Trakt and Intertitle both start from your watch history, but they answer different questions. Trakt answers "what have I watched, and where?" — it's a cross-service tracking and stats hub. Intertitle answers "what should I watch tonight?" — it reads your taste and programmes a short, taste-ranked shortlist from it.
TL;DR
Trakt is a watch-tracking and syncing service: it logs what you watch across apps and devices (scrobbling), keeps a unified watchlist, and surfaces stats and history. It also offers personalized suggestions from your own watch history and ratings, but recommendation is secondary to that tracking core rather than the product's centre.
Intertitle does the opposite: recommendation is its core. It imports your Letterboxd export — or ratings you log directly in the app — builds a taste profile from it, and returns a short, taste-ranked programme for tonight, led by your best match. Its only history source is Letterboxd (one-shot import plus ongoing diary sync) or your in-app ratings — it doesn't scrobble or sync playback across streaming apps and devices the way Trakt does.
How they compare
| Trakt | Intertitle | |
|---|---|---|
| Primary job | Cross-service watch tracking and syncing | Personalized film recommender for tonight |
| Personalized taste recommendations | Yes — personalized suggestions from your watch history and ratings (method not published); recommendations are secondary to tracking | Yes — embedding-based taste profile from your watch history and ratings, the product's core |
| Cross-app watch tracking / scrobbling | Yes — core feature | No |
| Import your Letterboxd history | Limited — Trakt's built-in import is a VIP feature; community tools also cover Letterboxd | Yes — one-shot import, then ongoing sync of new diary entries |
| In-app film diary / ratings | Yes — watch history, ratings, and comments | Yes — log and rate directly, no Letterboxd required |
| Conversational film companion | Not a Trakt feature as of Sept 2026 | Yes — Reely, a chat companion that can recommend, discuss a film spoiler-aware, and turn a conversation into a diary entry and rating |
| Price | Free tier; Trakt VIP paid tier for extra features | Free today; Pro tier with deeper analytics planned, not yet purchasable |
When to use which
If you want one place that tracks everything you watch across every app and service, and you only want recommendations as a side feature of that tracking hub, Trakt is built for that.
If your problem is a free evening and no film in mind, Intertitle is built for that specific moment: import your Letterboxd export or log a handful of ratings in-app, and the Tonight screen returns a short, taste-ranked shortlist — with your best match headlined and a one-line reason for each pick, grounded in your actual taste. The two aren't mutually exclusive — nothing about using Intertitle for recommendations stops you from also tracking your history in Trakt.