MovieBuddy: Movie Tracker

Updated review: reduced to 1 star. App doesn't work anymore. Continually crashes and will no longer save scans. Wasted time and money scanning hundreds of dvds for nothing and now I can't scan the other half of my collection. Garbage app. I bought the pro version because I have a huge movie media collection and wanted to finally keep track of it. I like that I can export to a PDF list and also have the collection with me on the go when shopping for used or new media. It's ok but it has problems that need to be addressed. -You have to scan a little at a time because it frequently gets the wrong versions or a totally different movie and sometimes it says it didn't scan one that it did or vice versa. -It seems to default to new reboot versions of old movies I've had to go back and check multiple times which is frustrating if you're trying to scan hundreds of movies. Sometimes it puts other movies that just have the same word in the title and aren't even connected to the UPC that you scanned. -Trying to scan a series of movie sequels is tedious when it shouldn't be (eg: Friday the 13th 1-10) it mixes them up and you have to manually fix them. - Boxed sets are also annoying and it cannot find most of them, I had to manually add. It's been a lot more tedious than I expected and not even halfway through. This needs a hefty update to have more accurate results, a UPC is connected to a specific version so not sure why it's often so wrong. I hope an update comes out that fixes this database, I'm still using it for now but we'll see.

This is a great app to keep track of your collection. Best one I’ve used! Easy to add a title (barcode scanner, search online, or manual input). It can also link a title to its IMDB page. It has tons of customizable fields (pretty much everything is customizable), a lot of filters, tags and categories options, a notes section for each release (which is great for including physical extras that come with a release or to explain what is on each disc), multiple backup options (I use iCloud), easy to navigate, and looks clean. I do hope one day the ability gets added to upload more than one photo of a release instead of only one. Would be nice for box sets and collector’s editions, and also for inside artwork, back side artwork, spine artwork. Also, the pinch-to-zoom ability for artwork would be nice too. The free version lets you add up to 50 titles, if I recall correctly. The paid version is only $5.99 (that’s at least what I paid a few months back), which is really affordable and you can add as many titles as you want. I highly recommend!

I’ve had this app for over a year and have finally decided to review it. This is definitely my favorite and most used app out of everything I have on my phone. I am a film major and a huge film enthusiast and I have completely fallen in love with the app. Its definitely the best way for me to keep track of all the movies I have seen and all the movies I want to see, but better than that is the fact that you can add just about any movie and it gives you all this great information on each film, you can organize and find movies according to actor, director, tags applies, genre, etc., and you can even rate the film and (what I love to do) is write all my comments and opinions on the movie in the notes section after I’ve seen it. One of my favorite things I’m also able to do is record what day I watched what movies. Its a really cool way for me to see when I saw each film and/or when I added each film to the app.If I had one suggestion I would absolutely love to be able to record when I rewatch a movie without losing the date when I first saw it. Essentially, I just want the app to record multiple “watched” dates. This may be just a “me” thing because I rewatch movies so often and really would like my rewatched movies to show up more than once, but I don’t want this to sound like a downside to the app or anything. It’s just personal preference and a way in which the app could improve for me at least. All in all, I am a massive fan of this as a way to better organize movies, more easily add them to your “need to watch” list, and also because each film usually provides me with a lot of really valuable information and there is a section for me to write my thoughts down after the movie!I very highly recommend it!