Letterboxd is where you keep the films you want to see. Plex is where you watch them. Plex has no Letterboxd sync, so something has to carry the list across, and make the films play.
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The lists show what each one asks you to keep running.
letterboxd-plex-sync syncs your Letterboxd watchlist, watched films and ratings with your Plex server.
It needs your Plex token, your Letterboxd username and password, and a TMDB API key. By default it runs once a day, at 4 a.m.
homescreen-hero makes a Plex collection from any public Letterboxd list. It needs only the list's address.
It matches each film to your library by title and year. Films you don't have are listed as missing, and Seerr can request them for you.
A Mac app that makes your Letterboxd watchlist a Plex collection you can play. Add a film on Letterboxd, and it's in your library within the hour, streamed from your own debrid account.
StreamBridge reads your watchlist every hour. A film you add shows up in Plex, and a film you remove leaves.
It goes to Letterboxd to sign you in. Use Apple or Google? Sign in on Letterboxd's own page instead.
In the app, the filter menu's Watchlists group shows only the films on your Letterboxd watchlist.
Your Plex Watchlist is a playable collection too, in the free version: play your Plex Watchlist. StreamBridge works with ten debrid services: debrid services that work with Plex.
Find the line that sounds like you.
| If you have or want | Use | Why |
|---|---|---|
| A server with Docker, and your films already in Plex | letterboxd-plex-sync | Syncs your watchlist, watched films and ratings |
| A public Letterboxd list, as a Plex collection | homescreen-hero | Matches the list to your library by title and year |
| A Mac running Plex, and films you don't own yet | StreamBridge Pro | Every film on the watchlist plays, from your own debrid account |
No. Plex has no Letterboxd sync. Self-hosted tools fill the gap, and on a Mac, StreamBridge Pro makes your Letterboxd watchlist a Plex collection you can play.
Within the hour. StreamBridge reads your watchlist every hour while it runs.
No. It hands your username and password to Letterboxd, as Letterboxd's own sign-in form would, and keeps only the sign-in Letterboxd gives back.
Yes. Choose Sign In on Letterboxd's Page, and sign in there as you always do.
Yes. StreamBridge streams each film from your own debrid account, such as Real-Debrid or TorBox, into your Plex library.
The Letterboxd watchlist is part of Pro, $39 once with no subscription. Your Plex Watchlist is free.
No. StreamBridge is a Mac app, and Plex Media Server has to run on the same Mac. Elsewhere, letterboxd-plex-sync runs in Docker.
No. It doesn't host, index or sell content, and it doesn't share debrid accounts. It streams files from your own debrid account into your own Plex server, and what you watch is your responsibility.