TV Time Alternatives in 2026: 6 Best TV Trackers Tested & Ranked
TV Time shut down on July 15, 2026. The best TV Time alternatives to move to, tested and ranked: Trakt, Serializd, Simkl, IMDb, and Achriom, plus what to do with your TV Time data now that it's gone.
TV Time shut down on July 15, 2026. The app was pulled from the App Store and Google Play, tvtime.com went offline, and all personal watch history was permanently deleted after that date. If you had already exported your data, or want the full rundown of what happened, see what the shutdown means for your data. Otherwise, pick a new home below: Trakt for automatic tracking, Serializd for clean season reviews, and Achriom if you want your shows in one library with your films, books, and music. Already switching to Achriom? Here is how to move your TV Time history over.
Most TV show tracking apps ask you to log episodes manually, which is why most people give up. With TV Time gone, the trackers still worth using in 2026 each solve a different problem: Trakt for automatic scrobbling from streaming services, Simkl for free auto-tracking covering both movies and TV, Serializd for clean Letterboxd-style logging, IMDb Watchlist as the default most people don’t realize they’re using, and Achriom for TV tracked alongside films, books, albums, and anime.
If you watch a lot of TV and want it logged automatically, use Trakt. If you want clean season reviews, use Serializd. If you want TV in context with the rest of your taste, use Achriom.
Last reviewed: July 3, 2026.
How we picked: every app here is judged on the same six things: formats covered, platforms, whether you can export your data, AI features, privacy, and price. See the full media tracker comparison for all 17 trackers side by side.
Quick verdict:
- Best for automatic scrobbling: Trakt
- Best free TV tracking app (movies + TV, automatic): Simkl
- Best for clean season reviews: Serializd
- Best for TV alongside your films, books, and music: Achriom
- Left TV Time behind? Read the TV Time section below, or jump straight to moving your history to Achriom
Already know you track more than TV? Achriom keeps your shows next to your films, books, music, and anime in one library, with an AI librarian that connects them. It imports your TV Time history in two clicks and never deletes it. Free to start, no card.
Start free →What a TV tracker actually needs to do
The jobs to be done for series-watchers are slightly different from film:
- Track season-by-season progress, not just watched/unwatched at the show level
- Next-episode prompts so you know what’s airing and what you’re behind on
- Watchlist you’ll actually revisit, sorted by mood, service, or interest
- Rate episodes, not just shows, because some seasons are radically different
- Find the next thing with recommendations that understand taste
Each app below is opinionated about which of these matters.
Trakt
Best for: Automatic scrobbling, deep watch history, completionists
Trakt connects to streaming services and automatic logs what you watch. That’s its superpower. You barely have to think about tracking. The statistics page is satisfying. Free; VIP is $30/year.
What it does well:
- Automatic scrobbling from Netflix, Max, Prime, and more
- Per-episode tracking, ratings, and notes
- Upcoming calendar that actually works
- Strong API; used by a lot of third-party tools
The limitation: It tracks consumption, but doesn’t help you understand your taste. Recommendations are basic.
TV Time
Status: Shut down July 15, 2026. If you already exported your data, move to a tracker below.
TV Time confirmed on July 2, 2026 that it was discontinuing the service. On July 15 the app disappeared from the app stores, tvtime.com went offline, and all personal watch history was permanently deleted. Its parent company, Whip Media, redirected toward enterprise AI products. With north of 26 million lifetime installs, this was the largest displacement of TV trackers in years, and the popular alternatives buckled under the sudden traffic.
What TV Time users needed to do before July 15:
- Export your data. TV Time’s data-download tool let you request your watch history before the shutdown; that window is closed now, and the data is gone for anyone who didn’t export in time.
- Pick a new home. Trakt is the closest match if you want automatic tracking and a large community. Serializd is the closest match for reviews and a clean, Letterboxd-style feel. Achriom is the option if you want your shows living alongside your films, books, albums, and anime.
If TV Time’s episode-reaction community was the part you loved, Serializd and Trakt have the most active communities of the trackers still running.
