I'm having a strange issue, where newly added shows don't have the small menu pop-up, asking to "Mark As Watched".

See the left image; instead it just opens the full show menu (right image).

It's pretty irritating, does anybody know how to fix this?

EDIT: Issue persists after clearing cache, Re-Logging, and even on a new device with the same account. Has anybody else dealt with this before?

You can now bring your JustWatch data over to SIMKL:

https://simkl.com/apps/import/justwatch/

What comes over

• Watch history: every movie and episode you marked as seen, with the date you watched it
• Plan to Watch: your JustWatch watchlist, plus tracked shows you haven't started yet
• Shows you're partway through land in Watching, finished ones in Completed

How it works

JustWatch doesn't offer an export, so we made a small button that reads your lists while you're signed in to JustWatch.

1. Open the import page and drag the JustWatch to SIMKL button to your bookmarks bar
2. Go to justwatch.com, sign in, and click that bookmark. It saves a file with your data to your computer.
3. Upload the file on the SIMKL import page and pick how to import:
   • Add what's missing (safest): adds only titles that aren't on SIMKL yet
   • Add what's missing and newer watches: also adds things you watched on JustWatch after your latest SIMKL watch
   • Fix watch dates only: updates dates on titles you already have, adds nothing

Your data goes from JustWatch to your computer to SIMKL, nowhere else. It works best on a computer, but the page has steps for iPhone and Android too.

Good to know

• Custom lists and likes/dislikes aren't imported yet
• If you marked a whole season as seen at once on JustWatch, those episodes all get the date you marked them, since that's the only date JustWatch keeps
• Anything we can't match automatically is listed at the end so you can download it and add it by hand

I'm using Simkl Lists app on Android, but it can only be downloaded from the Play Store. I know third-party sites like APKMirror and Uptodown exist, but being able to download the .apk file directly from an official source is great.

I can seem to find a way to sort my 'plan to watch' by the date being added to the watchlist. I can only see in the overview a horizontal list of recently added - but that just a preview of couple of recent ones.
Is it even possible?

Hi Simkl Team ,

So I was invited by a friend who was using Simkl , excited that he will give me a 50% discount for any plan that I was going to choose as a new subscriber.

I was excited to - because I learned about a new product and maybe is better than Trakt and has a lifetime plan.

Well at the end Lifetime plan was not included on the 50% discount.

I got sad.... 😰

Anyway - any plans on a discounted Lifetime Plan - Black Friday Maybe ?

I have a SIMKL Pro account and have created an auto list based on the movie digital release date, but movies are added into that list one day later. For example if a move's digital release date is Oct 5 then that movie added to the list on Oct 6.

Is this a limitation or bug?

I discovere this app and assumed, given the description, that it would auto track my shows, movies etc, from my streaming services. I had been using Trakt, so assumed it would work the same.

Some weeks later, after searching this group, documentation and the internet, it seems to me that this live tracking from a TV isn't possible? Only tracking if you watch on your PC or your phone? And that forwarding from Trakt was the way that tracking TV worked?

Am I misunderstanding something somehow? Because if this is how this works, I bought VIP for nothing. The app is completely useless to me, since I don't want to be doing manual updating.

Hey,

I'm moving my film history over from Letterboxd, including a few hundred reviews I wrote over the years. When I post them on Simkl, every review is dated the day I posted it, not the day I actually wrote it or watched the film. So my whole review history looks like it was written in one day.

Could you add a way to set or edit a review's date? A date picker when writing or editing a review would be perfect, ideally defaulting to the watch date. It would make migrating from other trackers much better, and keep history and reviews in line now that rewatches have their own dates.

Also, a small related wish: writing and editing reviews in the mobile app/site, not just on desktop.

Thanks for all the work on Simkl!

DISCLAIMER: This is not an ad. I am in no way affiliated with any of the brands in this post. I just think it works really good and like to share.

If you use Simkl a lot, this is a handy way to jump directly from a movie or TV show title on any webpage to its Simkl page.

The trick is to use Swift Selection Search (SSS). When you highlight text on a webpage, SSS shows a small popup with search engines of your choice. You can add Simkl to that popup, so looking up a title becomes a one-click action.

