Import and export your lists
Years of ratings on another site shouldn’t mean starting from zero. Movieo reads IMDb, iCheckMovies and plain CSV exports — and hands everything back whenever you ask.
One careful import turns a fresh account into one with history — and history is what the filters and recommendations feed on. The care is mostly in step four.
- Export from wherever your history lives. Download your ratings or lists from IMDb or iCheckMovies, or prepare your own CSV file if your record lives in a spreadsheet.
- Open the importer from the user menu. Sign in, then look top right — import and export both live in the user menu.
- Pick the source format. Tell Movieo what it’s reading: an IMDb export, an iCheckMovies export, or a custom CSV.
- Choose the target list deliberately. This is the step to slow down on. Films you’ve watched belong on the seenlist; films you intend to watch belong on the watchlist. Sending a to-watch file into the seenlist is the classic mistake — those films would silently vanish from your recommendations.
- Run it and skim the result. When the import finishes, open the target list and spot-check it: right list, sensible count, familiar titles.
- Restore if it went wrong. A bad import isn’t fatal — restore rolls back your most recent import and you can run it again properly.
- Export any time. The full export lives in the same menu and covers everything you’ve built. Your record stays portable, always.
Read before importing twice
Restore reaches back exactly one import — the most recent. Verify each import before starting the next, because once a new one runs, the previous import can no longer be rolled back.
When in doubt about a messy file, clean it up before importing rather than splitting it into many runs — every import you follow with another one becomes permanent.
Sign in, then find Import in the user menu, top right.