
+                  // nobody why. With one playlist there is nowhere to move to, and the title says so.
+                  {
+                    id: "move",
+                    label: t("playlists.moveTo"),
+                    icon: <FolderInput className="w-4 h-4" />,
+                    separatorBefore: true,
+                    disabled: true,
+                    title: t("playlists.moveNoTargets"),
+                    onSelect: () => {},
+                  },
+              ...(
+                [
+                  ["top", t("playlists.orderTop"), <ArrowUpToLine className="w-4 h-4" />],
+                  ["up", t("playlists.orderUp"), <ArrowUp className="w-4 h-4" />],
+                  ["down", t("playlists.orderDown"), <ArrowDown className="w-4 h-4" />],
+                  ["bottom", t("playlists.orderBottom"), <ArrowDownToLine className="w-4 h-4" />],
+                ] as const
+              ).map(([to, label, icon], i) => ({
+                id: `order-${to}`,
+                label,
+                icon,
+                separatorBefore: i === 0,
+                // Same gate as the drag handle, and it explains itself the same way instead of
+                // silently doing nothing.
+                disabled: !storedOrderEditable,
+                title: storedOrderEditable ? undefined : dragHint,
+                onSelect: () => moveInOrder(ctxRow, to),
+              })),
+              {
+                id: "remove",
+                label: t("playlists.removeItem"),
+                icon: <X className="w-4 h-4" />,
+                separatorBefore: true,
+                danger: true,
+                onSelect: () => void removeItem(ctxRow),
+              },
+            ] satisfies ActionMenuItem[])
+          : []),
+      ];
+
   if (selectedId == null) {
     return <div className="text-muted text-sm p-4">{t("playlists.pickOne")}</div>;
   }
@@ -830,6 +917,7 @@ export default function Playlists() {
                       columns={columns}
                       dragDisabled={!canEdit || viewActive}
                       dragHint={dragHint}
+                      menuProps={rowMenu.triggerProps(v)}
                     />
                   ))}
                 </tbody>
@@ -844,6 +932,9 @@ export default function Playlists() {
         </DndContext>
       )}
 
+      {/* One surface for the whole table, outside the rows — it anchors to the pointer, not the row. */}
+      <ContextMenu menu={rowMenu} ariaLabel={t("playlists.rowMenu")} items={ctxItems} />
+
       {playingIndex >= 0 && (
         <Suspense fallback={null}>
           <PlayerModal
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/PlaylistsRail.tsx b/frontend/src/components/PlaylistsRail.tsx
index 918ab859..74de21a4 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/PlaylistsRail.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/PlaylistsRail.tsx
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { useEffect, useMemo, useRef, useState } from "react";
 import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
 import { useMutation, useQuery, useQueryClient } from "@tanstack/react-query";
 import { qk } from "../lib/queryKeys";
-import { ListVideo, Pin, Plus, RefreshCw, Youtube } from "lucide-react";
+import { ListVideo, Pencil, Pin, Plus, RefreshCw, Trash2, Youtube } from "lucide-react";
 import { api, type Playlist } from "../lib/api";
 import { formatRuntime } from "../lib/format";
 import { notify } from "../lib/notifications";
@@ -11,20 +11,28 @@ import { LS, readAccountMerged, writeAccount } from "../lib/storage";
 import { type PanelLayout } from "../lib/panelLayout";
 import FilterRail from "./FilterRail";
 import { Button } from "./ui/Button";
+import { type ActionMenuItem } from "./ui/ActionMenu";
+import { ContextMenu } from "./ui/ContextMenu";
+import { useContextMenu } from "./ui/useContextMenu";
 import { type PanelItem } from "./ui/PanelGroups";
 import SortControl from "./ui/SortControl";
 import { type SortOption } from "../lib/columnSort";
 import { usePlaylists, usePlaylistsActions } from "./PlaylistsProvider";
 import { useMe } from "../lib/useMe";
 import { playlistName } from "../lib/playlistName";
+import { usePlaylistActions } from "./usePlaylistActions";
 
 type PlSort = {
-  key: "custom" | "name" | "count" | "duration";
+  key: "custom" | "name" | "count" | "duration" | "recent";
   dir: "asc" | "desc";
   dirtyFirst: boolean;
 };
 const PL_SORT_DEFAULT: PlSort = { key: "custom", dir: "asc", dirtyFirst: false };
 
+// One geometry for the row in both of its shapes (the selectable button, and the rename field it
+// becomes) — the row must not resize the moment you rename it.
+const ROW_BASE = "w-full flex items-center gap-2.5 p-2 rounded-lg border transition";
+
 // The Playlists module's left rail — lifted to App level (like the filter rails) so it floats in the
 // shared SidePanel with the same collapse-to-tab behavior. It owns the list query + its own rail
 // controls (sort / new / sync); the selected playlist is App state so the module's detail pane
@@ -53,12 +61,23 @@ export default function PlaylistsRail({
     { key: "name", label: t("playlists.railSortName"), defaultDir: "asc" },
     { key: "count", label: t("playlists.railSortCount"), defaultDir: "desc" },
     { key: "duration", label: t("playlists.railSortDuration"), defaultDir: "desc" },
+    // E10 S2 — "the one I just touched, first". Reads `updated_at`, which the API bumps for item
+    // adds/removes/moves/reorders too, not just renames (see the backend's _touch). NOT the
+    // default: a rail that reshuffles itself while you look at it costs more than it saves.
+    { key: "recent", label: t("playlists.railSortRecent"), defaultDir: "desc" },
   ];
   useEffect(() => {
     writeAccount(LS.plSort, plSort);
   }, [plSort]);
   const [newName, setNewName] = useState("");
   const [syncing, setSyncing] = useState(false);
+  const plActions = usePlaylistActions();
+  // Right-click / long-press anywhere on a rail row. ONE menu for the whole list (see ui/ContextMenu).
+  const railMenu = useContextMenu<Playlist>();
+  // Renaming happens IN the row that was right-clicked, not in the detail header — the point of the
+  // context menu is that the action lands where the gesture did.
+  const [renamingId, setRenamingId] = useState<number | null>(null);
+  const [renameValue, setRenameValue] = useState("");
   const selectedRef = useRef<HTMLButtonElement | null>(null);
   const scrolledRef = useRef(false);
 
@@ -96,6 +115,8 @@ export default function PlaylistsRail({
           return sign * (a.item_count - b.item_count);
         case "duration":
           return sign * ((a.total_duration_seconds ?? 0) - (b.total_duration_seconds ?? 0));
+        case "recent":
+          return sign * (Date.parse(a.updated_at) - Date.parse(b.updated_at));
         default:
           return 0;
       }
@@ -142,6 +163,45 @@ export default function PlaylistsRail({
     },
   });
 
+  async function commitRename(pl: Playlist) {
+    const name = renameValue.trim();
+    setRenamingId(null);
+    if (name && name !== pl.name) await plActions.rename(pl.id, name);
+  }
+
+  const ctxPl = railMenu.target;
+  // The built-in Watch later list is renameable/deletable nowhere else in the UI either; the rows
+  // stay visible and disabled so the menu doesn't change shape from list to list.