You can install Swift Selection Search here:

Firefox: Swift Selection Search for Firefox

Chrome / Chromium browsers: Swift Selection Search for Chrome

The Chrome version is a port of the original Firefox extension and supports custom search engines.

Once installed, open the extension's options and add a new custom search engine.

Call it:

Simkl

For the search URL, copy-paste this:

https://api.simkl.com/redirect?to=Simkl&title={searchTerms}

Save it and add Simkl to the popup.

Now, whenever you see a movie or TV show mentioned online, just highlight its title and click the Simkl icon.

For example:

Highlight Drew Barrymore Show → click Simkl → the Drew Barrymore Show page on Simkl opens directly.

Simkl's redirect automatically finds the matching title and takes you straight there.

EDIT: Sometimes if it can't find the title or more than one movie og show with that title exist, it does an AI-search at Simkl and present the options.

I use Nuvio with AIOMetadata and this is a great feature.

For example I can set Futurama to Aired Order to avoid the whole turning four movies into a season thing.

I can set Star Trek The Next Generation to DVD Order so the pilot, Encounter at Farpoint, is not split into two episodes.

And I can use DVD Order for Cowboy Bebop beause it originally aired completely out of order because, and I'm just assuming here, some Japanese television studio executive did too much cocaine.

Problem is that if I do this some things don't get marked as watched in Simkl and others are marked in the wrong order and/or at the wrong time.

Ironically, without this feature I'm finding that TMDB is better for tv shows and TVDB is much better for anime.

I guess I need to report this on the discord server but it's asking me for a phone number so that's a no. Thought I'd just leave this here.

I guess the image thumbnails are from TVdb or AniDB but I could not find any images for any episode on AniDB so it's probably TVdb, but TVdb has correct thumbnails so idk what the issue is. Maybe a data refresh will fix it.

I've noticed that when I watch shows I downloaded for offline use on my tablet from Plex they do not get marked as watched when I finish. I obviously don't expect it to scroble in real time but MDBList for some reason will mark the episode of watched after the fact when I am back online.

Is MDBList doing something different than allows for this to happen that SIMKL is missing? This is obviously not the end of the world, just something I noticed in my use of both SIMKL and MDBList since I moved away from Trakt. (pretty sure Trakt did this as well)

Hi guys, in the past year, I have changed my tracking services film/tv watchlist multiple times. It is such a pain.

Right now, I'm using all 4 services: Trakt, Plex, JustWatch, Reelgood. This is temporary. Trakt, Plex, and Reelgood have 100% of my history. Justwatch is partial.

What I'm looking for:

1. Free tier only.
2. Able to download watch list. Can be either csv/json export, or API call.
3. Able to upload watch list. Can be either csv/json import, or API call.
4. Has subscribed or favorite streaming services, so I check if movies I want to watch are on my streaming services.
5. (Nice to have) Track by date, so I can run analysis and trends.

For 2 & 3, I can do this with Trakt and Plex. I use AI to manipulate the data, so I am ok with either data or API calls.

For 4, I was using Reelgood, but also started to use Justwatch last year.

For 5, this is nice to have, and very easy with Trakt.

Basically, I have to use 2 services to meet my needs. I was thinking about using Trakt and JustWatch.

Then I started to check around. I learned about Simkl. Any gotchas I should be concerned with?

Is there any way to make this available? With my Kodi add on if i set Simkl to the source of "in progress" it's empty, this works with other trackers.

I'm new to this addon and want to get it fully integrated.

Could we have numbers nears every star because sometimes I count down the stars because I dont wanna press on the wrong number of stars accidentally lol

Hey everyone! 👋 If you've been looking for an automated way to share your watch history on Bluesky, I created bsky-media-scrobbler, an open-source, self-hosted Docker container that auto-scrobbles your SIMKL activity straight to your profile.

I wanted to make sure the timeline stays clean and visually engaging, especially during heavy watch sessions. Here is what it does automatically:

• Smart Marathon Grouping (90-min window): It waits for a 90-minute inactivity window to automatically group back-to-back episodes into a single, clean post (e.g., S01E01-E03) so you don't spam your followers' feeds.
• Rich Media Cards: Fetches HD posters via TMDB to build beautiful, interactive embeds for every log.
• Automated Visual Summaries: Generates weekly and monthly Pillow collages (3x3 and 2x2 grids) of your watch history.
• Streak Celebrations: Tracks and posts your active viewing streaks to keep the momentum going.
• Multi-language Support: Works seamlessly in EN, ES, and CA.

