Movie Tracker Reviews

Why I really like MovieTracker:
-Straightforward way to keep track of what you’ve watched or plan to watch;
- Mostly simple interface (see below for exception with TV shows), not overloaded with extraneous information or graphics;
- Free of social media.

Aspects that could be improved:
- Allow users to directly log a film or tv show as watched, without having to first add it to a backlog;
- Devise a cleaner way to log TV shows. My recommendation would be to log a show first at the general level, and then if the user wishes, to drill down in a separate page (after tapping on the main TV show poster image) to log seasons and individual episodes. Right now, it’s too cluttered when displaying entries for every single episode of a show — plus sometimes special features — all in one giant, scrollable list.

MovieTracker has so much potential. I downloaded MovieTracker because mainly because of the stats feature. However, it’s a lot more manual than I expected.

You can’t see your watched stats unless you add a date which is disappointing.

Searching requires spelling out the full movie, actor, director etc. (lacks smart results if you misspell) would be nice to start seeing results “as you type” or autocorrect to speed up the experience.

Marking something as watched requires too many click actions. I wish it didn’t require adding something to the backlog first before you can mark it as watched.

Otherwise, the Design is perfectly simple. Hope to see some improvements!

Ooh, I was going to leave a five star review and I see I technically have “movie tracker original” and it has changed to “pro” to get what I have??? HATE when apps do this. Makes reviews untrustworthy - I can’t in good faith review it because I may be reviewing something someone is asked to pay way more for?? Yikes on bikes. I like MovieTracker . I don’t like that “in the future” I may need movie tracker pro. Going to go elsewhere so my time tracking isn’t wasted.

It seems okay so far, but has a few oddities, unless I am missing somethng. It has a backlog section and a watched section. If I add something to my backlog and then watch it and add it to my watched section, it still somehow stays in my backlog section as well. Why is this? It doesn't seem like MovieTracker has a way to remove it from my backlog but still have it show up as watched, unless I create some separate space for it and move it there, which just seems dumb to me. Once a show is marked as watched, it should no longer be in my backlog.

Update: I added a star, as the developer has informed me of a way to hide the watched shows. I wish this was a bit more obvious & intuitive though.

This is a phenomenal app for building your watchlist! My only disappointment is that unlike the sister app by the same developers, Book Tracker, there is no way, as far as I can tell, to manually add titles and export your lists as PDF files. If these features were added, I would consider MovieTracker to be the perfect package!

Generally seems like a good tracking app if you’re starting from scratch. My Trakt about apparently has nearly 1k movies and shows on it. I don’t want to have to reinput what I’ve watched of everything. Main other gripe is that it takes too many clicks to just mark an ep as watched (although that’s a gripe I have with all tv tracking apps except the one I currently use, which isn’t actively being supported and I’m running into bugs and errors daily so I’ve been looking for a new app)

MovieTracker is great and allowed me to finally move away from keeping my list of “what to watch” in Apple notes to something much nicer. A few improvements to his app will change it from a really good app to a really great app. Some of these are better searching & filtering, better ways for a user to drop movies/shows into different buckets (spaces) and easier ways to tag items.

I love the fact that MovieTracker design wise fits right in with other Apple apps. I do think making it easier to rate, mark as watched, and move a movie into the watched list would improve MovieTracker a lot. I get confused when I make a list and put things in there they disappear from the backlog. I kinda wish they would stay in there and in the list I create. Over all I love it I just think making it more user friendly would help! Less menus!

Loving MovieTracker so far. It’s nice to see my backlog of movies/tv shows, that I still need to watch, all sorted out how I like them. I also like that it shows all the information/cover photo for each movie/tv show and where to watch it.

Great app--I just emailed a friend suggesting he use it. Until now I'd been using 3-4 different programs to track movies I want to watch. I'd try one tool, find it deficient and move to the next, leaving some titles in the old tool.

With Movie Tracker, I have finally moved everything I want to watch into one tool. I absolutely love it.

