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Movie Explorer for Mac

Movie and TV show catalog app.

Free
In English
Version 2.6.2
4.5
Based on 13 user rates

Movie Explorer overview

Movie Explorer scans all your internal, external and network drives for digital movie files like MKV, M4V, AVI and MP4 and saves them in a movie catalog for off line browsing and searching. The app can be used as a convenient starting point for playing your movie files by using the 'Play' and 'Play with' menu commands. The 'Gallery' feature let you enjoy posters, stills and photos of movies, cast and crew members.

Features
  • Maps your digital movie files automatically with movie metadata provided by The Movie Database (TMDb).
  • Reads technical metadata of your files using the MediaInfo library of MediaArea.
  • Shows details like the original title, plot summary, release date, rating but also information about the cast, crew and studio.
  • Displays technical details like encoding format, bit rate, video format, resolution, bit depth and audio specifications.
  • Shows movie posters, cast photos, crew photos and studio logos of your movie files.
  • Shows your movies as thumbnails, grouped by cast members, crew members or studios, or just as files.
  • Support for TV Shows. This is an In-app purchase within the app.
  • Episodes, seasons, shows and movies can be marked as 'Watched' or 'Unwatched', and can be synced bidirectionally with Trakt.tv (TV Shows Add-on).
  • With the Filter popover menu you can filter on 'Watched', 'Paused' and 'Unwatched', together with the existing filters and search function (TV Shows Add-on).
  • Show the number of unwatched files in the sidebar for all filters (TV Shows Add-on).
  • Thumbnails can be resized from small to extremely large.
  • In addition you can adjust the image quality of the thumbnails.
  • All data is saved locally in a database which makes your digital movie collections very easily searchable.
  • You can search on movie title, cast name, crew name (including the movie director), studio name or filename.
  • The 'Get Info' context menu gives you all details of your movies, the cast and crew in a fully internally linked fashion.
  • The 'Open Gallery' context menu let you browse through posters, photos and artwork of movies, cast and crew.
  • The customizable sidebar enables you to filter your collection on criteria like file location, genres, countries and rating.
  • Handy additional filters for Recently added, Stereoscopic, HD Video, HD Audio and Duplicate files.
  • You can map manually files to movies to correct missing or incorrect movie metadata.
  • Each movie file can be opened with the associated app by double clicking.
  • By using the 'Play with' context menu, you can choose manually an app for playing a selected movie.
  • Each movie, cast member or crew member can be investigated in more detail in IMDb, utilizing the built-in link feature.
  • Let you open homepages of movies, cast and crew members.
  • Export movie data on file location level to a CSV file.

What’s new in version 2.6.2

  • Restored synchronisation with trakt.tv (PRO).
  • Improved disc metadata recognition (PRO).
  • Fixed sorting of Publisher and Supplier combo boxes in Disc details (PRO).
  • Added a check to prevent adding equally named Apple TV Library locations to the catalog (PRO).

Movie Explorer for Mac

Free
In English
Version 2.6.2
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4.5

(13 Reviews of Movie Explorer)

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Atalantia
Atalantia
Aug 1 2021
2.3.3
1.0
Aug 1 2021
1.0
Version: 2.3.3
Unreliable listing. e.g. If I go to Genres, Animations I cant see all the Animations that are on the drive. If you want to change the cover you need awkward detour on files view instead just right klick on the wrong cover. In the file view you cant see the assignment to which Genre. And, and, and… No really good programming in this app. EDIT: I reviewed the app in the AppleStore. The villain there deleted the comment and the stars I gave. Title of movie is not selectable. (for copy). Auto-refresh isnt available. Refresh all locations isnt available. Changes in the TMDB (Database) are not reflected in the Program. There is also no button to sync a single movie with TMDB.
Atalantia
Atalantia
Jul 18 2021
2.3.1
1.0
Jul 18 2021
1.0
Version: 2.3.1
Unreliable listing. e.g. If I go to Genres, Animations I cant see all the Animations that are on the drive. If you want to change the cover you need awkward detour on files view instead just right klick on the wrong cover. In the file view you cant see the assignment to which Genre. And, and, and… No really good programming in this app.
mr-space
mr-space
Sep 15 2018
1.8.4
0.0
Sep 15 2018
0.0
Version: 1.8.4
Great app for movies, I paid for the tv shows add-on but after a scan I only see some specials for some shows and that's all, no episodes list, not every shows etc...
teamNOOB
teamNOOB
Apr 21 2018
1.8.3
5.0
Apr 21 2018
5.0
Version: 1.8.3
Wow this app is amazing. I just wanted a simple app that could display my movies in a catalog type fashion and after trying Plex and Kodi I found they were doing a bit more than what I needed. I stumbled across Movie Explorer and was skeptical at first because free apps are usually lacklustre but wow, the previous reviews are right. This app is amazing! Huge thanks to the developer :)
Wts
Wts
Oct 1 2017
1.7.4
0.0
Oct 1 2017
0.0
Version: 1.7.4
Just trying this app and it may not work for my setup. I have several external hard drives. cabled ( USB and Firewire ) to my iMac. I can not seem to be able to select this app to scan all my drives at the same time or even one at a time. Perhaps the developer may read this comment and help me out.
xouzouras
xouzouras
Jul 23 2022
2.4.1
5.0
Jul 23 2022
5.0
Version: 2.4.1
krabrams26
krabrams26
Apr 24 2022
2.4.1
5.0
Apr 24 2022
5.0
Version: 2.4.1
Atalantia
Atalantia
Aug 3 2021
2.3.3
1.0
Aug 3 2021
1.0
Version: 2.3.3
teamNOOB
teamNOOB
Apr 21 2018
5.0
Apr 21 2018
5.0
Version: null
Tekl
Tekl
Sep 24 2017
4.0
Sep 24 2017
4.0
Version: null
stan-ie
stan-ie
Jun 18 2017
5.0
Jun 18 2017
5.0
Version: null
StrictlyBagel
StrictlyBagel
Jan 16 2017
5.0
Jan 16 2017
5.0
Version: null
Hanssen-P
Hanssen-P
Nov 5 2016
5.0
Nov 5 2016
5.0
Version: null
Stavast
Stavast
Oct 11 2016
5.0
Oct 11 2016
5.0
Version: null
pooria-ms
pooria-ms
Jul 28 2016
5.0
Jul 28 2016
5.0
Version: null
mrbenbrown143
mrbenbrown143
Mar 9 2016
4.5
Mar 9 2016
4.5
Version: null
Morlo
Morlo
Feb 8 2016
4.0
Feb 8 2016
4.0
Version: null
GolanK1975
GolanK1975
Nov 21 2015
5.0
Nov 21 2015
5.0
Version: null