How Resonami works.

How do recommendations work?

Resonami finds candidates from its movie, TV, and book catalogs, then uses your numerical ratings and weighted taste profile to choose suggestions and explain their connections. The All tab mixes the media categories so you can explore your taste beyond one format.

Your ratings across all categories provide context. You can get a book suggestion from your movie and TV taste, or explore movies and TV from books you’ve rated. Ratings within the new category help make those connections more specific. Liking an adaptation doesn’t automatically mean you’ll like its source material.

When live AI is connected, the suggestions are labelled AI suggestions. Starting suggestions are labelled separately when the app is using its content-based recommender.

What are Your next picks, and when do they change?

These are one featured movie, TV show, and book: the closest fits among your current suggestions using your ratings across media. They are not a promise that every title in the catalog has been compared, or a predicted score.

Ratings and optional recommendation feedback can trigger reconsideration using your available candidates. You can also choose “Reconsider my next pick” at any time; a strong match may stay. “Show a different option” asks for an alternative without recording a dislike. Rated, saved, skipped, started, dismissed, and completed titles become ineligible immediately. A category fills when eligible suggestions are available.

What does Start watching or Start reading do?

It adds an active viewing or reading to your In progress list. It does not launch a video, stream, or ebook. Rate the title when you finish, or use Viewing history → Finish current viewing today to finish without changing the score. Starting a title is neutral taste information.

Can I ask for a specific mood or kind of story?

Yes. Sign in and use Ask AI for suggestions on Discover. Choose a movie, TV show or book, then finish “I’m looking for a… that…” with the tone, themes, pacing or relationships you want. Your description takes priority, with your ratings adding personal context. You can use it before rating anything.

Resonami checks the suggested titles against TMDB or Open Library and returns three matches with reasons. Rated, saved, in-progress and hidden titles follow the same exclusions as your regular suggestions. Asking doesn’t replace your regular queues or next picks. You can make up to 20 new requests a day; repeated requests may reuse a recent shortlist. Your description stays private and is not sent to analytics. AI can still miss a detail, and streaming availability is not verified.

The suggestions don’t look right yet. What should I do?

Rate more things you know, including favorites, disappointments, and different genres. Honest low ratings help just as much as high ones. You can search for familiar titles rather than waiting for them to appear in your queue.

Your next suggestions use your updated ratings. Resonami can adapt and become more accurate as its picture of your taste grows, but it can still make imperfect picks. A few ratings give a starting point; five is a useful early milestone, not a requirement. Refresh Discover when you want fresh suggestions based on what you’ve rated.

Do I need to rate something in every category?

No. Your overall taste can guide a category you haven’t rated yet. With no ratings anywhere, you can explore varied starting suggestions; they become more personal as you rate. The first-five guide is optional. It may suggest a couple of disappointments alongside favorites, but any five honest ratings complete it. There’s no need to invent a dislike or lower a score. See how to get started.

What counts as a taste signal?

A 1–10 rating is your explicit opinion. Not interested is a separate, weaker negative signal. Saves, Currently watching/reading, and skips are neutral: they don’t become ratings or count as likes or dislikes.

Rated titles, saved titles, in-progress titles, and Not interested choices are excluded from fresh recommendations. Skips follow the delay in your Profile—30 days by default—and can return afterward. You can restore hidden choices from Hidden titles.

What do the live rating counters and achievements count?

The header shows your current distinct rated titles, with separate movie, TV, and book counts. Confirmed saves, clears, and Undo update it; imported ratings appear when the library reloads. These are your counts, not a site-wide total. Rewatches, rereads, and edits to a score do not add another title; unrated saves and skips do not count.

Achievements in Profile use different rated titles across all three categories, at 1, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, and 1,000. Earned awards stay earned after a clear or Undo, even when your current rating count falls.

What does the taste chart measure?

For each genre, the profile combines your average rating with the number of titles you’ve rated. The score is average × count ÷ (count + 5). A genre with just one or two ratings stays closer to the center because there is less evidence. That does not automatically mean you dislike it.

