Filmlog 2026.9 is available today for iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. I have been building this app alone since 2013, and this is the largest release it has had. Here is what is in it, and why.

A catalogue that works offline. Around 315,000 films and 464,000 people now ship inside the app. Search works with the network switched off, in your own language. I built it this way because a film diary is used in exactly the places where the signal gives out: on a plane, on a train, in a cinema basement. Search also looks past titles and names — you can find films by where the story is set, what they are about, or the book they were adapted from. And roughly 110,000 cast and crew who have no entry in the usual film database now have pages of their own. For a silent-era cinematographer, that page is often the only one anywhere. (Their filmographies are loaded when you are online; the offline part is the catalogue and its search.)

Challenges. A film list with a finish line and a progress bar: a hundred films this year, a director's complete work, the recommendations of a friend. Sharing one packs the entire list into the link itself, so nothing is stored on any server and there is no record of the share. What travels is the list, never your progress — whoever accepts it starts their own copy at zero.

Soundtracks. Where a film's score was released on Apple Music, it sits on the film's own page, next to the record of having watched it, and it plays when you mark a film as watched. Film music carries more of a film than most people expect; leaving it out always felt like a gap. You need an Apple Music subscription for full albums, and not every film has one.

The evening, not just the film. Ratings and notes now belong to a single viewing rather than to the film, so a rewatch twenty years later is its own entry with its own thoughts. You can record who you watched with, and the cinema you sat in — which turns a cinema into a place with a page and a history instead of a line of text.

Statistics, rebuilt. Tiles with their own timespans, a patterns heatmap, a breakdown from five perspectives, and eight widgets for the home screen.

iPad. A new two-pane layout, with keyboard shortcuts for navigation and list actions.

Apple TV. The watchlist on the screen you are about to watch on, so the film you meant to see is not on a phone in someone's pocket.

Still to come: the Mac. A native Mac app, written in SwiftUI, and with it a Claude Desktop extension that answers questions about your own viewing history — on your own machine. Both are finished and waiting in App Store review, with no date from Apple. They ship the moment that clears.

The full tour of everything in this release is here: https://filmlog.cc/en/app/walkthrough

Filmlog is free. Filmlog Plus unlocks the personal layer — ratings, notes, statistics, widgets, cinemas, soundtracks, unlimited challenges and having the same library on more than one device. The catalogue and the export stay free, permanently, because leaving should always be possible.