Switch to OmniTrackr without starting over

Why people switch, and why they hesitate

Most people do not keep one tracker for everything. Films go in one app, books in another, anime in a third, and games in a notes file or nowhere at all. That works until you want to answer a simple question across all of it, like what you finished this year, what a friend recommended last spring, or which unfinished series deserves another try.

People rarely stay split across services out of loyalty. They stay because nobody wants to retype hundreds of ratings, or lose years of history in the move. Switching is worth it only if your history comes with you, nothing you already have gets overwritten, and you can leave again later with your data intact.

OmniTrackr's Import Studio was built to meet those conditions. It reads the export file a service gives you, shows every row it would create before saving anything, skips titles you already track, and keeps imported notes private. You can export your whole OmniTrackr library as a file whenever you want.

What transfers at a glance

Every source follows the same safety rules. The preview never writes to your library. A title that is already in your library, or appears twice in the file, is skipped, so what you have is never replaced. Imported notes and reviews stay private until you choose to publish one.

From IMDb

IMDb is where many people have the longest history, often years of quick ratings given right after a film or a season finale. It is also the one export that mixes categories, so a single file can fill your Movies, TV Shows, and Games at once.

Get the file

1. Sign in on the IMDb website and open your Ratings page from your account menu.
2. Use the page's menu to start an export. IMDb prepares the file in the background, so the download doesn't start right away.
3. Open your exports page from the same menu once the export is ready and download the CSV.
4. Repeat for your Watchlist or any list you want to bring, since each list exports separately.

IMDb has changed where these menus sit more than once. If a step looks different, look for an "Export" option on the ratings or list page itself.

What comes across

• Category comes from the Title Type column. Movies, TV movies, shorts, specials, and videos become movies. TV series and mini series become TV shows. Video games go to Games with their release date and genres.
• Ratings stay as they are. IMDb already rates out of ten, so nothing is converted.
• Rated means watched. Any title with your rating is marked watched or played. An unrated title from your watchlist arrives unfinished, ready for your Next Up.
• Episodes are left out. If you rated individual episodes, those rows show as needing attention with the reason, and the series row imports normally. Podcast and music video entries are skipped the same way.
• Anime arrives as TV. IMDb files anime as TV series, so it lands in TV Shows. If you would rather keep anime separate, import a MyAnimeList file for those titles instead.
• The director becomes the movie's director. Season and episode totals are not in IMDb's file, so you can add them later if you want progress tracking.

Importing the ratings file and then the watchlist is safe. A title that appears in both files is created once, from whichever file you import first.

From Letterboxd

Letterboxd's export is a ZIP archive that holds several CSV files. Upload the ZIP as it is; the Import Studio reads the files that matter and combines them into one entry per film.

1. Open Settings on the Letterboxd website, go to the data section, and export your data. Letterboxd's export page describes the files.
2. Choose the downloaded ZIP in the Import Studio and select Preview import. There is no need to extract it.
3. Check a few films. Half stars carry over: 3.5 stars becomes 7/10.

A film you logged in your diary, rated, reviewed, or marked watched arrives watched. Your current rating wins over older diary ratings, and your latest review text arrives as a private note. Films that are only on your watchlist arrive unwatched, ready for Next Up. Each dated diary entry also lands in your private Journal on the day you logged it, with rewatches marked as rewatches, so your diary calendar and Year in Review start with your real history. Entries in the archive's deleted folder, likes, lists, and tags stay on Letterboxd.

You can still upload a single CSV from the archive. A file named watchlist.csv keeps its films unwatched.

From Goodreads

1. On the Goodreads website, open My Books and find Import and export in the left-hand tools.
2. Choose to export your library. Goodreads builds the file and then offers a download link on the same page.
3. Preview goodreads_library_export.csv in the Import Studio.

Title, author, publication year, your star rating, and your review come across, with stars doubled so 4 stars becomes 8/10. A book on your read shelf, or with a read date, is marked read. Books on to-read or currently-reading stay unread. Custom shelves and the dates themselves are not imported.

From The StoryGraph

The StoryGraph is popular with readers who left Goodreads, and its export works well here. Its star ratings use quarter stars, and those are kept: 3.75 stars becomes 7.5/10.

1. Open your account settings on The StoryGraph and look for the option to export your library.
2. Generate the export and download the CSV once it is ready.
3. Preview it in the Import Studio. It is recognized automatically from its Read Status and Star Rating columns.

Only books with a read status are marked read. To-read, currently reading, paused, and did-not-finish books arrive unread, so they stay visible as unfinished. Your written review becomes a private note.

The StoryGraph's file has no publication year, so imported books have no year until you add one. It also means a book you already track with a year is still matched as a duplicate, because books are matched on title and author. Moods, pace, content warnings, and tags are not imported.

