BUCK THE CRITICS
The all-in-one media tracker for movies, TV, games & books
Rated by the only critics who matter: your friends.
Track movies, TV, games and books in one app instead of juggling four. Build your watchlist, clear your backlog, rate what you finish - and get recommendations from people who actually know you, weighted toward the friends who love what you love. No bots. No paid critics. No "trending" algorithm deciding your Friday night.
Free to download. Your friends work for exposure.
Trust-weighted scores
The critics & bots are wrong
Your mate Dave has never once steered you wrong on horror. Your cousin thinks Paul Blart 2 is cinema. Buck knows the difference. It compares rating histories to work out whose taste actually matches yours, then calculates a personal score predicting how much you'll like something — movie recommendations from friends, taste-matched and trust-weighted. Recommendations you'll actually like, because they come from people you actually like. Mostly.
Discovery
Find the gems you missed
Netflix pushes engagement. Your friends push quality. When you're stuck on what to watch next, filter your circle's favourites by genre, mood and theme — "cerebral" + "horror" + "comedy" is a real search, and it works. DNA Match flags titles that share the writers, directors and creators you already rate. The 40-minute scroll becomes one tap.
Every title, fully loaded
A better database for better people
Every title page, fully loaded: where to watch and streaming availability, full cast and crew, trailers — plus the existential dread of seeing exactly how young Bruce Willis was in Die Hard. Creator pages track complete credit histories, so you always know how deep you are into a director's back catalogue.
Discuss & debate
Roast your friends' poor taste
A social movie and TV tracking app is only as good as the arguments it starts. Comment on reviews, debate in nested threads, defend the indefensible. Someone gave Heat three stars? That's not a rating, that's a cry for help — and now there's a comments section for it.
Friends
Discover shared interests
Add a friend and get an instant feed of everything that makes them tick — what they're watching, playing, reading and rating. Oh look, your physio plays Returnal. Follow your circle's activity, post status updates, and share beautiful review cards to socials in one tap.
Buck AI
Become an insufferable know-it-all
Easter eggs, production disasters, hot takes. One tap on any title or creator gets you AI movie insights: "Is this for me?" overviews, "What did it mean?" interpretations, trivia and controversies — no spoilers, no leaving the app. What does Twin Peaks mean? How hard is Maggie Smith? Ask Buck.
Challenges & trophies
Netflix, chill, win trophies
Take on movie challenges with your friends, complete a director's filmography or an author's book series, and climb five ranks from Curious Fawn to Celestial Buck. Every challenge comes with a unique AI-designed trophy for your cabinet. Yes, you can finally get rewarded for the thing you were doing anyway.
The all-in-one alternative to your app drawer
Looking for a Letterboxd alternative that also handles TV? A Goodreads alternative that tracks movies? An app like Backloggd, TV Time or Serializd — but for everything? This is the part where we stop being modest.
| Buck The Critics | Letterboxd | Goodreads | IMDb | TV Time | Backloggd | Serializd | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Movies | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| TV shows | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Video games | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Books | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Trust-weighted recommendations from friends | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Discuss & debate reviews | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Streaming availability | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| AI trivia & insights | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Challenges & trophies | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Feature comparison based on publicly listed features at time of writing. All trademarks belong to their respective owners, who are lovely and doing their best.
One app. Four media types. Zero paid critics.
People are saying things
"Before this app, I thought I liked movies. Now I'm a Level 3 'Moon Buck' in French New Wave and I physically cannot watch anything with CGI in it. Thank you?"
— Andrej Mackerel
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— Tiffany Posterior
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— Gok Sandwich
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