How to Export Your Letterboxd Data and Keep a Copy

6 November 2026

Letterboxd has been in the news this week: reports say several companies are in talks to buy it. Nothing has been decided, and the app works the same as it did yesterday. But it is a good moment to do something that is worth doing anyway: download your data and keep a copy.

It takes a minute, and it means years of diary entries, ratings and reviews are yours whatever happens next.

How to export your Letterboxd data

The export is on the Letterboxd website, not in the app.

1. Sign in at letterboxd.com in a browser.
2. Open Settings, then the Data tab (on some accounts it is called Import & Export).
3. Choose Export your data.
4. A ZIP file downloads, named something like letterboxd-yourname-2026-11-06.zip.

Keep the ZIP somewhere safe: your computer, a cloud drive, or both.

What is inside the ZIP

The export is a set of CSV files you can open in any spreadsheet app:

• diary.csv: every diary entry, with the date you watched, your rating and whether it was a rewatch
• watched.csv: every film you marked watched, including ones from before you kept a diary
• ratings.csv: every film you rated
• watchlist.csv: your watchlist
• reviews.csv: the text of your reviews
• A lists folder with your lists, and a likes folder with the films you liked

File names can change over time, so check your own download.

A copy you can actually use

A ZIP in a folder is a backup. A copy you can open, browse and keep adding to is better.

OpenTV is a free TV and film tracker for iPhone and Android, and it imports a Letterboxd export. Open Settings, go to the Library tab, tap Import your data, choose Letterboxd and pick the ZIP. If you are setting up for the first time, tap GET STARTED, then IMPORT YOUR DATA.

What comes across:

• Films you watched, with your diary dates
• Rewatches, as rewatches of the same film
• Films you marked watched before you kept a diary
• Your ratings, half stars included
• Your watchlist

What does not: reviews, lists and likes stay in the ZIP. Keep it.

Your library lives on your phone. OpenTV needs no account to work, and importing again later is safe: nothing is duplicated, so you can import a fresh export from time to time.

TV shows too

Letterboxd is for films. If you track shows somewhere else, OpenTV imports TV Time, Trakt, Simkl and IMDb exports as well, so your films and shows end up in one place. See how to move your history from Trakt, Letterboxd, Simkl or IMDb.

Whatever you use next, download your data now. It is the one step that keeps your history yours.