Trakt vs Letterboxd
When comparing Trakt vs Letterboxd, the Slant community recommends Trakt for most people. In the question“What are the best movie recommendation websites?” Trakt is ranked 2nd while Letterboxd is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose Trakt is:
The Trakt.tv API powers hundreds of apps on all the popular platforms like Kodi, Plex, MediaPortal, VLC, iOS, Android, Apple TV, Apple Watch, and more.
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Pros
Pro Multi-platform support
The Trakt.tv API powers hundreds of apps on all the popular platforms like Kodi, Plex, MediaPortal, VLC, iOS, Android, Apple TV, Apple Watch, and more.
Pro Auto scrobbling
It integrates with your media center or home theater PC to enable scrobbling, so everything is automatic.
Pro Recommendation engine
Based on your favorites, trakt recommends additional shows and movies you'll enjoy
Pro Excellent to read others' reviews of movies & to locate movies from same director that you might watch next
There are lots of user determined "lists" of movies.
Pro Log and review movies to watch
Can be a good reminder not to start watching a movie you've seen before.
Pro You can share your favorite films with friends
Letterboxd works like a social network for movie lovers. You can follow others to discover new interesting films as well as share the flicks you liked with others.
Cons
Con Not great support for non-english shows
Will only show content that has english titles. So even though the show you are looking for can have all the metadata with name, posters descriptions etc on "source" portals it will not appear on trakt unless it has english metadata to come with it.
Con Adding new shows/movies can be proven tricky
In order to add new shows you often need to jump through hoops via different sites (which differ for movies and tv shows).
The shows MUST have english title to be added at all.
Con Hard to locate where you can actually watch the movie
Not so easy to find where to watch a movie of choice as there are now so many different streaming services and one rarely subscribes to watch a single movie.