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Add the films and episodes you have watched and see the real totals: hours of your life, average score, best month and where your taste actually sits.
Type what you watched, say whether it was a film or a single episode, add the runtime and your score. The panel on the right rebuilds itself with every change.
Everything stays in this tab. Nothing is saved, nothing is sent anywhere, and reloading the page starts you again with the three example entries.
Most people watch more than they think and remember less than they would like. A viewing log fixes both problems at once, and it needs no app, no account and no subscription. Add what you watched, how long it ran and what you thought of it, and the totals build themselves: the hours you actually spent, an honest average, your best and worst of the year, and the month you watched most. That is the whole idea. It is a notepad that does arithmetic.
The reason to keep one is not productivity. It is that memory is a poor archivist. Ask someone what they watched three months ago and they will name the last two things plus one film they loved in the spring, and nothing else. A log turns a vague sense that you watch a lot of television into a real figure, fourteen hours a month, say, which is a number you can actually do something with.
There is a quieter benefit too. Writing down a score forces a small judgement that scrolling past a title never does. You notice which films you were generous about in the moment and which ones stuck with you a week later, and those two things are not always the same. Over a few months that difference starts to look less like noise and more like taste.
“I watched eighty-four films this year” sounds impressive and means almost nothing. Eighty-four films could be a hundred and fifty hours or twelve, depending on what they were. Hours are the honest unit, because time is what you actually spent, and it is the one thing you cannot get back. Once you can see that a single series quietly ate forty hours, the decision about whether to start one more season of something you are lukewarm on becomes much easier.
Hours also make comparisons real. A ninety-minute film you would rate a seven and a ten-hour series you would rate an eight are not equivalent commitments, even though the scores sit close together. Seeing the score and the runtime side by side is the fastest way to notice that your highest-rated viewing is often also your shortest.
The arithmetic is deliberately simple and deliberately visible. Total minutes is a straight sum of every runtime you enter, converted into days, hours and minutes so it reads like a real amount of time rather than a raw figure. The average score is an unweighted mean: every entry counts the same whether it was a thirty-minute episode or a three-hour film, which keeps the number easy to reason about and easy to argue with.
The band label beside the average uses the same thresholds as our Movie Rating Scorecard: Essential at nine and above, Excellent at eight, Good at seven, Mixed at six, Weak at five, and Avoid below that. The highest and lowest rows name the specific entries behind those numbers, and the busiest month is measured by watch time rather than by how many titles you got through, so one long series can beat a month of short films.
Series are where a viewing log earns its keep. Three episodes on a Tuesday night is easy to forget and adds up to a serious amount of time across a year. Log them as individual episodes and the hours stay honest, or add a whole season as a single entry with its total runtime if you would rather not type it out night by night. Both approaches work and the tool does not care which you choose.
It is worth logging the things you did not finish, too. An abandoned series is information about your taste, and quietly leaving it out flatters your average in a way that makes the whole exercise less useful. The log is at its best when it is a record rather than a highlight reel.
Everything you type stays in this browser tab. There is no account, no sync, no storage and no network request: the entries live in a plain list in memory, and reloading the page starts you fresh with the three examples. That is a choice rather than a limitation. It means there is nothing to sign up for, nothing to leak and nothing to clean up afterwards.
The trade-off is obvious, and worth saying plainly: if you want to keep a whole year of viewing, copy the totals out somewhere you control. Use this page to work out the numbers, then put them wherever you actually keep things.
The log only works if adding a row takes seconds, so keep it open in a tab and add entries while the credits are still rolling. Two weeks of that and it becomes automatic; miss a fortnight and it is a chore again. Keep the score honest rather than kind, because a log that flatters everything tells you nothing about where your taste actually sits.
It pairs well with a watchlist, too. A log records what you have already seen, while a watchlist decides what comes next, and keeping both in the same place stops the familiar problem of scrolling past the same five titles every night. If yours has turned into a graveyard, our guide to building a watchlist you will actually use is a good place to start again.
While you are here, our Binge-Watch Calculator tells you how long a series takes to finish before you commit to it, the What Should I Watch? tool ends the decision in one press, and if you want something worth logging, our rundowns of the best shows of 2026 and the best films of 2026 are a good place to start.