Sofa plans your downtime. Omniphile remembers it.
Both apps keep movies, shows, books, audiobooks and games in one place. Sofa is built around lists of what to get to next. Omniphile is built around what you actually watched, read and played, tracked in full.
An organizer and a tracker
Sofa calls itself a downtime organizer, and that is an accurate description. You collect things into lists and groups, plan events, keep notes, and log what you finish. It reaches well beyond media, into podcasts, music and apps, with a podcast player built in.
Omniphile does one job and goes deep on it. A show is tracked episode by episode, rewatches included. A book has readthroughs, each with its own dates and reading sessions. A game has playthroughs, with platforms, play time and a timer that runs in a Live Activity. Everything feeds one Stats screen that charts what you watched, read and played over time.
What Omniphile adds
- Full histories, not just a finish date: every rewatch, reread and replay is kept and counted
- Watch, reading and play timers that log your sessions as you go
- 5-star or 10-star ratings with half- and quarter-star precision, or custom emoji ratings
- Two-way Trakt sync for movies and shows, so that part of your library also lives on an independent service
- 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
Bringing your Sofa library over
Export your full data from Sofa, then open Omniphile, go to Settings, then Import, choose Sofa and pick the ZIP; there is no need to unzip it. Your movies, shows, books and games come over, along with watch history, lists, ratings, notes and tags. Audiobooks, and the kinds Omniphile does not track such as podcasts and music, are left out.
Sofa and Omniphile compared
| Sofa | Omniphile | |
|---|---|---|
| Built around | Lists and planning | Tracking and history |
| Movies and TV shows | Yes | Yes |
| Books and audiobooks | Yes | Yes |
| Games | Yes | Yes |
| Music, podcasts and apps | Yes | No |
| Episode-by-episode tracking | Yes | Yes |
| Book and game progress | Progress checkpoints | Readthroughs and playthroughs, with dates and history |
| Watch, reading and play timers | Not listed | Yes |
| Statistics | Yes | Yes, across every kind |
| Smart lists | Yes | Yes, smart collections |
| Trakt | Imports from it | Two-way sync |
| Apple Watch app | Not listed | Yes |
| Community profiles and reviews | Not listed | Yes, optional |
| Imports your Sofa data | — | Yes, movies, shows, books and games |
“Not listed” means Sofa'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 Sofa?
- They overlap. Both keep movies, TV shows, books, audiobooks and games in one app. Sofa is an organizer built around lists, and also covers music, podcasts and apps. Omniphile is a tracker built around your history, with episode-level progress, readthroughs, playthroughs, activity timers, statistics across everything, two-way Trakt sync and an Apple Watch app.
- Can I import my Sofa library into Omniphile?
- Yes. Export your data from Sofa, then open Omniphile, go to Settings, then Import, choose Sofa and pick the ZIP. Your movies, shows, books and games come over, along with watch history, lists, ratings, notes and tags. Audiobooks, and the kinds Omniphile does not track such as podcasts and music, are left out.
- Is Sofa the same as Sofa Time?
- No. Sofa is a downtime organizer for many kinds of media; Sofa Time is a separate TV and movie tracker. Omniphile imports from both.
- 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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