Filmlog is a personal movie diary, a research tool, a soundtrack player and a cinema finder. It records what you watched, when, where, with whom and what you thought of it. Built by one person since 2013 and paid for by the people who use and love it.
WHEREVER YOU ARE
A native app for iPhone, iPad and Mac, and a watchlist companion on Apple TV. With Filmlog Plus, multi-device support keeps one diary in step across all of them with iCloud.
YOUR DIARY
• Log every viewing with its date (or without) — a rewatch is its own entry.
• Manage your Watchlist: sections for announced and upcoming movies — or add movies right from the Inbox.
• Your preferred rating style: Favorites, five stars or a ten-point scale — one system, and switching loses nothing.
• Remember: a note for each viewing, the people you watched with, and the cinema you sat in.
• Your movies can be searched, sorted and switched to show them as a list or tiles.
• Filmographies with your watched progress, facts about people.
• Only the facts you care about: hide and show facts individually as well as change their list order.
• Follow actors and directors and get notified when their next movie is released.
• Select your favorite poster for your watched movies.
• Enjoy statistics about your movie data and watching habits, and bring them to your Home Screen with widgets.
A CATALOG THAT WORKS OFFLINE
• Search through 315,000 movies and 464,000 people inside the app, with the internet switched off and titles in your language.
• Find movies by character, by where the story is set, what it deals with and which book it was based on.
• Looking for a cinema? Find one by name, or use your current location to see cinemas nearby.
CHALLENGES: LISTS WITH A PURPOSE
• Create movie lists with a goal and a progress bar — a hundred movies, a director, a year.
• Share one and the whole list travels inside the link, with no record on any server. Whoever opens it can start with a copy of their own.
SOUNDTRACKS, POWERED BY APPLE MUSIC
Where a movie's score was released as an album on Apple Music, it sits on the movie's page — the full album and autoplay with an Apple Music subscription, previews without one.
YOUR LIBRARY ANSWERS BACK
• Spotlight finds your entry for a movie — watch date, rating, company.
• Siri and Shortcuts log a movie, add it to the watchlist or mark a favorite without opening the app.
• On iOS 27 and macOS 27, Siri AI answers questions about your library in plain language — not yet on iPhone and iPad in the EU.
• On the Mac, a Claude Desktop extension reads your diary and writes to it when you ask.
YOUR LIBRARY, IN AND OUT
Import from Letterboxd, IMDb, Filmtipset and most other CSV exports — matched on your device, for you to review before you start the import. Export and backup are free, always.
FILMLOG PLUS
Filmlog is free and complete on a single device. Filmlog Plus adds multi-device support, star ratings, tile/list switching and custom facts, notes per viewing, watch companions, the cinema on the entry, statistics and widgets, unlimited challenges and adding whole lists to them, unlimited following, extended cinema search, importing your matched library, custom posters, additional app icons and the Claude Desktop extension on the Mac. Subscription or one-time purchase. Filmlog Plus Family is available too.
Do you have feedback? Send an email to: feedback@simonbraun.eu
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This product uses the TMDb API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDb.
Terms of Use: https://filmlog.cc/terms-of-service.php
Privacy Policy: https://filmlog.cc/privacy-policy.php
I’m loving the simplicity of this app. It’s exactly what I’m looking for — a way to journal my thoughts about a movie in a space that is not a social networking app.One feature I wish was available is the ability to tag/label for easier sorting/filtering of my list. I’m noticing as my saved films list gets bigger, it’s becoming unruly to sift through. I would love to be able to tag my films with keywords of my choosing for specific searching later on. E.g. I can’t just search my saved films for “horror.” I have to scroll through all my saved films (thats ordered by date saved) and hope I run into a horror movie.
Developer Response
Hi Chemanchap,thank you for your awesome review and feature recommendation. Having tags would be great and there are updates to come.If you have feedback don‘t hesitate to get in touch: feedback@simonbraun.eu — Best, Simon
Almost Great
Pweerd
This app is almost great but a few glitches get in the way.As the first glitch, the app crashes a lot...usually when searching.The second glitch is hard to catch. For some reason if you try to edit a log that is already saved the app often saves the date as one day later than the date you set it at. For example if you save a movie to your watch list for January 1st, 2019 then go back to edit the date to, say, January 3rd 2019 it will save as January 4th. Sometimes this can be corrected by editing it again, sometimes it takes several tries. After finding this glitch I don’t have any confidence in the saved data.The third glitch happens when searching. If you’ve already saved a movie to your list you can search and bring up that saved log. That’s great if you want to search if you’ve already watched a particular movie. But, if the movie title has an apostrophe, for instance “We’re the Millers”, the search function doesn’t recognize the movie is already in your list.If the developer can reduce the crashes and fix this date glitch I would definitely recommend this app.