From MyAnimeList

MyAnimeList's export is an XML file, usually compressed as .xml.gz. The Import Studio reads it as downloaded, compressed or not. Kitsu can export your library in the same MyAnimeList XML format, and it is read the same way.

1. On MyAnimeList, open the list export page from your profile settings and export your anime list, your manga list, or both.
2. Choose the downloaded file in the Import Studio and select Preview import.

Scores already use a ten-point scale and stay as they are. A completed status marks the series watched, or the manga read. Manga arrives in Books. Your comments become a private note. The episode count describes the whole series; it does not set the episode you are on, so set your place after importing.

The XML file has no release years. A title you already track is still recognized as a duplicate, because a title with no year matches the same title in your library whatever its year. Older CSV conversions of a MyAnimeList list still work too.

From AniList

AniList does not hand out an export file, so the Import Studio asks AniList for your lists instead. Type your AniList username under On AniList? No file needed and select Fetch my AniList lists. Your browser reads your public anime and manga lists from AniList and the usual preview opens. Nothing is saved until you confirm.

• Your list has to be public. If AniList says the list is private, make it visible in your AniList settings for a moment, or use a MyAnimeList-format XML export made with a community tool.
• Scores keep their decimals. They are read on AniList's ten-point decimal scale whichever scoring system you display, so 85/100 becomes 8.5/10.
• Completed and rewatching mean finished. Planning, watching, paused, and dropped titles arrive unfinished.
• Manga, light novels, and one-shots arrive as books, and your AniList notes become private notes. English titles are used where AniList has one.

From Trakt

Trakt's data export is a ZIP of JSON files. Upload the ZIP as it is, or any one of its JSON files.

1. On the Trakt website, open your settings and find the data section, then request an export of your data.
2. Download the archive once Trakt has prepared it and choose it in the Import Studio.

• Watched history and ratings come across. A watched or rated movie arrives watched, with your rating out of ten.
• Shows count as finished only when they are. A show is marked watched when you rated it or when every aired episode is in your history. Shows you are partway through arrive unfinished.
• Your watchlist arrives unwatched. Collections and custom lists are left out, since owning a copy or listing a title is not the same as watching it. Episode and season ratings are not imported.

From a spreadsheet, or anything else

If your history lives somewhere else, get it into a CSV and choose Generic CSV / spreadsheet in the Import Studio. Pick one category for the whole file, or add a category column for a mixed library.

If your columns have personal names like "Thing" or "My verdict", open the mapping panel and pair them with OmniTrackr's fields. A generic rating is read as out of ten, so double five-star scores before importing. The tracking templates give you a ready layout for each category, and the export and import guide walks through worked examples with expected results.

Preview before anything is saved

1. Create a free account and open Account Settings → Import Studio.
2. Leave the format on Detect automatically, or pick your service from the list.
3. Choose your export file, ZIP, CSV, XML, or JSON, and select Preview import. The preview says which format it recognized.
4. Look at the totals for ready, duplicate, and needing-attention rows, then page through a few rows and compare the rating and finished state with your original service.
5. Confirm when it looks right. All ready rows are saved together, or none are if something goes wrong.

Each file can hold up to 5,000 titles and 5 MB. A very long history can be split into several files and imported one after another; titles saved by an earlier file are recognized as duplicates.

Your first week after switching

An import brings your history over. After that, a few small steps make the library your own, and less like a copy of the old service.

• Pick something for Next Up. Imported watchlist and to-read titles arrive unfinished. Choosing one or two for Next Up turns a long backlog into a short decision.
• Set your place in what you are in the middle of. Episode, page, and chapter progress is not in any export, so add it for the few titles you are actively on.
• Publish a review you are proud of. Imported reviews are private. If one says something worth sharing, make it public from the title and it can appear on its public review page.
• Set a yearly goal. With your history in place, your progress toward this year's goal starts from the titles you already finished.
• Invite a friend. Friends can see the categories you choose to share and ask for your take on a title.
• Keep a backup. Download an OmniTrackr export once you are happy with the result, so the work you just did is safe in a file you control.

Should you keep the old service?

Importing copies your data once. It doesn't keep the two in sync. Ratings you add on IMDb or Goodreads after importing will not appear here on their own. Some people keep their old account for what it does best, such as Letterboxd's film community or Goodreads' book pages, and use OmniTrackr as the one place that holds every category together. Others move completely. Either way works, and the tracker comparison describes which routines each tool fits.

How this guide was checked

This guide was prepared by OmniTrackr. The import behavior described here was checked against the Import Studio's supported formats on October 18, 2026. Menu names on other services change often, so the export steps tell you where to look and don't quote exact button labels. If something here no longer matches, please tell us through Contact. Our content-quality policy explains how corrections are handled.

Related pages

Try the interactive demo before creating an account, read the export and import guide for duplicate rules and worked examples, or browse the how-to guides for each media category.