Serializd
Best for: The cleanest UI and Letterboxd-style season reviews
Serializd is the newer entry positioned as Letterboxd-for-TV. Season-level reviews, clean design, growing community. Free. If you want a private alternative to Letterboxd that covers TV alongside films, books, and music, Achriom is the cross-media option.
What it does well:
- Season as the review unit, not show, not episode
- UI that doesn’t fight you
- Community growing but not yet toxic
The limitation: No scrobbling. Smaller catalog of reviews than Trakt or TV Time. Still maturing.
Simkl
Best for: Free automatic tracking for both movies and TV shows in one place
Simkl tracks movies and TV shows together and scrobbles automatically from Netflix, YouTube, and other streaming services via a browser extension. No manual logging for the core experience. Everything is free with no paid tier required.
What it does well:
- Automatic scrobbling via browser extension across Netflix, Prime, and most major services
- Movies and TV shows tracked together in a single library, not split across apps
- Calendar for upcoming episodes on shows you are following
- Import from Trakt, IMDb, and other trackers
The limitation: Community and discovery are thinner than Trakt or TV Time. Interface is functional rather than polished. Reviews and social features are minimal.
Where Trakt has a larger developer ecosystem and TV Time has social energy, Simkl is the option for people who just want everything tracked automatically, for free, without picking a lane. See our head-to-head comparison on Serializd vs Trakt if you’re deciding between the two most community-focused options.
Still deciding? If TV is all you track, Trakt or Simkl above are the ones to beat. If you also read and listen, Achriom is the single library for all of it, with an AI that finds the threads between what you watch, read, and hear. It imports your TV Time export directly.
Bring your history to Achriom →IMDb Watchlist
Best for: The default most people land on
IMDb’s watchlist gets used because IMDb is where people look up shows. It’s a list, not a tracker. Free.
The honest read: Fine as a wishlist. Useless as a serious tracker.
Achriom
Best for: TV in the context of everything else you watch, read, and listen to
Achriom puts your shows next to your films, books, albums, and anime in a single library. The librarian can reason across all of them. Ask “what should I watch after Severance” and you get an answer informed by what you read and listen to, not just what you’ve previously watched. Free with unlimited items and 10 AI messages a month; Pro $9.99/month for 200. See the TV tracker page for the product pitch.
What it does differently:
- Episode-level tracking: check off individual episodes, watch per-season progress bars fill in, and mark a whole season watched in one tap
- “Up next” and a “continue watching” home view, so you always know where you are
- Cross-media recommendations that connect shows to novels and films you’ve loved
- An AI librarian that understands your watch history down to the season
- Private by default
Progress is tracked at the episode level, with the current season and episode marked and a where-to-watch panel showing where each show is streaming. You always know what is next and where to find it.
The limitation: No automatic scrobbling. You can import your existing Trakt history by username, but ongoing scrobbling requires Trakt itself.
Want all of it in one place? Achriom tracks your shows alongside your films, books, albums, and anime, with an AI librarian that finds the patterns. That is the part no TV-only tracker can do.
Try Achriom free →Quick comparison
| App | Scope | Episodes | Scrobbling | Social | AI | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trakt | Films + TV | Yes | Yes | Some | No | Free / $30 yr |
| TV Time | Films + TV | Yes | Closed July 15, 2026 | Strong | No | Shut down |
| Simkl | Films + TV + anime | Yes | Yes (browser ext) | Some | No | Free |
| Serializd | TV | Season-level | No | Growing | No | Free |
| IMDb Watchlist | Films + TV | No | No | No | No | Free |
| Achriom | TV, films, books, albums, anime | Yes | Manual | Private | AI librarian | Free / $9.99 mo |
Which should you use?
Use Trakt if: Automatic scrobbling is the point. You watch enough TV that manual logging would fail you. It is also the closest all-round replacement for TV Time.
Left TV Time behind? Choose based on what you valued: Trakt for automatic tracking, Serializd for reviews and community, Achriom for TV alongside the rest of your taste.
Use Simkl if: You want automatic scrobbling for both movies and TV in one app, completely free. It does the same core job as Trakt at the same price.
Use Serializd if: You want Letterboxd aesthetics for TV and aren’t in a rush for scrobbling.
