Letterboxd
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Jan 21, 2026first mention
Aug 27, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I'm an avid user of Letterboxd”
“letterboxd's title-based movie lookup is stated to be a better system”
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“worth noting that letterboxd will track progress on these and similar lists”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Threads where it came up
- My friends take turns picking movies. I turned the spreadsheet into a website 1 mention
- Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction 1 mention
- Cini, an app to rank movies and shows 1 mention
- The Perils of ISBN 1 mention
- Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026) 1 mention
- Film students who can no longer sit through films 1 mention
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All comments 7
“what we rated things on Letterboxd, our reviews, and what movies we have in common on our Letterboxd watch lists.”
CLZ Books is sort of in that domain, and is the best solution I came across for cataloguing and tracking my 1000+ post 1970s books https://clz.com/books
“I'm an avid user of Letterboxd”
“letterboxd's title-based movie lookup is stated to be a better system”
“Letterboxd has it easy because a movie is its own discrete unit”
“worth noting that letterboxd will track progress on these and similar lists”
“How difficult would it be to add Trakt as an alternative to Letterboxd?”