+  const ctxBuiltin = ctxPl?.kind === "watch_later";
+  const lockedTitle = ctxBuiltin ? t("playlists.builtinLocked") : undefined;
+  const railItems: ActionMenuItem[] = !ctxPl
+    ? []
+    : [
+        {
+          id: "rename",
+          label: t("playlists.rename"),
+          icon: <Pencil className="w-4 h-4" />,
+          disabled: ctxBuiltin,
+          title: lockedTitle,
+          onSelect: () => {
+            setRenameValue(ctxPl.name);
+            setRenamingId(ctxPl.id);
+          },
+        },
+        {
+          id: "delete",
+          label: t("playlists.delete"),
+          icon: <Trash2 className="w-4 h-4" />,
+          separatorBefore: true,
+          danger: true,
+          disabled: ctxBuiltin,
+          title: lockedTitle,
+          // The same dialog (and the same "what gets selected next" rule) as the detail header's
+          // trash button — one implementation, two entry points.
+          onSelect: () => void plActions.remove(ctxPl),
+        },
+      ];
+
   const items: PanelItem[] = [
     {
       id: "manage",
@@ -216,40 +276,70 @@ export default function PlaylistsRail({
             <div className="text-xs text-muted px-1 py-1">{t("playlists.noMatches")}</div>
           )}
           <div className="space-y-1">
-            {visiblePlaylists.map((pl) => (
-              <button
-                key={pl.id}
-                ref={pl.id === selectedId ? selectedRef : null}
-                onClick={() => setSelectedId(pl.id)}
-                className={`w-full flex items-center gap-2.5 p-2 rounded-lg border transition text-left ${
-                  pl.id === selectedId
-                    ? "bg-accent/15 border-accent"
-                    : "border-transparent hover:bg-card/60"
-                }`}
-              >
-                <div className="w-[34px] h-[34px] rounded-md bg-card overflow-hidden shrink-0">
-                  {pl.cover_thumbnail && (
-                    <img src={pl.cover_thumbnail} alt="" className="w-full h-full object-cover" />
-                  )}
-                </div>
-                <div className="min-w-0">
-                  <div className="flex items-center gap-1 text-[0.8125rem] text-fg">
-                    <span className="truncate">{plName(pl)}</span>
-                    {(pl.source === "youtube" || pl.yt_playlist_id) && (
-                      <Youtube
-                        className={`w-3 h-3 shrink-0 ${pl.dirty ? "text-accent" : "text-muted"}`}
-                      />
+            {visiblePlaylists.map((pl) =>
+              renamingId === pl.id ? (
+                // The row becomes its own rename field. A <button> can't contain an <input>, so the
+                // whole row swaps rather than the label alone — but it KEEPS the cover, because
+                // that is what holds the row at its two-line height. Without it the rail jumps by
+                // ~12px the moment you start renaming, and every row below it moves under the
+                // pointer.
+                <div key={pl.id} className={`${ROW_BASE} bg-accent/10 border-accent`}>
+                  <div className="w-[34px] h-[34px] rounded-md bg-card overflow-hidden shrink-0">
+                    {pl.cover_thumbnail && (
+                      <img src={pl.cover_thumbnail} alt="" className="w-full h-full object-cover" />
                     )}
                   </div>
-                  <div className="text-2xs text-muted">
-                    {t("playlists.itemCount", { count: pl.item_count })}
-                    {pl.total_duration_seconds > 0 &&
-                      ` · ${formatRuntime(pl.total_duration_seconds)}`}
-                  </div>
+                  <input
+                    autoFocus
+                    value={renameValue}
+                    onChange={(e) => setRenameValue(e.target.value)}
+                    onBlur={() => void commitRename(pl)}
+                    onKeyDown={(e) => {
+                      if (e.key === "Enter") void commitRename(pl);
+                      // Unmounting the input fires no blur in React, so Escape really does cancel.
+                      if (e.key === "Escape") setRenamingId(null);
+                    }}
+                    aria-label={t("playlists.rename")}
+                    className="flex-1 min-w-0 bg-surface border border-border rounded-md px-2 py-1 text-xs focus:outline-hidden focus:ring-2 focus:ring-accent/40"
+                  />
                 </div>
-              </button>
-            ))}
+              ) : (
+                <button
+                  key={pl.id}
+                  ref={pl.id === selectedId ? selectedRef : null}
+                  onClick={() => setSelectedId(pl.id)}
+                  {...railMenu.triggerProps(pl)}
+                  className={`${ROW_BASE} text-left ${
+                    pl.id === selectedId
+                      ? "bg-accent/15 border-accent"
+                      : "border-transparent hover:bg-card/60"
+                  }`}
+                >
+                  <div className="w-[34px] h-[34px] rounded-md bg-card overflow-hidden shrink-0">
+                    {pl.cover_thumbnail && (
+                      <img src={pl.cover_thumbnail} alt="" className="w-full h-full object-cover" />
+                    )}
+                  </div>
+                  <div className="min-w-0">
+                    <div className="flex items-center gap-1 text-[0.8125rem] text-fg">
+                      <span className="truncate">{plName(pl)}</span>
+                      {(pl.source === "youtube" || pl.yt_playlist_id) && (
+                        <Youtube
+                          className={`w-3 h-3 shrink-0 ${pl.dirty ? "text-accent" : "text-muted"}`}
+                        />
+                      )}
+                    </div>
+                    <div className="text-2xs text-muted">
+                      {t("playlists.itemCount", { count: pl.item_count })}
+                      {pl.total_duration_seconds > 0 &&
+                        ` · ${formatRuntime(pl.total_duration_seconds)}`}
+                    </div>
+                  </div>
+                </button>
+              ),
+            )}
           </div>
+          <ContextMenu menu={railMenu} ariaLabel={t("playlists.railMenu")} items={railItems} />
         </>
       ),
     },
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ui/ActionMenu.tsx b/frontend/src/components/ui/ActionMenu.tsx
index b14bb497..dd441fb5 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/ui/ActionMenu.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ui/ActionMenu.tsx
@@ -1,19 +1,166 @@
-import { useState, type ReactNode } from "react";
-import { MoreHorizontal } from "lucide-react";
+import { Fragment, useState, type ReactNode } from "react";
+import { ChevronRight, MoreHorizontal } from "lucide-react";
 import { PopoverItem, PopoverSurface, useAnchoredPopover } from "./AnchoredPopover";
 
 // A reusable "⋯ more actions" overflow menu: a compact trigger that opens a list of one-shot actions.
