How to Import Your Trakt History into Serializd (2026 Guide)
How to import your Trakt history into Serializd in 2026: the official importer, what transfers, what stays behind, and where your movie history can go.
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Serializd has an official Trakt importer, and it does most of the work for you. Log in to your Serializd account, open serializd.com/trakt, and start the import. Your watched shows, episode history, show and episode ratings, and your watchlist all come across. Text reviews, custom lists, and your entire movie history stay behind. The importer is free, it does not require Trakt VIP, and it will not touch your Trakt account.
That is the short version. The rest of this guide covers the details that trip people up: what to check before you run it, exactly what transfers, what to do with the film half of your Trakt history, and whether this migration is the last one you want to make.
If you are still deciding whether to switch at all, read the Serializd vs Trakt comparison first. This guide assumes you have decided and want your history moved.
Before you start: three things to check
Take a backup of your Trakt data. Trakt keeps its CSV downloads behind the VIP subscription, but you can request an export of your account data from Trakt’s settings on any account. Do it before you migrate, whatever route you take. A watch history going back years is worth a copy that lives on your own disk. The same logic applies to every tracker, which is why we bang this drum in the TV Time export guide too.
Know what Serializd is for. Serializd describes itself as a tracking app exclusively for TV shows. It is a diary and review platform in the Letterboxd mold, with manual logging and a public feed. If you came to Trakt for scrobbling from Plex or Jellyfin, understand that nothing on Serializd fills itself in automatically. The Serializd vs TV Time comparison covers how it stacks up against the other manual diary.
Decide what happens to Trakt. The import copies your data rather than moving it, so Trakt keeps working afterward. Some people let their VIP lapse and leave the free account dormant as a second backup. Others keep Trakt for its calendar and scrobbling while Serializd becomes the place they actually write. Both are reasonable, and you do not have to decide before importing.
Step by step: the official Serializd importer
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Create or log in to your Serializd account. The importer requires a logged-in account before it will start. A free account is fine.
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Open serializd.com/trakt. This is Serializd’s dedicated Trakt import page. Follow the prompts to point it at your Trakt account.
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Follow the import prompts. Serializd walks you through connecting your Trakt history from there. If the importer stalls or comes back empty, Serializd’s import page has an FAQ covering the common failure cases.
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Let it run. A history of a few dozen shows lands quickly. A decade of episode logs takes longer. There is no need to keep the tab open all day; check back and spot-check.
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Verify the import. Open a show you know well. If Severance shows both seasons watched and your rating intact, the history made it. Check a currently airing show like Andor to confirm episode-level progress carried over, and compare your watchlist count against Trakt’s.
- Rate something new. The fastest way to make a new tracker feel like yours is to log the next episode you watch the same day you migrate. Empty apps get abandoned; apps with your history and one fresh entry tend to stick.
One reassuring detail from Serializd’s own documentation: the import only adds what is missing. If you have been trying Serializd for a month and already have shows logged, the importer skips anything you have already marked watched or rated. Running it on a lived-in account is safe.
What does not make the trip
Serializd is upfront about the gaps, and they matter more for some people than others.
Text reviews stay on Trakt. If you have years of episode comments and show reviews, they do not transfer. Your backup export is the only copy you will have, which is another reason to take it.
Custom lists stay on Trakt. Watchlist transfers; your hand-built lists do not. If you maintain elaborate ranked lists, plan on rebuilding the ones you care about.
Movies do not transfer at all. This is the big one. Trakt tracks film and TV together. Serializd tracks TV exclusively, by its own description. Every film you ever logged on Trakt stays behind, which deserves its own section.
Where your movie history goes
If your Trakt account is mostly television, you can skip this. If it holds years of film logging, you are about to split one library into two apps, and it is worth pausing on that.
The common answer is Letterboxd for films and Serializd for shows. It works, and both communities are good. But notice what just happened: one tracker became two, each holding half your watching, with your books and albums in other apps again. The night you watch Dune: Part Two and then start the novel it came from, no single app you own can see both halves of that evening.
Our roundup of the best Trakt alternatives walks the full field. The short version is that every mainstream option splits your media by format, and each split is another migration you will run someday.
