● 35 apps · independently checked · the rows we lose too

Every tracker compared, including the rows we lose.

35 TV Time alternatives, each fact pulled from that app's own site or store listing - not a self-reported community sheet, not ours either. Pick what matters to you, duel two apps, or step through capabilities one at a time. Comparison pages usually hide the rows where the home team loses; ours are right there, because you would find them anyway.

Free, every feature unlocked, no card, no ads.

Written August 2026. Rows about other apps reflect their public feature pages and announcements at that time.

Compare it your way

Nothing here is copied from anyone's self-reported numbers, including ours. Pick what you care about, or duel two apps head-to-head.

Choose up to 3 things that matter to you — the ranking reorders live. No priorities selected ranks every app equally across all of them.

Each pick is worth the same: a confirmed "yes" counts full, a confirmed partial counts half, "no" or unconfirmed counts zero. No hidden weighting.

Yes = confirmed on the app's own site or store listing · Partial = confirmed but limited/conditional · No = confirmed absent · Unconfirmed = not stated anywhere official we could find - treated as "no" in scoring, not assumed against the app. Written August 2026; four apps referenced in the TV Time Refugees community (Couchmark, FlickTo, TvTracking, TV Watch Time) had no independently verifiable official site or store listing and were left out entirely rather than guessed at.

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The rows nobody else has a column for

Every tracker logs what you watched. These are the parts that only exist here.

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Viewing Rooms

Press play together, actually in sync, with live reactions - a shared couch for people in different houses. Every other app on this page is a diary you write alone.

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The deck

Home is one card: the next episode across every show you follow. Swipe left to mark it, tap to rate it. Every other app on this page starts with a list.

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Cliffhanger

A daily guess-the-show puzzle with a streak and a leaderboard. The reason to open the app on a day you didn't watch anything.

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The Aftershow

Per-show discussion rooms where posts stay sealed until you've seen the episode they spoil. Talk freely; nobody gets ruined.

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Refugee-grade import

TV Time, Trakt, Letterboxd, Simkl, IMDb - even screenshots. TV Time imports carry your comments over, into rooms that are still alive.

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Off until you want it

Rooms, discussion and the daily games are switches in Settings, off by default. The tracker stays a tracker unless you ask for more.

Honest routing

Not everyone should pick NextEp. Here is who should pick what.

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Pick Trakt or Simkl if

You watch through Kodi specifically and want episodes logged without touching your phone (NextEp now covers Plex and Jellyfin, not Kodi), or you need films, anime and TV in one database.

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Pick Serializd or Letterboxd if

Your tracker is really a public writing venue - long reviews, a follower audience, a critic identity. Serializd for TV prose, Letterboxd for film. NextEp has reviews, but community-scale review culture is theirs.

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Pick NextEp if

You mark episodes yourself, you care about tonight's episode and what to watch next, and you want the parts nobody else built: a one-swipe deck, watching in sync with someone when you want it, and spoiler-safe rooms to talk in.

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Coming from TV Time?

Your export still works here - shows, progress, even your comments land in each show's Aftershow room. The full TV Time guide walks it through in about two minutes.

Nothing to cancel, and your data exports in one click if you decide against it.

Comparison FAQ

What is the best TV Time alternative now that it has shut down?

It depends on what you used TV Time for. If you want automatic logging from a media server, look at Trakt or Simkl. If you want written reviews in a public feed, Serializd. If you marked episodes yourself and cared about the calendar, what to watch next, and the community around each show, NextEp was built for exactly that - and it imports your TV Time export including your comments.

Does NextEp track movies like Simkl and Trakt?

No. NextEp is deliberately TV-only. If you want films and television in one app, Trakt or Simkl covers more ground, and Letterboxd remains the home of film diaries.

Does NextEp have automatic scrobbling?

Yes, for Plex and Jellyfin: point your media server's webhook at NextEp and episodes log themselves as you watch. Kodi and browser-extension scrobbling are not supported; for those, look at Trakt.

Is NextEp really free with no caps?

Yes. Every feature is unlocked, there are no ads and no paid tier, and there are no caps on your watchlist, lists, notes or ratings. Your data exports as JSON or CSV in one click.

Why should I trust a comparison on your own site?

You shouldn't, automatically - which is why every fact here was checked against each app's own site or store listing rather than self-reported, anything we couldn't verify is marked unconfirmed instead of guessed at, and the rows we lose (movies, anime databases, widgets, multi-language) are right there in the data. Open the full grid and see for yourself - the honest version costs us a few checkmarks and is worth it.

See the columns for yourself

Most of NextEp is browsable without an account, and the rest is free with no card and no caps.