Use IMDb Watchlist if: You’re never going to actually track anyway.
Use Achriom if: You want TV understood as part of your whole taste, alongside your films, books, albums, and anime. For that whole category, see the best all-in-one media trackers. See also Letterboxd vs Achriom, which covers the cross-medium rationale for films and applies by analogy to TV.
The honest answer
- Automatic scrobbling: Trakt
- Clean season reviews and community: Serializd
- Default that requires no commitment: IMDb Watchlist
- Cross-media context: Achriom
- Coming from TV Time: Trakt, Serializd, or Achriom depending on what you valued
Trakt plus Achriom is a common combination. Trakt handles the automatic log; Achriom handles the understanding.
More on tracking TV: For the head-to-heads, read Serializd vs Trakt, TV Time or Serializd, and Trakt vs TV Time. If you are leaving Trakt, see the best Trakt alternatives.
Tracking more than TV? We test the same way across media: the best movie tracking apps, the best anime tracking apps, and the best album tracking apps. If you read as much as you watch, start with the best book tracking apps or the best Goodreads alternatives. Achriom is the one option that keeps all of them in a single library.
Common questions
What is the best TV Time alternative?
There is no single replacement, because TV Time did several things at once. For the closest all-round match with automatic tracking, use Trakt. For clean season reviews in a Letterboxd style, use Serializd. For a free option that covers movies and TV together, use Simkl. And if you want your shows tracked in one library alongside your films, books, albums, and anime, with an AI librarian that connects them, use Achriom, which also imports your exported TV Time history so you are not starting over.
Did TV Time shut down?
Yes. TV Time announced on July 2, 2026 that it would shut down on July 15, 2026, and it did. The app was removed from the App Store and Google Play, the website went offline, and all personal watch history was permanently deleted after that date. Its parent company, Whip Media, is focusing on enterprise AI products instead.
How do I export my TV Time data now that it has shut down?
You can’t, unless you already did it before July 15, 2026. TV Time’s app and website are offline and all personal data was deleted on the shutdown date. If you have an export file, save it somewhere safe so you can rebuild your history in whichever tracker you move to. If you don’t, see what to do next.
What should I use instead of TV Time?
It depends on what you valued. For automatic tracking and the largest community, use Trakt. For clean, Letterboxd-style season reviews, use Serializd. For your shows in one library alongside your films, books, albums, and anime, use Achriom. Simkl is the best fully free option that tracks movies and TV together.
Can I move my TV Time data to Achriom?
Yes. Export your TV Time library with the free TV Time Out browser extension, which saves two files (your shows and your movies), then in Achriom open Import, choose TV Time, and upload both files. Achriom matches them to real titles and brings across your watch history and season progress, so you are not starting from an empty library. See the step-by-step guide.
What is the best TV show tracker in 2026?
Trakt for scrobbling. Serializd for clean season reviews. Achriom if you want TV tracked alongside your films, books, albums, and anime with an AI librarian. (TV Time was a favorite for episode reactions, but it shut down on July 15, 2026.)
Is there a TV tracker with AI?
Achriom is the TV tracker with a built-in AI librarian. It can reason across your TV, film, book, album, and anime history to give recommendations and find patterns.
Does Achriom support automatic scrobbling?
Not yet. Trakt remains the best option if automatic scrobbling is the job. The two work well together: Trakt logs automatically, and you can import your Trakt history into Achriom by username to get the cross-media AI layer on top.
Can I import my Trakt history into Achriom?
Yes. In Achriom, open the sidebar and tap Import, then select Trakt and enter your username. Your watch history comes over directly, no CSV export needed.
What is the best Letterboxd for TV?
Serializd is the most direct Letterboxd-for-TV. Achriom is a cross-media alternative that includes TV alongside the rest of your taste.
Does Achriom track individual episodes?
Yes. Achriom tracks TV at the episode level: check off individual episodes, watch per-season progress bars fill in, and mark a whole season watched or jump to the next unwatched episode in one tap. A “continue watching” view keeps your place across every show. The one thing it does not do is automatic scrobbling, so tracking is manual, but the per-episode detail now matches Trakt.