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MovieCat
Scans folders for movies and TV episodes, matches titles from file names and shows posters, ratings and summaries.
MIT · Free download · Downloads from github.com
- License
- MIT
- Open source
- Source
- GitHub
- FredrikBorgstrom
- Verified
- 2026
About MovieCat
MovieCat scans the folders you add for video files, works out each title from its file name, and shows a poster grid with IMDb ratings, years and summaries. You can filter movies from TV, fix a wrong match, add your own rating, and play a file or show it in its folder. Metadata comes from public sources such as IMDb, Cinemeta and TVmaze without an account; a free TMDB key is optional. It suits people with a local collection of movie and TV files.
The macOS download is a direct build that the README says is not signed, so it is not notarized either, and the first launch needs right-click, then Open, or xattr -cr on the app. The README does not state a minimum macOS version. The same code also builds for Windows and Linux, and the sandboxed Mac App Store build cannot search drives for movies automatically.
Information
- Source code
- FredrikBorgstrom/moviecat
- License
- MIT
- Website
- moviecat.org
- Download
- github.com
- Category
- Media
- Evidence checked
- Tags
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Sources and image credits
- github.com/FredrikBorgstrom/moviecat
- github.com/FredrikBorgstrom/moviecat/blob/main/LICENSE
- github.com/FredrikBorgstrom/moviecat/releases/latest
- moviecat.org
- icon.png: Fredrik Borgström. MIT; upstream app icon, trademarks retained.
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