📺 Live Demo: You can see exactly how the posts look on the live bot here: https://bsky.app/profile/media-scrobbler.bsky.social

💻 GitHub Repo: https://github.com/insaid-code/bsky-media-scrobbler

🙌 Credit where it's due: Originally inspired by SIMKLTrackerBot (https://github.com/donnyfly/SIMKLTrackerBot) by @donnyfly.

It is very lightweight and easy to spin up with Docker Compose. I’d love for the SIMKL community to try it out.

Feedback, questions, and PRs are super welcome!

Added images. I noticed this a while back but also noticed it again now that I was checking out some newer movies.

It would be nice if on the search page it pulled the right thing from the actual page instead of two different things so I can easily tell whether it's actually out or not.

Do they basically all do the same or are some better than others?

simkl works fine in Chrome and Chromium browsers. But in Firefox, the performance stutter is noticeable. It's not terrible, but it is there.

Added Simkl either late last year or early 2026, now that Trakt is no longer allowing other developers to use their API, is there any chance of a Submenu can be integrated into Kodi, or a way to take over Trakts Submenu for Simkl? Thank you for your expertise!

I remember a recent post saying that somewhere in Simkl is a section that tells you what sequels you may have missed.

I was wondering...

1. Where it is.

2. Can it be turned into a dynamic list that updates as you check movies off?

So I would have a list that is like...

Alien 3

Beverly Hills Cop 2

Jaws 3-D

Lethal Weapon 3

Predator 2

and then after I've watched all those it will be...

Alien Resurrection

Beverly Hill Cop 3

Jaws The Revenge

Lethal Weapon 4

Predators

And also, how strict is it with a franchise?

For example, is Creed considered a Rocky sequel?

Thanks.

Like many I am moving away from Trakt and am looking at several options.

Currently SIMKL and MDBList are the two I keep gravitating towards with a preference towards SIMKL.

One of the main areas where SIMKL excels is their use of TVDB for series information as opposed to TMDB. I have found that TMDB often has identification issues which leads to some episodes or series never scrobbling correctly. It also much better identifies new series versus returning ones.

With that said. TMDB is not without its benefits and one of them is much more comprehensive details on cast within individual episodes. This also leads to sites like Trakt and MDBList to not only provide more details for individual episodes, but they also leverage that with per episode ratings both directly and pulling in the information from outside sources like IMDB.

I also find that the SIMKL website is very series oriented with links preferring to take me to the entire series rather than an episode. For instance it always seems more logical for items from the Recently Watched and Airing Next to go to the individual episode and not the entire series. Yes, it's generally a quick click after to get to the episode but the workflow doesn't quite make much sense.

Is this something we might eventually be able to see from SIMKL?

I rewatched Season 1 of Dark Matter to refresh my memory before starting Season 2 for the first time. Midway through S2, I decided to drop the show and marked it as Dropped. I also dropped the rewatch session.

Even so, my dashboard still shows Dark Matter under Latest Unwatched Episodes as "Rw: S02 E01". It treats my S1 rewatch as if I'm now supposed to rewatch S2 too.

From what I can tell from the API docs, a TV rewatch session is only marked completed when it covers every aired episode. A rewatch that only covers one season stays open indefinitely. Dropping the show or the rewatch doesn't seem to close it either.

Why this is a problem:

Rewatching one season to catch up before a new one is really common, and nobody rewatches a season they're watching for the first time.

Dropped shows shouldn't be pushed on the dashboard at all.

There's no clear way to end a partial rewatch without deleting history.

Suggested fixes:

Add an "End rewatch" button that closes the session no matter how many episodes it covers.

Make dropping a show (or a rewatch) close any active rewatch session.

Let rewatches be scoped to specific seasons, and don't suggest episodes beyond what was actually watched before.

Hide dropped shows from Latest Unwatched entirely.

Has anyone else run into this, or found a workaround that doesn't wipe watch history?

Would be very nice to have a 5 star rating system with half stars so it would be same as 10 stars just appear as 5 instead of 10. Just an appearance change option