TV Time shut down on July 15, 2026
The IMDb watchlist is the most used tool in the world for remembering what you want to watch. The question is not its quality, it is what it is designed to do: a list of titles is not a progress tracker.
Checked on August 15, 2026
| Criterion | IMDb | WatchTrail |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A list of titles, and a 'watched' marking that applies to a TITLE | A progress tracker: which episode, when, and what comes next |
| The level of detail | IMDb's help does not state whether marking reaches individual episodes | The episode, with its watch date |
| What is coming | — | A calendar of upcoming episodes and per-show alerts |
| Time spent | — | A total in hours, computed from episodes actually ticked |
If you mostly watch films and your watchlist works as a memo, it is plenty. Adding a tool for three films a month would be needless complication.
The need changes with the number of ongoing shows. At two shows, memory is enough; at ten, you need somewhere that remembers the episode, the date and what is coming. That is exactly what WatchTrail does, and all it does beyond a watchlist.
Yes. The ratings export becomes watched movies, the watchlist becomes movies to watch, and every title is matched by its IMDb identifier rather than its name. The limit is IMDb's own: it has no notion of a watched episode, so a show in an export arrives as “to watch”, never with a history. Reconstructing one would mean inventing it.
Its help describes a title-level 'watched' marking and does not state the granularity for shows. We report what the documentation says, no more.
A spreadsheet export with the right columns imports here like any other.
No — as a database it remains irreplaceable. It is a different use, not a competitor.
Whatever tool you pick, check that it takes your TV Time export — and how. On WatchTrail, every show is matched by its ID, not by its title.
See how to move my historyOther services' pricing and features change over time: this page shows when it was last checked. When in doubt, the service's own page is authoritative.