Like Sequel, with everything it leaves out
Sequel and Omniphile track the same five kinds of media and look alike on purpose. The difference is what happens after you add something: Omniphile tracks every kind as thoroughly as an app dedicated to it would.
The same idea, at a different depth
Sequel is a well-made app, and it is worth saying so. Its App Store listing describes a media wishlist and tracker: save what you want to get to, mark it as reading or playing, check off episodes, and rate it when you finish. For a lot of people that is enough.
Omniphile starts in the same place and keeps going. A book has readthroughs, each with its own dates and reading sessions, so a reread is a second readthrough rather than an overwritten date. A game has playthroughs, with platforms, play time and a timer that runs in a Live Activity. A show is tracked episode by episode, rewatches included. All of it feeds one Stats screen that charts what you watched, read and played over time.
What Omniphile adds
- Statistics across every kind: activity by month, a calendar of everything you finished, rating distributions, genres, and time spent watching, reading and playing
- Finer library statuses, so something you paused and something you abandoned are not the same thing
- 5-star or 10-star ratings with half- and quarter-star precision, or custom emoji ratings
- Smart collections that fill themselves from your rules, beside ordinary collections and tags
- An Apple Watch app and Home Screen widgets for what you are in the middle of
- An optional community with public profiles, reviews and comments, off unless you turn it on
- Only the kinds you want: switch off books, games or anything else and it disappears from every screen
Bringing your Sequel library over
In Sequel, open Preferences and choose Export Data. Then open Omniphile, go to Settings, then Import, choose Sequel and pick the ZIP; there is no need to unzip it. Your movies, series, books and games come over, along with watched episodes, ratings, notes and collections. Audiobooks are the one kind the import does not bring across, so add those by hand.
Sequel and Omniphile compared
| Sequel | Omniphile | |
|---|---|---|
| Movies and TV shows | Yes | Yes |
| Books and audiobooks | Yes | Yes |
| Games | Yes | Yes |
| Turn off kinds you do not track | Not listed | Yes |
| Episode-by-episode tracking | Yes | Yes |
| Readthroughs and playthroughs | Not listed | Yes, with dates and history |
| Watch, reading and play timers | Not listed | Yes |
| Statistics across every kind | Not listed | Yes |
| Two-way Trakt sync | Yes | Yes |
| Apple Watch app | Not listed | Yes |
| Community profiles and reviews | Not listed | Yes, optional |
| Platforms | iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro | iPhone and iPad |
| Imports your Sequel data | — | Yes, movies, shows, books and games |
“Not listed” means Sequel's App Store listing does not describe the feature. Both apps split their features between a free tier and a subscription; this table compares what each app can do, not which tier it sits in.
Common questions
- Is Omniphile like Sequel?
- In scope, yes. Both apps keep movies, TV shows, books, audiobooks and games in one library, and both are native iPhone and iPad apps with a similar look. Omniphile tracks each kind in more depth: episode-level progress, readthroughs, playthroughs, activity timers, statistics across everything, an Apple Watch app and an optional community.
- Can I import my Sequel library into Omniphile?
- Yes. In Sequel, open Preferences and choose Export Data. Then open Omniphile, go to Settings, then Import, choose Sequel and pick the ZIP. Your movies, series, books and games come over, along with watched episodes, ratings, notes and collections. Audiobooks are the one kind the import does not bring across.
- What does Omniphile cost?
- Omniphile is free to download and use on iPhone and iPad, with an optional Premium tier.
Omniphile is free to download on iPhone and iPad.
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