Bingers Launches: TV Time Co-Founder’s New App Brings Social TV Tracking Back

The Comeback Story

If you were one of the millions of people who lost their TV-tracking app when TV Time shut down, there’s good news: a new home just opened. Bingers, built by one of TV Time’s original founders, launched this week on iOS and Android — and it’s designed to bring back everything fans loved about the old app, including your viewing history.

TV Time’s closure earlier this summer left a genuinely huge hole. The app had been installed more than 26.4 million times, and its shutdown — driven by owner Whip Media’s pivot toward AI — sparked a petition signed by more than 28,000 users begging for a reprieve. That petition didn’t save TV Time. But it did prove something important: people really cared about this app, and they weren’t ready to give up on social TV tracking.

What Is Bingers?

Bingers is a TV and movie tracker with three core pieces: a tool to track what you’ve watched and what’s on your list, a way to discover new things to watch, and — the part that made TV Time special — a built-in social network for fans.

That social element is the heart of the pitch. TV Time wasn’t just a checkmark machine; it was a place where fans gathered around the latest episode of their favorite show to swap theories, post memes, and argue about characters. Founder Antonio Pinto told TechCrunch he was stunned by how active that community stayed even when the app was neglected for years. “I believe TV Time was a diamond in the rough that kind of lost its way,” he said. “To me, that was the sign that TV Time had something unique that no other social platform has.”

The Features That Bring It Back

Bingers aims to recreate the full TV Time experience rather than a stripped-down clone. Fans can create profiles, comment on shows and movies, and drop in media like photos and GIFs. There’s episode-by-episode rating, emoji reactions, and the ability to vote on favorite characters — the kind of interactive stuff most trackers don’t bother with.

It also tackles the discovery side: the app helps you find what to watch next, which is increasingly the hardest part of being a streaming fan. With more shows than anyone can keep up with across Stranger Things-style blockbusters and everything else, a tracker that also tells you what’s worth your time is a real upgrade over a glorified checklist.

Bring Your History With You

The killer feature for former TV Time users: you can import your old viewing history. Before TV Time was pulled from app stores on July 15, the company provided a GDPR-compliant export tool, and Bingers will re-upload that data for you. That means the 400 episodes you logged over the years don’t have to stay locked in a dead app — your watch history follows you to the new home.

That’s a bigger deal than it sounds. For a lot of people, a tracking app is a decade of viewing memory. Losing it feels like losing a diary. Bingers’ import support turns the app from “yet another tracker” into “the place my history lives,” which is exactly how you win over an angry, passionate user base.

How It Stays Alive This Time

One of the smartest design choices here is about money. TV Time’s financial struggles played a role in its shutdown, so Bingers is built to keep costs low: your library lives on your phone, and heavy processing like your viewing calendar and watchlist runs on your device instead of company servers. That’s a genuinely clever way to make a tracker sustainable without a giant cloud bill.

As for monetization, Bingers is starting the way TV Time fans wanted all along — direct contributions from users to help cover server costs. That’s the model the petition crowd literally asked for, so it’s a nice bit of symmetry. Longer term, Pinto has ideas about bringing people together in real life, but he’s not sharing those details yet.

The Tracker Landscape Right Now

Bingers isn’t entering an empty field. There are plenty of other tracking options out there — from bare-bones checkmark apps to the heavyweight databases like Trakt, which has been powering watchlists and scrobble-style tracking for years. But most of those lean utilitarian: mark it watched, move on. What TV Time had — and what Bingers is betting on — is the community layer, and that’s genuinely rare.

The timing also works in Bingers’ favor. Streaming audiences are more overwhelmed than ever, with new shows dropping weekly across platforms and no single guide to keep it all straight. That’s why the discovery half of the app matters: it’s not just a logbook, it’s a recommendation engine with a human voice. When you can see what other fans are raving about in real time, the “what should I watch tonight” question gets a lot easier to answer.

Why This Matters

The bigger picture here is what a tracker actually does for the way we watch. Streaming killed the appointment-viewing model, and in its place we got chaos: a dozen services, no shared water cooler, and a constant sense that you’re missing something. Apps like Bingers — and the TV Time community before it — are a small answer to that chaos. They give you a record of what you’ve watched, a nudge toward what’s next, and a place to talk about it with people who actually care.

That’s why the social layer matters so much. Watching House of the Dragon or The Bear alone is fine. Watching it and then trading theories with other fans is a whole different experience — closer to the communal feeling of old-school TV, minus the scheduling.

Worth the Download?

If you were a TV Time loyalist, this is the easiest yes of the year: it’s the same people, the same spirit, and your history comes with you. If you’ve never used a tracker before, Bingers is also a decent entry point — the social features make it more fun than a bare-bones “watched/not watched” app, and the on-device approach means it should stay fast and free-ish.

It’s early days, and Bingers has to prove it can hold a community together the way TV Time did at its peak. But the launch is a promising one, and the founder’s track record is the best reason to believe. For anyone who tracks their binges — whether you’re deep into Squid Game, Severance, or a comfort rewatch of something old — there’s finally a new home for your watchlist.

Will you be moving your history over to Bingers, or have you already found another tracker that works? Let us know what you’re using to keep tabs on your TV obsession these days.