TapeNight vs Films Shelf
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TapeNight
Discover your next favorite movie with a nostalgic browsing experience. This app helps you find films available on your subscribed services, eliminating endless scrolling. It offers a weekly curated list and a watch list to keep track of your viewing.
- Fast movie discovery
- Weekly curated movie list
- Service selection for personalized suggestions
- Nostalgic video store interface
- Watch list functionality
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Remember going out to rent a movie on a Friday Night? TapeNight recreates the feeling of walking the aisles and discovering your next movie. Fast, simple, and built for movie night. Fast Movie Discovery • Find something worth watching from the services you subscribe to in seconds instead of endlessly scrolling. Weekly Refresh • What you see is what you get. The list stays the same all week until the following Monday. Service Selection • Only see the movies you have access to. Tell us what services you have and we'll only suggest whats available. Video Store Browsing Experience • Explore movies in a nostalgic, shelf-style interface inspired by classic video rental stores. Watch List • Keep track of what you've seen and what you want to see next! Built for Movie Lovers • Perfect for families, film buffs, and anyone tired of “What should we watch?”
Films Shelf
Easily save and organize movies you want to watch, with details like poster and runtime. Choose your next film with a browsing or shuffle option. Watched films create a personal viewing history.
- Save movies with poster and details
- Organize a personal film shelf
- Browse or shuffle film suggestions
- Track watched films and dates
- Ad-free experience with Premium
- Partner sharing for shared watchlists
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Films Shelf is a personal films shelf — a warm, low-friction place to put the movies you keep meaning to watch, and a calm way to choose one when Friday night comes around. THE FOUR JOBS • Save — A film catches your attention. Tap, add. The shelf builds itself over weeks and months. • Remember — Each entry holds onto what the film is: poster, description, year, runtime. Your shelf never decays into a wall of forgotten titles. • Choose — Browse the shelf or, with Premium, tap Shuffle for a one-at-a-time proposal. Reroll until something feels right. • Reminisce — Watched films stay on the shelf as a quiet record of what you've seen and when. A SHELF, NOT A DATABASE Films Shelf is built around a single guiding test: does this feel more like a shelf than a database? Warmth over completeness. Context over metadata. Earned archive over managed catalog. PREMIUM Premium adds: • Ad-free experience • Partner sharing — invite one partner to share your shelf. Both of you can add, mark watched, and remove films. The shelf updates on both phones. • In-app trailer playback • Shuffle — surface a one-at-a-time film suggestion from your shelf Premium is $4.99/month or $29.99/year. New users get 30 days of Premium free. Cancel anytime. PRIVACY Films Shelf has no first-party servers. Your shelf lives in your iCloud, not on our infrastructure. Film metadata is provided by The Movie Database (TMDB). This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB. Terms of Use: https://bbmaxwell.dev/legal/films-shelf/terms Privacy Policy: https://bbmaxwell.dev/legal/films-shelf/privacy EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TapeNight at none against Films Shelf's 2. On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Films Shelf sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. TapeNight asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for TapeNight against 5.0 for Films Shelf. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | TapeNight | Films Shelf |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kevin Boehle | Max McGregor |
Customer experience
TapeNight
Films Shelf
In-app purchases
TapeNight
No in-app purchases
Films Shelf
- Films Shelf Premium (Monthly)1 Month trial$4.991 Month
- Films Shelf Premium (Annual)1 Month trial$12.991 Year









