Guides
How Kitazo works, written out: importing your library, logging and rating what you watch, the release calendar, comments and the anti-spoiler system, the community, groups, lists, stats, notifications, privacy, backups and the web app.
You don't have to start from scratch. Kitazo reads the file you download from another platform and rebuilds watched episodes, films, ratings and lists. This guide covers where to start, what each source brings over, and what to do with the titles it can't find.
A title's page is where the diary gets written. This guide walks through every control: what it does, when it appears, and what it changes in your stats and in the feed. It applies to films and, with a few extra options, to series.
The first tab in the app is the list of what you have in progress. You don't have to remember where you are in anything: Kitazo knows, and puts the next episode in front of you. Here is how to read that list, what each button does, and where the shows you stop following end up.
On Kitazo you rate with stars, from half a star to five. A film has one rating; a series is rated season by season, and the series rating is the average. This guide covers where you rate, what happens to episode ratings, and how your rating ends up in the charts.
The watchlist is the queue: the films and series you want to watch. Favourites are the podium: what you have already seen and want to show off. Kitazo keeps them apart, and this guide explains how to use both, including the button for people who can never decide.
Kitazo knows the release dates of the titles you follow and puts them in a calendar that holds only what concerns you: no releases from series you don't watch, no episodes you have already seen. This guide explains how to read it and how the notifications arrive.
On Kitazo a comment stays covered until you have seen the thing it is about. This page explains how the cover works, how to report a comment, and what happens to people who spoil things for others.
On Kitazo a comment is attached to something precise: a film, an episode, a season or a whole series. To write one you have to have watched it, and readers see it covered until they have reached the same point. This guide explains how to write one, what you can attach, what you can change afterwards and where it ends up.
Kitazo is a diary, but you keep it among other people. Who you follow fills your feed, and what you log fills theirs, as much as you decide. This guide explains how to build your circle, what shows up in the feed, and what controls you have over the people around you.
A group on Kitazo is a page built around one theme: a shared list of films and series, a ranking made from what its members rated, and a board of what they said about them. This is how joining, adding titles and moderation actually work.
A list is a set of films and series with a name and an idea behind it: films to watch at Christmas, series that made you cry, your all-time top ten. Here is how to create one, turn it into a ranking, invite someone to write it with you, and where it goes when you make it public.
Watch Together ties one series to one friend: when either of you marks an episode, it is marked for the other too. Here is how to start one, what you both see while it runs, and what happens when it ends.
Kitazo treats a rewatch as a separate viewing, not as a flag. Each viewing has its own date and can carry its own rating, and every comment you write is stamped with the viewing it came from.
Every watch you log becomes a number somewhere. Your profile sums up the big ones, the Statistics page breaks them down, the Timeline puts them back in order of time. This guide says how each is calculated, what is left out, and what you can hide.
Kitazo tells you about three things: what comes out, what the people you follow do, and what happens to your comments. Everything goes through the bell in the app; it reaches your device only if you ask. This guide lists every kind of notification and every switch.
Your account has few parts: a verified email, a way in, a profile and a set of choices about who sees what. This guide goes through them in the order you find them in the settings, and ends with the two deletions, library and account, which are final.
What you log on Kitazo is yours. You can download all of it whenever you like, read it without any special tool, and put it back into an account with an import. This guide explains what the archive holds, how to use it, and what the Trakt sync does.
Kitazo has no algorithm chasing you. It has a search that also finds actors and directors, a chart of what the community is watching, filters by genre, network and era, and a button that picks at random when you don't feel like deciding. This guide lines them up.
The web app at kitazo.app is the whole app, not a cut-down version: same account, same library, same features. This guide explains how to install it as if it were an app, what it does when the network is gone, and how it differs from the iPhone and Android versions.