Trakt doubled VIP, capped free lists, and still shows ads. NextEp is a free TV tracker: one card shows your next episode, one swipe marks it, Plex and Jellyfin work for everyone, and your whole Trakt export imports in one tap.
Free, no ads. No card, nothing to unlock.
What you give up, what you gain. The honest version.
Trakt's own export is all you need. No API keys, no scripts.
Settings → Data → Export. Trakt builds a ZIP of JSON files with every play, rating and list.
Open the importer and upload the ZIP unchanged. NextEp reads the whole bundle.
Every show lands on the exact episode you were on. Show ratings, watchlist and hidden shows come along.
Trakt is a database with apps on top. NextEp is the app.
Home opens on the next episode you should watch. Swipe left when you have seen it, tap to rate. No menus.
Paste a webhook URL and episodes mark themselves as you finish them. Not a paid feature.
A Tonight list for what you plan to watch, and a push the moment a new episode airs.
Finish a season and the show's colour fills the screen for a moment. Finish a series and it is a wrap.
Export everything to JSON or CSV any time. Import once, never get locked in.
No movie clutter, no ads, no VIP banner. Just your shows.
Be honest with yourself about what you use. If you track movies alongside TV, scrobble from Kodi or a media center that only speaks Trakt, or depend on one of the many third-party apps built on Trakt's API, Trakt is still the right hub and no TV-only tracker replaces it.
If what you actually do is keep up with shows, mark episodes, and want to know what to watch tonight, you are paying for a database you use five percent of. That is the person NextEp is built for. And because NextEp exports everything, trying it costs nothing: your Trakt account stays exactly as it is.
Weighing more than two apps? Every tracker compared checks 35 of them against their own store listings, and the best TV show tracker apps is the short list with the honest fit for each.
For television, yes. NextEp tracks every episode, shows your next-up on one card, marks with a swipe, and imports your full Trakt export ZIP as-is, every play on the right episode. It is free with no ads and no VIP tier. It does not track movies, and it does not have Trakt's integration ecosystem, so if you rely on Kodi or on dozens of third-party apps, Trakt is still the right hub.
NextEp is free, has no ads, and has no paid tier. Everything in the app is available to every account.
Yes. In Trakt go to Settings, then Data, and choose Export. You get a ZIP of JSON files. Drop that ZIP into NextEp's importer unchanged and every show lands on the exact episode you were on, with your show ratings, watchlist and hidden shows carried over. Movies are skipped. See the step-by-step guide.
Yes, for everyone. Paste NextEp's webhook URL into Plex or Jellyfin and episodes are marked watched as you finish them. On Trakt, the Plex scrobbler is a VIP feature.
Trakt moved all VIP renewals to a single standard rate in 2025, reported at $60 per year, and limited free accounts to two personal lists of 100 items each. Check trakt.tv for the current price. NextEp has no paid tier.
Movies, a public API with a very large ecosystem of apps and devices, Kodi and media-center scrobbling across many clients, and years of community data. NextEp is deliberately television only and built around one card and one swipe.
Yes, any time. One click exports everything to JSON or CSV.
Android on the Google Play Store, and a fast web app on any iPhone, Android phone, tablet or desktop. On iPhone, add it to your Home Screen from Safari and it runs full-screen with push alerts.
Your Trakt export imports in about a minute, and Trakt stays untouched.
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