How to Import Your Data Into Serializd (2026 Guide)
Serializd imports from Trakt and TV Time. How each official importer works in 2026, what transfers, what stays behind, and how to bring in everything else.
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Serializd has two official importers, and they cover the two places most TV histories live. The Trakt importer at serializd.com/trakt reads your Trakt account directly and moves your watched shows, episode history, ratings, and watchlist. The TV Time importer at serializd.com/tvtime works from the data export TV Time provided before it shut down in July 2026. Both are free, neither needs a paid subscription on either side, and both only add what is missing from your Serializd account. Everything else comes in by hand.
Last reviewed: August 8, 2026.
Quick verdict:
- Coming from Trakt: the official importer at serializd.com/trakt. Runs from a free account, no VIP needed.
- Coming from TV Time: the official importer at serializd.com/tvtime, if you saved your export before the July 15, 2026 shutdown.
- Coming from anywhere else: the search bar. There is no CSV importer and no built-in Letterboxd, Simkl, or MyAnimeList importer.
- Bringing more than TV: Serializd cannot hold your movies. Achriom takes the whole history, shows and films together.
Before you import: three things to know
Serializd tracks TV exclusively. It is a diary and review platform in the Letterboxd mold, and it is upfront that shows are the whole job. If your Trakt account holds a decade of film logging, none of it makes the trip. The Serializd vs Trakt comparison covers that trade in full.
Data goes in and does not come out. As of August 2026 Serializd has no export button and no official API. The FAQ is upfront about it: there is currently no way to download your data, though the developer says an export feature is planned. Community scripts exist, but the supported paths run one direction. That makes the next point non-negotiable.
Back up your source first. Request Trakt’s account data export from settings before you migrate, or keep your TV Time file somewhere you back up. A watch history going back years deserves a copy on your own disk, whatever app currently displays it.
Import from Trakt: the official importer
This is the route most people need, and it is the smoothest one Serializd offers.
- Create or log in to your Serializd account. A free account is fine.
- Open serializd.com/trakt and follow the prompts to point it at your Trakt account.
- Let it run. A few dozen shows land quickly. A decade of episode logs takes longer, and you do not need to keep the tab open.
- Verify a show you know well. If Breaking Bad shows all five seasons watched with your rating intact, the history made it. Check a currently airing show like The Bear to confirm episode-level progress carried over, and compare your watchlist count against Trakt’s.
- Log something new the same day. Empty apps get abandoned. Apps holding your history plus one fresh entry tend to stick.
What transfers: watched shows, episode history, show and episode ratings, and your watchlist.
What stays on Trakt: text reviews, custom lists, and every movie you ever logged. The import copies rather than moves, so your Trakt account keeps working afterward. Plenty of people keep it running for scrobbling and the calendar while Serializd becomes the place they write.
One reassuring detail from Serializd’s own documentation: the importer only adds what is missing. Shows already marked watched or rated in your account are skipped, so running it on a lived-in account is safe.
Import from TV Time: only with a saved export
TV Time shut down on July 15, 2026, and deleted all account data on that date. Serializd shipped its official TV Time importer at serializd.com/tvtime in the final weeks before the deadline, built around the data export TV Time’s official self-service tool produced.
That means the route now has one hard requirement: a file you saved before the shutdown. Log in to Serializd, open the import page, and feed it your TV Time data. Your shows, episode history, and progress come across. Spot-check your ratings afterward: TV Time leaned on emoji reactions rather than a conventional score, and not everything in its export maps cleanly onto Serializd’s scale.
The third-party browser tools that migrated directly from a live TV Time account stopped working the day the service went dark. If you never exported, the importer has nothing to read, and rebuilding by hand is the honest path forward. What was in a TV Time export covers the file formats, and the shutdown story covers what happened and what to do without one.
Rebuild by hand: the search bar route
For every source Serializd has no importer for (Letterboxd’s TV logging, Simkl, MyAnimeList, a spreadsheet, your memory), the search bar is the importer.
It is faster than it sounds. Serializd lets you mark whole seasons watched at once, so a finished two-season show like Fleabag takes a few clicks. Under thirty shows is an evening of work, and it doubles as a chance to prune the shows you no longer care about. What you cannot rebuild are the dates. A hand-rebuilt library is a shelf, and the diary you kept elsewhere stays wherever its export landed.
What Serializd cannot import
Worth stating plainly, because these are the searches that end in disappointment:
- Movies, from anywhere. Serializd is TV only. Your Trakt film history and your Letterboxd diary have no door here.
- A generic CSV. There is no file-upload importer for arbitrary spreadsheets. Trakt and TV Time are the two self-serve sources.
