Your top films, ranked.
Reelist helps you rank, track and share every film you have seen. Answer which of two you liked more, ten times at most, and a new title finds its place in one ordered list. No stars to invent, no scale to keep straight in your head.
Films onlyOne tap for how you feltTen comparisons, at most
Free, on iPhone and Android, with a companion at app.reelist.watch.
That is the whole interaction. Answer it up to ten times and a new title has its place, in a list of twelve titles or twelve hundred.
How it works
No stars. Just an honest order.
Everything here follows from one decision: never ask you for a number you would have to invent.
Rank
Answer which of two you liked more, ten times at most, and a new film has its place. That holds in a list of twelve titles or twelve hundred: the list gets longer, the work of adding to it does not. Ties and skips both count as answers, and a tied pair is never asked again.
Score
Whatever number you see is derived from where a title sits in your ranking, never from an engine's internal figures. Move something and its score moves with it, so the number can never disagree with the order.
Track
Keep a diary of what you watched and when, with a note if you want one. Every film you log carries the date you saw it, what you thought at the time, and where it landed in your list.
Share
Follow other people to see what they are watching and what they made of it. Check your taste match with anyone you follow, worked out from the films you have both ranked.
How scoring works
A number you never had to invent.
One tap says whether you liked a film, was fine with it, or did not like it. That puts it in a band, and the band sets the range its score can fall in. Everything after that comes out of comparisons you answered.
The band is the part of a score that means the same thing to everybody. The decimal beside it is about where a film sits in your own list.
- Where the decimal comes from
- Inside a band, your films sit in the order your comparisons put them in. The score is that order spread across the band range: your best film in a band lands near the top of it, your worst near the bottom. That is why your least favourite film in "Liked it" is not a 2.0. You said you liked it, and the number is not allowed to contradict you.
- Why a score moves
- Ranking a new film changes the order, and the numbers follow the order, so films you have not touched can shift by a tenth. The moves are largest when you have ranked the least: three films in a band and one arrival can move a score by more than half a point, forty films and the same insertion moves nothing by more than a tenth. Scores settle as your list grows.
- 10.0 is earned
- A short list is kept away from the extremes on purpose. Your very first film in a band starts near the middle of its range, and the ends open up as you rank more, so a 10.0 means first place in a list long enough for first place to mean something.
- One decimal, never two
- Comparisons can tell an 8.4 from a 7.9. Nothing can honestly tell an 8.42 from an 8.43, so the second decimal does not exist here. Two films can share a score, and the order underneath it is still exact.
We never score people. Reelist ranks films, your list is your own answers in your own order, and no part of it is blended with anyone else's.
Get it
Start with the films you have already seen.
Your back catalog is rankable in the first session: no watching to catch up on, no stars to invent. The ranking, the diary and the CSV export all work, and everything you rank is yours to take with you.
Free, on iPhone and Android, with a companion at app.reelist.watch.
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