Plotwist
Plotwist is an open-source Next.js boilerplate for building movie, series, and anime review directory sites with easy media management and community-driven features.
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About Plotwist
The MIT-licensed platform provides comprehensive media tracking capabilities supporting multiple content types including movies, series, and anime, with integrated review functionality and user engagement features. Built with Next.js for optimal performance, TailwindCSS for modern styling, shadcn/ui for beautiful components, and Stripe for payment processing, Plotwist offers a community-driven development approach with contributors welcome through GitHub and a Discord community for collaboration.
The application focuses on user-friendly media management with tracking features, review systems, and social interaction capabilities. Perfect for building media review platforms, entertainment tracking sites, community-driven content databases, or any application focused on movies, TV shows, and anime with features similar to platforms like Letterboxd, MyAnimeList, or IMDb but with full control over the codebase, customization capabilities, and the ability to add unique features tailored to specific communities or niches.
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Free, open source, and ready to ship.
Clone the repo, install dependencies, and start customising. Plotwist is free and open source: its license is in the repository.
- Clone the Plotwist repository from GitHub.
- Run
npm installorpnpm installto install all required packages. - Run
npm run devto start the development server and begin customizing. - Check the repository’s README and license before you ship.
Terminal
$ git clone https://github.com/plotwist-app/plotwist $ cd plotwist $ npm install $ npm run dev
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Everything you need to know before you ship with Plotwist.
Plotwist is an open-source Next.js boilerplate for building movie, series, and anime review directory sites with easy media management and community-driven features. It is an open source template in the shadcn.io collection of 215.
Plotwist is made by Plotwist app, an independent developer; shadcn.io lists it but did not make it. Plotwist app has 1 template in the collection, and the author's page lists them.
The listing tags Plotwist with Next.js, React and Tailwind. Those are its categories, not a dependency list: the exact packages and versions are in the repository's package.json.
Yes. The Plotwist page embeds its live demo from plotwist.app, and links to it so you can open the real deployment before you clone.
The Plotwist listing was last updated on October 8, 2025. That date is the listing's, not the repository's: check the repository's commits for recent activity.
Clone the repository (git clone https://github.com/plotwist-app/plotwist), then follow the README. The Plotwist page shows the usual steps and a terminal block with the commands to copy.
Install dependencies with npm install or pnpm install, then run npm run dev. The README in the Plotwist repository says which package manager and environment variables it needs.
No. Plotwist is cloned from its own GitHub repository, so shadcn.io isn't involved. Browsing the page and its live demo need no account either; Pro adds the premium templates, the blocks and the MCP server.
Plotwist is tagged Next.js, so it deploys wherever a Next.js app does, such as Vercel, a Node.js server or a container. Its README may add steps for its own services.
The Plotwist listing doesn't record a license. Check the LICENSE file in its repository (https://github.com/plotwist-app/plotwist), and ask the author if there isn't one.
That depends on Plotwist's license in its repository, which shadcn.io does not set. Read the LICENSE file before you use it in a client or paid project, and ask the author if it is unclear.
Attribution follows Plotwist's license. Many permissive licenses ask you to keep the copyright notice and license text in your copy; its LICENSE file says exactly what.
No. The Pro license covers shadcn.io's own Pro code, blocks and premium templates. Plotwist is the author's project, under the terms in its repository.
Plotwist app supports Plotwist, through its GitHub repository: read the docs, open an issue or look for discussions. shadcn.io does not maintain it.
Yes. Once you clone it, Plotwist is your own code: change the theme, add pages and connect your backend. It uses shadcn/ui, so you can also add more components the same way.
Yes. Components are free with a free account and the blocks are in Pro; both are copied into your project with the shadcn CLI. Check that Plotwist uses Tailwind CSS and the shadcn/ui setup (a components.json) before you add them, and pick the base library your project already uses.
Yes, with Pro. The shadcn.io MCP server's search_templates tool finds templates by what they are, and returns each one's repository and live demo, so your editor can set up Plotwist for you. Your files stay on your machine.
The collection has 151 other open source Next.js templates like Plotwist, shown at the foot of its page with the ones sharing most categories first. All of them are at /template/category/nextjs.
Plotwist app has no other templates in the collection.
Yes. The 14 premium templates (Solaris, Reframe Labs, Spherule and Max and more) are built by shadcn.io and come with every Pro plan, if you want maintained code with a design file.
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