MovieShelf

Whether digital or physical, movie fans love to manage their libraries. Numerous film-tracking websites exist as well, and the communities over there are nothing to scoff at: essentially, movie fans get to have numerous websites through which they can track their movie-watching journey, as well as connect with other people.

If you're looking for an app to help you track your movies locally, MovieShelf offers users that opportunity. Through it, you can manage your digital movie shelf, where you can store your films: think of it as a digital movie library of sorts; a virtual space for your movie collection.

There isn't exactly much to the tracking aspect: the interface gets straight to the point by allowing users to quickly find the movies from their collection, so they can and add them to their digital library right away. Looking up movies is done through the Find Movies button, whereby users can search for their films. The search is handled through the TMDB database, so problems in finding a certain title shouldn't occur — at least in theory.

Upon adding their films, users will be able to view them all on their Shelf. Clicking a title will allow you to view more details about it, such as its average rating on popular movie platforms, as well as a brief synopsis. You can also mark films you've already seen in that menu.

Though the search is done via TMDB, some of the movies we were looking for could not be found at all. Some relatively well-known titles would return no results, even though they matched the entries on the TMDB site.

The app also offers users the ability to track and manage their favorite series, yet no result would be found when looking for TV series, no matter how popular or obscure.

MovieShelf shows some promise, but most of it is sadly marred by the frequent bugs that occur when looking up certain titles, therefore souring the experience.