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I use Anilist to track my anime and manga. But haven't found anything that provides a similar experience in regular movie and TV show tracking, or even books.

For games, there's a service called Backloggd that uses the IGDb database. For movies, I have used Letterboxd but the Android app is garbage at best.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

TMDB (https://www.themoviedb.org/) maybe? Don’t think it has an app though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Will check.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

A bit late, but keep in mind, TMDB is not FOSS and is owned and run by a private company.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I use tmdb. There are apps but none official so I use the website as a shortcut

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Oh. Interesting... Will check.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Firefox works well. Its FOSS

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ok haha. But seriously though, any suggestions?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I am serious. I have no idea what more you're asking for, because I only access IMDb in a web browser, and I only use open source web browsers.

Maybe you could clarify?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Oh, ok. Sure... So, I agree that pretty much everything can be done via a browser. But sometimes, the website falls short. The 3rd party clients end up making the service much more usable.

Idk how to explain this better than say, Letterboxd. The app sucks ass. You can't select multiple movies and shows to add to a watchlist or a watched list. You can't perform bulk actions. The UI is terrible. The UX is worse. But if someone were able to make use of the database that letterboxd uses, then that would make my day.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

trakt.tv or tmdb.org are common. I like the latter, it has better DB than the amazon-biased imdb..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trakt is an Amazon product?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

no, IMDb is. And between the alternatives given, I like TMDB.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Fair enough. Will try.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Looks promising.