- Letterboxd, Simkl, or anime trackers. No built-in importers exist for any of them. Serializd’s FAQ says other-app import requests are handled case by case over email at hello@serializd.com, so a one-off ask is possible, but there is nothing you can run yourself.
If your history is bigger than TV: Achriom
Serializd will hold your shows well. The question is what happens to everything the importer left behind: the films on your Trakt account, the movie half of your TV Time file, and the books and albums that were never going to fit a TV diary in the first place.
Achriom takes the consolidation route. One library holds shows, films, books, albums, and anime, and an AI librarian reasons across all of it. It imports a Trakt history by username, so both halves of the account land together, and it accepts TV Time’s export files directly. It is private by default, and everything exports back out as a zip of CSVs any time, so it does not become the next app holding your history hostage. The free tier covers unlimited items with 10 AI messages a month; Pro is $9.99/month.
What it does not do: scrobble from a media server, or replicate Serializd’s review-forward community. If season reviews and the feed are why you came, Serializd is the right landing spot for your shows. Achriom answers the other problem, the one where your taste is scattered across five apps that have never met. Moving from TV Time to Achriom walks that route step by step.
Serializd takes your shows and nothing else, so this is not your last migration. Your films need a home next, then your books, then your albums. Achriom is one library for shows, films, books, albums, and anime, with an AI librarian that connects them, a Trakt import by username, and full export back out any time. Free to start, no card.
Consolidate once →What each route moves
| Route | What arrives in Serializd | What stays behind | Requirements |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trakt importer | Watched shows, episode history, ratings, watchlist | Reviews, custom lists, all movies | Free Trakt + Serializd accounts |
| TV Time importer | Shows, episode history, progress | Movies; ratings never existed | Export saved before July 15, 2026 |
| Search bar rebuild | Whatever you re-log | Watch dates and history | Time |
| Achriom (alternative destination) | n/a (different app) | Nothing: shows and films import together | Trakt username or TV Time files |
Which route should you use?
Use the Trakt importer if: your history lives on Trakt. It moves the bulk of what most accounts hold, costs nothing, and will not touch your existing Serializd data. This is the right answer for most people reading this page.
Use the TV Time importer if: you saved your export before the shutdown. It is the only bridge left between that file and a working Serializd diary.
Rebuild by hand if: your source has no importer, or your history is thin. Under thirty shows, the search bar wins on time and leaves you with a cleaner library.
Land in Achriom instead (or as well) if: the import gaps bother you. If watching the movie half of your history get orphaned feels like a problem rather than a footnote, consolidating once beats migrating one format at a time.
The honest answer
Importing into Serializd is easy when your data lives in one of the two places it expects. The Trakt importer is free, official, and careful with your existing account. The TV Time importer does its job if you were organized enough to export before the deadline. Both take an afternoon at most, and verifying two or three shows tells you it worked.
The gaps are the real decision. No movies, no reviews, no custom lists on the way in, and no supported way back out once you are there. If television is the whole of what you track, none of that will bother you, and Serializd is a genuinely pleasant place to keep a TV diary. If your Trakt account was one shard of a taste that spans film, books, and music, weigh whether this migration is the one to make or the cycle to break. The full media tracker comparison puts every option side by side.
Common questions
What apps can I import into Serializd from?
Two, officially: Trakt and TV Time. The Trakt importer at serializd.com/trakt reads your account directly. The TV Time importer at serializd.com/tvtime works from the export file TV Time provided before its shutdown. Every other source means rebuilding through the search bar.
Does Serializd import from Letterboxd?
No. Serializd tracks TV exclusively and Letterboxd tracks film, so there is no importer between them and nothing it would carry. If you want your shows and films in one library, that is the job Achriom does.
Can I still import my TV Time data?
Only from a file saved before July 15, 2026. TV Time deleted all account data at shutdown, so the importer cannot reach anything on TV Time’s side. If you have the export, the route works. If you do not, the history is unrecoverable and the search bar is the way back.
Do I need Trakt VIP to move to Serializd?
No. Trakt’s CSV downloads sit behind VIP, but Serializd’s importer does not use them. It reads your Trakt account directly, and a free account on both services completes the move.
Will an import overwrite my existing Serializd data?
No. The importer adds only what is missing and skips anything you have already marked watched or rated. Running it on an account you have been using is safe.
How do I get my data out of Serializd later?
There is no official way. As of August 2026 Serializd has no export button and no public API; a community script can pull your history through the site’s private API, but nothing supported moves data out. Keep the backup of your source, because it may end up being the only portable copy of your history you own.
More on switching TV trackers: the Serializd vs Trakt head-to-head, Serializd vs TV Time, and Trakt vs TV Time if you are still choosing a destination. If you are consolidating from a dead app, start with what was in a TV Time export and the best Trakt alternatives.