How to Export Your TV Time History to Serializd (2026 Guide)
TV Time shut down on July 15, 2026, so getting your history into Serializd now runs on a saved export file.
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Moving your TV Time history into Serializd takes one file and about ten minutes: log in to Serializd, open serializd.com/tvtime, and upload the data export you saved before TV Time shut down. The catch sits in that last clause. TV Time went dark on July 15, 2026 and deleted all account data with it, so the export step of this migration is already over. If you have the file, this guide walks it into Serializd. If you never exported, skip to the rebuild section, because no tool can reach a history that no longer exists.
Last reviewed: August 26, 2026.
Quick verdict:
- Have your TV Time export? Upload it at serializd.com/tvtime with a free account. Shows, episode history, and progress come across.
- Have the TV Time Out extension files? Try the shows file with the importer. Achriom reads both files directly if Serializd cannot.
- Never exported? The search bar is the importer now. Marking whole seasons watched makes it faster than it sounds.
- Your export includes movies? Serializd cannot take them. Plan a second home for the film half, or consolidate everything in one move.
What you need before you start
A TV Time export file saved before July 15, 2026. There were two ways people got one, and they produced different things:
- The official export from TV Time’s self-service tool at gdpr.tvtime.com. This is the format Serializd built its importer around.
- The TV Time Out browser extension, which saved your library as two files: one for your shows, one for your movies. This was the faster route in the final weeks, so plenty of people hold these instead.
Either way, that file is now the only copy of your history that exists anywhere. Back it up before you do anything else. Serializd currently has no export feature of its own, so the file you feed it may stay the only portable version you ever have. What was in a TV Time export covers the formats in detail, and the shutdown story covers what happened.
You also need a Serializd account. The free tier is enough; the importer costs nothing.
Import your TV Time history into Serializd
- Create or log in to your Serializd account at serializd.com.
- Open serializd.com/tvtime, the official TV Time import page Serializd shipped in the weeks before the shutdown.
- Upload your export file. The importer reads the official self-service export. If you hold the extension’s two files, upload the shows file. If the importer rejects it, your file still has a home; more on that below.
- Let it run, then verify a show you know well. A finished series is the cleanest check: if Succession shows all four seasons watched, the history landed. Then check something you were mid-season on when TV Time died, like Severance, to confirm your episode-level progress carried, since picking up where you left off is the whole point of the migration.
- Spot-check how ratings came across. TV Time kept numeric scores on shows alongside its episode emoji reactions, and the export carries those scores in a ratings file. Open a few shows you scored and confirm the numbers mapped; the episode-level reactions have no Serializd equivalent and stay behind.
- Log something new the same day. An import plus one fresh entry is what turns a data dump back into a diary you actually keep.
The importer only adds what is missing, so if you have been using Serializd since the shutdown and are only now getting to your old file, running it will not overwrite anything you have logged since.
What transfers and what stays behind
Comes across: your shows, episode-by-episode watch history, and where you were in each series. That covers watching, finished, and not started.
Stays behind: two things, one small and one large.
The small one is your episode reactions, the love and like emoji, which have no Serializd equivalent. Show-level scores travel in the export’s ratings file; the reactions do not.
The large one is your movies. Serializd describes itself as a tracker exclusively for TV shows, and it means it. The movie half of your TV Time history, every film you marked watched over the years, has no door into Serializd at all. It sits in your export file, imported by nothing, and this is the piece most people discover only after the shows are already moved.
If you want the whole file in one place: Achriom
Serializd will hold your shows well. It is a genuinely pleasant TV diary in the Letterboxd mold, with season reviews and a real community, and the Serializd vs Trakt comparison makes the case for it against the other big destination.
