With TV Time set to shut down on July 15, 2026, millions of fans are asking the same question: where do you take years of checked-off episodes, ratings, and binge-watching sessions? The honest answer is that there are good options — each with its own calling. But there's an earlier question almost nobody asks: will your new tracker recognize everything you watch, or only the part that fits neatly into "shows and movies"? If your watch history also runs through K-dramas, anime, telenovelas, or reality TV, that answer changes the decision. We compared the top TV Time alternatives so you can choose without rushing. Just don't put the decision off past the 15th: the official export of your data can only be generated while TV Time is still online.
Why pick a TV Time alternative now
After July 15, the app leaves the app stores, the website is switched off, and all account data is deleted. Download your export in time and your history goes with you; miss it, and you start from scratch. That's why the right order is: export first, then choose the new home. On to the comparison.
Trakt: the most complete option if you automate everything
Trakt is the veteran of the category and remains the most technically robust choice. Its biggest strength is scrobbling — automatically marking episodes as watched from Plex, Kodi, and the like — plus a solid API that powers dozens of integrations. It's the natural home for power users.
The thing to watch is the pricing model: basic parts of tracking sit behind a paywall (the free watchlist is capped at 100 items, and watch-time stats are VIP-only), and the service has a track record of price hikes that frustrated part of its own community. If you don't mind subscribing, it's a powerful tool.
Simkl: free and comprehensive, with anime as a first-class citizen
Simkl tracks shows, movies, and anime as three equal pillars — which makes it the obvious pick if you live in all three worlds. The core is free, there's a browser extension that marks episodes automatically, and the service already offers an official TV Time import page. It's a generous, capable alternative; the aesthetics and navigation, on the other hand, are divisive for anyone who wants a more modern interface.
Serializd: the "Letterboxd for TV shows"
Serializd goes all in on reviews, a diary, and community, with an aesthetic clearly inspired by Letterboxd — and it does it well, for free. It's a great destination if you take TV seriously and write about what you watch. Its limitations are about scope, not quality: it only tracks TV shows (movies are left out) and there's no automatic check-in. If your TV Time history mixes shows and movies, you'd need two homes.
Letterboxd: unbeatable for movies, but only movies
Letterboxd is the gold standard for film-lover communities: reviews that become culture, lists that become conversation, and an affordable, well-loved paid plan. If your heart belongs 100% to cinema, it's hard to go wrong. But it doesn't track TV shows — and for anyone coming from TV Time, where episodes were the center of everything, that tends to be the dealbreaker.
Episodary: the emotional successor to TV Time
Episodary was born out of this very farewell, with a mission none of the other trackers on this list have taken on: to be the home for everything you watch — and for people who don't want to lose anything, not their history, and not the social ritual of talking about every episode. Instead of listing promises, we'd rather list commitments:
- Free, faithful TV Time import: drop in the official export ZIP and your history arrives whole — shows, movies, dates, watch time;
- Shows and movies together, just like TV Time, with a watchlist that has no item limit;
- Spoiler-free community by design: comments and reactions for each episode only unlock after you mark it as watched;
- A genuinely generous free tier: core tracking is free, and subscribers pay for depth and superpowers — never for the basic right to track what they watch;
- A platform that listens: you can suggest new features and request titles that aren't in the catalog yet — the roadmap grows with the community, not behind closed doors;
- Your data is yours: exportable at any time, with no lock-in.
Far more than shows and movies: Episodary's biggest differentiator
Here's the difference that sets Episodary apart from every competitor on this list: breadth. Telenovelas and soap operas, anime, K-dramas, doramas and Thai series (BL and GL included), YouTube shows and web series, reality TV, documentaries, and stand-up specials — the content other trackers ignore or treat as a footnote gets a seat at the head of the table here. If you've ever given up on logging a telenovela, that Thai BL everyone's talking about, or a web series that only exists on YouTube because "the app didn't have it," Episodary was built precisely for you. And if a title isn't in the catalog yet, you ask — and it gets added.
Which TV Time alternative should you choose?
- Automation and technical integrations: Trakt;
- Anime on equal footing with shows and movies, all free: Simkl;
- Reviews and a diary focused solely on TV: Serializd;
- Movies only, with the best film community out there: Letterboxd;
- Everything you watch — from soap operas to anime, with a spoiler-free community, a roadmap shaped by its users, and the easiest move from TV Time: Episodary.
Whichever you choose, the first step is the same: generate your export at gdpr.tvtime.com/gdpr/self-service before July 15. And if your history is bigger than "shows and movies" — if it holds K-dramas, anime, reality TV, and everything the other trackers leave out — Episodary was built to carry all of it. We've saved you a seat on the couch.