Find your next favorite film.
A private movie diary app that learns your taste, explains it, and finds films you’ll actually love.
- 1Rate films you knowA dozen quick answers. Skip anything you haven’t seen.
- 2Watch it learnEach answer moves what it knows about your taste.
- 3Get a read you can checkEvery claim comes with the films it came from.
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- 1Teach it
- 2Your read
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How it works
A diary that learns, predicts, and keeps score.
- Example
September · 24 films
SEP 22
★★★★½
SEP 20
★★★★★
SEP 18
★★★★½
SEP 15
★★★★
SEP 12
★★★★
SEP 9
★★★½
SEP 6
★★★★★
SEP 3
★★★★
1 · Diary
Everything you watch, kept.
Ratings, dates, rewatches and notes, private to you. Or bring your whole Letterboxd history in one upload.
- Example
Your taste · 163 films
Slow, cerebral science fiction is your strongest kind of film.
+0.6★vs 3.9★ average · 12 films
How you rate · 80 films
1★2★3★4★5★- You return to
- Denis Villeneuve · 5 films
- Your decade
- The 2010s
- Five stars
- Rare: 14% of your ratings
2 · Taste and stats
Your taste, explained.
A stats hub for how you watch: what you rate highest, the directors you return to, how your taste moves. Every claim shows the films behind it.
- Example
Tonight
In your wheelhouseArrival
2016 · 116 min · Science fiction
4.4★predicted for you
Why 4.4★
You rated these 4.5★ and up: quiet, idea-driven science fiction.
3 · Prediction
It commits to a star.
Before you watch, Plus predicts your rating and names the films behind the call.
- Example
Prediction accuracy
It keeps score on itself
- Average miss
- 0.4★
- Checked
- 26
- Within ½★
- 73%
● Called it 14● Close 9● Missed 3
Latest calls
- Predicted
- 4.0★
- Rated
- 4.5★
- Predicted
- 3.5★
- Rated
- 3★
- Predicted
- 4.5★
- Rated
- 5★
4 · Proof
Then it keeps score on itself.
When you rate the film, the prediction is settled: called it, close, or missed. Misses stay visible.
How the movie diary worksHow predicted ratings workExplore your movie taste profileTry the movie taste quiz
Movie night
Tired of spending an hour finding something you’ll both enjoy?
Most apps recommend for one person. Kinolog picks for the room.
- 1It already knows youYour diary is the taste it reads.
- 2Send them the one-minute quizA link, a handful of films they know. No account, no app.
- 3Tell it the nightHow long you have, the mood, what’s off the table.
- 4Get picks you’ll both loveScored against both tastes, nothing either of you has seen, each with the reason.
Tonight’s room
Works for both of you
Knives Out
2019 · 130 min · Mystery
You rated Parasite 5★, and Maria loved The Grand Budapest Hotel in her quiz: a sharp, funny ensemble mystery sits right between you.
Also for you two
What do you want tonight?
Three you haven’t seen, all under two hours
Get Out4.3★
104 min · Tension that pays off, with a sense of humour.
Ex Machina4.1★
108 min · A slow squeeze, close to films you rate highest.
Arrival4.4★
116 min · Suspense with a hopeful ending, nothing bleak.
Never something already in your diary.
Find
Ask for exactly the night you want.
Describe it in your own words: a mood, a length, an actor, something like a film you loved. Kinolog answers with real films you haven’t seen, each with the reason it fits you. Or browse, or fill in a quick request.
How Find worksSee exactly what the export brings overKinolog vs Letterboxd
Teach it a few films. See what it learns.
Your diary and your read stay yours. Plus adds predicted stars and your taste over time.
Questions people ask.
What is Kinolog?
Kinolog is a private movie diary app for iPhone and the web. You log the films you watch with a rating and an optional note; Kinolog learns your taste from that diary, predicts the star rating you would give a film before you watch it, and recommends what to watch next with the films behind each pick.
Is Kinolog free?
Yes. Unlimited logging, the watchlist, personal picks, the core taste read and export are free on every plan. Plus ($2.99/month or $24/year) adds predicted stars before you watch with their evidence, every supported Taste pattern, unlimited Letterboxd import and higher recommendation limits.
Can I import my Letterboxd diary?
Yes. Upload the Letterboxd export ZIP and Kinolog brings in your diary, ratings, reviews and watchlist with the original dates. The first import comes in full on Free; repeat bulk imports on Free stop once the account holds 500 imported films. You can export everything as JSON or Letterboxd-compatible CSV at any time.
How does Kinolog predict my rating?
It compares a film with the films you have already rated, weighting the director most, then the writer, the kind of film, its genre and its era. It names the films it compared against, says how much evidence it had, refuses to predict below 8 rated films, and settles every prediction against the rating you give later.
Is there a Kinolog iPhone app?
Kinolog is on the App Store for iPhone and iPad and runs on the web, with the same account on both.
Is my movie diary private?
Yes. Kinolog is private by default: no ads, no data sales and no public profiles. What you log stays yours, editable and exportable, on any plan.