Achriom answers the orphaned half of the file. It imports TV Time’s export directly, and it takes the extension’s two files as they are, shows and movies together, so nothing in your history gets left in a folder. Your shows land with episode-level progress next to your films, and both sit alongside your books, albums, and anime in one library. An AI librarian reasons across all of it, so the question “what should I watch next” gets answered by everything you have loved, in any format. It is private by default, and everything exports back out as CSVs any time, which matters more than it used to now that one dead app has already eaten a decade of watch history. Free tier covers unlimited items with 10 AI messages a month; Pro is $9.99/month. Moving from TV Time to Achriom is the step-by-step.
What Achriom does not have: Serializd’s review-forward community and social feed. If writing season reviews for an audience is why you picked Serializd, that call was right, and nothing stops you from doing both with the same file.
Serializd takes your shows and leaves your movies in the file, so this migration only moves half your history. Achriom imports both TV Time files together and keeps your shows next to your films, books, albums, and anime, with an AI librarian that connects them and full export back out any time. Free to start, no card.
Move everything once →Your options at a glance
| Destination | What it takes from your export | What stays behind | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serializd | Shows, episode history, progress, show ratings | All movies; episode reactions | Free |
| Achriom | Shows and movies, both files | Nothing from the export | Free to start |
| Search bar rebuild (no file) | Whatever you re-log | Watch dates and history | Time |
Which route should you use?
Use the Serializd importer if: your export file is from the official tool, television is what you track, and season reviews or the community are the draw. This is the supported path and it works.
Add Achriom (or land there instead) if: your file has a movie half you care about, you hold the extension’s two files, or you also track books, music, or anime and would rather consolidate once than run a migration per format.
Rebuild by hand if: you never exported. Serializd lets you mark entire seasons watched in a few clicks, so a thirty-show library is an evening. The dates are gone, but the shelf comes back. The best TV tracking apps is worth a scan first, since a rebuild is also a free chance to pick your tracker fresh.
The honest answer
If you saved your TV Time export, this migration is one of the easier ones: a free account, one upload at serializd.com/tvtime, and a ten-minute verification pass. Serializd built the importer for exactly your situation, and it does its job.
The two things worth deciding with open eyes are the movie half of your file, which Serializd will never take, and the exit, which Serializd does not yet have. Your export file is currently the only copy of your history you own, so keep it backed up whatever you do, and think about whether you want the next app holding your history to be another one-format tracker or the last import you run. The full media tracker comparison lays every option side by side.
Common questions
Can I still export my data from TV Time?
No. TV Time shut down on July 15, 2026, the apps and website went offline, and all personal account data was permanently deleted. Every route into Serializd or anywhere else now starts from a file saved before that date.
Which TV Time file does Serializd’s importer want?
The export from TV Time’s official self-service tool at gdpr.tvtime.com, which is what the importer was built around. If you hold the TV Time Out extension’s two files instead, try the shows file. If the importer cannot read it, Achriom accepts the extension’s files directly, so the history is still recoverable into a working tracker.
Does Serializd import the movies in my TV Time export?
No. Serializd tracks TV exclusively, so your films stay in the file no matter which import route you use. Achriom imports the shows and movies from a TV Time export together, and how to import your data into Serializd covers every route into Serializd in more detail.
Will the import overwrite what I already have in Serializd?
No. The importer only adds what is missing and skips anything already marked watched or rated, so running your old TV Time file against a Serializd account you have been using since July is safe.
Do my TV Time reactions become Serializd ratings?
The emoji reactions do not; they have no numeric equivalent to convert. But TV Time also kept show and movie scores, and those live in the export’s ratings file, which Serializd’s importer reads alongside your history. Check a few shows you scored to see how they landed.
Should I have picked Trakt instead?
Trakt takes TV and movies together and has the bigger third-party ecosystem, but its free tier tightened and VIP is $60/year. The Serializd vs TV Time and Trakt vs TV Time pieces were written when choosing was still possible; today the honest framing is Serializd for a review-forward TV diary, Trakt for scrobbling and breadth, and Achriom for your whole library in one place. If you do choose Trakt and later want Serializd too, the Trakt importer bridges them.