If you have been following the TV Time story, you know the ending changed twice. First the app shut down on July 15, 2026 and started deleting accounts. Then one of its original founders announced Bingers, a successor arriving on the App Store and Google Play by the end of July. Good news for the community. It also leaves an awkward gap: TV Time is gone today, and Bingers is not out yet. So what do you do with a decade of watch history in the meantime?
The honest answer depends on one thing: whether you saved your TV Time export before the app went dark.
If you saved your TV Time export
Then nothing is lost, and you have every option open. That GDPR export file is your entire TV Time history, and it keeps working forever. You do not have to wait for a new app to use it. Hobi's importer reads that file directly, matches your shows and movies automatically, and brings across your viewing history, watchlist, movies and ratings in one go. That last part matters, because Trakt and most other migration paths quietly drop your ratings on the way in. Start at hobiapp.com/tv-time, upload the file as is, and you are back to tracking in minutes.
If you did not export in time
Then here is the part nobody likes to say plainly: once TV Time deleted your account, that data cannot be recovered, and no new app can bring back what was not saved. It is a hard lesson, and it is the same one worth carrying into whatever you pick next. The good news is you do not have to sit in limbo waiting for a launch date. Hobi is free, it is on both stores today, and it is built for exactly the kind of tracking TV Time did well: one tap episode marking, a calendar that counts down to premieres, real show statuses, reminders, and two-way Trakt sync so your history stays yours from here on.
A fair question before you commit your data again
TVShow Time launched in 2011 and was sold in 2016. Its owners ran it for years, then shut it down this month and gave 26 million people two weeks to rescue their own history. Bingers is the new app from the same founder, with no business model announced yet. Maybe it works out, and there is room for more than one good tracker. But your watch history is the kind of thing you only want to move once, so it is worth asking what the exit plan is this time.
Hobi has a simpler answer. It never had an owner to sell to. Two independent developers, self-funded, over ten years in, no venture capital and no private equity. There is no acquisition to chase and no investor to answer to, which is exactly why it did not disappear when the economics got hard. And because your library stays portable through Trakt, you are never locked in again, not to us and not to anyone.
You do not have to wait. Get Hobi free on iOS and Android, and if you saved your TV Time export, bring it home with your ratings at hobiapp.com/tv-time.
