The single-format apps are great at one thing each. Here’s what changes when your books, films, games, and board games live in one place instead.
The single-format apps are good — at one thing
StoryGraph reads your books and charts your moods. Goodreads has the biggest library and the most reviews. Backloggd knows games; Letterboxd is the home of film culture. Each is excellent inside its walls, and none of this is a knock on them.
But every one of them makes the same quiet assumption: that you are a book person, or a film person, or a game person. Most people are all three, in different measures, at different times of the year.
Loving one silo app and outgrowing it are the same feeling a year apart
You start on Letterboxd because you love film, and it’s perfect. Then you realize you’d like the same honest record for the books you read and the games you play — and there’s no version of Letterboxd that will ever hold those.
A cross-format tracker isn’t trying to beat those apps at their specialty. It’s answering the question they can’t: what does your taste look like when all of it is in one place?
What breadth actually unlocks
Cross-format recommendations, for one — signals from your films and books can inform what game to try, which no single-silo engine can do. One rating scale, so a great year of reading and a great year of watching sit on the same chart.
And mixed boards: a single collection that holds a film, a novel, and a board game around one theme or one evening. Breadth isn’t a longer feature list — it’s a different, more honest picture of the person doing the tracking.
You don’t have to choose
Keep your Letterboxd if you love it. loggit isn’t asking you to delete anything — it’s giving the other four-fifths of your taste somewhere to live, and letting all of it talk to each other.
It’s free to download and your data is yours to export. Try it alongside what you use now; the value shows up the first time a book you loved changes what the app suggests you watch.