How to Import Your TV Time Data into Trakt

If you already have a Trakt account, skip ahead. If not, setting one up takes a minute:

1. Go to trakt.tv in any browser
2. Sign up for a free account using your email or a social login
3. Confirm your email if prompted, then sign in

Trakt has a free tier and an optional paid VIP tier. You do not need VIP to import your TV Time data or to sync with other apps — the free account is enough to complete everything in this guide. Set a password you will remember, because you will use this same account to connect your tracking app later.

Trakt's importer lives in your account settings:

1. Sign in to Trakt and open your Settings
2. Find the Import section
3. Select TV Time as the source

This is the built-in importer that Trakt added specifically for people leaving TV Time. Because it is native to Trakt, it understands TV Time's data structure and can pull your watch history, episode progress, and ratings without you having to reformat anything by hand.

If you have not exported your TV Time data yet, do that first — see how to export your TV Time data. Having your export ready gives you a fallback if the direct connection does not work for your account.

You have two ways to get your data into Trakt, and the importer supports both:

Option A: Connect your TV Time account (recommended)

1. Choose to connect TV Time directly in the importer
2. Follow the authorization prompts to link your TV Time account
3. Let Trakt pull your watch history, episode progress, and ratings automatically

This is the fastest path and works for most accounts.

Option B: Upload your GDPR export

If the direct importer fails for your account — which happens with some older accounts — fall back to the file you downloaded from TV Time's GDPR self-service tool:

1. In Trakt's Import section, choose to upload your export file
2. Wait for Trakt to process it (large histories can take a few minutes)
3. Review the results once the import finishes

Either way, the destination is the same: your history ends up in Trakt.

Do not assume the import was perfect — spot-check it. Open your Trakt profile and review a few things:

• Watch history — confirm recent movies and episodes you logged in TV Time appear
• Ratings — check that a handful of your scores came across
• In-progress shows — open a series you are partway through and make sure the correct episodes are marked watched

Most users report around 95 percent or better accuracy with Trakt's TV Time importer. That is very good, but it is not 100 percent. Obscure, foreign-language, or very old titles are the ones most likely to be missed or mismatched, and those you can add or correct manually in Trakt. Fixing a few stragglers now is far easier than discovering gaps months later.

If a large chunk of your history is missing rather than just a few titles, the import may not have completed — try Option B from the previous step with your GDPR export file.

Trakt is a hub, not a daily driver for most people. The final step is connecting it to an app you actually want to open every day. On Android, Moviebase syncs bidirectionally with Trakt:

1. Install Moviebase on your Android device
2. Open Settings and tap Trakt.tv
3. Authorize the connection and enable sync for watch history, ratings, watchlist, and collections
4. Run the initial sync

Because the sync runs both ways, anything you track in Moviebase backs up to Trakt automatically, and anything in Trakt shows up in Moviebase. See how to sync Trakt in Moviebase and how to use Trakt sync without losing your history for details.

Moviebase is Android only, with no iOS app and no social layer — it is a focused, ad-free tracker rather than a community feed. If that fits how you watch, read how to switch from TV Time to Moviebase. For a broader look at connecting Trakt to other apps and media centers, see the Trakt integration guide.