Intertitle is a free iPhone app that shows how close every film sits to your taste, in plain words — "Made for you", "Great match", "Good match", "A bit different" — with a sentence behind it: closer to your taste than N% of films. The read comes from your own history (a Letterboxd import or ratings you log in the app), and it appears on tonight's lineup and across a Discover catalog you can filter by several genres at once.
TL;DR
- Every film gets a tier word — Made for you, Great match, Good match, A bit different — and, for the top three, "Closer to your taste than N% of films."
- N is the film's rank by taste match among the films Intertitle ranked for you — not a predicted rating, not a chance you'll like it.
- It's withheld when it can't be honest: before Intertitle has enough of your history, films show no percentile rather than an invented one.
- You see it on the Tonight lineup and in Discover, a taste-ranked catalog with filters for genre (up to five at once), decade, runtime, language and unseen-only.
- Free, iOS 17 or later, English and Spanish; a web companion at app.intertitle.app.
What the readout means
Intertitle turns your ratings into a taste profile: the films you rated highly pull the profile toward them, the ones you didn't push it away, recent ratings count a little more, and your watchlist nudges it. Every film in the catalog has a position in the same space, so each one can be compared to you. Films closer to your profile rank higher, blended with quality and diversity signals; the readout tells you where a given film landed.
"Closer to your taste than N% of films" means the film ranked above N% of the films Intertitle ranked for you. It does not mean you have an N% chance of liking it, and Intertitle never predicts a star rating. Tier words are the same idea at a glance: Made for you is the closest band, Great match and Good match sit below it, and A bit different means the film is outside your usual taste — the app says so, and adds that it could still surprise you.
Where you see it
Tonight. Tell it your mood and Intertitle programmes a short lineup — your best match up top, others alongside — with a reason for each film (a director, a genre, an era, a language, a mood it shares with what you love) and the taste readout. Re-roll it, refine it with Reely, or step back to the previous pick.
Discover. The whole catalog, ranked by how close each film sits to your taste, with filters: genre — up to five at once, matched together — plus decade, runtime, language and unseen-only, and a choice of sort. Pick "horror" and "comedy" and "1980s" and the grid is still ordered by your taste, not by popularity.
Taste, not just genre
Genre is a blunt instrument: "drama" covers everything from a three-hour slow-cinema study to a weepie. Intertitle's ranking is built from your actual history, so two dramas can sit at opposite ends of the readout. Genre filters narrow the field; your taste orders it.
What it needs from you
- Your history. Import a Letterboxd export ZIP or CSV, connect your handle so new diary entries keep syncing, or rate films directly in the app.
- A few ratings if you're starting cold. Until the profile has enough signal, Discover falls back to popularity order and films show no percentile — that's deliberate.
Frequently asked
Does it predict how I'll rate a movie? No. The readout is the film's rank by taste match among the films ranked for you — how close it sits, not a predicted score.
What does "Closer to your taste than N% of films" mean? That the film ranks above N% of the films Intertitle ranked for you. It's withheld when there isn't enough history to rank honestly.
Can I filter by more than one genre? Yes — up to five genres at once in Discover, matched together, with decade, runtime, language and unseen-only filters, and the results still ordered by your taste.
Do I need Letterboxd? No. Letterboxd is the fastest start, but ratings logged in Intertitle build the same profile.
Is it free? Yes — Tonight, Discover, the readout, Reely (within a daily message cap), Friends, Wrapped and the diary. A Pro tier is planned but not yet purchasable.