TV Time has shut down. The app is dark, the service is offline, and the accounts, with all their watch history, watchlists and ratings, have been deleted. Its export portal went offline along with the rest of it, so a fresh export is no longer possible.
The good news, if you acted in time: the export file you downloaded from TV Time still works, and it works forever. It is a full copy of your account sitting on your own drive, and everything in it, ratings included, comes straight into Hobi. If you have that file, you did not lose a thing.
Find your TV Time export file
The export arrived as a download when you requested it from TV Time, usually a ZIP or a set of CSV files. Check wherever you keep downloads: your cloud drive, the email you sent it to, or your computer's Downloads folder. You do not need to unzip it or edit anything first. Hobi reads the file as is.
What is actually in the export?
The download is a set of files covering your account, and your history is split across
more than one of them. Your shows and episodes live in
tracking-prod-records-v2.csv. Your movies live in a second file,
tracking-prod-records.csv. Your ratings live in separate
ratings- files alongside both. That split is worth knowing, because it is
exactly where other importers lose things: read only the main history file and you drop
the ratings, miss the movies file and a whole library disappears. Hobi reads all of
them. Keep the whole export together: it is a decade of TV in one place, which is
exactly why it is worth ninety seconds to save it properly.
Common snags (and quick fixes)
- You cannot find the file. Search your downloads and email for anything from TV Time or tvtime, dated around when you requested it. It is often a ZIP named after your account.
- You never requested an export. With the service shut down, a new export is no longer possible, and a deleted account cannot be recovered. Going forward, Hobi keeps your data portable so a shutdown never strands you again.
- Worried your ratings will not survive the move. They live in separate ratings files inside the export, and Hobi reads them. Many other importers only read the main history file and silently drop your ratings. Hobi keeps them.
You have the file. Now what?
Downloading your data is step one. Step two is picking a tracker that works the way TV Time did, so a scrollable list, one tap episode marking, real show statuses, a calendar and reminders, and ratings that come along for the ride.
That is the app we build. Hobi is the official migration partner for TV Time users. It keeps your show statuses (Watching, On hold, Dropped, Plan to watch), counts down to every next episode and premiere, and tracks your ratings too, which matters because some popular migration paths quietly drop your ratings on the way in. Hobi's direct TV Time import is live, in the app under Settings, Import from TV Time: upload the export file you just saved, as is, and it transfers your viewing history, watchlist and ratings in one go. Start at hobiapp.com/tv-time. Living in Trakt already? Hobi syncs with it two ways.
The full walkthrough of moving in is here: TV Time shut down: how to save your shows and move to Hobi.
Got your file? Next step: move your TV Time history to Hobi.
Save your history, then land somewhere good. Hobi is free on iOS and Android.