 // Built on the R8 AnchoredPopover platform (arrows/typeahead/Escape/anchor-flip), same as ViewSwitcher
 // and LanguageSwitcher. Use it to keep occasional actions out of a crowded toolbar. The items are
 // fire-and-close (`onSelect`); a `disabled` item (e.g. a mutation already in flight) is inert.
+//
+// E10 S2 split the ITEM LIST out of the trigger (`MenuItemList`) so the ⋯ menu and the right-click
+// context menu (`ContextMenu`) render the same rows from the same item type. That is the whole point
+// of the split: a context menu that drifts from the overflow menu beside it is two menus, and the
+// user has to learn both.
 
-export interface ActionMenuItem {
+/** Shared surface paint for every menu built on this file — the ⋯ menu, its submenus, and
+ *  `ContextMenu`. One constant so a context menu can never look like a different component. */
+export const MENU_SURFACE = "glass-menu min-w-52 rounded-xl p-1.5 animate-[popIn_0.16s_ease]";
+const ROW =
+  "flex w-full items-center gap-2.5 rounded-lg px-2 py-1.5 text-left text-sm outline-hidden transition disabled:opacity-50";
+
+interface MenuItemBase {
   id: string;
   label: string;
   icon?: ReactNode; // an element (so a caller can swap in a spinning icon while pending)
-  onSelect: () => void;
   disabled?: boolean;
   title?: string; // optional native tooltip (carries a longer hint the label alone can't)
+  /** Draw a divider above this item. Ignored on the first item — a menu never opens with a rule. */
+  separatorBefore?: boolean;
+}
+
+interface ActionItem extends MenuItemBase {
+  onSelect: () => void;
+  /** Destructive action: painted in the danger colour, like the outline-danger buttons. */
+  danger?: boolean;
+  items?: never;
+}
+
+interface SubmenuItem extends MenuItemBase {
+  /** Non-empty → this row opens a submenu instead of firing. */
+  items: readonly ActionMenuItem[];
+  onSelect?: never;
+}
+
+// A discriminated union rather than "onSelect and items are both optional": the invariant is
+// "a row either fires or it opens a submenu, never both and never neither", and this codebase's
+// house rule is that such a rule lives in the type, not in a comment above it.
+export type ActionMenuItem = ActionItem | SubmenuItem;
+
+const isSubmenu = (it: ActionMenuItem): it is SubmenuItem => Array.isArray(it.items);
+
+/** The rows of a menu: leaf actions, submenus and separators, from one item array. Rendered inside a
+ *  `PopoverSurface` (which supplies the list registry) — see `ActionMenu` and `ContextMenu`.
+ *  `onClose` closes the ROOT menu, so selecting deep inside a submenu dismisses the whole stack. */
+export function MenuItemList({
+  items,
+  onClose,
+}: {
+  items: readonly ActionMenuItem[];
+  onClose: () => void;
+}) {
+  return (
+    <>
+      {items.map((it, i) => (
+        <Fragment key={it.id}>
+          {it.separatorBefore && i > 0 && (
+            <div role="separator" className="my-1 h-px bg-border" aria-hidden="true" />
+          )}
+          {isSubmenu(it) ? (
+            <SubMenu item={it} onClose={onClose} />
+          ) : (
+            <PopoverItem
+              role="menuitem"
+              disabled={it.disabled}
+              label={it.label}
+              title={it.title}
+              onSelect={() => {
+                it.onSelect();
+                onClose();
+              }}
+              className={`${ROW}${it.danger ? " text-danger" : ""}`}
+            >
+              {it.icon && (
+                <span className={`shrink-0 ${it.danger ? "text-danger" : "text-muted"}`}>
+                  {it.icon}
+                </span>
+              )}
+              <span className="flex-1 truncate">{it.label}</span>
+            </PopoverItem>
+          )}
+        </Fragment>
+      ))}
+    </>
+  );
+}
+
+/** One row that opens a nested menu. It is a real `PopoverItem`, so the parent's roving focus and
+ *  typeahead reach it; the nested popover anchors to that same button.
+ *
+ *  Why it nests correctly with no extra wiring: this component renders INSIDE the parent's
+ *  `PopoverSurface`, i.e. inside its `<FloatingNode>`, so `useFloatingNodeId()` picks the parent up
+ *  as its tree parent. That is what makes Floating UI's outside-press tree-aware — a press inside
+ *  the submenu is not "outside" the parent, and Escape closes the topmost layer only. */
+function SubMenu({ item, onClose }: { item: SubmenuItem; onClose: () => void }) {
+  const [open, setOpen] = useState(false);
+  const pop = useAnchoredPopover({
+    open,
+    onOpenChange: setOpen,
+    placement: "right-start",
+    offset: 2,
+    // A mouse expects the submenu to fall open under the pointer; a finger has no hover and taps.
+    hoverAlso: true,
+    // Target lists can be long (every playlist you own), so shrink to the viewport instead of
+    // running off the bottom at 768px.
+    fitHeight: true,
+  });
+  return (
+    <>
+      <PopoverItem
+        elementRef={pop.refs.setReference}
+        {...pop.getReferenceProps()}
+        role="menuitem"
+        disabled={item.disabled}
+        label={item.label}
+        title={item.title}
+        aria-haspopup="menu"
+        aria-expanded={open}
+        onKeyDown={(e) => {
+          // The native-menu keys. Enter/Space already open it via useClick; ArrowRight is the one
+          // the click handler doesn't cover.
