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Tangent

Links books, films, TV, and podcasts by shared themes and taste, offering cross-media recommendations, adaptation tracking, personalized daily picks, collaborative lists, taste profiling, and discovery pages with guides, all based on a real catalog and genre taxonomy.

A user's daily digest. Three quick buttons to dismiss, save to library, or indicate already enjoyed.
A view of a user's library page with all of the available filters.
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A user's profile page.

Cost / License

  • Free
  • Proprietary

Application type

Platforms

  • Online
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Features

Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  Ad-free
  2.  Personalized Recommendations
  3.  Cloud Sync
  4.  Where to Watch
  5.  No registration required
  6.  Dark Mode
  7.  Track movies
  8.  Discovery engine
  9.  Book Recommendation
  10.  Movie tracker
  11.  Book search
  12.  Email digests

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What is Tangent?

Tangent is a cross-media recommendation engine. Goodreads tracks what you read and Letterboxd what you watched; Tangent connects all four media (books, films, TV series and podcasts) so something you loved in one medium leads you to the next great thing in another. Underneath is a canonical-works graph that links a work to its versions across media (a novel to its film, series and audio adaptations) and a shared taste map of around 30,000 titles, each classified into a multi-level genre taxonomy and enriched with themes such as "Southern Gothic" or "unreliable narrator". Recommendations come from that real catalog and graph, so nothing is invented.

What you get:

  • A daily deck: a fresh set of cross-media picks each day, each with the reason it fits. Keep, like or dismiss, and the picks adjust.
  • Your Tangent Ten: up to ten anchor titles that define your taste and drive every recommendation.
  • A library across all four media, seeded by hand or by importing a Goodreads or Letterboxd export.
  • From Page to Screen: the adaptations, remakes and alternate versions of what you have already read, watched or heard.
  • Lists you can build, share and open to collaborators.
  • Friends (but in a non-big tech way): follow people, see what they are into, compare taste compatibility between any two people, and share a public Taste DNA profile. All optional
  • Discover pages that need no account: "if you loved" and "start with" guides, best-of lists by medium and era, and themed roundups.
  • An optional daily email digest, push notification, and a connector so you can ask for cross-media bridges from a chat assistant.

And best of all, it is free. You can try it without an account: pick three to five titles you love and get one you have not met, in about thirty seconds.