Sift. vs Muvue
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sift.
Discover great movies quickly by setting your preferences for genre, rating, and year. Explore curated lists of acclaimed films and track your progress through cinematic classics. Save films to your watchlist and receive reminders to ensure movie night happens.
- Filter movies by genre, rating, and year
- Browse curated lists of acclaimed films
- Mark films as seen or not interested
- Save films to a personal watchlist
- View trailers, cast, and streaming options
- Track progress through film checklists
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Stop scrolling, start watching. Sift finds you a great film in seconds — and helps you work through the greatest films ever made. Set your filters — genre, minimum rating, earliest year — and get a clean grid of posters sorted by rating. No flops, no obscure fan-vote flukes, no shorts. Just films worth your evening. WORK THROUGH THE CANON The Top 250 highest-rated films, every Palme d'Or winner, and every Oscar Best Picture winner — each one a checklist. Mark what you've seen, watch the progress ring fill, and filter to just the ones you haven't watched yet. BUILT FOR FAST DECISIONS • Hold and drag a poster: left for Seen, right for Not interested — they vanish from future searches, so results get better the more you use it • Tap the heart to save any film to your Watchlist • Search any title, browse an actor's full filmography with one tap • Trailer, cast, and where to stream — one tap from every poster YOUR WATCHLIST, REMEMBERED Films you save are there when you're ready, with a gentle weekend reminder so movie night actually happens. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No analytics. No tracking of any kind. Everything stays on your device — the App Store privacy label is "Data Not Collected" because we literally collect nothing. Free, for iPhone and iPad. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
Muvue
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Muvue finds movies the way your brain actually works. Forget scrolling through endless lists or trying to remember that one title your friend mentioned. With Muvue, you search the way you think; by mood, theme, feeling, or context. Type "a slow-burn thriller set in Europe" or "something hopeful after a hard week" and Muvue understands exactly what you mean. Semantic Search, Not Keyword Matching Muvue uses a compact AI model to convert your query into meaning, not just words. It then matches that meaning against a curated database of films to surface results that actually fit what you're looking for. Privacy-First by Design The AI that processes your search query runs entirely on your iPhone, your words are never sent to a server. Results are fetched from a fast cloud database, but Muvue never stores your searches, builds a profile, or tracks what you watch. No Account Required Download and go. No sign-up, no login, no subscription needed to start discovering films. What people use Muvue for: "I want something like Parasite but lighter" "A film to watch with my parents on a Sunday" "Something visually stunning, I don't care about the plot" "An underrated 90s movie I've probably never seen" Muvue is for people who love film; not for people who love browsing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Sift. at 18.5 against Muvue's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Sift. | Muvue |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Travers Nicholas | sarthak anand |
In-app purchases
Sift.
No in-app purchases
Muvue
No in-app purchases









