Time-saver

iFlicks does one thing, and really only one thing, and that is adding metadata to video files. Most of what the app does can be done manually: search the web and online databases for metadata, and attach the metadata yourself in e.g. iTunes. iFlicks 2 just makes this process much simpler and much faster. In the simplest case, drag the file into iFlicks 2, click search, and the app finds and attached the metadata automatically. The updated video file can then be dragged into iTunes. I find this convenience hugely beneficial. I save time and efforts. Averaging the cost over some number of video files, and it is worth the investment. The app has a nice interface and functions as advertised.

iFlicks 2 is really good at recognizing North-American English-spoken movies published within the last say 25 years. It seems to rely on only a single database which can be a bottleneck. Non-English movies, TV series, and older less popular movies are often missing from the database, or the information is very limited. It’d be huge improvement if iFlicks 2 could search more databases, and have a more a more intelligent search engine instead of only relying on the online database’s own search engine. The non-intelligent basic search facility is its weakness.

iFlicks has advanced options like rules and subtitle handling, hardly any of which I use.

Fruits to go about iFlicks 2, v2.0.4