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Letterboxd VS TheTVDB.com

Compare Letterboxd VS TheTVDB.com and see what are their differences

Letterboxd logo Letterboxd

Letterboxd is a social site for sharing your taste in film, now in public beta.

TheTVDB.com logo TheTVDB.com

An open TV series database that can be modified by anybody, and accessed vi an XML API.
  • Letterboxd Landing page
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    2022-10-19
  • TheTVDB.com Landing page
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    2023-07-24

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  • Review - Uwe Boll's CRAZY Letterboxd Reviews
  • Review - My 2019 Year in Review on Letterboxd

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Letterboxd and TheTVDB.com)
Movie Reviews
72 72%
28% 28
Movie Ratings
71 71%
29% 29
Movies
75 75%
25% 25
Entertainment
100 100%
0% 0

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Reviews

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Letterboxd Reviews

Best Sites For Rating Movies: 6 Top Movie Review Websites
Letterboxd: Letterboxd is a social media platform for movie lovers that allows users to rate and review films, create watchlists, and follow other users with similar tastes. Its recommendation algorithm is known for being particularly effective.

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Social recommendations and mentions

TheTVDB.com might be a bit more popular than Letterboxd. We know about 149 links to it since March 2021 and only 149 links to Letterboxd. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Letterboxd mentions (149)

  • What is the Best Film You Watched Last Week? (11/15/23-11/22/23)
    5. Best Submissions can display their [Letterboxd Accts] the following week. Source: 5 months ago
  • I made a tool to embed your most recently-watched movies (as logged on Letterboxd.com) on your personal site
    Letterboxd is a site/app for logging movies that you've watched. I had always wanted a way to show my most recently-watched movies on my personal website. Source: 6 months ago
  • For your Consideration: HoopTober X
    On the social media site for film geeks that is Letterboxd, a sizeable amount of the community has an official, unofficial horrorthon each year called HoopTober, helmed by the benevolent Cinemonster. Source: 8 months ago
  • What is the Best Film You Watched Last Week? (06/28/23-07/05/23)
    5. Best Submissions can display their [Letterboxd Accts] the following week. Source: 10 months ago
  • Bridging the Gap Between YouTube / Television
    Favoree looks interesting. Maybe the connection between Favoree and Letterboxd is more apt than Rotten Tomatoes as the latter doesn't have as much of a social lens. Source: 10 months ago
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TheTVDB.com mentions (149)

  • Series Faraway Downs is not on the site
    When I attempted to create an account to update the page with season/episode info, I never received an email to verify my account. Seemed kind of odd since I saw one page offering to give me points for contributing to thetvdb.com site. Source: 5 months ago
  • Episode showing up in one instance of Plex but not the other?
    Use the full show name as listed in TMDB or TVDB. Source: 5 months ago
  • Website or Tracker to get untouched/uncompressed movie posters?
    Fanart.tv, themoviedb.org, thetvdb.com will have artwork for TV shows and movies at pretty good quality. Source: 10 months ago
  • Auto tag file name
    Check the listing at TVDB to see if one of those matches your episode numbers. Source: 10 months ago
  • How to name single episodes, specifically natgeo
    First, read through the naming guidelines to see how Plex expects shows/episodes to be named and organized. Then, you can look at TVDB/TMDB to see what episodes your files can actually be matched against:. Source: 10 months ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Letterboxd and TheTVDB.com, you can also consider the following products

IMDb - Internet Movie Database

TMDB - free movie database

Simkl - Simkl is a TV, anime, and movie tracker that keeps a history of all the shows and movies you watch in one, central location. It’s a mobile app, a website, Google Chrome extension to keep track of everything you watch and integrates with many TV apps

Trakt.tv - Automatically track TV shows & movies you're watching.

MovieLens - MovieLens helps you find non-commercial, personalized movie recommendations.

TasteDive - TasteDive recommends similar music (musicians, bands), movies, TV shows, books, authors and games, based on what you like.