TV Time shut down on July 15, 2026
Trakt is the name that comes up most often when looking for a TV Time replacement, and it's earned: it's the richest tracking ecosystem out there. The thing to know before committing is what it actually costs once you outgrow the free tier.
Checked on August 20, 2026
| Criterion | Trakt | WatchTrail |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free with caps; VIP $60/year full price, $47.88 the first year | Free, no ads |
| Free tier | Capped: ~100 items per watchlist/collection, 2 personal lists | Unlimited tracking, calendar, stats and import |
| Automatic tracking (scrobbling) | Yes — Plex, Kodi and many third-party apps | No: you tick episodes (or a whole season at once) |
| TV Time import | Yes | Yes, matched by ID rather than by title |
| Movies + shows | Yes | Yes |
If you run Plex or Kodi and automatic tracking is your top priority, Trakt remains the best option out there — and $60/year is a fair price for the manual work it saves you.
WatchTrail comes at it from the other end: everything that was free on TV Time stays free here (tracking, calendar, notifications, statistics, import, export), with no caps and no ads. In exchange, there's no automatic scrobbling: you tick episodes — or a whole season in one click. And the community is young, that's worth saying.
Yes, and it is the most faithful of the five migrations we accept. A Trakt CSV export carries season, episode, watch date and the identifiers (TMDB, IMDb, TheTVDB): the history comes over episode by episode with its dates, and shows are matched by identifier rather than by title — so no mix-up between two shows sharing a name. Drop the file on the import page; the format is detected on its own.
There is a free tier, but it's been capped since 2026 (about 100 items per watchlist or collection, and two personal lists). Beyond that you need VIP, now $60 per year.
Yes. The criterion that matters isn't whether an import exists, but how shows are matched: ID-based matching is far more reliable than title matching, especially across dubbed and original titles.
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.