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Popular Show Tracking App TV Time Shutting Down on July 15

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TV Time, the popular show and movie tracking app, is shutting down on July 15, with all personal user data set to be deleted after that date.

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In a support page update announcing the news, the company admitted that it was "no longer sustainable to continue operating the service as a free app," and said that there was "not enough demand for a paid app."

Come the shutdown date, the TV Time app will be removed from both the App Store and Google Play, and the tvtime.com website will go offline permanently.

Users who want to preserve their viewing history and tracked data can request an export through the app's GDPR self-service tool before the July 15 cutoff. The company says all personal user data will be deleted after that date, but it may retain aggregated, non-personal data for business or legal purposes.

TV Time has operated for more than a decade, and over that period it built a dedicated community around episode tracking, watchlists, and user ratings. In the wake of the closure announcement, users on the Resetera forums have suggested alternatives like Trakt, Serializd, and Simkl – although the latter's servers have reportedly struggled under a sudden wave of new sign-ups.

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I have tried every TV tracking app and used TV Time for quite awhile. I left when they started asking me to review every episode of a show when marking it as watched or asking me to pick my favorite character from the episode. It just got super annoying to use as a tracker. The app had also gotten slower and had more errors and outages over the last few years and it was just time for something new. They had too much tech debt and weren’t keeping pace with other apps.

I would recommend Sofa Time or Showline for an app experience, or Simkl is great if you want to stay in a web app (they had an app, but hasn’t been touched in years).
 
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I agree!!! SIMKL is by far the best tracking site

SIMKL + SofaTime = best watchlist combo...

Those who are suggestting trakt or episodate or any other calendar related tracking app... please do your research, if you want to go through the process of again switching to a different app.

Also, look for apps that provide easy watchlist export features!
 
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I started using this app a couple of months back based on reviews of people I know who use it. Good thing I went with the month-to-month paid subscription and not annual. 😛
 
I used TV Time for a while and liked it. The comments sections were very active but the interface flow always felt a little funky to me. Anyway, I've been using something called Sequel and have been pretty happy with it. It has JustWatch integration to keep tabs on which streamer(s) a given show is on, and also has info on whether a show is renewed or not, when it's coming back on, etc. It can track also track movies, but I use Letterboxed for that.

Speaking of which, what I really want is for Letterboxd to do a TV version of their movie site/app. Thinking it would probably have to be kept separate from film? Anyway, they have the largest "social effect" by far for me in that a lot of people I know are using it, and they've managed to keep toxicity to a minimum by limiting interaction to commenting on reviews (which seems to stay pretty in-bounds from what I can tell).
 
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I've been using an app called Hobi for a few years now and really like it. It was cheap (at the time, not sure now) to purchase the lifetime ad-free version and has held up really well for my (admittedly simple) tracking needs.
 
And sadly, another one bites the dust. Reminds me a little bit of what happened several years back with one of my former favorites in this space: TV.com
 
I had trakt on for years on Infuse, forgot I had it. then looked at it.... It misses a LOT of stuff I watch.
What's the point if it misses a bunch of stuff???
 
Too bad the article doesn't say what a "TV tracking app" does. I'm unfamiliar with it so can someone explain what the purpose is? To be honest, it sounds bad, ie., something tracking me, but in reality I'm sure it's something else!
 
DEMinSoCAL said:
Too bad the article doesn't say what a "TV tracking app" does. I'm unfamiliar with it so can someone explain what the purpose is? To be honest, it sounds bad, ie., something tracking me, but in reality I'm sure it's something else!
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For people like me, who watch lots of TV shows/Movies, it lets us track (check off) what we have watched. It's a running list/library. It also helps us know when the next season starts, next episode airs, when a movie is set to release, etc. Lots of nice things.

I use Trakt. I don't pay for it. It syncs to my Infuse app and Plex. Tracks all the stuff I watch.
 
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I'm bummed it's discontinuing. I downloaded Showline as a replacement and it's decent so far. I used TV Time all the time and even had a widget for it on my home page. I was a little surprised they never offered a subscription or a way to pay for software development. I would do that if the App is great and the developer is responsive.
 
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... I was a little surprised they never offered a subscription or a way to pay for software development. I would do that if the App is great and the developer is responsive.
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I can't necessarily speak for this specific developer... but for myself: I think that sometimes we devs tend to build our favorite passion projects first and foremost because we wanted something like that ourselves, and weren't completely satisfied with the other offerings that might exist -- if they exist at all.

But as soon as you start evaluating ways to make the project profitable, it transitions from a passion to a business venture. Some people enjoy doing that just as much as the development... others, not so much.

Maintaining a "business" really is a different kind of beast.
 
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So sad. This is far the best TV-tracking app. It's like Letterboxd but for TV. Hope they change their mind, or offer a paid version in order to keep it alive.
 
After years of struggling to find a TV tracking app that did everything I wanted, decided to develop my own with a group that knows a bit how to put these things together. Almost ready for "primetime". If there's anyone out there that uses TV tracking apps heavily (and particularly wants to track shows watched by your family, not just individually), send me a message to get on the list for beta testing when we get there very soon.
 
It's not popular if people don't care about it enough to actually keep it in business. It's no different than reading articles claiming a "beloved" or "iconic" restaurant or shop closed, but they simply went out of business because they had no patrons.
 
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I used TV Time for a while and liked it. The comments sections were very active but the interface flow always felt a little funky to me. Anyway, I've been using something called Sequel and have been pretty happy with it. It has JustWatch integration to keep tabs on which streamer(s) a given show is on, and also has info on whether a show is renewed or not, when it's coming back on, etc. It can track also track movies, but I use Letterboxed for that.

Speaking of which, what I really want is for Letterboxd to do a TV version of their movie site/app. Thinking it would probably have to be kept separate from film? Anyway, they have the largest "social effect" by far for me in that a lot of people I know are using it, and they've managed to keep toxicity to a minimum by limiting interaction to commenting on reviews (which seems to stay pretty in-bounds from what I can tell).
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This app is apparently good as a letterboxd replacement that has TV as well as movies. I just signed up and might see how well it works.
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