MyCine Database
A free catalog for the films and TV series on your Mac
Get picks like this daily. Today's launch numbers, the top launches, AI and tech news, and a daily opportunity pick, straight to your inbox.
Want to reach these readers? Sponsor an issue.
MyCine Database catalogs the films and TV series on your Mac, an external drive or a NAS. It fetches posters, cast and plots from TMDB, plays films in VLC and tracks watched episodes. Free, with no ads and no subscription, in 12 languages.
PH · launched Nov 7, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: movie and tv tracking apps · 77 launches, 11 in the last 7 days ▲ +38% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Mac
- Movies
- TV
Visit website ↗ Source listing ↗
More like this: all 77 launches in movie and tv tracking apps →
Could you build this?
Yes A macOS catalog app that scans local and NAS drives, pulls metadata from the free TMDB API, and launches VLC is a well-scoped native app that AI assistants can help write in Swift.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 198 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #83 of 199 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 319 days after the earliest competitor.
- MMDb · ph · 2026-10-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Inscura · ph · 2026-10-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Video Atlas · ph · 2026-09-19 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Miner: Video & Music Player · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- MyMacVault · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Mac TV · ph · 2026-11-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- mactv · github · 2026-10-25 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- emby-companion · github · 2026-10-14 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.43
The niche, labels, vibe code rating and competitor comparison on this page are analysis by Nicheloom. If you use them, please credit nicheloom.com. How you may use our data.