Dead Media vs Cinecase
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dead Media
Catalog your physical media collection with a realistic shelf view. Scan barcodes to add discs, track what you've watched, and connect with other collectors to buy and sell. Analyze your collection's statistics and discover new releases.
- Realistic digital shelf display
- Barcode scanning for quick entry
- Track watched movies and ratings
- Buy and sell discs with other collectors
- Collection statistics and reports
- Import from other collection apps
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The app for 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD collectors. Scan a barcode and your disc lands on a shelf that looks like the one in your living room: real spines, at real widths, in your pocket. With the rise of streaming, owning your movies has never mattered more. Track your collection, review what you watch, and buy and sell with collectors who get it. THE SHELF Log every disc you own and see it lined up spine by spine, growing with every haul. Sort by title, director, label, or year. Filter to your steelbooks, your Criterions, your blind buys, your unwatched pile. Box sets and TV seasons included. THE DATABASE Scan a barcode and the details fill themselves in. Over 100,000 physical releases with covers, spines, labels, and editions, built by collectors and growing every day. Bulk scan an entire haul in minutes. Bringing a collection with you? Import from Letterboxd, Blu-ray.com, CLZ, or My Movies Pro. THE REVIEWS Rate and review every movie you watch. Follow fellow collectors, see what the community is watching, and find your next favorite through people whose shelves you trust. Your Letterboxd rating history comes with you. THE MARKET Buy and sell discs directly with other collectors. No fees, no middleman: message the seller, agree on a price, and settle up between yourselves. Sellers verify with a phone number, and ratings keep everyone honest. THE REPORT Your collection, in numbers: formats, genres, directors, decades, labels, streaks, and what it's all worth. BONUS FEATURES • New release calendar and pre-orders • Movie of the Week, chosen by the community • Share a snapshot of your collection Start your shelf.
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: Dead Media at 5.0 against Cinecase's 4.1. Dead Media also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (24 vs 7). Cinecase's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Cinecase sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Dead Media asks for nothing beyond the download.
Dead Media holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 24 and 7 respectively.
| Parameter | Dead Media | Cinecase |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (24 ratings) — better | 4.1 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bymike LLC | Livio Maynard |
In-app purchases
Dead Media
No in-app purchases
Cinecase
- Cinecase Pro$6.99