+          if (e.key === "ArrowRight") {
+            e.preventDefault();
+            setOpen(true);
+          }
+        }}
+        className={ROW}
+      >
+        {item.icon && <span className="shrink-0 text-muted">{item.icon}</span>}
+        <span className="flex-1 truncate">{item.label}</span>
+        <ChevronRight className="h-4 w-4 shrink-0 text-muted" aria-hidden="true" />
+      </PopoverItem>
+      <PopoverSurface
+        popover={pop}
+        ariaLabel={item.label}
+        className={`${MENU_SURFACE} overflow-y-auto`}
+        style={{ maxHeight: "min(24rem, var(--fit-max-h))" }}
+      >
+        {/* ArrowLeft steps back out to the parent row — Escape would close the whole stack, and a
+            submenu you can only leave by dismissing everything is not a submenu. Focus returns to
+            the trigger via the surface's own returnFocus. */}
+        <div
+          onKeyDown={(e) => {
+            if (e.key === "ArrowLeft") {
+              e.preventDefault();
+              e.stopPropagation();
+              setOpen(false);
+            }
+          }}
+        >
+          <MenuItemList items={item.items} onClose={onClose} />
+        </div>
+      </PopoverSurface>
+    </>
+  );
 }
 
 export default function ActionMenu({
@@ -50,28 +197,8 @@ export default function ActionMenu({
       >
         {trigger ?? <MoreHorizontal className="h-5 w-5" aria-hidden="true" />}
       </button>
-      <PopoverSurface
-        popover={pop}
-        ariaLabel={ariaLabel}
-        className="glass-menu min-w-52 rounded-xl p-1.5 animate-[popIn_0.16s_ease]"
-      >
-        {items.map((it) => (
-          <PopoverItem
-            key={it.id}
-            role="menuitem"
-            disabled={it.disabled}
-            label={it.label}
-            title={it.title}
-            onSelect={() => {
-              it.onSelect();
-              setOpen(false);
-            }}
-            className="flex w-full items-center gap-2.5 rounded-lg px-2 py-1.5 text-left text-sm outline-hidden transition disabled:opacity-50"
-          >
-            {it.icon && <span className="shrink-0 text-muted">{it.icon}</span>}
-            <span className="flex-1 truncate">{it.label}</span>
-          </PopoverItem>
-        ))}
+      <PopoverSurface popover={pop} ariaLabel={ariaLabel} className={MENU_SURFACE}>
+        <MenuItemList items={items} onClose={() => setOpen(false)} />
       </PopoverSurface>
     </>
   );
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ui/AnchoredPopover.tsx b/frontend/src/components/ui/AnchoredPopover.tsx
index a7a57b04..ea04743e 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/ui/AnchoredPopover.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ui/AnchoredPopover.tsx
@@ -103,6 +103,11 @@ export interface AnchoredPopoverOptions {
    *  focus-item-on-hover, so neither typed characters nor a pointer passing over a list item steals
    *  focus/keystrokes from the field. Set it instead of `typeahead:false` for such menus. */
   hostsInput?: boolean;
+  /** Menu mode only: ALSO open on mouse hover, keeping the click/tap toggle. The submenu idiom —
+   *  a mouse expects a submenu to fall open under the pointer, a finger has no hover at all and
+   *  must tap. `mouseOnly` is forced on so a tap's synthetic mouseenter can't open the panel a
+   *  hair before the click handler toggles it shut again. */
+  hoverAlso?: boolean;
   /** Index of the item that is currently CHOSEN, for a single-choice menu/listbox. Opening then
    *  lands the roving focus on it instead of the first item — the behaviour a "pick one of these
    *  modes" menu needs. Leave unset for action menus and multi-select toggle lists. */
@@ -194,9 +199,14 @@ export function useAnchoredPopover(opts: AnchoredPopoverOptions) {
   // a click on the input must place the caret, not close the just-opened list.
   const click = useClick(context, { enabled: !isHover && !isCombobox });
   const hover = useHover(context, {
-    enabled: isHover,
+    enabled: isHover || !!opts.hoverAlso,
     move: false,
-    delay: opts.hoverDelay ?? { open: 120, close: 140 },
+    // A hover-card is a pointer affordance either way; a hover-ALSO menu must ignore touch, or the
+    // synthetic mouseenter a tap emits would race the click toggle (open, then immediately shut).
+    mouseOnly: !isHover,
+    // A submenu wants a shorter intent delay than a hover card: the pointer is already inside a
+    // menu, so the "did they mean it" question is mostly answered.
+    delay: opts.hoverDelay ?? (isHover ? { open: 120, close: 140 } : { open: 90, close: 120 }),
     handleClose: safePolygon(),
   });
   const focus = useFocus(context, { enabled: isHover });
@@ -339,6 +349,7 @@ export function PopoverItem({
   keepSelectedPaint,
   disabled,
   className,
+  elementRef,
   /** Typeahead match string; defaults to the text child. Set explicitly when children aren't plain text. */
   label,
   ...rest
@@ -353,6 +364,10 @@ export function PopoverItem({
   keepSelectedPaint?: boolean;
   disabled?: boolean;
   className?: string;
+  /** Hand the item's DOM node to the caller, ON TOP of the list registration this component owns.
+   *  The submenu idiom needs it: the nested popover anchors to the very menuitem that opens it, and
+   *  aria-haspopup/aria-expanded belong on that button — not on a wrapper div around it. */
+  elementRef?: (node: HTMLButtonElement | null) => void;
   label?: string;
 } & Omit<ButtonHTMLAttributes<HTMLButtonElement>, "onSelect" | "role" | "children" | "className">) {
   const ctx = useContext(PopoverListContext);
@@ -364,6 +379,11 @@ export function PopoverItem({
   const generatedId = useId();
   const textLabel = label ?? (typeof children === "string" ? children : undefined);
   const { ref, index } = useListItem({ label: textLabel });
+  // Both refs, in that order: the registry first (it owns roving focus), then the caller's.
+  const setNode = (node: HTMLButtonElement | null) => {
+    ref(node);
+    elementRef?.(node);
+  };
   // Roving tabindex / DOM focus follow the KEYBOARD position (activeIndex); the visible highlight
   // follows the pointer when hovering, else the keyboard (highlightIndex = hoverIndex ?? activeIndex).
   const focusActive = ctx?.activeIndex === index;
@@ -409,7 +429,7 @@ export function PopoverItem({
 
   return (
     <button
-      ref={ref}
+      ref={setNode}
       type="button"
       role={role}
       {...handlers}
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ui/ContextMenu.dom.test.tsx b/frontend/src/components/ui/ContextMenu.dom.test.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ba7d6d53
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ui/ContextMenu.dom.test.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,243 @@
+// @vitest-environment jsdom
+//
+// Contract of the right-click / long-press context menu (E10 S2). Same floating-ui recipe as
+// ActionMenu.dom.test.tsx: stub the two observers autoUpdate wires and wrap in a FloatingTree, and
+// query with `{ hidden: true }` because floating-ui never positions in jsdom, so the surface stays
+// `visibility: hidden` and the a11y tree treats its contents as hidden.
+//
+// What is worth asserting here is not "a menu opens" but the two things that make it a CONTEXT menu:
+// the left button keeps the row's own action, and the gesture that opens it doesn't also fire that
+// action underneath.
