TV Time Shuts Down July 15: How to Save Your Watch History Before It's Deleted Forever

After more than a decade of tracking episodes for millions of viewers, TV Time is shutting down on July 15, 2026. Parent company Whip Media confirmed the closure, saying it was "no longer sustainable to continue operating the service as a free app" as the company pivots to enterprise AI products.

The consequences are unusually harsh: on July 15 the app disappears from the App Store and Google Play, tvtime.com goes offline, and — this is the part that matters — all personal account data is permanently deleted. Every episode you have checked off, every rating, every comment. According to TechCrunch and Appfigures, that affects more than 26 million users.

Step one: export your data today

There is no recovery after the deadline, so do this now:

1. Open TV Time and go to Profile → Settings. 2. Under Account, request your data export (the GDPR self-service tool). 3. A ZIP file arrives by email. Keep it somewhere safe — after July 15 you can never request it again. 4. Inside the ZIP are CSV files containing your full watch history, ratings and lists.

Export queues are already slowing down as the deadline approaches, so don't leave this to the last day.

Where should you move?

Every major tracker has rushed out a TV Time importer. They are not all equal, though — here is the honest picture:

Trakt is the best-known alternative with powerful automatic tracking and media-server integrations. Its weakness is community: you can follow people, but the social layer is thin, and several core features sit behind a paywall.

Simkl imports the TV Time ZIP directly and covers anime particularly well. Its servers have visibly struggled under the migration wave, and it is better at logging than at community.

Serializd has genuine Letterboxd energy and a real community — but it tracks TV only, and every episode must be logged by hand.

Wecult — full disclosure: that's us, so we'll stick to facts. Wecult imports your TV Time ZIP directly and preserves exact episode-level progress: whatever season and episode you were on, that's where you continue. The difference is scope — movies, TV shows, games and books live in one app (Letterboxd, Goodreads and Steam imports are supported too), and the social layer is central: lists, short posts tied to real titles, and Match Twin, which pairs you with people whose taste mirrors yours. Dark-first design, free to use, on [the App Store and Google Play](https://wecult.app).

The bottom line

Whichever app you choose, the deadline does not move: export your TV Time data before July 15. An hour after the shutdown, ten years of watch history becomes unrecoverable.