Letterboxd's stats are a rear-view mirror — and a genuinely good one. You can see how many films you've logged by decade, which directors keep showing up in your diary, which year you watched the most, and (with Pro) a richer breakdown of your genre and language habits. It's a satisfying accounting of what you've consumed. The limitation is the direction it points: backward. Stats describe your history; they don't say anything about the next film on your list.
When people search for a "Letterboxd stats app," the thing they usually want is closer to insight than accounting — not just what they've watched, but what kind of watcher they are, and more practically: what they should put on tonight.
What the stats are missing
Letterboxd counts films in bins. Intertitle reads the same history as a position in taste-space. That's a different operation. Counting tells you that 34% of your log is drama. Reading your history as a position tells you that you consistently reward slow-burn psychological thrillers with unreliable narrators set between 1960 and 1985, and that you're statistically cold on ensemble comedies regardless of how acclaimed they are.
The first fact is interesting. The second one is actionable.
This is why Intertitle's taste map exists as a navigable surface — not a pie chart, but a genuine map of where you sit relative to every film in its catalogue. Your ratings become coordinates; the map shows you the neighbourhood. Films you'd likely love cluster nearby. Films that are critically acclaimed but simply not your flavour sit further out — and now you know why those five-star consensus picks kept leaving you flat.
From stats to tonight's programme
The import path is simple. Go to Letterboxd Settings → Import & Export → Export Your Data and download the ZIP. Drag it into Intertitle and it reads your ratings and diary, builds the taste profile, and immediately starts ranking unseen films by how closely they match you — not by what's trending, not by aggregate star ratings, but by proximity to the specific patterns in your history.
No genre quiz. No onboarding flow asking you to pick your three favourite directors. Just your own logged data, turned into a ranked shortlist for tonight.
The result is what Letterboxd's stats can't produce on their own: a forward signal. You don't just know you watched 87 films last year — you have a programme for tonight built from what those 87 films reveal about you. That's the shift from stats to taste modelling.
For a closer look at how the scoring works, see how the match score is calculated.
How it fits alongside Letterboxd
This isn't a replacement for anything Letterboxd does well. The social layer, the community lists, the ability to write and read long-form reviews — none of that is what Intertitle is building. The two tools fit the same loop at different moments. Intertitle handles the decision (what to watch tonight) and, via Reely, the reflection (working out what you actually thought). Letterboxd handles the diary and the conversation — logging it, publishing your review, seeing what your friends watched.
If you already have years of Letterboxd history, that history is the best raw material Intertitle can work with. Connect your handle once and Intertitle syncs your new diary entries automatically — so the taste profile stays current without re-importing every time.
If you're newer to Letterboxd and don't have hundreds of ratings yet, you can seed Intertitle directly: rate a handful of films in-app and the recommender warms up the same way. The pattern-reading works with whatever you give it.
For a direct feature-by-feature breakdown of what each tool does, see Intertitle vs Letterboxd.
The stats Letterboxd never built
Letterboxd Pro gives you more stats — cleaner genre breakdowns, language stats, streaming availability filters. They're well-executed additions to a retrospective picture. What they still don't produce is the forward signal: given everything you've logged, here is the ranked set of films you haven't seen that fit where your taste actually sits.
That's the gap Intertitle fills. Your Letterboxd history — however many ratings you've accumulated — becomes the input to a taste profile that points forward, not back. The stats tell you where you've been. The taste map shows you where to go next.