+import { describe, it, expect, vi, afterEach, beforeAll } from "vitest";
+import { render, screen, fireEvent, cleanup, act } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { FloatingTree } from "@floating-ui/react";
+import { type ActionMenuItem } from "./ActionMenu";
+import { ContextMenu } from "./ContextMenu";
+import { useContextMenu } from "./useContextMenu";
+
+beforeAll(() => {
+  class Stub {
+    observe() {}
+    unobserve() {}
+    disconnect() {}
+    takeRecords() {
+      return [];
+    }
+  }
+  globalThis.ResizeObserver ??= Stub as unknown as typeof ResizeObserver;
+  globalThis.IntersectionObserver ??= Stub as unknown as typeof IntersectionObserver;
+
+  // jsdom ships no PointerEvent, so fireEvent.pointerDown would deliver pointerType/clientX/clientY
+  // as null — and the long-press path is ENTIRELY about those three. Without this polyfill the touch
+  // tests would pass for the wrong reason (every press looks like an untyped press at 0,0) and the
+  // "a mouse never starts the timer" guard could rot unnoticed. MouseEvent already carries the
+  // coordinates; only pointerType has to be added.
+  class PointerEventStub extends MouseEvent {
+    pointerType: string;
+    constructor(type: string, init: MouseEventInit & { pointerType?: string } = {}) {
+      super(type, init);
+      this.pointerType = init.pointerType ?? "";
+    }
+  }
+  globalThis.PointerEvent ??= PointerEventStub as unknown as typeof PointerEvent;
+});
+
+afterEach(cleanup);
+
+/** A two-row list wired exactly the way a real consumer wires it: one menu, `triggerProps` per row. */
+function List({
+  build,
+  onRowClick = () => {},
+}: {
+  build: (row: string) => ActionMenuItem[];
+  onRowClick?: (row: string) => void;
+}) {
+  const menu = useContextMenu<string>();
+  return (
+    <>
+      {["alpha", "beta"].map((row) => (
+        <button key={row} onClick={() => onRowClick(row)} {...menu.triggerProps(row)}>
+          {row}
+        </button>
+      ))}
+      <ContextMenu
+        menu={menu}
+        ariaLabel="Row actions"
+        items={menu.target ? build(menu.target) : []}
+      />
+    </>
+  );
+}
+
+const renderList = (build: (row: string) => ActionMenuItem[], onRowClick = vi.fn()) => {
+  render(
+    <FloatingTree>
+      <List build={build} onRowClick={onRowClick} />
+    </FloatingTree>,
+  );
+  return { onRowClick };
+};
+
+const row = (name: string) => screen.getByRole("button", { name });
+const menuitems = () =>
+  screen.queryAllByRole("menuitem", { hidden: true }).map((b) => b.textContent);
+// The surface is visibility:hidden in jsdom (floating-ui never positions), and an accessible NAME is
+// empty inside a hidden subtree — so items are matched on their text, as in ActionMenu.dom.test.tsx.
+const item = (label: string) => {
+  const found = screen
+    .getAllByRole("menuitem", { hidden: true })
+    .find((b) => b.textContent === label);
+  if (!found) throw new Error(`no menuitem "${label}" in [${menuitems().join(", ")}]`);
+  return found as HTMLButtonElement;
+};
+
+describe("useContextMenu / ContextMenu", () => {
+  it("stays closed until a right-click, and builds the menu from the row that got it", () => {
+    renderList((r) => [{ id: "a", label: `Play ${r}`, onSelect: vi.fn() }]);
+    expect(menuitems()).toEqual([]);
+    fireEvent.contextMenu(row("beta"), { clientX: 40, clientY: 80 });
+    expect(menuitems()).toEqual(["Play beta"]);
+  });
+
+  it("leaves the LEFT button to the row's own action", () => {
+    // The whole point of the sprint: right-click is a new input path, not a replacement for the
+    // row's default action.
+    const { onRowClick } = renderList((r) => [{ id: "a", label: r, onSelect: vi.fn() }]);
+    fireEvent.click(row("alpha"));
+    expect(onRowClick).toHaveBeenCalledWith("alpha");
+    expect(menuitems()).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it("selecting an item fires it and closes the menu", () => {
+    const onSelect = vi.fn();
+    renderList(() => [{ id: "a", label: "Remove", onSelect }]);
+    fireEvent.contextMenu(row("alpha"));
+    fireEvent.click(item("Remove"));
+    expect(onSelect).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(menuitems()).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it("Shift+F10 opens it from the keyboard", () => {
+    renderList((r) => [{ id: "a", label: `Play ${r}`, onSelect: vi.fn() }]);
+    fireEvent.keyDown(row("alpha"), { key: "F10", shiftKey: true });
+    expect(menuitems()).toEqual(["Play alpha"]);
+  });
+
+  it("Escape closes it", () => {
+    renderList(() => [{ id: "a", label: "Remove", onSelect: vi.fn() }]);
+    fireEvent.contextMenu(row("alpha"));
+    fireEvent.keyDown(document, { key: "Escape" });
+    expect(menuitems()).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  describe("long press (touch)", () => {
+    const press = (el: HTMLElement, x = 10, y = 10) =>
+      fireEvent.pointerDown(el, { pointerType: "touch", clientX: x, clientY: y });
+
+    it("opens after the hold and SWALLOWS the click that follows the release", () => {
+      vi.useFakeTimers();
+      try {
+        const { onRowClick } = renderList((r) => [
+          { id: "a", label: `Play ${r}`, onSelect: vi.fn() },
+        ]);
+        press(row("alpha"));
+        act(() => void vi.advanceTimersByTime(600));
+        expect(menuitems()).toEqual(["Play alpha"]);
+        // Without the click guard the row would ALSO play the video under the open menu.
+        fireEvent.click(row("alpha"));
+        expect(onRowClick).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+      } finally {
+        vi.useRealTimers();
+      }
+    });
+
+    it("a scroll (pointer moved past the slop) cancels it", () => {
+      vi.useFakeTimers();
+      try {
+        const { onRowClick } = renderList((r) => [{ id: "a", label: r, onSelect: vi.fn() }]);
+        press(row("alpha"), 10, 10);
+        fireEvent.pointerMove(row("alpha"), { pointerType: "touch", clientX: 10, clientY: 60 });
+        act(() => void vi.advanceTimersByTime(600));
+        expect(menuitems()).toEqual([]);
+        // …and a cancelled long press leaves the row's own click intact.
