Comparison

encore vs SpectoMovie

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

encore

Organize and track all your entertainment across film, TV, music, books, and more. Rate and review content, create curated lists, and store your event tickets in one convenient place.

Highlights
  • Track film, TV, theatre, music, podcasts, books, and games
  • Rate and review content
  • Curate custom lists
  • Store concert and show tickets
  • Organize entertainment across seven shelves
Features
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A place to hold the stories you love. Eight shelves in one app: movies, TV, theater, music, podcasts, books, games and nights out. • Rate and review everything you see, read and hear: stars, your words, the date, who you went with. • Keep every show as a ticket, drawn in encore or read from a photo of your booking. • Build lists in seconds. Name one and encore suggests titles, or start from a screenshot, a video, a link or a list you type. • Share any list or your top four as a beautiful card for Instagram stories and posts. • Awards lists from the Tonys and the Oscars to the Pulitzer and the Grammys, every nominee by year. • Where to watch a movie, where a show is playing, and what is coming to theaters. • Bring your library over from Letterboxd, Goodreads, Trakt, TV Time, Last.fm and Spotify. • Friends, public profiles, and lists you build together. • About forty color schemes, and an evening mode for a night at the theater. encore is free, independent, and never sells your data. The full privacy promise is at encore.corefolios.com/privacy.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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

Screenshots

encore4 screens
SpectoMovie4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: encore at none against SpectoMovie's 2. encore also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. SpectoMovie sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.49 per month. encore asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for encore against 5.0 for SpectoMovie. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

encore ships an update every 2 days, SpectoMovie every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
encore versus SpectoMovie: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterencoreSpectoMovie
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB59 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperJESSICA MARY ENTWISTLESPECTOLAB TEKNOLOJI VE YAZILIM ANONIM SIRKETI

Customer experience

encore

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

SpectoMovie

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

encore

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

SpectoMovie

Subscriptions1
  • SpectoMovie Premium$3.491 Month
One-time1
  • 5-Scan Pack$1.99

Questions

Is encore free?
encore is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SpectoMovie free?
SpectoMovie is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, encore or SpectoMovie?
encore and SpectoMovie are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do encore or SpectoMovie have ads?
SpectoMovie shows ads; encore does not.
Which is updated more often, encore or SpectoMovie?
encore ships an update every 2 days, and SpectoMovie every 5 days. Most recently, encore was updated on October 17, 2026 and SpectoMovie on October 16, 2026.

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