Updated 16 August 2026
TV Time shut down on 15 July 2026. The apps were pulled, the website went dark, and account data was deleted. If you tracked your shows there for years, here is what your options actually look like now on an iPhone, and what each one asks of you in return.
Disclosure: we make ReelStack, and it is on this list. We have tried to be straight about who each app is for, including the cases where ours is the wrong choice. If you want a social feed of reviews, or you use Android as well, we say so and point you elsewhere.
TV Time's data export tool went offline with the rest of the service. As of August 2026 there is no way to generate a new export, which means no app can recover your history for you. If you did not download your archive during the two week window after the announcement, those years of episode ticks are gone everywhere, not just from TV Time.
If you did grab the archive, keep the ZIP somewhere safe before you start trying apps. It is the only copy that exists.
TV Time had more than 25 million users and it still closed. It closed because those users were never the customer. The app was free, and the money came from selling aggregated viewing data to studios and networks. When the parent company was bought and redirected toward AI products in 2025, the community was not a business line worth keeping. It was a cost.
So when you pick the next one, ask two questions that most comparison lists skip:
| App | Platforms | Account | Price | Export your data |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trakt | iOS, Android, web | Required | Free tier, VIP $60/yr | Yes, plus a public API |
| Simkl | iOS, Android, web | Required | Free, premium tier | Paid tiers only |
| ReelStack | iPhone, iPad | None | Free to 8 titles, $2.99 once | Yes, CSV |
| Serializd | iOS, Android, web | Required | Free | Check before committing |
| Sofa Time | iPhone, iPad | Trakt or Simkl | Free | Via Trakt or Simkl |
| Letterboxd | iOS, Android, web | Required | Free, Pro $19/yr | Yes, CSV |
Prices are US, August 2026. We have not independently verified Serializd's export, which is exactly the kind of thing worth checking yourself before you move years of history somewhere.
Best for: people who watch on Plex, Kodi or Emby, or who use more than one platform.
Trakt is the backbone the rest of the ecosystem plugs into. Half the apps on this list store their data in it rather than running their own. It scrobbles automatically from media servers, it has a real API, and it built a TV Time importer. The catch: the mobile app is functional rather than pleasant, the free tier has been getting tighter, and VIP at $60 a year is the most expensive option here by a wide margin.
Best for: anime watchers, who need proper season and release-order handling most trackers get wrong.
Simkl is the one app on this list that treats anime as a first-class citizen rather than an afterthought. It also has a direct importer if you still have your TV Time export ZIP. The catch: the migration surge in July put real strain on it, imports and syncs were slow for a while, and it is a free service supported by something other than your money, the same pattern that just cost everyone their TV Time history.
Best for: iPhone and iPad owners who mainly want to be told when the next episode is on.
This is ours. There is no sign up and no server holding your library: everything lives on your device and syncs between your own devices through iCloud. It tells you on the day an episode airs rather than in a weekly digest, it shows which service each title is on, and you can export the whole library to CSV whenever you like. It costs $2.99 once, with the first 8 titles free so you can see whether you like it first. The catch: Apple devices only, no social feed, no reviews from strangers, and we cannot import your TV Time archive. It is currently available in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
Best for: people who used TV Time to write about what they watched and read what everyone else thought.
Serializd is the Letterboxd model applied to television: a review feed, follows, episode level ratings and a genuinely active community, on a properly native iPhone app that is free with no paid tier at all. If the part of TV Time you miss is other people, nothing else on this list replaces it. The catch: television only, so your films live somewhere else, everything is public by default, and there is no TV Time importer.
Best for: people who like Trakt's data but not Trakt's interface.
A well made iPhone and iPad client that syncs with Trakt or Simkl. The catch: it is a front end, not a home. You still need an account with one of those services, and your library lives there. That is fine, as long as you know which company is actually holding your history.
Best for: film diarists who want TV eventually.
Letterboxd passed 28 million members this year and is the strongest community in this space by a distance. It confirmed in July that television support is in development. The catch: "in development" has meant several years so far, and it does not track episodes today. If you need to know where you are in season three, this is not yet the answer.
Moviebase, SeriesGuide and CinExplore are all worth a look on Android and none of them are available on iPhone. Showly covers both platforms and stores its data in Trakt.
If you still have your export, Simkl gets you closest to what you lost and Trakt is the safest place to keep it. If your history is gone anyway and you are starting fresh on an iPhone, that is the moment to ask what you actually want from a tracker. A lot of people discover the answer is smaller than TV Time was: not a social network, just a reliable answer to what is on tonight and where to watch it.
Whichever you choose, export your library in the first week and put the file somewhere you will still have it in five years. Everyone on this list is one acquisition away from becoming a case study.