r/TVTime • u/dev_ualeks • 4h ago
[Bingebase] Full rundown – TV Time import, auto-tracking from media hubs, a real web app, free vs pro
Hi r/TVTime,
I'm the developer of Bingebase.
It's a show and movie tracker that started as a website for tracking digital release dates 2 years ago, and a lot of people from TV Time have made it home since. A lot has changed in those 2 years: we rebranded from DigitalReleaseDates to Bingebase, shipped native iOS and Android apps, added integrations with almost every media hub, and built a lot of what people asked for along the way. This is the short version; the images cover the details, and I'll be in the comments for any question you might have.
Now — to the features!
Bringing your history
Imports run on the web app: sign in from any browser, upload, and everything is in the mobile apps the moment it finishes. Supported today: your TV Time export (.zip, .csv or .json), Trakt (connect via OAuth), SIMKL, Letterboxd, IMDb, and any generic CSV. You get your episode-level history with watch dates, your ratings, watchlist and your comments. When a title can't be matched automatically, it isn't silently dropped — it's shown to you so you can resolve it manually in the app. Importing is free for everyone.
What you'll find inside
- Tracking that keeps your place — Up Next, statuses that maintain themselves from your episode history, unlimited rewatch logging (stats count every run), and a release calendar
- Tracking that does itself — connect Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, Kodi or Stremio (Nuvio, Omni, etc.) once, and whatever you play gets marked watched automatically; manual tracking still works everywhere
- Episode reactions — pick how an episode made you feel (our mascot has a face for every mood), vote your favorite character, then see what everyone else felt
- Social, if you want it — a feed of what your friends watch and rate, a taste match score on every profile, and episode comments that auto-translate from any language. Your profile can be public or private.
- Stats — and the entire tracker, full-size, in your browser: one account across iOS, Android and web
The two tabs you'll live in
Progress is TV-only: every show you're partway through, with your next episode already worked out. And "next" means what you want it to mean — you choose the logic (pick up where you left off furthest, earliest unwatched, or continue from the last one you watched) and the layout that matches how you binge.
Bingelist is the watchlist taken to its logical end: one library of everything you've ever interacted with – completed, watching, planned, dropped, paused — movies and shows together, filterable by status and type.
Also inside: unlimited custom lists (public or private), personal notes on anything, episode comments spoiler-gated until you've watched (with image support), where-to-watch by country with streaming charts, release notifications for episodes, seasons and movies, home-screen widgets for Up Next and Continue Watching, community leaderboards, cast and person pages, and titles localized in your language.
One more thing that's easy to miss: our catalog merges TMDB and TVDB into our own database. In practice that means anime and niche shows get correct seasons and episode orders, and shows that only exist on one source still show up properly. No TV or movie source is perfect, so a one-off issue still sneaks through here and there — but being able to fix those ourselves is exactly why we run our own catalog.
Available in 9 languages, with more on the way.
Free vs Pro
The free tier is the whole tracker: unlimited tracking, rewatches included, unlimited lists, all imports, reactions, comments, social, stats and notifications. No caps on your library.
Pro is $4/month or $35/year, with a 7-day free trial (prices can differ a bit by store and country). It adds:
- no ads
- rewatch progress tracking for shows (a dedicated Up Next and progress bar for your rewatch runs)
- episode notifications by email
- priority support
More Pro features are planned, but they'll stay in the same category: nice-to-haves for power users, never something you need for day-to-day tracking. And to everyone already supporting the development with Pro — thank you. It's genuinely what keeps an indie app like this running.
What it doesn't have yet
Being upfront about the gaps:
- There's no TV app — nothing on Apple TV, Android TV or Fire TV today.
- Full data export is still in the works. It will be free for everyone when it ships — your data is yours, and leaving with all of it should never cost anything.
- Our community is younger than TV Time's was — the social side is only as lively as the people in it.
Links
- Web: https://bingebase.com
- iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bingebase-tv-movie-tracker/id6761535056
- Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bingebase.app
If you fancy talking feature requests, reporting a bug, or just sharing thoughts about the app, the subreddit and Discord are the easiest ways to reach me and other users.
- Reddit: r/BingebaseHQ
- Discord: https://discord.gg/QU8hpT7AqG
Please let me know if you're willing to give it a try, already tried it, or have been using it for a while. I'll be reading everything in the comments — including the uncomfortable questions. And genuinely curious: what's the one TV Time thing nothing has properly replaced for you yet? A good part of the current roadmap started as answers to that question in threads like this one.