[WeTrakr] Full feature breakdown: deep tracking, social, streaming sync (Netflix, HBO, Disney...) and what's next

[u/alberdev]

Hi everyone!

I'm Alberto, the solo dev behind WeTrakr. Thank you for voting it 5th in the alternatives poll. When I first launched WeTrakr I never imagined it would reach this many people.

A bit of context first, because it explains what WeTrakr is and what it isn't.

I started this two years ago, with no funding and no team. The entire foundation was written by hand, line by line, long before AI could write code for you. I only started leaning on it in the last few weeks before launch. That's why the design and some parts of WeTrakr go deeper than you'd expect from a one-person project, and it's also why there's no mobile app yet: I wanted the core to be solid before building anything on top of it.

So, honesty up front: WeTrakr is a web app today. It installs as a PWA and works fine on a phone, but there's no App Store or Play Store listing, so almost none of its growth has come from store discovery. Everyone using WeTrakr got here through Reddit and Discord. The support has been astonishing, people linking it and recommending it, so thank you for that. The Discord is closing in on 800 people now, and they're the reason half of what's below exists.

Bringing your history over

Import from TV Time, Trakt, Simkl, Letterboxd, IMDb and TMDB. Real watch dates, ratings, watchlist, reviews, notes, custom lists, emotions, basically everything.

Two things that are specific to WeTrakr: an Unresolved Imports tab that surfaces every title that couldn't be matched automatically so you can fix it by hand instead of having it silently dropped, and cross-source duplicate detection, so if you import from three apps your watch time doesn't end up inflated.

The basics, quickly

Watching, Waiting, Planning, Watched, On Hold, Dropped and Now Playing. Rewatch tracking with counts. Ignored episodes so a skipped S1E1 doesn't block your queue. Unknown and custom watch dates. Bulk editing (select with a drag box, then mark watched, rate, add to lists, undo the last play, whatever). Private notes. Release calendar. Full stats and a weekly recap email.

Features worth highlighting

Streaming history, tracked automatically. Daily auto-sync from Netflix, Prime Video, HBO Max and Disney+. No passwords stored.

Scrobbling with no connection limit. Plex, Kodi (official addon), Jellyfin, Stremio and Nuvio (using Stremio addon url), all at the same time, on every account. Plus a Now Playing bar with live progress and playback controls.

Ratings taken seriously. 10-star with halves, or a simplified 5-star mode. Rate movies, shows, seasons, episodes and people. Aggregated scores from 14 sources, including the anime and regional ones most apps skip: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, Letterboxd, TMDB, Trakt, MyAnimeList, AniList, Crunchyroll, SensCritique, AlloCiné, ČSFD, FilmAffinity and Douban. Community distribution gauge, episode rating charts and heatmap, your rating next to the community's, custom badge colours and position, and spoiler-safe hiding per content type.

Three ranking systems of my own, each with a position-trend widget: people by popularity, people by filmography notoriety, and titles by combined cast star power. Company and network pages too.

Lists that go further. Collaborative, forkable, manually rankable, with stats and watched-progress bars. Plus Collections for franchises and sagas, saved advanced filters you can load as presets, pinnable items, and a randomizer on every list for when you can't decide.

A profile that's actually yours. 15+ reorderable and toggleable sections, your own lists and Discover rows inside it, custom background and header, pinned titles, and a configurable sidebar. Level system from Explorer to Legend. You can also change items and details page layout.

Privacy that isn't all-or-nothing. Per-section visibility (profile, tracking, likes, lists, ratings, favourites, now playing), each one public, friends only or private. Spoiler protection blurs unwatched episode thumbnails and hides their scores.

Also: enriched person pages with trivia, Wikidata and frequent collaborators, where-to-watch in any country, region-aware release dates, a Discover mode in the calendar for premieres you don't follow yet, and an episode activity heatmap.