The chart compares genre information with your profile. Its outline is not a predicted rating or a match percentage. Why this pick shows the actual ratings and profile signals that supported a suggestion.

Can I import Goodreads books and ratings?

Yes. Sign in and open Import from Goodreads. Export your Goodreads library as CSV, select it, review the preview, and import the books you choose. Files can be up to 10 MB and 5,000 books. Follow the import steps.

Goodreads stars map to Resonami by doubling them: 1 → 2/10, 2 → 4/10, 3 → 6/10, 4 → 8/10, and 5 → 10/10. Zero stays unrated. You can refine the score later. To-read becomes Reading list; Currently reading stays in progress. Known read dates are kept; missing dates stay unknown.

Existing matching books are skipped, preserving your entries. Completed batches stay saved if an import stops; you can retry the rest or use the import page’s Undo while available. Reviews, private notes, and custom shelves are ignored. Covers, genres, and extra rereads are not supplied by the export. Imported ratings can update a public profile if you have enabled one.

Can I attach a comment to my rating?

Yes. Expand Add a comment on a title or in My ratings, or draft it in Quick rate before selecting a score. Write up to 2,000 characters and choose Private — only me or Public review — anyone. Comments default to private. A public review requires a rating and your profile name; you’ll be prompted to set the name if it’s missing.

Your profile name is used across all your public reviews. Editing it updates their author name. Public reviews show your score and an Updated date, time, and the viewer’s local timezone; hover for the full timestamp. Clicking the reviewer’s name or text opens their profile, or a private-profile message. See the review controls.

How do spoiler warnings work?

Select Contains spoilers before saving or publishing a comment. Public review text stays hidden until the reader chooses Show review. The author name, score, and timestamp remain visible. Spoiler warnings depend on authors and moderation; unmarked text can still contain spoilers.

How do I report someone else’s review?

Sign in, select Report review, choose a reason, optionally add details, and send it. Your report and details go privately to the administrator’s review queue, with a snapshot of the public review. Reporting does not automatically hide it. An administrator can dismiss reports, apply spoiler warnings, or hide and restore reviews without changing the author’s personal rating. Use Feedback for other app problems.

Can my review be public while my profile is private?

Yes. Each review has its own visibility choice. A public review’s text, score, profile name, and timestamp stay visible even if your profile is private. Setting a name or publishing a review does not turn on public-profile sharing.

Switch a review to private, remove its text, or clear its rating to withdraw it. Previously reported public text can remain in the private administrator queue. Newly private text is not added to that queue. Making your profile private does not withdraw separately published reviews.

What can people see on my public profile?

Profiles start private. In Profile, save a profile name independently, then choose a unique username and Make my profile public if you want to share. Your link uses /profle/your-username. It shows achievements, rating totals and averages, genre scores, top genres, and a favorite with its rating. It updates as your ratings change.

Your email, complete rating list, private notes, saved lists, hidden titles, and viewing or reading history stay private. Make private replaces the page with a private-profile message. Earlier username links follow your current username; old UUID links work only while the profile is public. See profile setup and the Privacy policy.

How do I upload an avatar, and is it public?

In Profile → Your avatar, choose a JPEG, PNG, or WebP image up to 5 MB, review the preview, and save. Photos are cropped to a square and displayed in a circle. The original filename and embedded metadata are not retained.

Avatars are private by default. To show yours publicly, enable both your public profile and Show this avatar on my public profile, then save. You can replace or remove it, or switch off avatar sharing. Old public image links stop working after replacement, removal, or turning sharing off; saved copies cannot be recalled.

Is a downloadable taste card the same as a public profile?

No. On My taste, select genres or favorites for a card you can download as an image or copy as a caption. Making a card does not enable profile sharing or publish anything automatically. You decide where to use the file or caption.

What can I use without signing up?

The free finder can suggest books from a movie or TV show, or movies and TV shows from a book. Search by title, choose the right result, and get three explained connections. Movie/TV search can be narrowed by year; book search can be narrowed by author. For a book, choose movies, TV, or both.

