It's official: TV Time is shutting down on July 15, 2026. After that date, the app leaves the app stores, the website goes offline, and all account data is deleted — every episode you checked off, every rating, every hour on that watch-time counter you spent years building up. The good news: you can save all of it today, in just a few minutes. This guide shows you how.
What happens to TV Time on July 15, 2026
Whip Media, the company behind TV Time, announced it is discontinuing the app to focus on AI products for businesses. In practice, starting July 15, 2026:
- The app is removed from the App Store and Google Play;
- The tvtime.com website goes offline;
- All personal account data is deleted — permanently.
Here's the detail a lot of people are missing: your data export can only be generated while TV Time is still online — that is, until July 15. After that, there is no way to recover anything. It's not a reason to panic — it's a reason to set aside five minutes this week.
How to export your TV Time data (step by step)
Whip Media has made an official export tool available, built on GDPR. It's how you download your complete history:
- 1. Go to the official export portal: gdpr.tvtime.com/gdpr/self-service. You can also get there through the app's settings by requesting your data.
- 2. Sign in with your TV Time account — the same credentials you use in the app.
- 3. Request your data export. The system prepares the file, which can take a few minutes depending on the size of your history. A decade of binge-watching carries some weight, and proudly so.
- 4. Download the ZIP file once it's ready.
- 5. Keep that ZIP somewhere safe. Save a copy to your cloud drive, your email, or anywhere you won't lose it. After July 15, that file is the only copy of your history.
Don't leave it until the last minute. If millions of people request their exports in the final week, file preparation could take longer than usual — and nobody deserves to lose years of history to a queue.
What's inside the TV Time export
The ZIP gathers everything you built in the app over the years:
- Shows and episodes marked as watched, with dates;
- Watched movies and your watchlist;
- Your ratings and reviews;
- Profile details and activity history.
The files come in CSV and JSON formats — nothing you need to open or make sense of. What matters is having the ZIP saved. Reading it is the job of whoever welcomes your history on the other side.
How to bring your TV Time history into Episodary
This is exactly the moment Episodary was built for. We're the social home for tracking shows and movies — and we built an importer tailor-made for the official TV Time export. The path is short:
- 1. Create your Episodary account (it takes less than a minute).
- 2. Drop your TV Time ZIP onto the import screen. The whole file, exactly as it came — we handle the rest.
- 3. Check the results. Your shows, movies, watched episodes, dates, and total watch time are rebuilt in your diary. If a title comes out ambiguous (it happens with similar names), we'll ask, and you can confirm in a minute.
A few commitments we insist on putting in writing: the TV Time import is free, core tracking is free, and your data stays yours — exportable from Episodary whenever you want, to wherever you want. Nobody should have to go through what the TV Time community is going through twice.
Recap: what to do today
- Go to gdpr.tvtime.com/gdpr/self-service and request your export;
- Download the ZIP and keep a safe copy;
- Bring the file to your history's new home.