A film journal for iPhone

A year of watching,
and it reads like
a year.

Ciniel keeps what you watched, when, where you sat and what you made of it. On your device, in your hands, and portable to whatever you use next.

Coming soon See how import works

No account · no sign-in

  • Track
  • Rate
  • Discover
The Ciniel journal, showing a month of films with a five-star entry promoted into a full-width highlight band.

The interface

No two films look the same.

Ciniel reads the palette out of a film's own artwork and tints everything around it — the buttons, the badges, the ground it sits on. The app doesn't have one look. It has as many as your library does.

Three screens from the same build, on the same evening. The colour is the film's, not the app's.

The Library screen, tinted green by the backdrop of the film at the top.
Library
A film's page, tinted purple by its poster.
A film
The Discover screen, with rows of what is just out and not out yet.
Discover

One film, top to bottom

Every film brings its own colour.

Ciniel reads the palette out of the artwork and tints the whole page to it — the buttons, the rating badge, the ground it all sits on.

Everything you'd otherwise go looking for.

Cast and crew, runtime, release, the tagline, the collection it belongs to. One page, no tab hunting, and fetched once rather than every time you open it.

Every time you've seen it.

Each watch keeps its own date and its own place — the sofa, or a cinema you can name. Re-watches stack up instead of overwriting the one before.

What you thought, in your own words.

Your rating sits beside everyone else's, your review stays yours, and the rest of the collection is one tap away.

  1. Artwork
  2. Cast & details
  3. Your watches
  4. Ratings & collection

Scroll

A film's page in full: poster and title, rating and Watched button, the tagline, the synopsis, the cast, release and runtime details, the watch you logged, screenings, ratings and the collection it belongs to.

Import

Bring a decade in. Nothing goes back out.

Trakt takes a username — no sign-in, and it costs you no connection at all. Letterboxd takes the export file you already have. One free import from each, on every tier, and neither one ever writes back.

Import

Trakt

Films, ratings, reviews, watchlist

One-time

Import

Letterboxd

Your journal export file

One-time

It spends no Trakt connection

Import reads a public profile from the username alone. Whatever else you have connected stays connected.

And it doesn't touch your twenty

Imported films never count against the free logs. Only the films you log yourself do.

The import confirmation: a cream ticket listing the profile found, its film, rating, watchlist and review counts, and the last three films logged.

Pricing

The journal is yours. Connecting it to the world is Pro.

Everything that makes a journal a journal is free and stays free. Pro is what carries it beyond this one phone.

Your journal does not expire. Nothing you have already logged is ever taken away. If a subscription lapses you keep reading, correcting and deleting your whole journal — forever.

Free

No account

No trial, no card, no sign-in.

  • 20 films you log yourself
  • Unlimited watchlist
  • Browse, search and discover
  • One free import from each service
  • Your year, played back to you
Coming soon

Ciniel Pro

€19.99/year

Incl. VAT · 14 days free · €64.99 lifetime · monthly available

  • Log as much as you watch
  • Two-way sync with Trakt
  • Where to watch, on your services
  • iPhone to iPad, kept in step
  • Import again, as often as you like
Coming soon

Start keeping the stub.

Twenty films in before anything asks you for anything.

Coming soon

iPhone

Ciniel's opening screen over a drifting wall of film posters.