The new Hobi: what's new, and what's coming next

Hobi started more than ten years ago with one idea: give people who love TV a genuinely pleasant place to keep track of it. The app grew to millions of people and billions of episodes, and somewhere along the way it started to show its age.

So we did the scary thing. We tore it down and rebuilt the whole app from scratch. Every screen is new, every interaction is retuned, and the foundation underneath is built to carry the next ten years instead of the last. The new Hobi is rolling out now, and it is the best version we have ever shipped.

We build Hobi with just the two of us. No investors, no outside owners, no one deciding what the app becomes except the people who use it. Here is what is new.

What's new

These are the changes you will feel the moment you open it.

Built on what you asked for

For years the biggest request from people who track seriously has been simple: let me fix my history. Backdated watch dates, marking a season up to the episode you are actually on, real on hold and dropped statuses that pull a show off your calendar without deleting the years behind it. The new Hobi does all of that, because getting your record right is the entire point of a tracker.

And if you are coming from another app, you are not starting from zero. Connect Trakt and Hobi pulls your full history across, then keeps the two in step from there.

What's coming next

The new foundation is what makes all of this possible. Next up:

• A Discover home. For You picks based on what you actually watch, trending shows and movies, fresh releases, highly rated lately, and gentle nudges like more from the networks you love.
• Your monthly summary. A simple, beautiful recap of everything you watched, the way a year in review feels, every single month.
• A home screen widget. Your next episodes one glance away, without even opening the app.
• And plenty more, shaped by what you tell us you want.

If there is something you have always wanted in a tracker, tell us. We read everything, and a lot of what shipped this year began as a message from someone in the community.