Comparison

TV Tracker vs GuideBlue

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

Head to head
About

TV Tracker

Organize your movie and TV show viewing with flexible tracking statuses, episode progress, and detailed watch history. Discover new titles with powerful search and trending picks, and gain insights into your viewing habits.

Highlights
  • Organize movies and shows with custom statuses
  • Track episode-by-episode progress
  • Log watch history and rewatches
  • Rate media with flexible scales
  • Explore rich media details
  • Discover new content with search and trending picks
  • View viewing statistics and insights
Features
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Omniphile (formerly Cinephile) is the all-in-one tracker for movies, TV shows, books, audiobooks, and video games. Keep your watchlist, reading list, and game backlog in one beautifully organized library, log every watch, read, and play session, and discover what to enjoy next. Key Features * Track movies, TV shows, books, audiobooks, and games in one library, and hide any kind you don't use * Organize everything with statuses made for each medium, like Up Next, Watching, Reading, Playing, Paused, Wishlist, Completed, and Gave Up * Follow shows episode by episode across seasons, and keep your place in every book * Time your reading and play sessions with built-in timers * Log your history with flexible date precision, like a movie diary, reading log, and game journal in one * Rate everything your way with 5-star or 10-star scales, half-star and quarter-star precision, and custom emoji ratings * Explore rich details for movies, shows, episodes, books, and games, including cast, crew, trailers, and critics' scores * Discover what's next with powerful search, trending picks, upcoming releases, charts, and genre feeds * Build collections and shelves to organize your library however you like * Dive into statistics for completions, time spent, ratings distribution, top genres, top people, activity heatmaps, and streaks * Bring your history with you from Letterboxd, Trakt, TV Time, IMDb, Goodreads, StoryGraph, HowLongToBeat, and more * Keep Omniphile and Trakt in sync automatically * Join the Community to share your profile, collections, and comments with fellow fans Omniphile Premium Apple Intelligence * Smart Search: describe what you're in the mood for and find it instantly * For You: swipe through picks tailored to your taste and mood * Siri: search Omniphile, open any title, or add what's on your screen, in photos, or in messages On All Your Devices * An Apple Watch app for your queues: log watches, reads, and play sessions from your wrist * A plethora of beautifully crafted Home Screen widgets: Up Next, schedules, streaks, and countdowns * iCloud sync across all your devices, plus full backups you can restore anytime Never Miss a Release * Release alerts the day anything you follow comes out * Streaming dates, with reminders for when movies hit your services * Where to watch, and discovery filtered by the services you have Track Everything * Rewatch movies and episodes, with every one counted in your stats * Your complete history, all the way back * Critics' scores for every episode, season by season * A session journal with notes and photos for every reading and play session * Save quotes you love and build a glossary of names worth remembering * More stats, including where you stream the most and what your shelves cost Your Games, Connected * Sync your Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, Epic, and GOG libraries * Every achievement and trophy from every store, together in one place * Replays: start a new playthrough of any game, as often as you like * Smart playthroughs: log playtime from your stores, or play toward achievement goals * Steam Deck, PS5 Pro, PS Plus, and Game Pass details on covers and filters * Deal alerts when a game on your Steam wishlist goes on sale Your Library, Your Way * Unlimited collections and smart collections, with rules by service, network, tag, Game Pass, and more * Tags, book themes with suggestions from Apple Intelligence, and rich notes * Pin a collection to Home as its own queue, or let Shuffle pick what's next * Rating filters, more sorts, and groupings by tag, platform, or service * Show up to 100 collections on your Community profile, with a Premium badge Watch, read, and play more, and remember all of it, with Omniphile. Link to standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

About

GuideBlue

Discover what to watch across your streaming platforms with a retro TV guide interface. Save shows to your library and track your viewing history to keep recommendations relevant.

Highlights
  • Retro TV-guide style browsing
  • Live special event listings
  • Save picks to Library
  • Mark watched content
  • Customizable service selection
  • Watch history tracking
Features
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GuideBlue helps you decide what to watch across your streaming services. Browse a retro TV-guide style grid, see live special events, save picks to your Library, and mark what you have watched so your list stays useful. Choose the services you use, refresh your recommendations, and keep a simple watch history without digging through every streaming app.

Screenshots

TV Tracker4 screens
GuideBlue4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GuideBlue at none against TV Tracker's 12. GuideBlue also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). TV Tracker's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 10 days) and ratings volume (277 vs 2). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. TV Tracker sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. GuideBlue asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

GuideBlue holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TV Tracker has 277 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of TV Tracker's written reviews are positive against 100% of GuideBlue's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TV Tracker ships an update daily, GuideBlue every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
TV Tracker versus GuideBlue: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTV TrackerGuideBlue
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (277 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews93.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings277 — better2
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple TV
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size361 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMario Luis Gutierrez AbedCharlie Thomas

Customer experience

TV Tracker

All ratings277 ratings
Positive94.9%
Neutral1.8%
Negative3.2%
Written reviews107 reviews
Positive93.5%
Neutral1.9%
Negative4.7%

GuideBlue

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

11 purchases

TV Tracker

Subscriptions6
  • Full Premium Access$2.997 Days
  • Full Premium Access$4.991 Month
  • Full Premium Access$6.991 Month
Show 3 more
  • Full Premium Access7 Days trial$24.991 Year
  • Full Premium Access$34.991 Year
  • Full Premium Access7 Days trial2 variants$34.991 Year
One-time5
  • Small Coffee$1.99
  • Medium Coffee$3.99
  • Large Coffee$7.99
Show 2 more
  • Lifetime Premium access$69.99
  • Lifetime Premium access$99.99
None

GuideBlue

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TV Tracker free?
TV Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GuideBlue free?
GuideBlue is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, TV Tracker or GuideBlue?
GuideBlue is rated higher. TV Tracker averages 4.8 out of 5 from 277 ratings, while GuideBlue averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do TV Tracker or GuideBlue have ads?
Neither TV Tracker nor GuideBlue shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TV Tracker or GuideBlue?
TV Tracker ships an update daily, and GuideBlue every 10 days. Most recently, TV Tracker was updated on October 20, 2026 and GuideBlue on October 8, 2026.

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