Movie diary
A movie diary app that does something with what you log.
Most film trackers are a filing cabinet: you put films in, and they sit there. Kinolog is a diary first — logging is fast, private and free forever — and then it reads what you wrote back to you. What you rate becomes a taste profile, and the taste profile becomes tonight’s recommendations, each one carrying the reason it was chosen.
Logging a film takes about ten seconds
Search the title, tap a rating, and it is in. Everything past that is optional: vibe tags for how it felt rather than what genre it was, a line of notes, whether you would watch it again, and the date you actually saw it. The date matters more than it looks — it is what lets the diary tell you later that you watch horror in October, or that your favourite year was one you would not have guessed.
Films you watched years ago count too. Log them with an approximate date and the diary treats them honestly as a memory rather than pretending to a precision it does not have. A backlog does not need to be complete to be worth keeping.
What a diary is for, once it is deep
Two hundred films in, your diary knows things you do not. It knows the gap between what you WATCH and what you LOVE — the genre you reach for out of habit is rarely the one you rate highest. It knows whether your favourites are the long ones. It knows which decade you keep returning to against the gravity of everything newer, and which word you reach for when a film lands.
Kinolog turns those into plain sentences you can check, each one showing the films it was counted from. If it cannot support a claim, it says so instead of inventing one.
Bring the diary you already have
A full Letterboxd export imports whole: ratings to the half-star, the date you actually watched each film, your review text, your own tags, rewatches, likes and your watchlist. One user imported 2,236 films in a single upload. If you are comparing options first, the honest guide to Letterboxd alternatives names the cases where another app is the better answer.
Private by default
No public profiles, no followers, no feed, no ads, and nothing sold. A film diary is a record of your evenings, some of it with people you love, and that is not social media. Everything is exportable at any time — the diary is free forever and nothing is held hostage if you leave.