Your episode and movie release calendar.

Last checked October 21, 2026

The short answer

Cinopsys has a personal calendar of episodes and movies with premiere and finale tags. Alerts for new episodes, upcoming movies, streaming availability and digital releases are timed the way you choose, and the calendar works with Trakt, Simkl, MDBList and WeTrakr.

Keeping up with a dozen shows and a growing list of films is mostly a question of timing: what airs this week, what arrives next month, and when it is finally worth starting that series. The Cinopsys calendar puts those dates in one place.

What the calendar shows

The calendar is personal. It is built around the shows you follow and the movies you care about, so you see the dates that matter to you rather than every release on the planet. Episodes and movies sit side by side, which means a Thursday with a new episode of your weekly show and a film you have been waiting for reads as one picture instead of two separate checks. Release dates in any calendar can move, so keep an eye on alerts as a date approaches.

Premiere and finale tags

Episodes that open or close a season carry a tag. It looks like a small detail, but it changes how you plan:

• Premiere tags mark the first episode of a season. They are the dates worth protecting in your diary, and the ones where you decide whether to watch live or catch up the next day.
• Finale tags mark the last episode of a season. If you prefer to wait and watch a whole run in a weekend, the finale tag tells you exactly when that weekend arrives.
• Everything in between is a regular episode, so a quick glance separates the weeks you can skim from the weeks you cannot.

Tags also help with the opposite problem. When you return from a break, a finale tag on last week's date tells you at once that a season has wrapped and your show is now waiting for its next premiere.

Alerts timed the way you choose

A calendar you have to remember to open only solves half the problem. Cinopsys also sends alerts for:

• new episodes of the shows you follow,
• upcoming movies,
• streaming availability, and
• digital releases.

You decide the timing, so alerts can follow your routine instead of the other way round. The streaming availability and digital release alerts are especially useful for films: a title you added to your watchlist months ago can tell you when it becomes something you can actually press play on. The where to watch guide covers that side in more detail.

It works with every service

Ratings, check-ins and your personal calendar work on all four services Cinopsys connects to: Trakt, Simkl, MDBList and WeTrakr. You do not need to pick a particular service to get a calendar, and each service you stay signed in to keeps its own library, so the shows on your calendar come from whichever library is active. Details of each service are in the guides for Trakt, Simkl, MDBList and WeTrakr.

The calendar on your home screen

Three of Cinopsys's seven home-screen widgets are calendars: one for shows, one for movies and one for anime. They let you glance at what is coming without opening the app. The full list, and what each widget is for, is in the home-screen widgets guide. If you follow seasonal anime, the anime calendar pairs well with tracking anime in the same app.

Getting more out of it

1. Follow the shows you actually watch. The calendar is only as useful as the list behind it, so trim shows you have dropped. Cinopsys also lets you put a show on hold when you step away from it.
2. Add movies to your watchlist early. Upcoming-movie and digital-release alerts are tied to the titles you care about.
3. Choose alert timing that fits your week. Alerts you never act on are noise; alerts that land when you sit down to watch are a habit.
4. Use the finale tag to decide when to start. If a show is a few episodes from its finale, you can begin now and finish live, or wait and watch it in one go.
5. Add a widget. A calendar widget turns the home screen into a weekly planner.

Cinopsys is a tracking and discovery app. It does not stream or download content, so the calendar tells you when something is released, and you watch it wherever you normally would.

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