Best Movie Tracking Apps in 2026: 7 Trackers Compared

The best movie tracking app in 2026 is Achriom if you want your films beside your shows, books and albums, and Letterboxd if you want film alone with its community. Achriom is free with no item limit and imports your Letterboxd, IMDb and Trakt history. The rest of this guide compares seven movie trackers on price, what they track and how easily you can bring your history with you.

Pick by the job:

• Films beside your shows, books and albums, with an AI librarian: Achriom
• Film logging with reviews and lists: Letterboxd
• Automatic tracking from Kodi or Plex: Trakt
• Movies, TV and anime on a free plan: Simkl
• Where a film is streaming: JustWatch
• A watchlist and ratings on the biggest film database: IMDb

Quick comparison

App	Tracks	Price	Notable feature
Achriom	Films, shows, books, albums, anime, podcasts, games	Free, no item limit. Pro $9.99 a month or $99 a year	Imports Letterboxd, IMDb and Trakt history; exports your library as CSV; private by default
Letterboxd	Films	Free to download, with ads. Pro $18.99 a year, Patron $48.99 a year (US App Store)	Diary entries, ratings, reviews and lists; imports IMDb CSV exports
Trakt	Movies and TV	Free tier with limits. VIP $60 a year	Official Kodi and Plex plugins scrobble what you watch
Simkl	TV shows, movies and anime	Free plan, with paid PRO and VIP plans	Imports watch history from 14+ services on the free plan
IMDb	Movies and TV	No price on the help pages we read	A Watchlist, and your own rating shown beside the IMDb rating on lists
JustWatch	Movies and TV	No price on its About page	Shows where a title is streaming, rented or bought
MovieLens	Movies	Free, no ads	Recommendations built from your ratings

Last verified: October 2026.

How to track movies you’ve watched

1. Pick one app and bring your old history with you. Export from Letterboxd (letterboxd.com/settings/data, then Export Your Data) or from IMDb, so you do not start from zero.
2. Import it. In Achriom, open the sidebar, tap Import, choose Letterboxd and upload watched.csv; your watched films and ratings come across. IMDb ratings and watchlists are in the same import dialog.
3. Log each new film as you finish it: search the title, rate it and add it. Each film page has a where-to-watch panel.

If you also follow shows, Trakt history imports by username with no export file. Details are on the Achriom import help page, and if you are leaving Letterboxd or want a backup first, see how to export your Letterboxd diary.

What to look for in a movie tracking app

A good movie tracker should cover most of these five jobs:

1. Logging what you’ve watched: diary, dates, ratings, rewatches
2. Building a watchlist: things you want to see
3. Finding where to stream: where a film is available
4. Discovering new films: recommendations, lists, or AI-driven suggestions
5. Understanding your taste: patterns, themes, and connections over time

The table above shows which apps cover which.

Achriom

Achriom puts your films in one library with your shows, books, albums and anime. An AI librarian reads across all of them, so you can ask it things like “what should I watch if I want something like that Murakami novel?”

What it does:

• Film logging with ratings (half-stars included), rewatches and a watchlist, and season and episode tracking for shows
• Letterboxd import from your export, IMDb ratings or watchlist, and Trakt by username; every import is free
• Search by meaning (“a detective in Victorian London”) and ask your own shelf in plain words (”80s horror I haven’t watched”)
• Add films by search, or photograph a shelf and the librarian adds them
• Track physical copies (4K, Blu-ray, DVD, VHS) alongside digital ones
• Export your whole library as CSV
• Private by default: turn on a public profile when you want one, then follow people and share reviews, lists and your diary. Follower counts stay private.
• Free plan with no item limit and 10 AI librarian messages a month; Pro is $9.99 a month or $99 a year for 200 messages a month

The limitation: Achriom has no automatic scrobbling from streaming services or media centers like Trakt’s. You log a film when you finish it.

Letterboxd

Letterboxd is built for films. Its importer takes watched films and diary entries with ratings, reviews and tags, and it can load a file into a list or your watchlist. It accepts its own CSV format and IMDb CSV exports.

The app is free to download, and free users see a static ad once a day when it opens. Pro ($18.99 a year in the US App Store) removes third-party ads and adds stats pages, streaming-service filters and list cloning. Patron ($48.99 a year) adds customizable posters and profile backdrops, more stats and early access to new features.

The limitation: It is film-focused, so your books, albums and TV live elsewhere, unconnected. For the head-to-head on switching, see the best Letterboxd alternatives.

Trakt

Trakt tracks movies and TV. Its official Kodi plugin scrobbles what you watch in the background, and its Plex plugin syncs watched history, ratings, playback progress and lists. The Plex webhook needs both Trakt VIP and Plex Pass.

Trakt got more expensive in 2025: it announced stricter limits for free users in February, and from May 20 all VIP renewals moved to the standard $60 a year. For the head-to-head, see Letterboxd vs Trakt.

The limitation: It focuses on logging and statistics rather than reading across media.

Simkl

Simkl tracks TV shows, movies and anime. Its own help pages say the free plan includes core tracking and imports your watch history from 14+ services. PRO removes ads and adds a private profile, custom lists and manual CSV backup; VIP adds automatic backups, two-way MyAnimeList sync and list export in RSS, JSON and CSV. If you are weighing it against Trakt, see Simkl vs Trakt.