+        fireEvent.click(row("alpha"));
+        expect(onRowClick).toHaveBeenCalledWith("alpha");
+      } finally {
+        vi.useRealTimers();
+      }
+    });
+
+    it("a MOUSE press never starts the timer (it has a right button)", () => {
+      vi.useFakeTimers();
+      try {
+        renderList((r) => [{ id: "a", label: r, onSelect: vi.fn() }]);
+        fireEvent.pointerDown(row("alpha"), { pointerType: "mouse", clientX: 10, clientY: 10 });
+        act(() => void vi.advanceTimersByTime(600));
+        expect(menuitems()).toEqual([]);
+      } finally {
+        vi.useRealTimers();
+      }
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe("submenus", () => {
+    const withSub = (): ActionMenuItem[] => [
+      { id: "play", label: "Play", onSelect: vi.fn() },
+      {
+        id: "move",
+        label: "Move to",
+        items: [
+          { id: "t1", label: "Watch later", onSelect: vi.fn() },
+          { id: "t2", label: "Homelab", onSelect: vi.fn() },
+        ],
+      },
+    ];
+
+    it("marks the submenu row as such and keeps its items unmounted until opened", () => {
+      renderList(withSub);
+      fireEvent.contextMenu(row("alpha"));
+      const trigger = item("Move to");
+      expect(trigger.getAttribute("aria-haspopup")).toBe("menu");
+      expect(trigger.getAttribute("aria-expanded")).toBe("false");
+      expect(menuitems()).toEqual(["Play", "Move to"]);
+    });
+
+    it("opens on click and on ArrowRight, and ArrowLeft steps back out of it", () => {
+      renderList(withSub);
+      fireEvent.contextMenu(row("alpha"));
+      fireEvent.click(item("Move to"));
+      expect(menuitems()).toEqual(["Play", "Move to", "Watch later", "Homelab"]);
+
+      // ArrowLeft is pressed INSIDE the submenu (that is where focus goes when it opens) and closes
+      // only that layer — Escape would close the whole stack, which is not what "back" means.
+      fireEvent.keyDown(item("Watch later"), { key: "ArrowLeft" });
+      expect(menuitems()).toEqual(["Play", "Move to"]);
+
+      fireEvent.keyDown(item("Move to"), { key: "ArrowRight" });
+      expect(menuitems()).toEqual(["Play", "Move to", "Watch later", "Homelab"]);
+    });
+
+    it("choosing inside a submenu closes the WHOLE stack, not just the submenu", () => {
+      const chosen = vi.fn();
+      renderList(() => [
+        { id: "play", label: "Play", onSelect: vi.fn() },
+        { id: "move", label: "Move to", items: [{ id: "t1", label: "Homelab", onSelect: chosen }] },
+      ]);
+      fireEvent.contextMenu(row("alpha"));
+      fireEvent.click(item("Move to"));
+      fireEvent.click(item("Homelab"));
+      expect(chosen).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+      expect(menuitems()).toEqual([]);
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("a disabled item is inert and never fires", () => {
+    const onSelect = vi.fn();
+    renderList(() => [{ id: "a", label: "Move to", disabled: true, onSelect }]);
+    fireEvent.contextMenu(row("alpha"));
+    const disabled = item("Move to");
+    expect(disabled.disabled).toBe(true);
+    fireEvent.click(disabled);
+    expect(onSelect).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+});
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ui/ContextMenu.tsx b/frontend/src/components/ui/ContextMenu.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..40fdd71e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ui/ContextMenu.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+import { MENU_SURFACE, MenuItemList, type ActionMenuItem } from "./ActionMenu";
+import { PopoverSurface } from "./AnchoredPopover";
+import { type ContextMenuController } from "./useContextMenu";
+
+/** The menu surface for a `useContextMenu` controller. Render ONE per list, outside the rows. */
+export function ContextMenu<T>({
+  menu,
+  ariaLabel,
+  items,
+}: {
+  menu: ContextMenuController<T>;
+  /** Accessible name for the panel — a context menu has no visible trigger to take one from. */
+  ariaLabel: string;
+  items: readonly ActionMenuItem[];
+}) {
+  return (
+    <PopoverSurface
+      popover={menu.popover}
+      ariaLabel={ariaLabel}
+      className={`${MENU_SURFACE} overflow-y-auto`}
+      style={{ maxHeight: "min(28rem, var(--fit-max-h))" }}
+    >
+      <MenuItemList items={items} onClose={menu.close} />
+    </PopoverSurface>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ui/useContextMenu.ts b/frontend/src/components/ui/useContextMenu.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..85d4cef6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ui/useContextMenu.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,155 @@
+import { useCallback, useRef, useState, type PointerEvent as ReactPointerEvent } from "react";
+import { useAnchoredPopover } from "./AnchoredPopover";
+
+// E10 S2 — the right-click context menu's INPUT half: the gestures that open it and the row they
+// belong to. The surface itself is `<ContextMenu>` (ContextMenu.tsx); they are two files only so
+// that the component file exports a component and nothing else (react-refresh).
+//
+// This is an INPUT PATH onto the menu the app already has rather
+// than a second menu component. `ActionMenu` (the ⋯ overflow menu) and this one render the same
+// `ActionMenuItem[]` through the same `MenuItemList`, on the same `.glass-menu` surface, so a row
+// cannot grow a right-click menu that looks or behaves unlike its own ⋯ menu.
+//
+// Three ways in, because a menu that only opens one way does not exist on the device that lacks it:
+//   - right-click anywhere on the row (the desktop browser, and the reason this sprint exists),
+//   - long-press (touch/pen only) — the tablet has no right button,
+//   - Shift+F10 / the Menu key, which is free once the row is in the tab order.
+// The left button is untouched: it keeps the row's own default action (select / play).
+//
+// ONE menu per list, not one per row. The popover is anchored to a VIRTUAL element at the pointer
+// (native-menu behaviour: it opens where you clicked, not at the row's corner), so a table of 200
+// rows mounts a single closed popover and `target` says which row it belongs to. Mounting one per
+// row would build ~200 floating contexts to keep 199 of them shut.
