Letterboxd is the best place to log, review and list films — but it doesn't plan your evening. That's the gap Intertitle fills: Intertitle reads your Letterboxd history, or the films you rate in-app, and picks a short lineup for tonight from your actual taste — with a reason for every film.
TL;DR
Letterboxd is a film diary and social network. It excels at keeping a record of what you've watched, letting you rate and review films, and connecting you with other cinephiles. Discovery on Letterboxd is social and film-by-film — you see what friends are watching, trending titles in your network, and similar films on any given film's page. What Letterboxd doesn't do is look at your entire watch history and generate tonight's picks — a short, taste-ranked lineup of films.
Intertitle does exactly that. It imports your Letterboxd export (or starts from the films you rate in-app), builds a taste profile from your ratings, and surfaces the films that fit your actual watching patterns — not the films that are popular this week. Since version 1.5 it's social too: follow friends, see what they log and love, and claim a public taste page. The two tools are designed to be used together.
How they compare
| Feature | Letterboxd | Intertitle |
|---|---|---|
| Primary job | Film diary and social network | Deciding what to watch, from your taste, with your friends in the loop |
| Personalized recommendations | Film-by-film — similar films, themes and nanogenres on each film's page, plus what the people you follow watch | Yes — a lineup ranked by match to your full taste profile |
| Uses your watch history | To build your diary and public profile | To rank tonight's lineup, and your Wrapped |
| Logging your watches | Native diary, ratings, reviews | Log natively in-app, or auto-sync from your Letterboxd diary |
| Community / social | Yes — follow friends, activity, reviews, lists | Yes (since 1.5) — follow friends and see what they log, love and put in their Top Four; reply to a log; a public taste page |
| Reviews and lists | Its strength — a decade of community reviews and lists | Short logs, replies and hearts; no public lists (use Letterboxd for lists) |
| Taste recap | Letterboxd's own Year in Review at year's end; personal stats pages (per diary year and all-time) with Pro and Patron | Wrapped any time of year — 16 archetypes, how deep your taste runs, a share card |
| What to watch tonight | No | Yes |
| Platforms | iOS, Android, web | iOS, web |
When to use which
Use Letterboxd for its community and diary layer: reading and writing reviews, building public lists by theme or director, and browsing what cinephiles are watching. Letterboxd has spent over a decade becoming the canonical film social network — its database and social graph are mature, and nothing here replaces that.
Use Intertitle for deciding what to watch, seeing what your friends are watching, and thinking a film through. Before you watch, you have a free evening and no idea where to start: Intertitle reads everything you've rated (the films you gave four and five stars, the ones you abandoned, the directors you keep returning to) and returns a short, taste-ranked lineup for tonight. The Friends tab shows what the people you follow have logged and loved. After you watch, you can talk the film through with Reely, Intertitle's conversational companion — work out what you actually thought, and Reely can even draft a diary entry and rating from that conversation.
Logging isn't locked to either app. You can log and rate films natively in Intertitle, or keep logging in Letterboxd and let Intertitle sync it: connect your handle once and Intertitle pulls in your new diary entries automatically, every few hours, so your taste profile stays current without re-importing.
And Letterboxd isn't required. It's a great on-ramp if you already have years of logged history — but if you don't, rate a handful of films you know on Intertitle's quick-rating deck, one card at a time, and the recommender warms up the same way. You can even try it as a guest before creating an account. The two tools fit the same loop: decide and reflect with Intertitle, keep your social diary on Letterboxd if you want it, and each new log makes the next lineup sharper.
How the taste import works
Letterboxd lets you export your data from Settings → Export Your Data. The export comes as a ZIP (or individual CSVs) containing your diary, ratings, reviews, watched films, and watchlist. Intertitle reads those files and converts them into a taste profile — a representation of the patterns in what you've rated highly across genres, directors, decades, and narrative tones. When you open the recommender, Intertitle scores unwatched films against that profile and returns a short, taste-ranked lineup for tonight, led by your best match. There's no genre questionnaire and no algorithmic trending list — just your own history, turned into a ranked set of picks.
That import is a one-time setup. From there you can connect your Letterboxd handle so Intertitle keeps your profile current automatically — a background sync pulls in your new diary entries every few hours, so you never have to re-export. And whether you keep logging in Letterboxd or log natively in Intertitle, every new film you add makes the next lineup sharper.