Kinolog
Mock mode — search uses the bundled catalog and recommendations are a local heuristic. Add TMDB and Anthropic keys in .env.local to go live.

Kinolog

Everything it does, in one page

Kinolog is a movie diary with a brain: you log what you watch, it learns your taste, and every suggestion explains itself. Here's the whole app — no hidden features.

Tonight — your daily picks

Home

A few picks composed for you each day: something in your wheelhouse, a labeled stretch, one from your watchlist that's actually watchable tonight (your services, your time), and a wildcard. Same set all day, fresh at midnight — no infinite scroll.

The re-roll chipsre-rank for right now (time, energy, mood) without losing the day's set. Every card carries a reason drawn from your own history.

Blend — watching with someone?

Home → the amber chip

The argument-ender. Add the people you watch with (Settings → Watching with), tap “Watching with someone?” on Home, and Blend picks films none of you have seenthat fit everyone's taste. It remembers your usual couch, so movie night is two taps.

Chat — ask for anything

Chat

“Something tense but smart, under two hours, nothing bleak” — plain words in, real picks out, each explained against films you actually rated (sometimes quoting your own notes back). It never suggests what you've seen or sworn off, and every title is verified against a real movie database before you see it.

Build a searchflips to chips (genre, era, runtime, mood) when you'd rather tap than type; save a search you'd use again. Conversations persist — switch, revisit, clear, or start fresh from the header.

Logging — ten seconds, honestly dated

Home · the L key

Search, rate, done. Vibes, rewatch intent, and a note are optional — the note is the single most valuable thing you can give the brain. Watch dates are honest: exact, approximate (“around 2016”), or unknown — old memories welcome.

Press L anywhere to log without leaving the page. Press /for “Have I seen this?” — answered from your own library in under two seconds, with your rating and what you said at the time. There's a mic for voice logging too.

Calibrate — teach it fast

Calibrate

A deck of famous and deliberately polarizing films. Loved it, liked it, not for me, want to see it, never — each swipe teaches the model something real, and a “what hooked you?” tap on a love adds the why. Themed decks (blind spots, hidden gems, by genre or decade) aim at whatever corner you choose; the deck also targets wherever your taste map is thin, and says so.

The backlog — swipes worth upgrading

Diary → Backlog

Films you lovedin Calibrate but never properly logged wait here. “Log it properly” opens a prefilled sheet — add the vibes and a note, and a weak signal becomes a strong one. The count badge shows how many are waiting.

Verdicts — grade the machine

Any pick you watched

One optional tap after watching a pick: bullseye, fine, or miss. Both the chat and the daily set recalibrate on your verdicts, and the stats page keeps the receipts — hit rate included, even when unflattering.

Stats & Wrapped — the reread

Diary → Stats

Averages, fingerprints, verdict receipts, and your taste profile's coverage map. Every January, Wrapped turns the year into something worth sharing — dated logs only, so it never lies about when.

Import & export — no lock-in, ever

Settings

A decade of Letterboxd history imports in one upload (ratings, rewatches, reviews, watchlist — ambiguous titles reviewed by you, never guessed). Export everything any time as JSON or Letterboxd-compatible CSV. Deletion is immediate and complete.

Emails — only what you asked for

Settings → Account

Optional and off by default: tonight's picks each morning, a monthly stats note. Once a year, a “your Wrapped is ready” email (on by default, one click off). That's the complete list — no streaks, no “we miss you.”

Free vs Plus

Pricing

The whole diary is free forever. The free plan includes enough AI to feel it think; Plus removes the ceiling and composes your daily picks with the full brain — billing isn't live yet, and soft-launch members keep Plus free.

Still curious how the brain weighs it all? How AI movie recommendations actually work is the longer read.