Blink vs Shelfd
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blink
This app helps you track movies and TV shows, and share recommendations with friends through a chat interface. Never forget a movie suggestion again by sending a "Blink" directly to your contacts.
- Send movie/show recommendations (Blinks)
- Track movies and TV shows
- Share watchlists in chat
- Write reviews and share thoughts
- Discover new content and see friend reviews
- Interact with friends and see their activity
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Blink – watchlist with chat app. Track your anime, movies, and TV shows, and discover new arthouse, retro, and horror anime and films. Blinkchat — the best cinema app for tracking and sending recommendations with the best user experience. Send a Blink to your friends, and they can immediately save it to their Watchlist. Share your Watchlist in chat. Movie, anime tracking with chat. A chat app where you can directly recommend a film or series to your friends, and they can instantly add it to their Watchlist. In our daily lives, we constantly share movie recommendations, but they often get forgotten. With Blink, you'll never lose a recommendation again. Just send a Blink to your friends and keep track of all your shared favorites. Key Features - Watchlist — Create your personal list of anime, movies, and TV shows. Keep track of what you are watching, what you have already watched, and what you want to watch next. Watchlist also includes your **Waitlist** for titles you want to watch later. - Blinkchat — Send recommendations directly to your friends. Recommend anime, movies, TV shows, or individual episodes so they don’t get lost or forgotten. - Blinklist — Create and explore lists of anime, movies, TV shows, and individual episodes. - Personal Schedule — Get a personalized release schedule based on your Watchlist. Follow upcoming premieres, new episodes, seasons, movies, and anime releases. - Discover Anime — Discover new anime, hidden gems, unusual titles, and visually distinctive animation. - Discover Movies — Find new movies, independent films, hidden gems, and titles worth watching. - Discover TV Show — Explore new TV shows and find your next series to watch. - Discover Retro Animation — Explore classic, vintage, and retro animation from different eras and countries. - Fine Art House Animation and Movies — Discover unconventional, experimental, visually unique, and art-house animation and films. Terms of Use and Privacy Policy for Blink: By using our services, you agree to comply with and be bound by our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Review the details here: https://www.hollywoodoftheinternet.com/blinkchat-terms LICENSED APPLICATION END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT: By using our services, you are agreeing to be bound by Apple's Standard EULA. Review the agreement here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Send Blink!
Shelfd
Track all your movies, TV shows, anime, games, and music in one organized place. Discover new content, follow friends' activities, and share your media experiences. Keep a detailed record of your progress and ratings.
- Track movies, TV, anime, games, and music
- Status tracking and episode progress
- Rate media on a 5-star scale
- Detailed game stats and clip sharing
- Media discovery by decade, genre, and more
- Follow friends and view activity feed
- Direct messaging and shared watch lists
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A social app for Movies, TV, anime, games and music. One shelf, shared with friends. Shelfd is one home for everything you watch, play and listen to. Track it, rate it, review it, and see what your friends are into. YOUR SHELF • Separate shelves for movies, TV, anime, games and music, each with its own statuses • Track shows season by season, mark a whole season watched in one tap, and rate every episode and season • Half-star ratings and full reviews for anything, with spoiler protection • Rate albums track by track, right next to your movies and games • Reorder your planning list by priority with a drag • See your whole library at once, count rewatches, and mark the physical copies you own ANIME • Every season, sequel and movie grouped under one series • Rate the whole show, a single season or a single episode • Review the full series, one season or one episode, and comment on episodes • Advanced reviews: score story, directing, voice acting, animation, art style, score and sound, pacing and characters • Pick your favorite character for the whole series or for each season • Anime pages with the full franchise, studios, staff, characters and voice actors GAMING • Sort games into Competitive, Live, Single-player and Party, plus Wishlist, Paused, Played and Dropped • Link Steam to import your library, achievements and hours played, with Playnite sync too • Connect Xbox, and add your rank, K/D and Tracker.gg stats to competitive games • Game pages with platforms, editions, DLC and mods • Deep game search by platform, genre, mode, player count, rating, Steam reviews, price and release window • Live Steam player charts and time-to-beat estimates GAMING CLIPS • Upload clips from your phone or desktop • Drop in up to three clips, trim each one and merge them into a single video • Every clip sorted under its game, so your library stays organized and clean • Add a caption, tag friends and choose who can see it: everyone, friends or just you • Post to the clips feed, where friends can like, comment and share YOUR PROFILE • Your top picks across every category, plus favorite actors, directors, artists and characters • Stats for every category, including hours watched, average ratings and a full gaming breakdown • A diary of everything you log, day by day • Tier lists to rank anything, plus custom lists • Every review you've written in one place • Your Year in Review: a yearly recap of everything you watched, played and listened to • Customize your profile with a banner, bio and social links, and share it with a link DISCOVER • Discovery pages for every category, with personalized picks, trending and popular • One search for movies, shows, anime, games, music and people, with filters for genre, studio, language, streaming service and more • Title pages with a consensus rating, where to watch, trailers, cast and awards • Album and artist pages with top songs, tracklists and links to listen • Actor, director and voice actor pages with full filmographies • Release calendars for movies, TV, anime and games • Award season coverage and an entertainment news feed PHYSICAL MEDIA • Every media type links you to stores to buy physical copies, from DVD, Blu-ray and 4K to game editions, with specs for each FRIENDS • A live feed of everything your friends add, rate, review and comment on • Visit any friend's shelf, profile and reviews • Shared Watch: tag friends on a title you watched together, plan who to watch with next, and keep the memory of who was there • Like and comment on their activity, and message them with end-to-end encrypted DMs • Send friends recommendations, and see which friends already have a title • Notifications for requests, likes, comments, replies and new episodes from your library IMPORT YOUR LISTS • Import from Letterboxd, IMDb, Serializd, TV Time, MyAnimeList, AniList and Backloggd • Connect Steam, Xbox, Apple Music and Tracker.gg COMING SOON • Manga and comic books Shelfd is free to use.
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Verdict
Blink and Shelfd both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Shelfd's written reviews are positive against 0% of Blink's. Shelfd also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ratings volume (44 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and device support 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
Both are free to download. Blink sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Shelfd asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Blink against 5.0 for Shelfd. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shelfd has 44 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of Blink's written reviews are positive against 100% of Shelfd's.
Blink ships an update fortnightly, Shelfd weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blink | Shelfd |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (44 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 44 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Ivan Scripnic | KUMAR SINGH |
Customer experience
Blink
Shelfd
In-app purchases
Blink
- Blink Premium Month$1.991 Month
- Blink Premium Year$17.991 Year
- Blink Premium for One Month$1.99
- Blink Premium for One Year$17.99
- Hollywood of Internet$19.99
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- Hollywood of Internet$24.99
Shelfd
No in-app purchases