If you track more than TV: Achriom
Achriom takes the consolidation route. One library holds your shows, films, books, albums, and anime, and an AI librarian reasons across all of it. It imports your Trakt history by username, so both halves of your Trakt account, television and film, land in the same place. Nothing gets orphaned.
It is private by default, with no public feed. You log what you watch and read, and the librarian answers questions like what to start after finishing Severance, drawing on your whole collection rather than one format’s slice. Every item can be exported back out at any time, so it does not become the next place your data is stuck. 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 give you Serializd’s review-forward community. If the writing and the feed are why you are moving to Serializd, use Serializd for that. Achriom is the answer to a different problem, the one where your taste lives in five apps that have never met.
Whatever you move today, you will run this same migration again for your films, your books, and your music. Achriom ends the app-per-format cycle: shows, films, books, albums, and anime in one library, an AI librarian that connects them, a Trakt import that works by username, and full export back out any time. Free to start, no card.
Consolidate once →What transfers: the full picture
| Your Trakt data | Makes the trip to Serializd? |
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| Watched shows and episode history | Yes |
| Show and episode ratings | Yes |
| Watchlist | Yes |
| Text reviews | No |
| Custom lists | No |
| Movie history | No (Serializd tracks TV only) |
| Your Trakt account itself | Untouched, keeps working |
Which route should you use
Use the official importer if: you want your history moved with the least effort. It covers watched shows, episode history, ratings, and watchlist, which is the bulk of what most accounts hold. This is the right answer for almost everyone.
Use the community CLI tool if: you are comfortable on a command line and want more control over the process. The open-source trakt to serializd migration script on GitHub handles watched shows, though Serializd’s platform limits mean watch dates cannot be migrated that way. For most people the official importer is simpler and better supported.
Rebuild by hand if: your Trakt history is thin. Under twenty shows, an evening with the search bar gets you there and doubles as a chance to prune what you no longer care about.
Import into Achriom instead (or as well) if: your Trakt account holds both film and TV, or your media life extends past the screen. The Trakt import by username brings the whole record, and the librarian puts it next to your books and albums.
The honest answer
The migration itself is the easy part. Serializd’s importer is free, official, and careful with your existing data, which is more than most app migrations can say. Run it, verify a couple of shows, and you are done in an afternoon.
The harder question is the one the migration surfaces. Moving from Trakt to Serializd trades automation for community and leaves your movie history looking for a home. If television is the only thing you track, that trade is clean and Serializd is a lovely place to land. If your Trakt account was one shard of a taste that spans films, books, and albums, consider whether this is the moment to consolidate instead of migrating one format at a time. That is the case for Achriom, and you can weigh every option side by side in the full media tracker comparison.
Common questions
Does Serializd have an official Trakt import?
Yes. It lives at serializd.com/trakt and is free to use. You log in to your Serializd account, start the import, and it pulls your Trakt data across without requiring anything from Trakt’s paid tier.
What transfers from Trakt to Serializd?
Watched shows, episode history, show and episode ratings, and your watchlist. Text reviews and custom lists do not transfer, and movies do not transfer because Serializd tracks television exclusively.
Will the import overwrite my existing Serializd data?
No. The importer only adds missing data. Shows you have already marked watched or rated on Serializd are skipped, so it is safe to run on an account you have been using.
Does my Trakt watch history include dates after the import?
Serializd imports your episode history as part of the transfer. If exact watch dates matter to you, take Trakt’s account data export before migrating so you always hold the original timestamped record.
Do I need Trakt VIP to leave Trakt?
No. Trakt’s CSV downloads are a VIP feature, but the Serializd importer reads your account directly and does not need them. A free account on both services is enough to complete the move.
What happens to the movies in my Trakt history?
They stay on Trakt. Serializd is TV only, so the film half of your account needs another home: Letterboxd if you want a film community, or Achriom if you want your shows and films back in one library with your books and albums. See the best Trakt alternatives for the full field.
More on switching TV trackers: the Serializd vs Trakt head-to-head, Serializd vs TV Time, Trakt vs TV Time, and how to export your TV Time data if you are consolidating from more than one app.