Simple Cinema vs Media Base
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!
Media Base
Catalog your physical and digital media collections, including books, movies, music, and games. Automatically populate details by scanning barcodes or searching titles. Track your progress, rate items, and get personalized recommendations from your own backlog.
- Catalog books, comics, movies, TV shows, anime, music, and games
- Barcode scanning for quick entry
- Automatic metadata and cover art population
- Track read, watched, listened, or played status
- Rate and review your collection items
- Personalized daily recommendations from your backlog
- Private by design, no account or ads
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Media Base is a personal collection tracker for the physical and digital media you actually own - books, comics, movies, TV shows, anime, vinyl/CDs, and tabletop games, all cataloged in one place instead of scattered across seven different mental lists. SEVEN CATEGORIES, ONE APP Books and Comics/Manga with real ISBN lookup. Movies, TV Shows, and Anime with rich metadata and a direct link to see where to watch. Vinyl/CD with genre and artist details. Tabletop Games covering both board games and card games. Every category supports the fastest way to add something that actually works for it - a barcode scan, a title search, or typing it in by hand. AUTOMATIC, NOT TEDIOUS Add something by scanning its barcode or searching its title, and the cover photo, genre, and other details fill in on their own. Prefer to add your own photo instead? That works too, on any entry. TRACK WHAT MATTERS TO YOU Mark anything as read, watched, listened to, or played, and rate and review it. Filter your whole collection by genre, search by title, and jump around a long list with a real A-Z index. A daily "try this next" suggestion helps surface something from your own backlog instead of just adding to it. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no login, no ads, no tracking. Everything you add is stored on your own device. Media Base looks up titles from a few public sources (TMDb, Discogs, BoardGameGeek, Open Library, Google Books) to fill in details automatically, but never sends anything about you - only the title or barcode you're searching for.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Simple Cinema at 3 against Media Base's 1. Simple Cinema also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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 Media Base. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Cinema | Media Base |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Josiah Brown | Jaxon Harvey |
In-app purchases
Simple Cinema
No in-app purchases
Media Base
No in-app purchases