+
+/** Long-press timing. 500 ms is the platform convention on both Android and iOS; below ~400 ms it
+ *  fires while the user is still deciding whether to scroll. */
+const LONG_PRESS_MS = 500;
+/** Movement (px) that reclassifies a press as a scroll and cancels the pending menu. */
+const LONG_PRESS_SLOP = 10;
+
+type Rect = {
+  x: number;
+  y: number;
+  width: number;
+  height: number;
+  top: number;
+  right: number;
+  bottom: number;
+  left: number;
+};
+const pointRect = (x: number, y: number): Rect => ({
+  x,
+  y,
+  width: 0,
+  height: 0,
+  top: y,
+  right: x,
+  bottom: y,
+  left: x,
+});
+
+export interface ContextMenuController<T> {
+  /** The row the open menu belongs to; `null` while closed. Build the items from it. */
+  target: T | null;
+  open: boolean;
+  close: () => void;
+  /** Spread on the element that should answer a right-click — the whole row, not a handle. */
+  triggerProps: (payload: T) => Record<string, unknown>;
+  /** Consumed by `<ContextMenu>`; not part of the call site's vocabulary. */
+  popover: ReturnType<typeof useAnchoredPopover>;
+}
+
+export function useContextMenu<T>(): ContextMenuController<T> {
+  const [target, setTarget] = useState<T | null>(null);
+  const [open, setOpen] = useState(false);
+  const pop = useAnchoredPopover({
+    open,
+    onOpenChange: (next) => {
+      setOpen(next);
+      // Drop the target on close so a stale row can't drive a re-open's first paint.
+      if (!next) setTarget(null);
+    },
+    // A native context menu drops down-and-right from the pointer; flip()/shift() take it the other
+    // way near an edge.
+    placement: "bottom-start",
+    offset: 0,
+    fitHeight: true,
+  });
+
+  const { setPositionReference } = pop.refs;
+  const openAt = useCallback(
+    (x: number, y: number, payload: T, contextElement?: Element) => {
+      setPositionReference({ getBoundingClientRect: () => pointRect(x, y), contextElement });
+      setTarget(payload);
+      setOpen(true);
+    },
+    [setPositionReference],
+  );
+
+  // Long-press bookkeeping. Refs, not state: none of it paints, and a re-render per pointermove
+  // during a scroll would be a real cost on the device this path exists for.
+  const timer = useRef<number | null>(null);
+  const startedAt = useRef<{ x: number; y: number } | null>(null);
+  // A long-press is followed by a click on release. Without this the menu would open and the row's
+  // own default action (play / select) would fire underneath it.
+  const swallowClick = useRef(false);
+  const cancelPress = useCallback(() => {
+    if (timer.current !== null) window.clearTimeout(timer.current);
+    timer.current = null;
+    startedAt.current = null;
+  }, []);
+
+  const triggerProps = useCallback(
+    (payload: T) => ({
+      // Carries the `-webkit-touch-callout: none` rule (index.css) so an iOS long-press opens THIS
+      // menu instead of Safari's own link/image callout on top of it.
+      "data-context-menu-target": "",
+      onContextMenu: (e: React.MouseEvent<HTMLElement>) => {
+        e.preventDefault();
+        // A row inside another context-menu target (a table inside a panel) claims the event.
+        e.stopPropagation();
+        openAt(e.clientX, e.clientY, payload, e.currentTarget);
+      },
+      onPointerDown: (e: ReactPointerEvent<HTMLElement>) => {
+        // Mouse has a right button; only touch/pen need the timer.
+        if (e.pointerType === "mouse") return;
+        const { clientX: x, clientY: y } = e;
+        const el = e.currentTarget; // read now: currentTarget is null by the time the timer fires
+        startedAt.current = { x, y };
+        timer.current = window.setTimeout(() => {
+          timer.current = null;
+          swallowClick.current = true;
+          openAt(x, y, payload, el);
+        }, LONG_PRESS_MS);
+      },
+      onPointerMove: (e: ReactPointerEvent<HTMLElement>) => {
+        const from = startedAt.current;
+        if (!from || timer.current === null) return;
+        if (
+          Math.abs(e.clientX - from.x) > LONG_PRESS_SLOP ||
+          Math.abs(e.clientY - from.y) > LONG_PRESS_SLOP
+        )
+          cancelPress(); // they are scrolling, not pressing
+      },
+      onPointerUp: cancelPress,
+      onPointerCancel: cancelPress,
+      onClickCapture: (e: React.MouseEvent<HTMLElement>) => {
+        if (!swallowClick.current) return;
+        swallowClick.current = false;
+        e.preventDefault();
+        e.stopPropagation();
+      },
+      onKeyDown: (e: React.KeyboardEvent<HTMLElement>) => {
+        // The keyboard route every desktop menu has. Anchored to the row's bottom-left rather than a
+        // pointer that isn't there.
+        if (e.key !== "ContextMenu" && !(e.key === "F10" && e.shiftKey)) return;
+        e.preventDefault();
+        const r = e.currentTarget.getBoundingClientRect();
+        openAt(r.left, r.bottom, payload, e.currentTarget);
+      },
+    }),
+    [openAt, cancelPress],
+  );
+
+  return { target, open, close: () => setOpen(false), triggerProps, popover: pop };
+}
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/usePlaylistActions.ts b/frontend/src/components/usePlaylistActions.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4b4a64d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/components/usePlaylistActions.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+import { useQueryClient } from "@tanstack/react-query";
+import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
+import { qk } from "../lib/queryKeys";
+import { api, HttpError, type Playlist } from "../lib/api";
+import { notify } from "../lib/notifications";
+import { notifyYouTubeActionError } from "../lib/youtubeErrors";
+import { playlistName } from "../lib/playlistName";
+import { useChoice } from "./ConfirmProvider";
+import { usePlaylists, usePlaylistsActions } from "./PlaylistsProvider";
+import { useMe } from "../lib/useMe";
+
+// The two playlist-level mutations that now have TWO entry points each: the detail header's
+// pencil/trash buttons, and (E10 S2) the rail row's context menu. They live here rather than in
+// either caller because the delete is not one API call — it is a dialog whose SHAPE depends on
+// whether the list is linked to YouTube, plus the "what gets selected next" dance — and this
+// codebase's recurring bug is the second copy of such a flow drifting from the first.
+
+/** The subset of a playlist these actions need — satisfied by both `Playlist` (the rail's rows)
+ *  and `PlaylistDetail` (the detail pane), which is why neither is named here. */
+type Deletable = Pick<Playlist, "id" | "name" | "kind" | "yt_playlist_id">;
+
+export function usePlaylistActions() {
+  const qc = useQueryClient();
+  const { t } = useTranslation();
+  const choose = useChoice();
+  const canWrite = useMe().can_write;
+  const { selectedId } = usePlaylists();
+  const { setSelectedId } = usePlaylistsActions();
+
+  async function rename(id: number, name: string): Promise<void> {
+    const next = name.trim();
+    if (!next) return;
+    try {
+      await api.renamePlaylist(id, next);
+    } catch (e) {
+      notifyYouTubeActionError(e, t("playlists.renameFailed"));
+    }
+    qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.playlists() });
+    qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.playlist(id) });
+  }
+
+  async function remove(pl: Deletable): Promise<void> {
+    if (pl.kind === "watch_later") return; // the built-in list has no delete anywhere in the UI
+    // ONE dialog with every outcome. It used to be two chained confirms, where the second one's
+    // Cancel/Escape/backdrop meant "delete here only" — dismissing the dialog deleted the playlist.
