Trakt is built for people who want their watch history automated and love a stats dashboard — its real home is the API other apps plug into. High Shelf covers the same movie-and-TV tracking as a normal, standalone app, and adds books, games, and music.
Free to use. Forever.
Both track movies and TV in depth. The real difference is automation versus breadth.
| Feature | High Shelf | Trakt |
|---|---|---|
| Movies | Yes | Yes |
| TV shows, per episode | Yes | Yes |
| Books | Yes | — |
| Video games | Yes | — |
| Music / albums | Yes | — |
| Auto-tracking via Plex/Kodi/Jellyfin scrobbling | — | Yes |
| Next-episode countdown | Yes | Yes |
| Social feed & follows | Yes | Yes |
| One-click Trakt import | Yes | n/a |
Trakt's power is real — for people already wiring it into a media server. Most people aren't.
Trakt stops at movies and TV. High Shelf keeps going into books, games, and music, on the same profile.
Import via Settings → Import — your watched movies and shows land matched against High Shelf's catalog.
No API key, no third-party client to pick — High Shelf is the whole product, with its own feed, reviews, and lists.
If your setup already scrobbles from Plex, Kodi, Jellyfin, or another player, Trakt's automatic tracking is genuinely hard to beat — High Shelf logs manually, same as most trackers that aren't built around a media-server integration.
Trakt's stats depth and the ecosystem of third-party apps built on its API are also more mature, simply from being around longer as an API-first product. If that automation and ecosystem matter more to you than having books, games, and music in the same place, Trakt is a reasonable place to stay.
Sign up, then head to Settings → Import to bring your Trakt watch history over in a couple of clicks.
Download on the App StoreYes, via Settings → Import — your watched movies and shows come across and match against High Shelf's catalog automatically.
No, not currently. Logging on High Shelf is manual, through the app or web.
No. Trakt's core tracking is free, with VIP adding extras. High Shelf's core tracking is also free forever, with an optional Pro tier for extra stats and themes.
Yes — each show's page shows its next episode with a live countdown.
Yes — same account, same profile, same social feed.