TV Time Is Shutting Down: How to Export Your History and Move to Trakt

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:18:05 +0530

TV Time is done. The service ends after July 15, 2026, with the company saying it was no longer sustainable to run as a free app and that there wasn’t enough demand for a paid one. After that date the app comes off the App Store and Google Play, and the tvtime.com website goes offline entirely, with all personal account data deleted afterward. Parent company Whip Media is putting its weight behind enterprise AI products instead of the consumer app.

So if you’ve spent years logging episodes, ratings, and watchlists on there, you need to get your data out before the 15th. Here’s what happened to all that tracking, and how to move it to Trakt.

What Happens to Your History

Nothing carries over automatically. Once the shutdown date hits, TV Time and everything tied to your account is gone. Whip Media has said the consumer data collected through TV Time won’t be used for any commercial service going forward, and personal data will be deleted, though they may keep aggregated non-personal data for internal or legal purposes. Either way, your watch history isn’t going anywhere unless you export it yourself first.

The Alternative: Trakt

Trakt is a solid replacement and honestly feels snappier than TV Time did toward the end. It tracks movies and shows, keeps history, ratings, and watchlists, and has a proper import tool built into settings that takes a TV Time export directly. No manual re-entry of years of watch history.

Go to the TV Time GDPR self-service page: https://gdpr.tvtime.com/gdpr/self-service
Log in and request your data export.
It’s self-service, so there’s no waiting on an email. Give it a few minutes and a download button will show up on the page. If it’s not there yet, just check back a bit later.
Click the download button to get your .zip file. No password needed, it’s not locked, so you can import it straight into Trakt.

Don’t wait too long to do this. Once July 15 passes, the export tool and your account data are gone for good.

Step 2: Import Into Trakt

Log into Trakt and go to Settings → Data: https://app.trakt.tv/settings/data
Under Import, select the TV Time tab.
Drag the .zip file you downloaded into the upload box (or upload it by clicking).
If Trakt doesn’t accept the .zip directly, extract it first and upload the individual CSV files instead - the tracking-prod-records files, plus followed_tv_show.csv and ratings-live-votes.csv if you want your watchlist and ratings carried over too.
Trakt processes the import and rebuilds your watch history from it.

That’s it. Your episodes, movies, and ratings show up in Trakt without you having to rebuild anything by hand.

A Couple of Notes

Trakt also has a duplicate-play checker in the History Analysis section of Data settings, which is worth running after a big import like this since large imports can sometimes create duplicate entries.

If TV Time login still works for you and you want a faster route than waiting on the GDPR email, there’s also a TV Time Liberator browser extension that exports your data directly while you’re logged in, and Trakt accepts that export the same way. But the GDPR export is the official path and works even if the extension route doesn’t for you.

Either way, don’t put this off. July 15 is coming fast, and once it’s gone, it’s gone.

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TV Time Is Shutting Down: How to Export Your History and Move to Trakt

What Happens to Your History

The Alternative: Trakt

Step 1: Get Your GDPR Export from TV Time

Step 2: Import Into Trakt

A Couple of Notes