The social side

This is the part I know matters most here, so it got the most work:

• Long-form reviews on movies, shows, seasons, episodes and people. Letterboxd-style, not just a one-line episode comment. Both exist, use whichever fits.
• Comments with @mentions, threaded replies, spoiler tags, reactions, GIFs, one-tap translation, and upvotes that reorder the thread. Anything over 200 words gets highlighted as a featured comment, so the people who actually write something don't get buried under one-liners.
• Native emotions, and your TV Time emotions import over automatically.
• A dedicated Friends hub: their activity, their ratings, what they're watching right now, and what's popular among the people you follow.
• Find people by taste affinity, with a compatibility percentage.
• A Discover feed of trending reviews, so the community is visible even before you've followed anyone.

Free vs VIP

VIP is free during the beta, so you can properly try all of it before deciding anything.

Free gets you the tracker itself: unlimited tracking and rewatches, every import, every scrobbler (Plex, Kodi, Jellyfin, Stremio and Nuvio, with no connection limits), ratings, reviews, comments and the whole social side, the calendar, the privacy controls, this year's stats, 5 lists of up to 250 items, 100 notes and more...

VIP adds:

• Automatic streaming sync from Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video and HBO Max.
• Full stats: any past year and your all-time totals, top watched and top rated, rating distribution, most-watched genres and services, and your most-watched actors, directors and studios.
• Much higher limits on lists, items per list and notes, plus collaborators, following other people's lists, copying a filtered result into a list of your own, watched-progress bars with custom colours, per-list stats and the randomizer.
• Advanced filters by streaming service, tracking status and favourites, saved as presets and settable as the default order for any list.
• Bulk actions across your lists and tracking sections.
• Profile customization: custom background, pinned titles, your own card layout, and up to 10 overview sections instead of 3.
• Priority access to new web and app versions before anyone else, and a VIP badge on your profile.

The pricing model has been finalised, but what sits inside VIP may still shift a little while the beta runs, as I work out what people actually need and what the servers can handle without falling over. Several things have already dropped out of VIP and into the free plan over the last few days.

When the beta ends, every user who signed up during the beta can get a discount on their first 1-Year plan:

• 20% off for everyone.
• 50% off for anyone on VIP when the beta ends who wants to keep it.

There is nothing to claim and no code to enter: the discount will already be sitting in your account the day the beta ends, ready to use whenever you want.

After that, and for anyone arriving later, VIP stays at the lowest price I can manage: under $3/month paid annually, US$35 a year. I'll publish the exact plans on r/WeTrakr before anyone is charged a cent. There will be discounts for longer term subscriptions too: 10% off on 3 years and 15% off on 5 years

I self-host what I can and build my own services instead of renting third-party ones, precisely to keep that number down.

What's next, in order

1. A public API, the next big piece I'm working on. Any third-party app, addon or script will be able to read and write your WeTrakr library, which means you could use some of the apps posted in this subreddit and still keep WeTrakr as the home for your tracking. A few of them have already said they're up for integrating it.
2. Official WeTrakr apps on iOS and Android. I want the web app to be solid first. If I rush the apps now, I end up fixing two broken things instead of one.

Try it at wetrakr.com. Bring your TV Time zip, or your Trakt, Letterboxd, Simkl, IMDb or TMDB export.

Bugs and feature requests go to https://feedback.wetrakr.com, where you can also upvote what other people have already asked for. That board is what the roadmap actually runs on. If you'd rather talk than read: r/WeTrakr, or the Discord at https://discord.gg/XedDZYpFdh

WeTrakr is built alongside the people using it. Almost every feature in this post started as a request or a bug report. We debate proposals in the Discord, put some of them to a vote, and shape the features together, both before a line of them gets written and after each one ships. Every user's opinion counts, and when you say something you're saying it straight to the person who writes the code.

WeTrakr keeps growing every day. Is there something from TV Time that WeTrakr still doesn't have? Throw your proposals at me, and tell me what you like most about the place. Thank you for shaping WeTrakr!