Frequently asked questions

WatchTrail is a free, ad-free web app about TV shows and movies. You check off the big sagas in order: 23 universes (MCU, Star Wars, Middle-earth, X-Men…), movies and shows together, in release or chronological order. You play every day: Watchdle, the mystery show of the day, and eight other games, no account needed. And you track your shows episode by episode, with your next episode one tap away, a release calendar and import from TV Time, Trakt, Simkl, IMDb or Letterboxd.

Yes. Tracking your shows and movies, the TV Time import, the calendar, notifications, statistics, the yearly recap, universes and games are free, with no ads. Comfort options will come later with an optional subscription, WatchTrail Plus; the core will always stay free.

Go to watchtrail.app/import and drop your file: the .zip exported from TV Time is read as is — shows, episodes, movies watched and to watch, followed shows AND the original watch dates. Trakt, Simkl, IMDb and Letterboxd CSV exports are detected automatically too (Trakt's free JSON export, not yet), as well as the CSVs produced by community converters if you no longer have a TV Time export. The import is re-runnable without creating duplicates.

If you exported your history (the GDPR request ZIP, or CSV files), yes: drop it on the import page and everything is restored. If you never exported, know that TV Time wiped its servers on July 15, 2026: a GDPR request no longer returns anything. What remains is the app's local copy on your phone (the DioCache.db file, recoverable from an iPhone or Android backup): the import guide explains how to read it with free tools and import it. Otherwise, you can start fresh on WatchTrail and re-tick your key shows in minutes.

WatchTrail brings back what TV Time fans miss most — one-tap tracking, "up next", per-episode comments with hidden spoilers, MVP character voting — and adds universes (MCU, Star Wars, DC) as checklists, a subscribable calendar, games, and an import from TV Time, Trakt, Simkl, IMDb and Letterboxd. All free, ad-free. Against Trakt (a capped free account, $60/year VIP to go beyond) and Simkl (free, denser), the TV Time import and being entirely free make the difference. Bingers, launched in August 2026 by a TV Time co-founder, is the other natural successor: native iOS and Android app, a community very close to TV Time's — but no browser version. Detailed comparisons, competitors' strengths first, are on /comparatif.

Every show has its page with all seasons: tick an episode, a whole season or the entire show. The home screen then shows “Watch next”: the next episode of each show you're watching, most recent first. On mobile, a simple swipe marks an episode as watched.

Yes, per show: enable the bell on a show page and pick email and/or push notification. You can set the send time, get alerted if a show is cancelled, and even subscribe to your personal calendar feed (.ics) to see upcoming episodes in your phone's agenda.

Interactive checklists of the big sagas: every movie and show of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Star Wars or DC, to tick in release or chronological order. Your progress syncs with your library, and you can create your own universes.

Yes: rate every episode, show or movie with stars (half-stars included) and see the community average after you vote. Each episode also has comments — with spoilers hidden by default, emoji reactions and GIFs — plus an MVP character vote.

Completely. From settings, export your whole account in one click: a full JSON file plus a CSV you can re-import as-is (episodes, movies, dates). You can also permanently delete your account at any time. No data is ever sold.

WatchTrail is a PWA: on your phone, add it to your home screen (“Install app” button in your profile) and it behaves like a real app, push notifications included — no app store needed.

The interface is available in French, English, Spanish and Portuguese. The language is picked automatically from your browser, and you can change it anytime with the selector at the bottom of the page.

Yes: follow other profiles (no approval needed, like on Letterboxd), see their activity in the feed (“Following” and “Discover” tabs), like and comment on reviews, and compete on the leaderboard (weekly activity, all-time, contribution). Profiles are public by default; a private mode exists.

Not today: tracking, import and export, notifications, calendar, universes, games, social, profile themes, private profile and feed filters are free for everyone. An optional subscription, "WatchTrail Plus", is planned for later. What will always stay free: tracking and checking off your shows and movies, importing and exporting your history, universes and games. Some comfort options open to everyone today, such as themes or the private profile, may move into that subscription; comment translation will be part of it.

Yes, from a CSV export: drop it and we detect the format on our own. Trakt: full history, episode by episode, with dates — the most faithful migration, but Trakt's CSV is reserved to its VIP subscribers (or produced by a third-party tool); its free export, as JSON files, isn't read yet. Simkl (export reserved to paying subscribers): movies, shows and how far you got; Simkl only exports the last episode watched per show, so we infer the earlier ones and only the last date is known. IMDb: your ratings become watched movies and your watchlist becomes movies to watch; IMDb has no notion of a watched episode, so shows arrive as “to watch”. Letterboxd: the official movie export. In every case we use the identifiers in the file (TMDB, IMDb, TheTVDB) rather than titles, so no mix-up between two films sharing a name. Serializd offers no export to date: there is nothing to import, and we cannot work around that.