It searches beyond the starter titles, subject to catalog coverage and usable descriptions. Your optional focus reorders the same shortlist. Copy it to keep it; the tool does not use your private library or save choices into it automatically. Free request limits apply. You can also read all editorial reading guides without an account. See how to use the finder.

What are the external ratings and source links?

Source rows show provider community averages and vote counts when available. TMDB uses a 10-point scale and Open Library a 5-point scale. These scores are separate from your own 1–10 rating; they are not personal match percentages and do not overwrite your score.

Use the TMDB, Open Library, or available Goodreads link to check the primary record. An absent score means no usable provider rating is available, not zero. Imported Goodreads books can have a source link without a community score. Movie, TV, and Book icons and labels identify the format.

Where do the titles and synopses come from?

Movie and TV metadata comes from TMDB when connected; book metadata and covers come from Open Library. Catalog information and AI results are cached to reduce repeat requests. Some titles have incomplete descriptions or genres. Coverage and availability can vary, and a suggestion does not guarantee a title is streaming on a particular service.

The reading guides are editorial starting points with linked publisher or author sources. They are not personalized recommendations or match scores. AI explanations elsewhere can still make mistakes.

Can I change my mind or correct a date?

Yes. Use My ratings to change or clear scores and review rating history. Undo recent actions, remove saved titles from your Watchlist or Reading list, or restore choices on Hidden titles. Press U to Undo the latest response on the current page when you aren’t typing or inside a dialog.

Viewing history lets you log past viewings or reads, edit dates, and finish an active one without changing its score. Rewatches and rereads can have separate dates, while the taste profile counts one current rating per title. Clearing a score preserves viewing history. See the list and history guide.

Are comments, requests, and account details used by AI or analytics?

The recommendation service receives relevant title and taste information, and Ask AI also sends the description you submit. Rating comments, review names, avatars, email addresses, and account identifiers are not included in recommendation requests. Public sharing is a separate choice.

Google Analytics is optional. The Privacy policy explains provider requests, site measurement, administrator access, and sharing. Change your browser’s choice through Analytics preferences.

How do Clubs work?

Clubs have dedicated pages and shared watchlists and reading lists. Public clubs appear in the directory, and anyone signed in can join. Private clubs are unlisted and require an owner-created invitation. Owners manage settings, members, invitations and pinned selections; members contribute titles and can remove their own additions. There is one owner per club, with no extra moderator role.

Public descriptions and shared lists can be viewed by visitors. Private content is member-only. Member names and contributor names are visible only to members, using chosen profile names. Your personal profile, ratings, notes and saved lists keep their separate privacy settings. Shared-list actions do not update personal libraries.

Invite links expire in seven days and can be rotated or revoked. Changing ownership or visibility revokes existing links. Members can leave; owners transfer ownership before leaving or delete the club after confirming its name. Contributions stay after leaving. See the Clubs how-to for the steps and current limits.

Can we vote and discuss titles?

Members vote on shared-list candidates; the owner confirms the next watch and next read. Title discussions have spoiler warnings, author profile links, and timestamps. Only current members can read discussions, vote totals, activity, and completed history. Authors and owners can delete comments.

How do group recommendations work?

Members explicitly opt in per club. At least two members with genre ratings are required. Matching ranks shared-list candidates from numerical genre preferences, gives each participating member equal influence, and favors common ground. It refreshes as ratings and club lists change, without showing individual ratings or sending data to AI. Opt out at any time.

What happens after we finish a selection?

The owner marks it completed, moving it and its discussion into club history. Optional club ratings contribute to a 1–10 average and stay separate from personal ratings. Reopening a selection restarts voting. Active lists allow 200 titles and history holds 1,000.

How do club notifications work?

Unread badges in navigation and your club cards summarize new activity. Visible pages refresh every 30 seconds. Mark activity as read or mute a club’s unread notifications. Repeated activity is grouped and no email is sent. Leaving removes votes, club ratings, and taste participation; titles and comments remain for the club.

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