The limitation: Free accounts can’t create custom lists; that starts at PRO.

IMDb

IMDb is a database of movies, TV and people, and it has a universal Watchlist. Your own rating shows as a blue star beside the IMDb rating on lists, and you can export a list from the Export icon at the top right of the list. Achriom and Letterboxd both import IMDb data.

The limitation: It is a reference site first. There is no diary of when you watched something and no link to what you read or listen to.

JustWatch

JustWatch is a streaming guide. It shows where a movie or show is available to stream, rent or buy, and its About page says you can track your favorite shows and movies and get notified when a title reaches one of your services.

The limitation: It answers “where can I watch this?” rather than “what have I watched?”, so there is no diary of your own history.

MovieLens

MovieLens is a free, non-commercial movie recommender run by GroupLens, a University of Minnesota research lab. You rate films and it recommends more, with tag-based browsing and trailers. It has no ads.

The limitation: It is a recommender, not a diary or a social network.

Which should you use?

Use Achriom if you watch, read and listen across media and want your films, TV, books and albums in one place, private by default, with an AI librarian that knows what you have logged.

Use Letterboxd if film is your main medium and you want to log, rate and review it with lists. For the same depth without a public profile, see private Letterboxd alternatives.

Use Trakt if you want Kodi or Plex to log what you watch for you.

Use Simkl if you want one free plan for movies, TV and anime.

Use IMDb if your history already lives there as ratings and a watchlist.

Use JustWatch if you are tired of searching every streaming app to find a movie.

Use MovieLens if you want recommendations driven by your ratings, with no ads.

If you want the full Achriom pitch scoped to film, see the Achriom movie tracker page. For finding new things to watch rather than logging what you already have, see best movie discovery apps in 2026.

What a film-only tracker leaves out

A film-only tracker doesn’t connect what you watch to what you read and listen to. Achriom keeps them in one library. Trace the novels hiding inside Denis Villeneuve’s films, look at the books that became movies you already know, or finish a novel and ask the librarian what to watch next.

More on tracking movies: To follow what you watch across services, read how to track movies across streaming services. If you are switching apps, see the best Trakt alternatives.

What a movie tracker app is and is not

A movie tracker app keeps a record of what you have watched: a diary with dates, a rating, and a watchlist for what comes next. Reviews, lists, stats and a social feed are extras.

Three things get called the same name:

• A movie tracker app records your history: Letterboxd, Simkl, Achriom.
• A streaming guide shows where something is available right now. JustWatch is one.
• A reference database answers questions about a film. IMDb is one.

If you want a record you will still have in five years, the export question matters more than the feature list: Achriom exports your whole library as CSV.

Related guides:

• How to Export Your TV Time History to Letterboxd (2026 Guide)
• JustWatch vs Reelgood: Which Streaming Guide Should You Use?
• Halloween Movies in Order: Every Timeline, From 1978 to Halloween Ends
• How to Export Your IMDb Ratings and Watchlist (and Where to Take Them)

Common questions

What is the best movie tracking app in 2026?

The best movie tracking app in 2026 is Achriom if you want your films beside your shows, books and albums, and Letterboxd if you want film alone with its community. Achriom is free with no item limit and imports your Letterboxd, IMDb and Trakt history.

Which movie tracker can import my Letterboxd and IMDb history?

Achriom imports your Letterboxd export, your IMDb ratings or watchlist, and your Trakt history by username, and every import is free. Simkl says its free plan imports watch history from more than 14 services. Letterboxd itself accepts IMDb CSV exports.

Is there a private Letterboxd?

Achriom is private by default. Turn on a public profile when you want one, then follow people and share reviews, lists and your diary. Follower counts stay private.

What app can I use to track movies I have watched?

Achriom, Letterboxd, Trakt and Simkl all let you log what you have watched. In Achriom you search a film, rate it and add it, or import your Letterboxd or IMDb history so you do not start from zero. The free plan has no item limit.

Is Letterboxd worth paying for?

Letterboxd is free to download. Pro is $18.99 a year in the US App Store and removes third-party ads, adds annual and all-time stats, streaming-service filters and list cloning. Patron is $48.99 a year and adds customizable posters and profile backdrops, more stats and early access to new features.

What is the best free movie tracker?

Achriom’s free plan has no item limit and includes every import, with 10 AI librarian messages a month. Simkl and Letterboxd also have free plans, and Letterboxd’s free app shows ads. Trakt has a free tier with stricter limits since 2025, and its VIP plan is $60 a year.

Can I track movies and TV shows in the same app?

Yes. Achriom, Trakt and Simkl all track movies and TV shows together. Achriom also tracks books, albums and anime in the same library, with season and episode tracking for shows.

What is a movie tracker app?

A movie tracker app is a log of the films you have watched, usually with a rating, the date you watched it, and a watchlist for what is next. It is not the same as a streaming guide like JustWatch, whose job is showing where a title is available.

Is there a movie tracking app with AI?

Achriom has an AI librarian that answers questions like what to watch tonight given what you have logged, across your films, books and albums. The free plan includes 10 AI messages a month, and Pro includes 200.