Simone is super-responsive, too.

I love MovieTracker and the book tracker one as well. Simple, lean interface and it integrates so well with iOS 16.

My only wish is a quicker way to add a movie to watched rather than first adding it to ‘backlog’ and a way to add without specifying a date for movies watched a while ago. I also hope their are plans for a video game tracker as well as a stand-alone TV Show tracker (I know this one does both but I’d love it’s own.

Great job regardless. Happy to support

Trying to keep a personal watch list has never been easier. I have been using the Book Tracker for years and I just learned of the movie tracker and it is a welcome addition to my app library.

I would love to see a widget that uses the ‘Watched’ category to show recent watches in my home screen. And maybe a way to add a space to another space

Thank you for another amazing app

I’m obsessed with tracking things, and i used the book tracker app made by the same company, so it was only natural i needed to try this out. and it didn’t disappoint! i love MovieTracker! it’s easy to figure out and has the best backlog of any app i’ve used. my only suggestion is more info on the statistics side of it. i can classify to my hearts content and i love that. to elevate MovieTracker to the next level for me, i’d love to be able to really analyze my movie watching preferences. it already has a most watched actor section, i would expand that to include director and other things as well. but great apps all around!

I wanted a simple tool for managing shows and movies we’ve watched but wasn’t cluttered with social networking that I don’t need or use. Movie Tracker fit my requirements. I found this to be very easy to use (low learning curve) and easy to find movies, actors, etc. and add them to my lists. Easy to track categories too (westerns, sci-fi). Excellent that it works across my iPad, iPhone and Macbook. Thank you for such a great App.

I wanted to start keeping track of my movie watching in the new year and MovieTracker is perfect! I love the simple design and customization of being able to create “spaces” for ways I’m watching. Great search functionality for finding where things stream, too. Finally, emailed the developer with a quick question and got a repose within United that solved my problem. Definitely going to pay for the full app. Great service and great app!

MovieTracker is everything ive needed to keep track of my shows and movies. However, i would like the option to edit movie/shows posters. Doing so would make a certain fitting aesthetic in all my collections with matching poster colors. Overall, MovieTracker is amazing and i hope this feature could be a thing in the future. Also to move movies/shows manually in however order we'd like. I'd pay for it🙏

I like to religiously track many random things in my life. One of them being movies / tv shows. On top of tracking I like to see trends. MovieTracker tells you what actors, directors, genres, days you’ve watched, etc! I love love love MovieTracker! Not to mention I am super picky on the design of apps. I often buy apps and delete so much because I dont like the feel or look. I am super annoyingly picky. I also saw that they have book trackers as well as others. I am in heaven!

I’ve been using booktrack for a while now, I can’t believe it took me so long to download MovieTracker. This is exactly what I was looking for! Clean elegant interface, easy to navigate, the search results are clear and easy to read, and fast. It was totally worth paying for instead of having a cluttered screen with ads like so many others do. Really, this is just perfect. I love the flexibility too of “spaces” and “tags”, it has allowed me to condense a bunch of different lists I was keeping. Again, sweet app.

MovieTracker is exactly what I was looking for to keep track of all the movies I want to watch. It’s user-friendly, has plenty of options without being overwhelming, and even tells you where you stream, rent or buy the movie. The only thing I would suggest (and this is very minor) is an option to sort the list of movies with “unwatched” on top and “watched” on the bottom. There’s an option to hide the watched movies, so I will use that for now. Thank you for such a great app. I’ve never bothered to write a review for an app but thought this one was worth the shout out.

- simple
- easy to add movies/shows you want to watch
- includes description, TMDB rating, runtime, and more
- allows you to see where it is available to stream for free (or rent or purchase); this is always updated so movies that were not initially streaming when you entered them might be now!
- allows you to keep record of what you have watched (and to add comments if you wish)
- more options available that I haven’t yet explored
- five bucks forever