Movary Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Movary hosting on xCloud gives you a self-hosted movie tracker and rating journal on your own domain, where you log what you watch, rate films and explore your history. Deploy Movary from the OneClick catalog and xCloud starts the pinned 0.78.0 image as one container with SQLite storage, creates your administrator account from the email you enter and a generated password and mounts a persistent volume. You supply a free TMDB API key for movie lookups.

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What is Movary?

Movary is, in its README's words, a free and open source web application to track, rate and explore your movie watch history. It offers statistics such as your most watched actors, directors, genres and years, import and export with platforms like Trakt, Letterboxd and Netflix, and, as upstream features, automated play tracking from Plex, Jellyfin, Emby or Kodi and cross-posting to Mastodon. Self-hosted Movary is a movie journal you run yourself instead of using a hosted service such as Letterboxd or Trakt. It is licensed under MIT.

On xCloud this template deploys Movary 0.78.0, pinned by digest, as one container with a SQLite database on the movary_storage volume. Movie data and posters come from TMDB, so a free API key is required. The administrator is created at install and public registration is off. Imports are limited to about 1 MB per file, and the README says the project is experimental, so expect occasional breaking changes.

From Sign-Up to Your First Logged Film In Just 3 Easy Steps

A self-hosted movie tracker normally means a container, a volume, a first admin account, a domain and a certificate before the first rating. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Movary from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain, then enter an administrator email, a username and a free TMDB API key from themoviedb.org/settings/api.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official Movary image, pinned by immutable digest, as a single container with a SQLite database, mount the movary_storage volume, create your administrator account with a generated password and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Log Your First Film
Save the generated password from the protected installation credentials and sign in with your email. Change the password in Settings, then search for a film and log your first watch.

Everything Movary Does, On Your Own Server

Movary runs in full here: a personal watch log with ratings and statistics, on a domain you control.

Log Every Watch
Record watched movies with a date, comment and rating, so the diary reflects when and how you saw each film.
Movie Data From TMDB
Movie details and posters come from The Movie Database using your own free API key.
History And Statistics
Browse your watch history and a statistics overview such as plays, unique movies and hours watched.
Private By Default
Public registration is off and unauthenticated pages redirect to sign-in; the administrator account is created at install.
SQLite, Nothing To Run
There is no separate database service to maintain; data lives in a single SQLite file on a persistent volume.
Imports From Other Trackers
Bring in history from Letterboxd, Trakt or Netflix CSV files, up to about 1 MB per file.

Everything You Need To Run Your Film Diary 24/7

Managed hosting for Movary, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

Movary 0.78.0 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Administrator password generated for you
Public registration off by default
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
Choose your server region
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Movary

Keep a film diary
You log each film you watch with a date and rating, and browse your history in your own journal.
See your viewing statistics
You look at charts of your most watched directors, genres and years instead of keeping counts by hand.
Move your history across
You import a Letterboxd, Trakt or Netflix export, in files of up to about 1 MB each, and carry on in your own instance.
Keep your ratings private
You decide who sees your data, and export or delete it whenever you like, on a server you control.

Movary Screenshots

Movary's signed-in overview showing total plays, unique movies, hours watched and collapsible most-watched sections

Movary's watch history page with a searchable poster grid showing one logged film with its rating and date

Movary's page for a logged film, with its details and the recorded watch

Movary vs Alternatives

Letterboxd: Letterboxd is a hosted film diary that Movary can import history from and export to. Movary is a private journal you run yourself, and this page makes no feature-parity claim.
Trakt: Trakt is a hosted tracking service that Movary can import from and export to. Movary keeps your history in your own SQLite database.
Watcharr: Watcharr is a separate self-hosted watched-list tracker with its own OneClick page. Compare its list model with Movary's diary and statistics before choosing.
Yamtrack: Yamtrack is a separate self-hosted media tracker with its own OneClick page that covers more than films. Movary is focused on movies.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Movary hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Movary sits alongside other media apps.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Movary itself is licensed by its maintainers under the MIT licence.

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Ready To Run Your Own Movie Tracker?

Movary on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

Is Movary free?

Yes. Movary is open source under the MIT licence, with the licence file linked from this page at the pinned 0.78.0 tag. xCloud bills for the Cloud VPS under it, not for Movary, and there is no per-user fee. TMDB's free API key is separate and has its own terms.

Can you self-host Movary with Docker?

Yes, and this Movary Docker hosting template does it for you: the leepeuker/movary image, pinned by digest, runs as one container with SQLite on your own server, with HTTPS in front of port 8080. It is not a Movary cloud account, so your history stays with you.

How much RAM does Movary need?

The template manifest asks for 128 MB of RAM as a floor, because it runs one container with an embedded SQLite database. Poster caching grows the volume. This page sells the 6 GB tier, which leaves enormous headroom above that floor for other apps.

Do I need a TMDB account for Movary?

Yes. A free TMDB API key, created at themoviedb.org in your account's API settings, is required for movie search and posters, and you enter it during install. Without it Movary cannot look up films, so it is the first thing to check if searches return nothing.

How do I sign in to Movary?

Sign in with the administrator email you entered and the generated password from the credentials, then change the password in your account Settings. The account is created at install, so the first-visitor signup page is never open to strangers.

Can other people register on my Movary?

No. Public registration is off, so strangers cannot create accounts. The administrator adds further users from the Settings pages. Decide who gets an account, because each user keeps their own history and ratings in the shared SQLite database.

Can I import from Letterboxd, Trakt or Netflix into Movary?

Yes, Movary supports those imports, but each file is limited to about 1 MB by the app's built-in web server, which has no setting for it. Split a larger export into several files and import them one after another.

Where do I change the Movary TMDB key later?

In Settings, Server inside Movary, or with TMDB_API_KEY in the environment, which overrides the one in Settings. If you set it in the environment, change it there and Save and Redeploy. Keep the key private, since it identifies your account.

How do I back up Movary?

Back up the movary_storage volume, which holds movary.sqlite with all users, watch history and ratings, plus logs and cached posters. Stop the container, or copy the SQLite file while it is idle, for a consistent copy. Test a restore.

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How do I upgrade Movary?

A running install stays on pinned 0.78.0 until you adopt a newer template version, so catalog updates leave it alone. Newer releases exist, and the README warns of sudden breaking changes before 1.0. Back up the volume and read the release notes, since Movary migrates its database on start.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.