Cinema Log vs SpectoMovie
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cinema Log
Track every movie you see in theaters, rate them, and remember where you saw them. Analyze your viewing habits by genre, director, and format, and see if your theater membership is cost-effective.
- Log movie visits quickly
- Rate and favorite films
- Track theater membership value
- Generate shareable year-in-film recaps
- Follow friends' movie activity
- Analyze viewing statistics
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Cinema Log is for people who love the big screen. Keep a running log of every movie you see in theaters, rate it, and remember where you saw it, then look back on your whole year at the movies. WHY CINEMA LOG ▸ Log a visit in seconds: the film, the theater, the date, the format, what the seat cost. ▸ Rate and favorite what you watch, then build your Best Of for the year. ▸ Know whether your theater membership actually pays for itself. Track AMC A-List, Regal Unlimited, Cinemark Movie Club, Alamo Season Pass or your own plan, and watch each visit count toward break-even. ▸ Your Year in Film. Turn your logs into beautiful, shareable recap cards. ▸ Follow friends and see what they're watching and loving. ▸ See the numbers behind your movie year: genres, directors, formats, and how your taste adds up. ▸ Every kind of showing belongs here: opening night, festival premieres, early previews, secret screenings, the drive-in. For moviegoers, by moviegoers.
SpectoMovie
Identify movies and series from a single photo or by searching titles. Discover cast, trailers, streaming availability by country, and manage watchlists. It offers limited social features for sharing recommendations and logging viewing history.
- Identify movies from photos
- Search titles by name
- View cast and trailers
- Check streaming availability
- Create custom watchlists
- Log watched titles
- Add private notes
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Turn a streaming screen into your next movie night. Take or choose a photo and SpectoMovie helps you identify the movies and series visible in it. Explore your matches, check where to watch and keep your discoveries in a private Library. FIND TITLES FROM ONE PHOTO Identify multiple movie and series titles from a single still photo. Review confirmed and possible matches, open the details and save a whole scan to revisit later. SEE WHERE TO WATCH Check streaming availability in your country and open links to available providers. Compare selected countries with Premium. Availability changes by country and date, and viewing may require a separate provider subscription or purchase. SHARE YOUR MOVIE NIGHTS Recommend a title to a registered friend. Tag the people you watched with and keep those shared memories alongside your watched history. DISCOVER MORE ABOUT A TITLE Search for a movie or series by name. Explore cast, related books and film series, find trailers and open official IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes pages. MAKE YOUR LIBRARY YOUR OWN Keep watched titles, a watchlist, custom lists and saved scans together. Add private notes and use SleepMeter to record how long a title kept you awake. CHOOSE FREE OR PREMIUM The Free plan includes ads and a shared monthly usage allowance. Optional rewarded ads can add more usage. SpectoMovie Premium is a monthly auto-renewing subscription with more scans and discoveries, no ads and streaming availability across up to 10 selected countries. The app shows the current localized price and renewal terms before purchase. Restore purchases or manage your subscription from Profile. SpectoMovie uploads the still photo you choose for recognition. Live camera video is never uploaded. Provider, IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes names belong to their owners. SpectoMovie links to these services and is not affiliated with them. Terms of Use: https://spectomovie.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://spectomovie.com/privacy/ Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: contact@spectolab.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cinema Log at none against SpectoMovie's 2. Cinema Log also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). SpectoMovie's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. SpectoMovie sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.49 per month. Cinema Log asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Cinema Log against 5.0 for SpectoMovie. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Cinema Log ships an update every 2 weeks, SpectoMovie every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cinema Log | SpectoMovie |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Angel Corona | SPECTOLAB TEKNOLOJI VE YAZILIM ANONIM SIRKETI |
Customer experience
Cinema Log
SpectoMovie
In-app purchases
Cinema Log
No in-app purchases
SpectoMovie
- SpectoMovie Premium$3.491 Month
- 5-Scan Pack$1.99