+    const offerYoutube = !!pl.yt_playlist_id && canWrite;
+    const name = playlistName(pl, t);
+    const picked = await choose({
+      title: t("playlists.delete"),
+      message: offerYoutube
+        ? t("playlists.confirmDeleteLinked", { name })
+        : t("playlists.confirmDelete", { name }),
+      choices: offerYoutube
+        ? [
+            { id: "here", label: t("playlists.deleteHereOnly"), danger: true },
+            { id: "both", label: t("playlists.deleteBoth"), danger: true },
+          ]
+        : [{ id: "here", label: t("playlists.delete"), danger: true }],
+    });
+    if (picked == null) return;
+    const onYoutube = picked === "both";
+    // Pick the next selection from what's left *now* (don't go via null, or the rail's auto-select
+    // effect would re-pick the just-deleted id from the stale list). Only when we deleted the list
+    // the user is looking at — deleting some other row from its context menu must not move them.
+    if (selectedId === pl.id) {
+      const listed = qc.getQueryData<Playlist[]>(qk.playlists()) ?? [];
+      setSelectedId(listed.find((p) => p.id !== pl.id)?.id ?? null);
+    }
+    try {
+      await api.deletePlaylist(pl.id, onYoutube);
+    } catch (err) {
+      // Prefer the server's specific reason (e.g. a local vs YouTube-side failure) over a blanket
+      // "couldn't delete on YouTube" that misleads when the failure wasn't the YouTube side.
+      notify({
+        level: "warning",
+        message:
+          (err instanceof HttpError && err.detail) ||
+          (onYoutube ? t("playlists.deleteYtFailed") : t("playlists.deleteFailed")),
+      });
+    }
+    qc.removeQueries({ queryKey: qk.playlist(pl.id) });
+    qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.playlists() });
+  }
+
+  return { rename, remove };
+}
diff --git a/frontend/src/i18n/locales/en/playlists.json b/frontend/src/i18n/locales/en/playlists.json
index c9ae9858..3445a87a 100644
--- a/frontend/src/i18n/locales/en/playlists.json
+++ b/frontend/src/i18n/locales/en/playlists.json
@@ -65,10 +65,26 @@
   "railSortName": "Name",
   "railSortCount": "Item count",
   "railSortDuration": "Total length",
+  "railSortRecent": "Recently changed",
   "dirtyFirst": "Unsynced first",
   "colTitle": "Title",
   "colChannel": "Channel",
   "colDuration": "Length",
+  "rowMenu": "Video actions",
+  "moveTo": "Move to another list",
+  "moveNoTargets": "There is no other playlist to move it to yet.",
+  "movedToast": "“{{title}}” moved to “{{name}}” ✓",
+  "moveFailed": "Couldn't move the video.",
+  "moveErrors": {
+    "not_in_playlist": "That video isn't in this playlist any more — it changed somewhere else.",
+    "same_playlist": "That video is already in this playlist."
+  },
+  "orderTop": "Move to top",
+  "orderUp": "Move up",
+  "orderDown": "Move down",
+  "orderBottom": "Move to bottom",
+  "railMenu": "Playlist actions",
+  "builtinLocked": "The built-in Watch later list can't be renamed or deleted.",
   "removeItem": "Remove",
   "removeItemOf": "Remove “{{title}}” from the playlist",
   "confirmRemove": "Remove “{{title}}” from this playlist?",
diff --git a/frontend/src/i18n/locales/hu/playlists.json b/frontend/src/i18n/locales/hu/playlists.json
index cddb6c19..d2d3dd40 100644
--- a/frontend/src/i18n/locales/hu/playlists.json
+++ b/frontend/src/i18n/locales/hu/playlists.json
@@ -65,10 +65,26 @@
   "railSortName": "Név",
   "railSortCount": "Elemszám",
   "railSortDuration": "Összhossz",
+  "railSortRecent": "Utoljára módosított",
   "dirtyFirst": "Nem szinkronizáltak elöl",
   "colTitle": "Cím",
   "colChannel": "Csatorna",
   "colDuration": "Hossz",
+  "rowMenu": "Videó műveletek",
+  "moveTo": "Áthelyezés másik listába",
+  "moveNoTargets": "Még nincs másik lejátszási lista, ahová áthelyezhetnéd.",
+  "movedToast": "„{{title}}” áthelyezve ide: „{{name}}” ✓",
+  "moveFailed": "Nem sikerült áthelyezni a videót.",
+  "moveErrors": {
+    "not_in_playlist": "Ez a videó már nincs ebben a listában — időközben máshol megváltozott.",
+    "same_playlist": "Ez a videó már ebben a listában van."
+  },
+  "orderTop": "Legfelülre",
+  "orderUp": "Eggyel feljebb",
+  "orderDown": "Eggyel lejjebb",
+  "orderBottom": "Legalulra",
+  "railMenu": "Lejátszási lista műveletei",
+  "builtinLocked": "A beépített Watch later lista nem nevezhető át és nem törölhető.",
   "removeItem": "Eltávolítás",
   "removeItemOf": "„{{title}}” eltávolítása a listáról",
   "confirmRemove": "Eltávolítod a(z) „{{title}}” videót erről a listáról?",
diff --git a/frontend/src/index.css b/frontend/src/index.css
index ab0c0e60..4d4cc533 100644
--- a/frontend/src/index.css
+++ b/frontend/src/index.css
@@ -559,6 +559,22 @@ body {
       min-height: 2.75rem;
     }
   }
+
+  /* ===== E10 S2 · rows that answer a right-click / long-press (useContextMenu) =====
+     The long-press path competes with two browser behaviours that fire at the same gesture:
+     iOS Safari's own callout (Copy / Share over a link or image) and the text-selection handles.
+     Both would appear ON TOP of our menu, so the attribute the hook stamps on the row turns them
+     off. Deliberately NOT `user-select: none` on a precise pointer — selecting a video title with
+     the mouse is legitimate, and only the touch path has the conflict. */
+  [data-context-menu-target] {
+    -webkit-touch-callout: none;
+  }
+  @media (pointer: coarse) {
+    [data-context-menu-target] {
+      -webkit-user-select: none;
+      user-select: none;
+    }
+  }
 }
 .glass-hover:hover {
   border-color: color-mix(in srgb, var(--accent) 55%, transparent);