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Bingers is a TV show and movie tracking app built by Antonio Pinto, one of the original co-founders of TV Time. It launched in August 2026, weeks after TV Time was shut down by its owner, Whip Media — and it exists specifically to give TV Time's displaced community somewhere to go. If you marked episodes as watched, rated seasons, and argued in episode comment threads for years, Bingers is the spiritual successor that rebuilds those rituals from scratch.

Bingers at a glance

• What it is: A social tracker for TV shows, movies, and anime — not a streaming service
• Who made it: Antonio Pinto, who built the original TVShow Time in 2011 with Talal Mazroui
• Platforms: Android, iOS/iPad, plus a web version for account management and archive imports
• Price: Free to download; no in-app purchases at launch
• Killer feature: Import your exported TV Time archive and pick up where you left off

Why Bingers exists: the TV Time shutdown

To understand Bingers you need to understand what happened to TV Time. The app started life as TVShow Time, built by Pinto and Mazroui in 2011. Whipclip — now Whip Media — acquired it in 2016, renamed it TV Time, and grew it into one of the most-used tracking apps in the world: more than 26.4 million installs at the point of closure.

In July 2026, Whip Media shut the app down to focus on AI efforts instead. The app was removed from the app stores on July 15, 2026. The reaction was fierce: over 28,000 users signed a petition begging the company to keep TV Time alive through crowdfunding or subscriptions. It was shut down as planned anyway.

Pinto, who had sold the app a decade earlier and moved on, said he learned about the closure at the same time as everyone else — and decided to build the replacement himself. His stated goal was to rebuild everything TV Time did well and fix everything that bothered him, from chronic performance problems to the economics that made the old app unsustainable.

What you can actually do in Bingers

Bingers has three main jobs, and it does them without pretending to be something it isn't. It does not let you watch anything — there's no streaming, no downloads, no piracy. It's a tracker, a discovery tool, and a social layer.

1. Track what you watch

The core is familiar to any ex-TV Timer: mark episodes as watched, keep a viewing history, and maintain watchlists of shows and movies you want to see. Anime gets its own lane in the library, which solves a long-standing annoyance for people who watch both live-action and animation. Dedicated watchlist guides and roundups of the features worth having in any tracker walk through the mechanics in detail.

2. See what's coming

Bingers shows a calendar of upcoming episodes and premieres, with countdowns to release dates. Release alerts are one of those small features that quietly changes your habits — instead of finding out about a premiere three weeks late, the app tells you first.

3. The social layer

This is what made TV Time special and what Bingers is betting on most. User profiles, episode comments, reactions, GIFs, polls, and character voting all revolve around the same idea: watching something is only half the fun; talking about it with other fans is the other half. If you ever shared your watchlists with friends, the guide to collaborative watchlists maps directly onto how Bingers handles shared tracking.

The archive import: saving your TV Time history

Here's the part that matters most to long-time TV Time users. Before the shutdown, TV Time offered a GDPR-compliant export tool so users could download their viewing archives. Bingers lets you re-upload those archives — on its website — and reconstruct your watch history, watchlists, and even community comments.

One honest caveat, raised by users who lived through it: the import only works with the archive you actually exported before the cutoff. If you never exported your data, you're starting fresh. Pinto's team has been upfront that they can't recover what wasn't saved. Export your data from any service you care about, always.

Bingers vs. the alternatives

Bingers isn't the only tracker on the market. The most common comparison is Letterboxd, the film-first community with its own cult following. They solve different problems: Letterboxd is built around film diaries and reviews; Bingers is built around episode-level TV tracking with a social pulse. A head-to-head Bingers vs. Letterboxd breakdown covers where each one wins.

Then there's metadata — where does the app get its show and movie data? Many trackers lean on The Movie Database (TMDB), the community-maintained catalog. A primer on how TMDB metadata works explains why your favorite obscure series sometimes has perfect episode lists and sometimes doesn't.

Practically, the two things users ask about most are whether the app works offline — yes, mostly; offline tracking matters more than people think on commutes — and how to find something to watch when your watchlist is empty, which is where a good randomizer comes in.

How Bingers handles the economics problem

This part is more interesting than it sounds, because it's why TV Time died. Running a live social graph — serving media-rich comment threads, syncing libraries for millions of users — is expensive. Pinto has said TV Time's premium subscription covered only about 10% of its server costs. That math is what killed the app.

Bingers was architected around the problem: it shifts work onto your device, storing libraries locally so calendars and watchlists get generated on your phone rather than on central servers. The trade-off is that your device does more heavy lifting — battery, storage, and sync complexity — but the bet is that this makes the app cheap enough to survive where TV Time couldn't.

Frequently asked questions

Is Bingers free? Yes. It's free on the App Store and Google Play, with no in-app purchases at launch.

Can I watch shows or movies in Bingers? No. It's a tracking and social app, not a streaming service. It organizes your viewing life and connects you with other watchers.

How do I move my TV Time data to Bingers? Use the archive export TV Time provided before its removal from app stores on July 15, 2026, then upload that archive on the Bingers website. Your history and watchlists carry over.

Is Bingers affiliated with Whip Media? No. It's built independently by Antonio Pinto, one of TV Time's original founders — not the owner that shut TV Time down.

Does it work on desktop? There's a web version for managing your account and importing data; the main experience is mobile.

Bingers is still young, and young apps have rough edges. But it has the one thing no competitor can manufacture: the person who built the original, a community of millions looking for a home, and an archive import that lets that community bring its history with it. For former TV Time users, that's a hard combination to walk away from.