About Kinolog
A movie diary with a brain.
What it is
Kinolog is a private movie diary with AI recommendations. You log what you watch. A rating, a few vibes, a note if you feel like it, all in about ten seconds. And the app reads that history to answer the three questions every film person keeps asking: have I seen this, what should we watch tonight, and was that pick actually good. Recommendations come with reasons drawn from films you actually rated, sometimes your own words, never from the charts, and never repeating anything you’ve already seen or sworn off.
Moving in is one upload: a decade of Letterboxd history imports with half-star ratings, rewatches, reviews and your watchlist intact. Leaving is one click too, export everything as JSON or Letterboxd-compatible CSV, any time.
How the picks work
Every signal is weighed by how much it really says about you: a written log counts more than a quick calibration swipe, a “never again” is absolute, and grading a pick, bullseye, fine, miss, recalibrates the next ones. When the app doesn’t know you well enough yet, it says so instead of pretending. The stats page keeps the receipts, hit rate included, even when unflattering.
Movie data
This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
Film metadata, posters and streaming availability come from themoviedb.org. Streaming availability is provided by JustWatch via TMDB.
Your data
Your diary is private by default: no ads, no data sales, no public pages, no social feed. An account needs an email address and nothing else personal. Export is one click from Settings; deletion is immediate and complete. The privacy policy says exactly what runs where, in plain language.
Who makes it
Kinolog is built and paid for by one founder, which is why the free plan meters its AI asks, and why there’s nothing here that exists to farm your attention. The diary itself is free forever. Movies only, on purpose. Questions: support@kinolog.app.
How it is different from a film tracker
Most trackers are storage. You log a film, it joins a list, and the list grows. Kinolog treats the diary as evidence: what you rate, the vibe tags you pick, whether you would rewatch, and the words you write are read back to build a picture of your taste — and that picture is what tonight’s recommendations come from.
The rule the whole product is built on is that it has to show its work. Every recommendation carries the reason it was chosen, and the reason names films from your own diary. Every claim on your taste page opens onto the films it was counted from. When there is not enough history to support a claim, it says so rather than inventing one — a confident sentence that happens to be wrong is worse than an honest gap.
What you can do with it
- Log a film in about ten seconds — rating, optional vibe tags, notes, rewatch intent and the date you actually watched it, including approximate dates for things you saw years ago.
- Import your whole Letterboxd history — ratings, watch dates, reviews, your own tags, rewatches, likes, favourites and watchlist.
- Get picks for tonight — five films, steady all day, filtered by how long you have and what you are in the mood for.
- Ask for something specific — a conversation that reads your diary and answers with reasons, not a ranked list.
- Decide with someone else — movie night scores films against everyone on the couch, not just you.
- Read your taste back — what wins you over, what loses you, your canon of five-star films, and a yearly Wrapped.
- Leave whenever you like — full export as JSON or a Letterboxd-compatible CSV, any time.
More detail on the two halves: the movie diary and how the AI recommendations work. If you are weighing it against what you use now, there is an honest Kinolog vs Letterboxd comparison.
Why it is private
There are no public profiles, no followers and no feed, and that is a design decision rather than a missing feature. A film diary is a record of your evenings — some of them with people you love, some of them films you would not post about — and the moment it has an audience you start writing for the audience. Kinolog is built so the honest version is the only version you have to write.