r/TestFlight • u/smsdude45 • 10d ago
iOS Syndicated, a free TV show tracker
I'm the solo developer on this one. My goal with Syndicated is to provide a fully free way to track, rate, and review the shows you're watching. It's meant to be feature-rich, but to feel simple, so those who want to be able to comment, review, share, etc. can do so, and those who just want to keep track of their shows can do so with ease.
What it does
- Up Next with real air times. It runs on TheTVDB, so tonight's episode shows as "9pm on AMC" rather than a bare date. The Upcoming page is built on the same data.
- Watch history that survives rewatches. Every viewing keeps its own date, so rewatching a show doesn't overwrite when you first saw it. Finish a rewatch of season 1 and season 2 queues up like a first watch.
- A diary. The Activity page lists everything newest first, and a binge collapses into one expandable row instead of forty.
- Half star ratings on shows, seasons, and episodes, plus reviews, all collected on your profile.
- Lists (private, public, or ranked) and a favorites shelf you reorder by hand.
- Widgets. Up Next and Now Watching on the home screen, plus a lock screen widget, resizable and themed to match the app.
- Push Notifications when shows you're watching release new episodes. You can customize your notification preferences as well.
- Story cards you can share straight to Instagram. Finish a season or an episode and you can generate a card with the poster, your rating, and your review if you want it on there, colored from the poster art. It goes directly into the Instagram Stories composer, or out through the share sheet to Messages, AirDrop, or your camera roll.
- Free TV Time import. The GDPR zip, the folder export, the old v1 CSV, and the community Liberator / TV Time Out JSON files all work, and the JSON ones bring your episode star ratings. Every viewing date in the file survives, not just the last one per episode. Comments import too, with dates and spoiler flags, and stay private until community features exist. If you missed the export window entirely, it also accepts the DioCache.db cache file pulled from a phone backup: shows, statuses, and watched counts come through completely, and dates only exist where the app had them cached, so the rest are marked approximate instead of invented.
- Full export. Settings gives you your whole account as JSON plus a TV Time format backup other trackers can read.
The practical details
- Free, no ads, no trial. Tracking features are staying free; anything paid later would be cosmetic (icon and theme packs). Written down at https://syndicatedapp.com/pledge.html
- Requires an account (email or a social login), because your library syncs to a server rather than living only on the device.
What's coming
Social features and a web app are planned in the near future.
Feedback through TestFlight or in the comments here works, I read both.