Bingers Aims to Become the New Home for TV Time Users After Shutdown
TV Time users may soon have a new place to track shows, log movies, and keep the community conversations alive. As the popular TV and movie tracking app prepares to disappear from app stores, one of its original founders, Antonio Pinto, is working on a new app called Bingers.
The upcoming platform is being built as a spiritual successor to TV Time, with a focus on preserving the features fans loved while improving the areas that caused frustration over the years.
TV Time’s pending closure has sparked a strong reaction from its loyal community, with more than 25,000 users signing a petition in an effort to stop the shutdown. The app has built a massive following over the years, with app intelligence data indicating more than 26.4 million lifetime installs. For many users, TV Time was more than just a tracking tool. It was a social space where fans could react to episodes, share theories, and discuss their favorite shows with others watching the same content.
Pinto, who is based in Paris, originally created the app under the name TVShow Time before selling it to Whipclip, now known as Whip Media, in 2016. At the time, the goal was to help the app reach a wider audience through the company’s entertainment industry connections in Los Angeles.
When Pinto learned that TV Time was being phased out as Whip Media shifted its attention toward artificial intelligence, he said the news hit him emotionally. He described TV Time as a major part of his life and called its community another family. For many fans, reading reactions after each episode had become a regular habit and an important part of the viewing experience.
That connection is now driving the creation of Bingers.
The new app is designed to give TV Time users a familiar destination where they can continue tracking episodes, managing watchlists, and joining conversations around their favorite series. Pinto says the goal is not only to recreate the best parts of TV Time but also to fix the problems that made the original app difficult to maintain.
One of the biggest issues Bingers aims to solve is performance. TV Time was often criticized for slow loading times, especially when large numbers of users were active at once. According to Pinto, the app’s high server costs became a major challenge, and the paid subscription plan covered only a small portion of the expenses.
Bingers is being built with a more efficient technical structure to keep server costs lower and make the app more sustainable long term. Pinto says this should also help the app respond more quickly when users mark episodes as watched, even during periods of heavy traffic.
A major feature for longtime TV Time users will be archive importing. Before TV Time is removed from app stores on July 15, users can export their data through the app’s GDPR-compliant archive tool. Bingers will support those exported files, allowing users to bring over their viewing history.
Even better, Pinto says importing TV Time archives will help Bingers rebuild parts of the old community experience, including comments tied to shows and episodes. That could make the transition feel less like starting over and more like moving into a refreshed version of the same community.
The archive import tool is already available through the Bingers website, allowing users to prepare their data before the mobile app officially launches. Once imported, viewing history should be ready inside Bingers when the app becomes available.
Bingers is expected to arrive on the App Store and Google Play by the end of July 2026. Until then, users can join a waitlist to receive launch updates.
For TV Time fans worried about losing years of viewing history and community discussion, Bingers could offer a much-needed lifeline. If it succeeds, the app may become the next major destination for TV show tracking, movie logging, watchlist management, and episode-based fan conversations.
