Shelf Cinema vs Montir
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shelf Cinema
Connect with fellow movie enthusiasts to discover and discuss films. Organize your viewing history, create themed collections, and challenge friends with movie trivia. Explore curated lists and find your next favorite film through shared tastes.
- Build personal film shelves
- Log, rate, and review movies
- Discover films through user taste
- Challenge friends with movie trivia
- Connect with other film lovers
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The Social Film App for discovering films through people. Where movie lovers collect, discuss, and discover films together. Build your personal shelves, log what you watch, and connect with people who share your taste in cinema. Whether you love classic films, cult favorites, or the latest releases, SHELF gives you a place to organize your movie world and share it with others. Build Your Shelves Create curated “Shelves” — collections of films around any theme, mood, director, or genre. Keep them private or share them with the community. Log, Rate & Review Track every film you watch. Rate movies, write reviews, and build a personal record of your cinematic journey. Discover Through Taste Follow friends and explore shelves from other film lovers to discover your next favorite movie — powered by people, not algorithms. Challenge Friends Test your film knowledge in trivia duels including Quote Quiz, Poster Puzzle, Release Year, and Rating Duel. Wager XP and prove who knows movies best.
Montir
This app helps you track and rank movies, TV shows, and anime with friends. It uses head-to-head comparisons to generate precise scores and builds a master list of everything you've watched. Discover what your friends are watching and find others with similar tastes.
- Rank movies, TV, and anime with comparisons
- Master list of watched content
- Friend connection with compatibility scores
- Watchlist powered by friend recommendations
- Uniqueness score for your opinions
- Leave notes and tag friends
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Montir is a must-have app for anyone who enjoys movies, TV, or anime of any kind! Keep track of watched content by keeping a master list, ranked on a scale from 0.0 to 10.0. Instead of guessing at star ratings, Montir asks a simple question — "which did you like more?" — and turns your head-to-head picks into precise scores. Connect with friends to see what they're watching, plus a compatibility score based on mutual ratings — or find others who share your taste. Build a watchlist with recommendations from your friends, and see the sentiment from people whose opinion you actually care about. Additional features like a uniqueness score measuring how hot your takes are, leaving notes and tagging others, and many more can be found inside of Montir — your one-stop shop for all things cinema. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Rank movies, TV, and anime with quick "this or that" comparisons that build 0.0–10.0 scores • Keep one master list of everything you've watched, always in order • Add friends and see a taste-compatibility score from your mutual ratings • Find people with similar taste across the community • Build a watchlist powered by your friends' recommendations • Check your uniqueness score to see how hot (or basic) your takes really are • Leave notes, tag friends, and climb the leaderboard • Find friends already on Montir from your contacts (optional, privacy-first) PRIVACY-FIRST BY DESIGN • Sign in with just your phone number — no passwords • Contact matching is optional and hashes numbers on your device; we never see your contacts' names or raw numbers • No ads, no cross-app tracking, and we never sell your data • Delete your account and data anytime from Profile → Account Montir — your one-stop shop for all things cinema.
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Verdict
Shelf Cinema and Montir are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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 Shelf Cinema against 5.0 for Montir. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 11 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
| Parameter | Shelf Cinema | Montir |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 11 |
| Update frequency | — | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Falcon Rubio-Schoenfelt | Srikanth Subramanian |
Customer experience
Shelf Cinema
Montir
In-app purchases
Shelf Cinema
No in-app purchases
Montir
No in-app purchases









