Most "best tracker" lists are written by one of the apps on them. So is this one, and it says so: NextEp is ours. Every line below is checked against the app's own site or store listing, and the fit is honest, including where NextEp is the wrong choice.
Free, no ads. No card, nothing to unlock.
Ranked for keeping up with television. If you track movies first, read Trakt and Simkl as the top two.
Best for keeping up with TV, fast
One card shows your next episode, one swipe marks it. Imports TV Time and Trakt exports as-is, Plex and Jellyfin hands-free, spoiler-sealed episode talk, three daily games. Free, no ads, no tiers. Television only: if you track movies too, it is not for you.
Best for sync and integrations
The hub most apps are built on: Plex, Kodi, dozens of third-party clients, movies and TV, a public API. Free with ads; VIP (reported $60 per year since 2025) unlocks scrobbling and removes the caps on free lists.
Best for auto-tracking
Detects what you watch on several streaming services and logs it for you, with strong anime coverage. TV and movies. Free with a paid tier.
Best for reviews and discussion
A Letterboxd-style home for rating, reviewing and discussing TV. Free. Less about next-up and marking, more about what you thought.
Best open-source option
An open-source tracker for Android, iPhone and F-Droid built on the Trakt API. Clean and fast, with Trakt sync as the backbone.
Best long-running Android tracker
Years of steady development, calendar and notifications, Trakt sync. Android first.
Shut down July 2026
The most popular social tracker until it closed. Its export window has passed. If you kept your file, it imports into NextEp, comments included.
Do you track movies? If yes, Trakt or Simkl. A TV-only app will frustrate you.
Do you scrobble from Kodi, or depend on a third-party app built on Trakt? Stay on Trakt. Nothing else has that ecosystem.
Do you want logging done for you? Simkl watches several streaming services and logs automatically. NextEp does it for Plex and Jellyfin, free, through a webhook.
Do you mostly want to know what to watch next and mark it when you have? That is NextEp: one card, one swipe, a push when a new episode airs, and your TV Time or Trakt history imported in a minute. Free, no ads.
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The reasons it is on this list beyond being ours.
Home opens on the next episode you should watch. Swipe left when you have seen it, tap to rate. No feed.
The only tracker that reads episode_comment.csv and puts each comment back on its episode.
Hands-free marking through a webhook, for every account.
Cliffhanger, Face-Off and Verdict: a minute a day, each one optional.
One click to JSON or CSV. The lesson of the TV Time shutdown.
Friends, games and discussion are each a switch, off until you want them.
It depends on what you track. For keeping up with TV, NextEp (free, one card, one swipe). For syncing across media centers and many apps, Trakt. For automatic logging from streaming services, Simkl. For reviews and discussion, Serializd. For an open-source app, Showly.
NextEp is free with no ads and no paid tier. Showly and Serializd are also free. Trakt and Simkl are free with ads or limits and a paid tier.
Nothing one-to-one. Trakt and Simkl picked up people who wanted sync and automation; NextEp was built for people who wanted TV Time's simplicity without the social noise, and it imports TV Time exports including comments.
NextEp imports TV Time, Trakt (the export ZIP as-is), Letterboxd, Simkl and IMDb. Trakt and Simkl import TV Time. Check each app for the rest; our 35-app comparison records what each one verified.
Only if you track movies. A TV-only tracker like NextEp stays simpler and shows you your next episode instead of a mixed feed. If movies matter, Trakt or Simkl.
Add a show, or import your history, and it is on the card. Free, no ads.
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