The best TV Time alternatives.

With TV Time closing, 26 million-plus people need somewhere to go. The trap is jumping to another closed app and getting locked in all over again. So we ranked these on the things that actually matter after a shutdown: is it free, does it push ads, does it track both movies and TV, and — most importantly — can you take your history with you if this ever happens again? First things first, though: export your TV Time data before July 15, whichever app you choose.

At a glance

Reflects each app's widely documented features as of 2026 and our best understanding of the others. Competitors change often — if something here is out of date, tell us on Discord. All names are trademarks of their owners; this is an independent comparison.

1. Cinopsys — best free, ad-free tracker on Android

If you're on Android and you mostly used TV Time to track what you're watching and what's next, Cinopsys is the easiest recommendation. It's 100% free with no ads and no paid tier, tracks movies and TV episode-by-episode, and works the moment you install it — no account required. You get the depth TV Time users miss when they downgrade to a simpler app: detailed stats, advanced filters, upcoming-episode notifications, a release calendar, home-screen widgets, where-to-watch info and spoiler hiding.

The part that matters most after a shutdown: your data doesn't have to live inside Cinopsys. Connect Trakt or Simkl for full two-way sync, or keep everything on-device and back up to your own Google Drive. Either way, your history is portable — so you're never in this position again.

• Best for: Android users who want TV Time's tracking without ads, accounts or lock-in.
• The catch: Android only today, and the social feed is minimal by design.

For the record: Cinopsys holds 4.7★ across 970+ reviews with 100K+ installs on Google Play, and TV Time users comparing a dozen apps have singled it out for its speed and a minimal, TV-Time-like feel — grassroots word of mouth rather than a marketing budget.

2. Simkl — best cross-platform free tracker

If you switch between an iPhone, an Android phone and a laptop, Simkl is the closest thing to an all-in-one TV Time replacement. It's a tracking service with apps on web, iOS and Android, it covers movies, TV and anime, and it has its own cloud so your progress follows you across devices. It also uses TheTVDB for shows — the same database TV Time is built on, so it tends to bring your history across with the least data loss. The free tier is generous; there are some ads and a paid tier for extras.

• Best for: people who want one library synced across every device.
• The catch: some ads on the free tier, and it needs an account.

Prefer Simkl's service but want a nicer Android app? Cinopsys is a full two-way Simkl client, so you can have both.

3. Trakt — best open ecosystem

Trakt is less a single app than the open backbone a huge chunk of the tracking world runs on. Its real strength is portability: your watched history, ratings and lists live in an open service that dozens of apps can read and write, so you're never tied to one piece of software. Its free tier does show ads and carries usage limits (bigger watchlists and some features sit behind Trakt VIP) — though you can avoid the ads by pairing Trakt with an ad-free client like Cinopsys.

• Best for: anyone who wants their history in a service that outlives any single app.
• The catch: the official app divides opinion and the free tier is limited — most people pair Trakt with a better client.

That client can be Cinopsys: keep Trakt as your backbone and get a free, ad-free Android app on top. See Cinopsys vs the Trakt app.

4. Serializd — best for the social side of TV Time

What a lot of people will actually miss about TV Time isn't the tracking — it's the community: reviews, reactions, and talking about episodes. Serializd is the nearest in spirit, a "Letterboxd for TV" with reviews, ratings and a social feed for shows and films. It has apps on web, iOS and Android.

• Best for: the social, review-writing side of watching.
• The catch: it's a closed social platform, so your data isn't as portable as Trakt or Simkl — there's no open two-way sync to carry your history elsewhere.

5. SeriesGuide — best open-source Android classic

SeriesGuide is a long-running, open-source Android tracker that TV enthusiasts have trusted for years. It's ad-free, focused on episode tracking, and syncs with Trakt — so it shares Trakt's portability. Some extras (like cloud backup and a few power features) sit behind a paid unlock.

• Best for: Android users who want a dependable, TV-first tracker with Trakt sync.
• The catch: TV-first (movies are secondary), and the interface is more utilitarian than TV Time's.

Also worth knowing: Movie Paradise

The list above is ranked from our own testing — but if importing your TV Time history with the least fuss is your single biggest priority, one name keeps coming up in the r/TV_TIME community that we haven't independently tested: Movie Paradise. It's a tracker (not a streaming app), on Android and iOS, with direct importers for TV Time, Simkl, SeriesGuide, Letterboxd and IMDb — matching titles by IMDb, TMDB, Trakt or TVDB id — plus two-way Trakt sync and cloud backup. Community members specifically credit it for bringing data across (even comments, via the GDPR export) with minimal loss.

Our honest take: we can't vouch for the results because we haven't run it ourselves, and some of the import convenience sits behind its Premium tier. But if a one-shot importer matters to you more than being fully ad-free, it's worth a look — and you can still keep your data in Trakt or Simkl afterwards and use Cinopsys as your day-to-day app.

How to choose

• You're on Android and want free, ad-free tracking you own: Cinopsys.
• You want one app across iPhone, Android and the web: Simkl.
• You want your data in the most open service, and you'll pick a client for it: Trakt — ideally with Cinopsys as the app.
• You mostly miss the community and reviews: Serializd.
• You want a proven open-source Android tracker: SeriesGuide.

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