Rewind vs Cinecase
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rewind
Identify VHS tapes at thrift stores by photographing them. The app uses five distinct taste profiles to judge each tape, providing clear verdicts with reasoning. Track your collection and wish list to avoid duplicates and find desired items.
- Photograph VHS tapes for identification
- Five unique taste profiles for tape evaluation
- Detailed reasoning for each tape verdict
- Manage personal collection and want lists
- Offline searchable database of 45,000 VHS titles
- Customizable taste profiles based on user preferences
- Weekly curated tape recommendations
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Photograph your shelf and Rewind identifies the tapes and discs in the picture. Every title it recognizes lands in your collection. Photograph a shelf in a store instead and each title gets a verdict, yes, maybe, or no, with a written reason. Titles you already own and titles on your want list are marked in the results. The app reads the spine or the cover, not a barcode. SCAN YOUR SHELF 1. Take up to three photos of spines, covers, or stacks. 2. Rewind matches what it reads against a catalog of over 960k releases. 3. Matched titles are added to your collection at once. Titles you already own are skipped. 4. Titles it could not match show the text it read. Pick the right title, or skip it. 5. Undo any add from the receipt. YOUR COLLECTION Each copy records the label, the format, the year, and the catalog number. Beyond the scanner, add copies by search or by import: a Letterboxd export, or a CSV from Libib, CLZ Movies, My Movies, iCollect, IMDb, or a plain spreadsheet. Mark titles watched, rate them, and keep a watch history. Export the whole collection to CSV from Settings. Your collection and want list are stored on the phone and work without a connection. KNOW WHERE TO HUNT Rewind lists more than 32,000 stores across the US. Save the ones you visit. Pick your stops and Rewind orders them nearest-first and opens the route in Google Maps. Events near you are listed with dates, and with distance once you allow location. OVER 750,000 RELEASES The catalog covers VHS, LaserDisc, DVD, Blu-ray, 4K, and seven other formats. Title pages show the poster, description, release year, genres, and the labels that released it. STAFF PICKS EVERY MONDAY A new set of titles arrives each Monday, each with a note on why it is worth chasing. One tap adds a pick to your want list. Guides collect titles around a label, an era, or one idea. NO ACCOUNT NEEDED Open the app and scan. Sign in if you want your collection, want list, and ratings on every device and on the web. Your collection, search, import, sync, the weekly picks, and store scans stay free. Shelf scans into your collection start with 5 free, then 3 each month. One scan covers up to three photos. Special Edition removes the shelf-scan limit and adds picks that fit your taste, a taste-matched verdict on every scan, and custom poster art. It is a subscription through your Apple ID and renews until you cancel. Subscribing supports Rewind and what comes next. Terms of Use: https://heyrewind.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://heyrewind.app/privacy
Cinecase
Catalog your physical movie and TV show collection, organizing it by box sets, seasons, and custom shelves. Discover what to watch next from your owned media with smart suggestions and plan your viewing queue.
- Organize by box sets, seasons, and custom shelves
- Smart movie suggestions for 'Movie Night'
- Create and manage viewing queues ('Up Next')
- Detailed cataloging of editions, formats, and features
- Barcode scanning for quick entry
- Import from other cataloging apps
- Wishlist management
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Your collection should do more than sit in a list. It is combo packs, box sets, Steelbooks, seasons, and shelves arranged your way. Most catalog apps flatten all of that into a list. Cinecase keeps the physical collection intact, then helps you choose what to watch from the films you actually own. Already catalogued somewhere else? Importing your collection is free. LET MOVIE NIGHT CHOOSE Open Movie Night when nobody can decide. Start with unwatched films, narrow by genre, runtime, actor, or director, and let Cinecase reveal one equal-odds pick from your shelf. Films inside a Collection stay eligible, so the box never hides what is inside. LINE UP WHAT COMES NEXT Up Next is the plan you keep between movie nights. Add films from Movie Night or a film's details, then drag them into the order you want. Every row tells you which disc to pull, down to the shelf and box set. Up Next is free; Pro adds separate queues for a marathon, the kids, or a boutique catch-up. RECORD WHAT YOU ACTUALLY OWN A Blu-ray + DVD + Digital pack is one case, not three entries. A complete series and a single season are different things, and Cinecase keeps them so. Capture what makes a copy yours: • Collector lines such as Criterion, Arrow, and Steelbook, plus your own when the list does not cover it • Spine numbers, editions, packaging, and bonus features • 4K UHD, Blu-ray, 3D, DVD, VHS, LaserDisc, and other formats • Notes, loans, ratings, and watch history ARRANGE IT THE WAY YOU WANT Drag cases into your own order, or let sorting keep things alphabetical. Browse spines like a shelf, or switch to covers. Use your own photo for free, or choose alternate artwork with Pro. Separate 4K from Blu-ray, TV from film, or the kids' shelf from the rest. Build shelves that match how you already think, and move titles between them. (Extra shelves are Pro; the main shelf is free.) GROUP WHAT BELONGS TOGETHER Build Collections for trilogies, franchises, and box sets. A Collection sits on the shelf as the single case it is, and opens to show the films inside. KEEP A WISHLIST Add the films you still want. Tap Got it when you buy one, and share the list with family. FIND ANYTHING AGAIN Search titles, actors, and directors. Combine filters for format, genre, content type, watched state, packaging, and more. A combo case turns up under every format it holds. See stats for formats, genres, decades, directors, collector lines, and duplicates. ADD RELEASES QUICKLY Scan a barcode to check a shared database built by other collectors. Not in it yet? The barcode drops into a prefilled entry you finish in seconds, and your fix helps whoever scans it next. New lookups can arrive in your language. BRING YOUR COLLECTION WITH YOU, FREE Switching from another app? Import DVD Profiler, CLZ, My Movies, Letterboxd, Libib, Blu-ray.com or CSV, free. A DVD Profiler export keeps your box sets whole instead of scattering them into loose films. Exporting is free too. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Cinecase is local-first. No account is needed for the basic shelf, and there are no ads and no third-party tracking. Export everything as JSON, CSV, XML, or a printable PDF. Optional Google Drive sync keeps the backup in your own Google account. Made by one developer you can reach from inside the app: Settings > Help > Contact support writes the report for you. Nothing is sent until you send it, and your titles are never included. FREE CORE, OPTIONAL LIFETIME PRO The core app is fully usable and free forever. Pro is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. It adds: • Batch scanning for a whole stack of discs • Extra shelves, and moving titles between them • Separate Up Next queues • Alternate artwork and nine more shelf themes • Genre views by category • Google Drive sync and restore, across your devices • Duplicate cleanup for large collections Imports and exports stay in the free core, never behind Pro. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Rewind at 4.9 against Cinecase's 4.1. Rewind also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 60%) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Cinecase's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 weeks) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, 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. Rewind sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Cinecase sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Rewind holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 28 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Rewind's written reviews are positive against 60% of Cinecase's.
Rewind ships an update every 6 weeks, Cinecase every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Rewind | Cinecase |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (28 ratings) — better | 4.1 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Overscan Industries LLC | Livio Maynard |
Customer experience
Rewind
Cinecase
In-app purchases
Rewind
- Rewind Special Edition Monthly$3.991 Month
- Rewind Special Edition (Annual)$34.991 Year
Cinecase
- Cinecase Pro$6.99






