I Built One Place for Movies, Books, and Games

My media life used to be scattered across half a dozen apps: movies in one, books in another, a games backlog somewhere else, and a music history I never checked. Most trackers handle one kind of media. A film app does not know about your manga, and a book app has no idea you also play board games. Yore is my answer: a local-first iPhone app that treats movies, TV, anime, books, manga, games, music, podcasts, board games, and comics as one library while keeping the details for each format.

What Yore tracks, and how

For each item in your library, Yore lets you:

• add it manually or import metadata from public services
• track status, ratings, dates, progress, notes, and category-specific fields
• log progress and completions over time
• keep diary entries connected to a specific item when it's worth remembering
• group related things into franchises and collections

The diary is the point

A rating tells you what you thought of something. A diary entry tells you what was going on when you experienced it. That distinction is the part of Yore I care about most.

Yore lets you attach diary entries to a specific item, so over time your library stops being a spreadsheet of scores and starts being an actual record: the game you finished on a long flight, the book you read during a hard month, the show you watched with someone else.

I didn't want Yore to depend on a paid metadata provider or force anyone to manage API keys, so it pulls covers, descriptions, release years, genres, and format-specific details from public sources that work without keys:

You get a search box instead of manual data entry for most items, but you can always add or edit things by hand when a source is missing something.

Local-first, by design

The local SQLite database on your device is the source of truth for Yore. There is no required Yore account. If iCloud sync is enabled, it can keep the library available on your Apple devices. That is the same local-first approach I used for Provato and Baby Book Tracker.

Under the hood, Yore is an Expo Router app with a local SQLite database and the no-key metadata sources above. I used AI coding tools for the initial scaffolding, metadata adapters, and parts of the data layer. The decision to keep every format in one library, give the diary its own place, and keep local data at the center was mine.

Yore is available now on iPhone at yore.montalesi.dev (the App Store screenshots were made with AppFramer). If you've ever wanted one place for your whole media life instead of ten, that's exactly what this was built for.

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