TV Time alternatives on iPhone

Whip Media, which owned TV Time, announced on 2 July 2026 that the service would close on 15 July 2026. The company said the free app was no longer sustainable and that there was not enough demand for a paid version, while redirecting the business toward enterprise AI products.

The app was removed from the App Store and Google Play, tvtime.com went offline, and personal user data was deleted after that date. TV Time had passed 26 million lifetime installs.

If you did not export your data before 15 July 2026, there is nothing left to recover.

TV Time offered a GDPR self-service export until the shutdown date. If you used it, you have a file. If you did not, no app can retrieve your history. Not Showtime, not Trakt, not Simkl. The servers that held it no longer exist.

Several migration guides published in July suggested otherwise. If your history is gone, the only question left is where you start again.

TV Time held everyone’s history on its servers. When the company stopped, the history stopped with it.

Showtime keeps your library on your iPhone. Your tracking works offline, the export is a file you keep, and iCloud protection brings the library back on a new install if you turn it on. If you would rather keep your history on a service, Trakt sync is still there.

It will not work for you if

• You are on Android. Showtime is iPhone only. TV Time was on both.
• Your iPhone cannot run iOS 26.2. Showtime requires the current release, which rules out older devices.
• You want the full TV Time community: its social feed, reaction GIFs, badges or comment posting. Showtime lets you read Trakt comments and react to them, but does not offer that broader community experience.
• You want automatic check-ins. Showtime does not scrobble.

It will suit you if

• What you used TV Time for was knowing which episode comes next, and keeping a list of what to watch.
• You found the alternatives you tried too dense, and you want fewer screens rather than more features.
• You want your library on your phone rather than on a service, with an export you can take away.
• You already use Trakt and want a simpler app on top of it. That mode is still there.

1. Open Showtime and choose Use Showtime. No account, no email. The library stays on your iPhone.
2. Add the shows you are actually mid-way through. For most people that is five to fifteen titles, not hundreds.
3. Mark the last episode you watched in each one. Showtime asks whether to mark the earlier episodes of that season as well, which does most of the work in one tap per show.
4. Turn on iCloud protection if you want it. It is off until you choose it, and it brings your library back on a new iPhone.
5. Leave the rest. Older history is not worth an evening of typing, and nothing in the app depends on it.

If you already have a Trakt account, connect it at the first screen instead. You can migrate that library to a local Showtime one later.

• Trakt. The service Showtime is built on, with its own official app. Far more capable, and correspondingly denser. Imports from IMDb, Plex, Letterboxd and TV Time exports. Runs on iOS 18.6 and later, so it reaches older iPhones than Showtime does.
• Simkl. Tracks shows, movies and anime, on more platforms. It absorbed a large share of the TV Time migration.
• Serializd. Closer to the social, review-driven side of what TV Time offered.
• Moviebase and SeriesGuide. Strong options if you are on Android, where Showtime is not available.

If you did export your TV Time data before the shutdown, Showtime cannot read that file. Trakt and Simkl can import it.

These are real options. If one of them fits your case better than Showtime, use it.

Showtime is a native iOS app to track the TV shows and movies you watch. The library lives on your iPhone and works offline. Trakt sync is optional.

Download on the App Store Free · iOS 26.2 or later · iPhone

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