TV Time shut down. Here is where to track your shows now.
TV Time closed on 15 July 2026. If you saved a data export before then, Cinephile can import it. If you did not, you can rebuild your library faster than you would expect.
What happened to TV Time
TV Time shut down on 15 July 2026. Its iOS and Android apps were removed from the App Store and Google Play, and tvtime.com now shows only a farewell message thanking the community.
If you were a user, your watch history no longer exists on TV Time's servers. What you can do next depends entirely on one thing: whether you downloaded your data export before the service closed.
You saved your export
That file is your whole library, and Cinephile reads it. The TV Time migration guide walks through importing your movies, shows, watch progress, ratings and lists.
You did not
Then that data is gone, and no app can recover it — treat anything claiming otherwise with suspicion. Rebuilding is quicker than it sounds, though: you do not re-enter history episode by episode. Add a show, set it to the episode you had reached, and everything before it is marked watched.
What Cinephile gives you instead
Cinephile is a native iOS and iPadOS app for tracking movies and TV shows. Like TV Time, it tracks episode by episode and keeps films and series in one library.
- Flexible library statuses, so a show you paused and a show you abandoned are not the same thing
- Episode-by-episode progress, including starting a show partway through its run
- 5-star or 10-star ratings with half- and quarter-star precision, or custom emoji ratings
- Statistics built from your watch history — activity by month, ratings distribution, genres and streaming providers
- Home Screen widgets for your queue and upcoming releases
- Tags, notes and saved quotes on anything in your library
- Two-way Trakt sync, so your library is never locked inside one app again
The actual lesson: keep your library portable
People lost their watch history because it existed in exactly one place. Cinephile syncs two ways with Trakt, an independent service with its own API, so your library also lives somewhere that does not depend on Cinephile continuing to exist. Set it up once in Settings. If you take one habit away from the TV Time shutdown, make it that one.
TV Time and Cinephile compared
| TV Time | Cinephile | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Shut down 15 July 2026 | Actively developed |
| Platforms | iOS and Android, both removed | iOS and iPadOS |
| Movies and TV shows | Both | Both |
| Episode-by-episode tracking | Yes | Yes |
| Price | Was free | Free, with an optional Premium tier |
| Imports a TV Time export | — | Yes |
| Syncs to an independent service | No | Yes, two-way with Trakt |
Common questions
- Did TV Time shut down?
- Yes. TV Time shut down on 15 July 2026. The apps were removed from the App Store and Google Play, and tvtime.com now serves only a farewell message.
- Can I still get my TV Time data?
- Only if you downloaded an export before 15 July 2026. The service is gone, so there is no way to request a new export now. Be sceptical of any tool claiming it can recover your history from TV Time today.
- Does Cinephile import TV Time data?
- Yes. Cinephile imports the official TV Time data export, including the comments you left in that community, and also reads the JSON files produced by the TV Time Liberator browser extension.
- Is Cinephile free?
- Cinephile is free to download and use, with an optional Premium tier.
- Is there an Android version of Cinephile?
- Not currently. Cinephile is a native iOS and iPadOS app. Support may expand over time.
Cinephile is free to download on iPhone and iPad.
Get Cinephile on the App StoreActively developed — see the changelog for what has shipped recently.