# TV Time Has Shut Down: What Happened and Where to Move Your Shows **Published:** July 10, 2026 **Author:** Achriom **URL:** https://www.achriom.com/blog/tv-time-shutting-down > TV Time shut down on July 15, 2026 and permanently deleted all watch history. What happened, whether you can still get your data, and the best trackers to move your shows to. **Tags:** guide, movies, cross-media --- **TV Time has shut down as of July 15, 2026.** The announcement came on July 2 from parent company Whip Media, which wound down the consumer app to focus on AI products for the entertainment industry. On the shutdown date the app was pulled from the App Store and Google Play, the website went offline, and every account's watch history was permanently deleted. That last part is the one that matters. TV Time tracked episode-by-episode history for millions of people, some of it a decade deep. None of it survived July 15 unless the owner took it out first. Here is what happened, what it means for your data, and what you can still do about it now that the deadline has passed. ## What happened - **July 2, 2026**: Whip Media announced TV Time would shut down, citing a company pivot to AI. - **July 15, 2026**: the app was removed from app stores, the website went offline, and all personal account data was permanently deleted. - There was no paid tier to keep it alive, no publicly announced acquisition, and no announced way to request your data after the deadline. TV Time had one of the largest TV-tracking communities anywhere, with tens of millions of lifetime installs. Its shutdown was the biggest forced migration the media-tracking world has seen. ## If you still have your export files: import them now If you exported before the deadline with the free TV Time Out browser extension or TV Time's official export at gdpr.tvtime.com, your history is safe in those files, and every serious tracker can take you in. Achriom imports the extension's two files directly, episode-by-episode history and all. (Our [export walkthrough](/blog/export-tv-time-data/) covers the file format if you need it.)

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## If you never exported: what you can still do The history is gone now, and no tracker can import what no longer exists. What remains: **Check whether a copy already lives somewhere.** If you ever connected TV Time to another service, or imported into Trakt, Serializd, Simkl, or Achriom during the migration window, that copy is yours and is safe. Sign in and look before assuming the worst. **Rebuild the part that matters.** Most people's active rotation is a dozen shows, not a thousand. In Achriom you can tell the librarian the shows you remember watching and roughly where you were, and it adds them in bulk with season and episode structure, so ten minutes of conversation rebuilds your watching life from today forward. The deep history is lost, but the tracking habit does not have to be. **Start where you actually watch.** Your streaming services still know what you watched. Skimming your Netflix or Disney+ viewing history while you chat with the librarian is the quickest way to jog the list back out of memory. ## Where to go: the short version We tested and ranked the full field in [Best TV show tracking apps in 2026](/blog/best-tv-tracking-apps/). The short version: - **Trakt** if you want automatic scrobbling from your media apps and the deepest integration ecosystem. - **Serializd** if you want a Letterboxd-style diary for television, with season reviews and a design-forward community. Fully free. - **Simkl** if you want a free automatic tracker covering TV and movies. - **Achriom** if you want your shows tracked alongside your films, books, and music in one library, with an AI librarian that finds the connections between them and imports your TV Time export directly. The honest advice is the same regardless of destination: if you saved your export files, you can try any of these and settle where it feels right. If you did not, pick the tracker you will actually keep using and rebuild your active rotation from there.