TV Time is shutting down: what to do before 15 July

2 Jul 2026

After more than a decade and over 26 million installs, TV Time is closing. The official announcement confirms the service ends after 15 July 2026. The apps are being removed from the App Store and Google Play, the website is going offline, and every account, along with its watch history, is being permanently deleted.

If you have years of episodes ticked off in TV Time, you have a small window to act. Here is the short version.

1. Export your watch history now

TV Time provides a self-service export tool at gdpr.tvtime.com/gdpr/self-service. Sign in with your TV Time credentials and request your download; it contains your watch history, check-ins, ratings and account information. If you have forgotten your password, reset it from the login page first.

Do this even if you are not sure what you will do with the file. After 15 July there is no recovery path: the data is gone. Our step-by-step export guide walks through the process in detail.

2. Pick where you are tracking next

The gap TV Time leaves is really three habits:

Any replacement needs to cover those three. We compared the main options in the best TV Time alternatives, from power-user platforms to minimal trackers.

We build OnNext precisely for this: a clean tracker whose home screen is simply the next unwatched episode of every show you follow, with a push notification on the day a new episode airs. No feed, no ads, no clutter. If that is all you actually used TV Time for, you will feel at home.

3. Re-follow your current shows

Whichever app you choose, do not try to reconstruct ten years of history on day one. Add the handful of shows you are actively watching, mark where you are in each, and let the export file be the archive. Tracking works best as a habit about what is on next, not a museum of what you have seen.

The deadline, again

15 July 2026. Export first, choose second. Everything else can wait.

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