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Match Cut

A film diary that learns what you watch. Sort what you have seen, rate what you remember, and find what to watch next.

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Free. iPhone. Coming to the App Store.

SIDE AHave you seen it?

The deck asks one question at a time. Swipe right if you've seen a film, left if you haven't, or up for one you haven't seen but mean to, which saves it to your To Watch list. A few minutes of that gets you further than an evening of typing titles into a search box, and it gives the rest of the app something to reason about almost immediately. The deck alternates between recent releases, the most-watched films of all time, and pre-2000 classics, so it never sits in one era for long.

The Sort deck showing a film poster with Not Seen and Seen buttons beneath it

SIDE BLiked, Disliked, or honestly unsure.

Rating is deliberately two-valued. A five-star scale only invites agonizing over the difference between three and four. But some films were simply too long ago to judge, so there is a third answer: Unsure keeps a film in your Seen list without inventing an opinion. Log a watch on it later and the app asks how it was there and then, while the answer is still fresh. It asks about a rewatch too, since a second viewing is allowed to change your mind.

The Rate deck with Disliked, Unsure and Liked buttons and a progress line beneath

TRAILERSSuggestions that show their working.

Two different claims, kept apart. Match is how much a film resembles what you watch: the same directors, writers and actors first, then genres. Likely is how much you would probably enjoy it, learned from what you have rated. They can disagree, and that is the interesting part. Every row says why it is there.

The Suggestions list ranking unseen films with match and likely percentages and a stated reason

CREDITSYour taste, broken down.

Two views over the same library: everything you have marked Seen, and only what you rated Liked. Directors, writers, actors, editors, composers and genres, each ranked by how many of their films you have watched, with each genre's share of your watching beside its count. Every row opens the films behind it, so a number is never just a number.

The Your Taste screen listing people by how many of their films you have seen

CATALOGEvery film, filed.

Seen, Not Seen, To Watch and Not For Me, plus Liked, Disliked and Unsure, and an Upcoming list holding the films you have saved that are not out yet, soonest first. Group any list by genre, release year or decade, sort by title, year or when you added it, and search inside it. Removing a film puts it back on the deck.

My Lists showing the Seen list with film posters, years and ratings

RANDOMCan't decide? Roll for it.

Pick for Me draws a film at random from any list you choose: anything unseen, your To Watch pile, the ones you liked, or the ones you have forgotten. Narrow it by genre if you want. File the result straight from the screen, or roll again.

Pick for Me showing a randomly chosen film with buttons to file it or pick again

LINER NOTESEverything about a film, in one place.

Three questions sit at the top, where you can answer or change any of them: whether you have seen it, whether you want to, and what you thought. Then the facts (date, runtime, score, genres), how the film fits what you watch, where it is streaming, the cast and crew, and your own watch dates and notes.

A film's page showing its verdict buttons, rating buttons and details

Private by design

There is no account to create and no server to store anything on. Every verdict, rating, watch date and note lives on your device. The app talks to TMDB for film data and to nothing else: no analytics, no advertising identifier, and no third-party code at all.

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