Developer Response
Hi Pweerd,thank you for your feedback. The search crashes should be fixed with the next update. A Testflight build should be available today. Link to join the beta test can be found here: https://agiligator.cc/filmlog/betaAnd thanks for the description of the other bugs. I will dig into it and try to get bugfixes out within this or the next release.If you have more questions or feedback don‘t hesitate to get in touch: support@agiligator.cc — Best, Simon
Great except you can’t rate a movie!?!
gerald barry
Great for tracking movies you’ve watched. I just wish I could give ratings (1-5 stars)to what I’ve watched. Literally a deal breaker for this app. Otherwise it’s almost perfect.
Developer Response
Noted. Thank you for the feedback!
One time purchase option is nice
bike5262
Been using filmlog for a minute now, and I did get a bit worried when I thought I needed to use a subscription for the features again, but all I had to do was hit restore purchase. Apologies for the confusion, keep up the good work!
Developer Response
Hi bike5262,thank you for the review update. Previous reply below:Sorry for the inconvenience. If you bought Filmlog Plus previously just restore your purchase and you should be ready to go. For support please mail to support@simonbraun.euSubscriptions are an additional option to support my work. Filmlog is updated now for more than ten years and I need a steady income to make it twenty.
The largest update in Filmlog's history.
ON EVERY SCREEN
• Filmlog for Mac — a real Mac app with a sidebar, its own Settings window, menus and keyboard shortcuts. Coming soon.
• Filmlog for Apple TV — your watchlist and challenges on the TV you're about to watch on.
• The iPad uses the Mac's two-pane layout, with keyboard shortcuts.
• Multi-device support — one diary across all your devices, through iCloud. (Plus)
YOUR DIARY
• Star ratings — 5 stars or 10 points instead of hearts; switching keeps everything. (Plus)
• Watched with — record who you saw a film with. (Plus)
• A note per viewing, and the cinema you sat in, right on the diary entry. (Plus)
• Watched is now Diary and All, with new sorting and date pills.
• Statistics rebuilt with a patterns heatmap, and widgets for the Home Screen and the Mac. (Plus)
FIND MORE
• Search characters, locations, subjects and the books films are based on — offline, on your device.
• People without a film-database entry get their own pages and offline filmographies.
• Titles in your language, and facts about people from Wikidata.
• Spotlight and Siri find what's in your library; on iOS 27 they answer questions about it in plain language.
• On the Mac, a Claude Desktop extension can read your diary and write to it. Coming soon. (Plus)
LISTS, MUSIC, IMPORT
• Challenges — film lists with a goal and a progress bar; a whole list travels in a single link.
• Add a whole filmography to a challenge at once. (Plus, iPhone and iPad)
• Soundtracks — where a film's score is on Apple Music, it plays from the film's page.
• Import from Letterboxd, IMDb, Filmtipset, a Filmlog backup or a plain list of titles from a note — matched on your device, TV shows set aside, films the built-in catalog doesn't know found online, nothing overwritten. (Plus)
Family Sharing — every Filmlog Plus plan can be shared with your family.
IMPROVED IN 2026.9.1
• Search on iPad — places, subjects, what a film is based on, characters and the people you watched with now sit in their own pane next to the results.
• The changelog — one card per version, every change marked by its kind, and older versions folded away until you want them.
FIXED IN 2026.9.1
• Adding a companion by name — type it in the add screen's field and tap Add. // Thanks Jonas
• Companion names were unreadable in the Original theme. // Thanks Jonas
• Opening a film's notes froze the screen while the library was syncing. // Thanks Jonas
• The title of the activity chart in the statistics broke into single letters in some languages. // Thanks Saúl
• The light appearance was labeled wrongly in the settings of many languages.
• On first launch, the Releases buttons opened the film search instead of the people search.
• The cinemas search finds a cinema by its city or district, not only by its name. // Thanks Jonas
• The search missed new films nobody had rated yet, even when you typed their full title.
• In the Original theme, the Share and More buttons on a challenge's screen were nearly invisible.
• After allowing Apple Music access on a soundtrack screen, the track list could load forever.
The complete list of changes and fixes is in the app's changelog.
Version 2026.9.1
The developer, Simon Braun, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Purchases
Identifiers
Usage Data
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Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
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