TV Time Is Shutting Down on July 15, 2026: What to Do
TV Time shuts down July 15, 2026 and deletes all data. Here's why it's closing, how to export your watch history, and the best alternatives to switch to.
TV Time Is Closing After July 15, 2026
TV Time, one of the most widely installed TV and movie tracking apps in the world, is shutting down. The service ends after July 15, 2026. After that date the app is removed from the Apple App Store and Google Play, the website at tvtime.com goes offline, and all personal TV Time account data is deleted.
If you have used TV Time to track episodes, that last detail is the one that matters. Your watch history, ratings, and the shows you follow do not survive the shutdown unless you export them first. With roughly two weeks left before the deadline, the practical response is straightforward: export your data now, then move to a replacement that keeps that data portable so you are never caught in this position again.
Here is what is changing, why it is happening, and exactly what to do before July 15.
What Is Shutting Down, and When
The change is not a feature cut or a paywall. It is a full closure of the consumer service. After July 15, 2026:
- The TV Time app is removed from the Apple App Store and Google Play, so new installs and reinstalls stop.
- The website at tvtime.com goes offline.
- All personal TV Time account data is deleted — your episode history, ratings, watchlist, and follows included.
Until that date the app still works, and the export tools still work. That window is the only chance to get years of tracking out before it is gone. Once the servers are switched off, there is no recovery path, no grace period, and no archive to request. For more detail on the deletion timeline and exactly which data you can still retrieve, see what happens to your TV Time data.
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Why TV Time Is Shutting Down
The closure comes from TV Time's parent company, Whip Media. In its notice, Whip Media says it is "no longer sustainable to continue operating the service as a free app, and there was not enough demand for a paid app." In other words, the free model stopped paying for itself and a paid version did not look viable.
There is a wider business shift behind that decision. Whip Media was acquired by the lender Blue Torch Capital in early 2025, and the company is pivoting toward enterprise AI products. TV Time's real value to the business was never the consumer app on its own — the app's aggregate viewing data historically powered sentiment analysis and ratings predictions sold to the media industry. As the company reorients around AI and enterprise tooling, running a free, ad-supported consumer tracker no longer fits the plan.
That context also explains the scale of what is closing. Per Appfigures figures reported by TechCrunch, TV Time passed 26.4 million lifetime installs and still pulled roughly 29,000 new downloads in the last 30 days, and Whip Media's own marketing referenced more than 25 million users. This is not a dead app quietly going away. It is a large, still-active community losing its home with short notice.
The hard deadline is July 15, 2026. After that date, all TV Time account data is permanently deleted and cannot be recovered. Export your history before then — do not wait until the final day, when export tools are most likely to be slow under load.
What You Should Do Now
You have three jobs before July 15: get your data out, pick a replacement, and make sure your history can never be trapped like this again. Do them in that order.
1. Export your TV Time data before July 15
This is the step you cannot undo later. TV Time offers a GDPR self-service export at https://gdpr.tvtime.com/gdpr/self-service, where you sign in with your TV Time account and download an archive of your data. Email-based GDPR requests can take up to 30 days to fulfill, which is longer than you have, so the self-service tool is the reliable route this close to the deadline. Follow the step-by-step walkthrough in how to export your TV Time data.
2. Pick a replacement tracker
Once your data is safe, decide where you are moving. Several apps are absorbing former TV Time users right now, each with real tradeoffs — some are close clones that are buckling under server strain, others trade the social layer for stability. A calm, side-by-side rundown is in the best TV Time alternatives, and if you are on Android specifically, start with the best Android alternative to TV Time.
If the community and comments were the part of TV Time you loved most, be honest with yourself about that when you choose — some replacements rebuild that social feel, while others deliberately strip it out for a quieter, private tracker.
3. Keep your history portable, not locked in again
The lesson of this shutdown is that a tracker with no export path can strand you. The way to avoid a repeat is to route your data through an open sync layer. The reliable path is: export from TV Time, import that history into Trakt (which added a built-in TV Time importer, with most users reporting around 95% accuracy or better), then connect Trakt to a tracker that syncs bidirectionally.
That is where Moviebase fits. Moviebase is an Android movie and TV tracker with two-way Trakt.tv sync, so once your history lives in Trakt, Moviebase pulls it in and keeps it in step — and if you ever move on again, the data is already portable through Trakt rather than locked inside one app. It is ad-free with an optional paid ad-removal, tracks movies and TV in one place, and includes free viewing statistics. It is Android-only with no social layer, so it is not the right fit for everyone, but it is a stable landing spot while newer apps' servers strain under the migration surge.
Walkthroughs for that path are in how to switch from TV Time to Moviebase, and if you want to understand the tradeoffs before committing, Moviebase vs TV Time lays them out feature by feature.
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The Bottom Line
TV Time is shutting down for good after July 15, 2026, and the data deletion is permanent. Treat the next two weeks as an export deadline. Get your watch history out with the GDPR self-service tool, move it into Trakt so it becomes portable, and pick a tracker you actually want to use for the long term. Do the export first — everything else can wait, but that window cannot.
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Source Notes
This article is based on TV Time's official shutdown notice from Whip Media and reporting by TechCrunch published July 2, 2026, which is the source for the closure date, the removal from both app stores, the website going offline, and the data-deletion policy. The stated reason and the Blue Torch Capital acquisition and enterprise-AI pivot are drawn from Whip Media's notice and that reporting. Install and user figures come from Appfigures via TechCrunch. The read on what users are searching for and switching to reflects public discussion across Reddit, MacRumors forums, ResetEra, and AlternativeTo in the days after the announcement.