Simple Cinema vs CineDNA
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Cinema
Discover, save, and track movies effortlessly. Get personalized recommendations, mark films as watched or to watch, and view your movie statistics. Sync your progress across all your devices for a seamless experience.
- Personalized movie recommendations
- Mark movies as Watched/Want to Watch
- Quick movie search
- View movie statistics
- Sync across devices
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Simple Cinema: Discover & Track Your Movies Without the Hassle Simple Cinema is your intuitive, sleek, and powerful companion for discovering, saving, and tracking movies you love. Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or a full-blown film nerd, Simple Cinema makes it effortless to: • Swipe through personalized movie recommendations • Mark movies as Watched or Want to Watch in a tap • Search any movie quickly — no clutter, just results • View your movie stats • Sync your account across devices Built with love for film lovers. Zero fluff. Maximum cinema joy. Start tracking your movie life today — download Simple Cinema now!
CineDNA
This app analyzes your film preferences by having you rate movies based on various traits. It then recommends films available in theaters or on streaming that match your unique taste, providing detailed insights into why each film is a good fit.
- Personalized film taste analysis
- Ranked recommendations for streaming and theaters
- Detailed film trait breakdown
- Discover films by genre and decade
- Direct links to watch or book tickets
- Watchlist management
- Import ratings from Letterboxd
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CineDNA reads what you like and finds films that fit. Rate films you have seen — loved, liked, mixed, didn't — and CineDNA builds a picture of your taste out of 133 traits. Not just genre: whether you go for slow burns, for dialogue, for moral ambiguity, for nonlinear structure, for warmth, for dread. Then it uses that to rank what is actually available to watch tonight. WHAT YOU GET For You — what is in theaters and what just landed on streaming, ranked against your taste. Every film carries a Match score, for how well it fits you, and a Quality score, for how good it is regardless of you. The two are kept separate on purpose. The Genome — every film broken into the traits that make it what it is. It is what the recommendation is actually made of, and you can read it yourself. Discover — browse more than 34,000 films by genre and decade, or search for one. Where to watch — a real link to the service that has it, or a way to book a seat while it is still in theaters. Watchlist — the films you said you would get to. Your DNA — everything you have rated, sorted by conviction, so you can see the shape of your own taste. COMING FROM LETTERBOXD? Import your recent ratings in one step and start with a profile that already knows you. No ads, no autoplay, no infinite feed. CineDNA is a tool for deciding what to watch, not somewhere to spend the evening. Film data and posters courtesy of TMDB.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Simple Cinema at 3 against CineDNA's 1. On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Simple Cinema against 5.0 for CineDNA. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Cinema | CineDNA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Josiah Brown | CineDNA Digital LLC |
Customer experience
Simple Cinema
CineDNA
In-app purchases
Simple Cinema
No in-app purchases
CineDNA
No in-app purchases
