Gasper vs Trakt: a horror ranker next to a watch tracker

Trakt is the tracker. It knows what you watched because your player told it, keeps your place in every series, and holds your collection across services. Gasper does none of that. It is a horror-only app for deciding, after you have watched something, whether it was scarier than the last thing. This page puts them side by side, with the plain admission that Trakt covers far more ground.

What Trakt does

Trakt tracks what you watch, across services and devices. Its signature feature is scrobbling: connect a media player or app and Trakt logs each film or episode automatically as you watch it. From that it builds a complete history, progress through every series (which episode is next, what is unwatched), a calendar of upcoming episodes, and a collection of what you own. You rate films and episodes from 1 to 10, keep a watchlist, make lists, comment, and follow other members. It covers every genre. Trakt has a free tier and a VIP tier with extras, and it runs on the web with apps and a broad ecosystem of third-party clients that sync with it.

The heart of Trakt is the history: an accurate record of everything, kept with as little effort as possible.

What Gasper does

Gasper is a free iOS app that logs horror films by ranking them, by hand. You tap Rank, say how scary the film was (Terrifying, Some scares, or Barely flinched), and answer a handful of head-to-heads, "Which was scarier?". The film lands in your rankings with a scare score, out of 10, read from its position. If you loved it regardless of how scary it was, you tap a heart and it is marked as Loved. Nothing is typed and nothing is automatic.

Around that: a Community Scare on every film page, Scare Tolerance from your scores against the crowd's, leaderboards for films and fans, a feed of what friends ranked, lists, a daily pick, a week streak, and Bloodwork. Film data comes from TMDb.

Side by side

Where Trakt is better

Tracking. If you want a complete, accurate record of everything you watch with no effort, Trakt is the tool and Gasper is not in the race. Scrobbling means your history fills itself. Episode progress and the calendar are things Gasper does not have at all; it does not log series. Trakt's collection feature, its every-genre coverage, its long history, and its ecosystem of clients and integrations are all beyond Gasper's scope. For anyone who watches a lot of television, Trakt's model is the right one, and most Gasper members who use Trakt keep using it for exactly that.

Where Gasper is different

Trakt asks you for a 1 to 10 once you have watched. Gasper asks you a different kind of question, and only about horror.

Ranking by comparison. A typed 1 to 10 drifts with mood. A head-to-head between Hereditary (2018) and The Conjuring (2013) has an answer you can defend, and the number follows from the position. Your list is consistent with itself by construction.

Scary, with love kept separate. Horror pulls "scary" and "good" apart more than any genre. Gasper ranks only the scare, and keeps a heart (Loved) for films you adore regardless of how they scored. The heart is a flag, not a second rating, so nothing about it drifts either.

Stats only a horror crowd can produce. Because every member ranks horror against horror, the Community Scare is a specific signal, and your distance from it becomes Scare Tolerance, a Hottest Take and a Deepest Cut. Leaderboards and the daily pick drawn from your rankings both come from the same narrow scope.

Using both

The split is clean. Trakt records that you watched something. Gasper records what it did to you. Let Trakt scrobble the film, then open Gasper and do the head-to-heads while it is fresh. Series are the one place the two do not meet: track them in Trakt, because Gasper logs films only.

Gasper does not import from Trakt or anywhere else yet, and because its scores come from comparisons rather than typed numbers, a history import would not build a ranked list on its own. The start here guide covers the first dozen rankings, after which the scores stop calibrating and start to describe you.