What Nooklet is

Nooklet (nooklets.com) is a free social review site for movies, TV shows, albums, games and books. You score what you finish out of 10, say what you thought, and every review goes into your Nook, the profile that keeps your taste in one place instead of splitting it between a film app, a books app, a games app and a notes file.

Other products and businesses also go by Nooklet. This one is the review site at nooklets.com, and it has nothing to do with them.

What you can review

There are five shelves: Movies, TV Shows, Albums, Games and Books. You can also review a single song on its own, under its album, or a single episode under its show. Every title comes from an established catalogue (TMDB for film and TV, MusicBrainz for music, IGDB for games, Google Books for books), so nobody can invent an entry, and everyone who reviews the same thing ends up on the same page.

Scores run from 0 to 10 in steps of 0.1, so you can say a film was a bit better than a 7 without calling it an 8. A title, a written review and a spoiler warning are optional. If you want to go further, each shelf has its own detail scores: story and cinematography for a film, gameplay and replayability for a game, prose and pacing for a book, production and lyrics for an album.

Recommendations that cross shelves

Nooklet reads what each title is about, from its description and its themes, and puts everything on one shared map, whatever shelf it sits on. Your scores tell it where your taste sits on that map. A 9 pulls you toward that part of it and a 3 pushes you away, and your private diary counts as well. It then looks for things close to you that you haven't reviewed yet and leans toward other shelves, which is how a game you loved can turn up a novel.

You can see it working without an account. The taste graph on the home page takes the most-reviewed title on Nooklet and shows what sits nearest to it on each of the other shelves, and it changes as people review more. Signed in, the same thing drives the For your taste strip in your feed.

Public reviews, private diary

Reviews are public, and anyone can read them on a title's page or in the feed without an account. Your Nook and your public lists are there for other members to read once they've signed in.

The diary is for you. Log what you watched, played or read, with a date and a private score if you want one, and log it again when you go back to it. Nobody else sees it, and it never counts toward a title's public score or turns up in a feed. It only shapes your own recommendations and the counts in your yearly Nookbook.

Bringing your history with you

You don't have to start from an empty Nook. Once you've signed up, Settings → Import takes the export file from any of these sites, and you choose whether each row becomes a public review, a private diary entry or an item on a private list.

• Letterboxd: reviews.csv, ratings.csv, diary.csv or watchlist.csv. Stars double onto the 10-point scale, so 4.5 stars becomes a 9. Import diary.csv into your diary and it keeps your watch dates and rewatches.
• Goodreads: goodreads_library_export.csv. Books are matched by ISBN, stars double (4 stars becomes an 8), and your Date Read comes across into the diary.
• IMDb: ratings.csv, which is already out of 10.
• Album of the Year: your ratings export, which needs a Supporter account on their side. Scores out of 100 are divided by 10. Albums are matched on artist and title, and any match that was a guess is listed at the end for you to check.
• MyAnimeList: the animelist .xml.gz file. There's no anime shelf yet, so series go to TV Shows and films to Movies, and the seasons of one show fold into a single review.

Games can't come across yet, because Backloggd doesn't offer an export.

Price, ads and tracking

Nooklet is free to use. There are no ads, and nothing you do here is sold. We don't use tracking cookies or follow you around the web; the page-view counts we look at are anonymous and set no cookies. From Settings you can download a copy of your reviews, diary and lists, or delete your account yourself. The privacy policy has the detail.

On your phone

You won't find Nooklet in an app store, and you don't need to. Open nooklets.com in your phone's browser and add it to your home screen. In Chrome that's Install app or Add to Home screen in the menu; on an iPhone, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. From then on it opens like any other app, and you can switch on notifications for likes, follows and comments in Settings. On an iPhone, notifications only work once Nooklet is on your home screen.

Contact

Write to support@nooklets.com if something's wrong or you have a question.