Ratings is the private scorebook for your Plekt instance. It supports a 1–10 score for movies, TV shows, and episodes and keeps that score separate from provider ratings and canonical watched state.
Works on
| App | Works | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Plex | Yes | Two-way. Off by default. |
| Emby | Yes | Two-way. Off by default. |
| Jellyfin | Yes | Two-way. Off by default. Clearing a rating sends a rating of 0, because Jellyfin ignores an empty value. |
| Trakt | Yes | Two-way. Off by default. |
| Simkl | Partly | Movies and shows only, no anime or episodes. A write needs a movie already completed with a known watch date, or a show already in a Simkl list. Unsafe writes are held. A missing Simkl rating never clears yours; only an explicit empty rating does. |
Why it differs. Each service stores ratings on its own terms. Simkl only accepts a rating on a title it already tracks as watched or listed, so Plekt holds writes that would fail or create a false watch.
Open Ratings
Select Ratings in the sidebar. The page groups existing scores under Movies, TV Shows, and Episodes, so a show-level score is not confused with one of its episodes.
Rate a title from a card
Choose Rate on an unrated card. On a rated card, select its current score (for example 8/10) to change it. Select a value from 1 to 10 and save it. The updated score is written to Plekt’s local private data and the card remains in its media-type group.
Rate from a detail page
On a movie or TV detail page, use the personal rating control in the media facts area. It shows the current value when one exists and opens the same 1–10 chooser when you want to change it. Episode detail and episode-card actions use the same personal rating domain. This control is distinct from TMDB, IMDb, or TheTVDB provider ratings.
Change or remove a rating
Use the rating control on the card or detail page to replace a score. Use Remove rating to clear the personal score. Neither action removes the title from Watchlist or Playlists, changes watch history, or sends a watched-state correction to a connected service.
Personal Rating Sync
Personal Rating Sync can include Simkl as well as supported media servers and Trakt.
Rating sync is optional and disabled by default. Enable the single Sync personal ratings toggle under Settings → Sync → Personal Rating Sync to reconcile ratings with every connected Plex, Emby, Jellyfin, and Trakt account. Plekt remains the conflict authority. A rating added, changed, or cleared directly on one service is imported and sent out to every other service, unless a local edit is genuinely newer. An unchanged rating is not re-imported as a remote change on later scans.
The first complete provider snapshot imports existing ratings. Later complete snapshots reconcile additions, edits, and removals; a partial or failed read cannot clear the local scorebook. Local changes commit to Plekt first and are delivered through a durable queue, so a provider outage does not roll back a rating or affect watched state.
If a later scan finds at least two previously rated items and more than 20% of that provider’s ratings missing, Plekt holds the removals for review instead of clearing them. A scan that comes back completely empty from a provider is held the same way, even for a small list, so an empty answer never wipes your ratings on its own. The panel shows Rating scan held for review with the provider, counts and missing titles. Approve these removals rechecks the provider and applies the same removals only if they still match; Dismiss and keep ratings keeps every rating. Scheduled scans cannot bypass a hold, and holds survive restarts.
Use Sync now for an immediate full pass. The panel reports provider status, queued work, unmatched items, reauthentication requirements, and retryable failures. Episode ratings keep their parent-show identity plus season and episode coordinates, so the same episode does not become multiple ratings when provider IDs differ.
Episode identity and groups
Episode scores retain the show, season, and episode coordinates. Separate provider records for the same episode therefore resolve to one personal rating rather than creating a second score for the same viewing unit.
Relationship to watched state
A rating is personal metadata. It does not mark a title watched, create a watch event, add resume progress, alter the provider match, or sync a watch-state change through Plex, Emby, Jellyfin, or Trakt.
For saving and grouping titles, see Watchlist and Playlists.