Comparison

Letterboxd vs Lunchly

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Letterboxd

Connect with fellow film enthusiasts, log your viewing history, and discover new movies. Share reviews, create lists, and follow friends' cinematic journeys. Offers premium features for enhanced stats and customization.

Highlights
  • Log films with date, rating, and tags
  • Browse popular and highly rated films
  • View and comment on reviews and lists
  • Create and edit custom film lists
  • Follow members and view their activity
  • Search for films, content, and people
  • Upgrade for advanced stats and customization
Features
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Letterboxd for iOS puts the popular social network for film lovers on your iPhone or iPad, so you can log films and catch up on your friends’ activity with ease. Sign in with your existing account (or create one for free) to enjoy our native app interface. These features of the web experience are supported, with more to come: – Sign in (with 1Password support) or create an account – Browse popular, highly rated and most anticipated films (including our official list of the Top 250 Narrative Features) – Log films with date, rating, review and tags – View film info (including cast & crew, popular lists and reviews) and rate, like, watchlist or mark as watched – View (and filter) your activity feed – Read and comment on reviews and lists – Create and edit lists – View member profiles including films, reviews, diary entries, tags, stats and more – Follow members to see their activity in your feed – Filter and sort collections of films based on specific criteria – Search for films, content and people – Edit your profile settings Our app offers account upgrades: – Upgrade to 1 Year of Letterboxd Pro or Patron – Pro tier adds annual and all-time stats pages based on your account activity, advanced activity and streaming service filters (including the option to pick and filter by the streaming services you subscribe to, powered by JustWatch.com), list cloning and removes third-party ads. – Patron tier provides all the benefits of Pro, plus the option to customize film posters, backdrops on your profile and content (if available), additional stats, a listing in the Patrons directory on our website and early access to new features. – Payment is charged to your iTunes Account when you confirm purchase and your subscription automatically renews unless auto-renewal is disabled at least 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Your iTunes account will be charged for a renewal up to 24 hours before the end of each current period, at the same annual fee. – You can manage your subscription and disable auto-renewals in the App Store app following purchase. – Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription to that publication, where applicable Our terms of use are always available at: https://letterboxd.com/legal/terms-of-use/ We welcome your feedback regarding Letterboxd for iOS. Please email us: hello@letterboxd.com

About

Lunchly

Easily coordinate lunch plans with friends without the clutter of group chats. Simply pick friends, a day, and a location, then see who's confirmed to attend at a glance. Ideal for open campus environments where spontaneous meetups are common.

Highlights
  • Coordinate lunch with friends
  • Select friends and a day
  • Specify meeting location
  • See who's attending at a glance
  • Update plans easily
  • Share invite codes or QR codes
Features
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Lunchly is a small, direct way to sort out lunch with your friends: ask a few people, say where you're meeting, and see who's actually coming. No group chat to scroll back through, no arguing in three places at once. HOW IT WORKS • Pick friends and a day. Anything else is optional. • Say where to meet — the community theater, Donahue, the cafeteria. Whatever your group actually says. • Going out or bringing your own. If you're going out, add where. • Everyone gets a notification and answers Going or Can't go. • You see who's in at a glance. Confirmed in green, still waiting in grey. BUILT FOR AN OPEN CAMPUS Lunchly was made for Berkeley High School, where students leave campus for lunch. It assumes you already know your friends and just need to agree on a plan — so there's no feed, no follower count, and nothing to scroll. FINDING FRIENDS Share a personal invite code or QR code, or find people already on Lunchly from your contacts. Only the contacts you choose are ever checked, and phone numbers are never stored in readable form. PLANS THAT CHANGE Move the day, change the meeting spot, add someone late. Everyone on the lunch sees what changed and gets asked to confirm again if the day moves. PRIVACY • Sign in with Apple. No password to make or forget. • A phone number is optional and only used to help friends find you. It's stored as a one-way hash, never as a number. • No ads, no tracking, no analytics sold to anyone. • Block or report anyone, and delete your account and all its data from inside the app.

Screenshots

Letterboxd4 screens
Lunchly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lunchly at none against Letterboxd's 10. Lunchly also leads on ads (none vs shown). Letterboxd's advantage is ratings volume (88K vs 2) and chart position (#18 vs unranked). On price, rating, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Letterboxd sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $18.99 per year. Lunchly asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lunchly holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Letterboxd has 88K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Letterboxd versus Lunchly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLetterboxdLunchly
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (88K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews59.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings88K — better2
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#18 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.5 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size142 MB19 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperLetterboxdMICHELLE KORENSTEIN SCHORR

Customer experience

Letterboxd

All ratings88,406 ratings
Positive97.2%
Neutral1.5%
Negative1.3%
Written reviews2,008 reviews
Positive59.3%
Neutral12.5%
Negative28.2%

Lunchly

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Letterboxd

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Inability to save or edit reviews
  • Search and navigation issues
  • Inconsistent behavior when switching between app and website
  • Syncing and data loss problems when switching devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add TV show support
  • Improve social features like notifications and commenting
  • Implement offline functionality
  • Add more customization options
  • Introduce a cheaper tier for basic features

Lunchly

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Letterboxd

Subscriptions2
  • Letterboxd Pro (1 Year)$18.991 Year
  • Letterboxd Patron (1 Year)$48.991 Year
One-time7
  • Video Store Rental$3.99
  • Video Store Rental$4.99
  • Video Store Rental$5.99
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  • Video Store Rental$6.99
  • Video Store Rental$9.99
  • Video Store Rental$14.99
  • Video Store Rental2 variants$19.99
None

Lunchly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Letterboxd free?
Letterboxd is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lunchly free?
Lunchly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Letterboxd or Lunchly?
Lunchly is rated higher. Letterboxd averages 4.8 out of 5 from 88K ratings, while Lunchly averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Letterboxd or Lunchly have ads?
Letterboxd shows ads; Lunchly does not.

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