TV Time founder returns with new app 'Bingers' for fans of the shuttered series-tracking app
Antonio Pinto, co-founder of TV Time, has unveiled Bingers, a new movie and series tracking app that can import watch history from TV Time. It's expected to be available for download by the end of July.
After TV Time, the beloved TV show tracking app for series fans, announced its shutdown — prompting over 25,000 fans to sign a petition in protest — the story now has a sequel. Antonio Pinto, one of the app's original founders, has announced a new app called Bingers that will rebuild TV Time's best features while fixing issues that had frustrated him for years.
A bit of history: TV Time began in 2011 under its original name TVShow Time, starting as a fun side project by Pinto, who was living in Paris at the time. It grew into a popular app before he decided to sell it to Whipclip (now Whip Media) in 2016. According to app intelligence firm Appfigures, TV Time racked up more than 26.4 million lifetime installs.
What fans will likely care about most is that Bingers will support importing data from users' TV Time archives via the GDPR-compliant data export tool. That means years of accumulated watch history won't be lost — but users need to back up their data before July 15, the date TV Time is pulled from app stores, ending roughly 15 years of operation.
Pinto told TechCrunch that Bingers will be available on both the App Store and Google Play by the end of July 2026. He also told Engadget that the new app is designed to keep server costs extremely low so it can "live forever this time" — likely the perfect answer to fans' biggest concern after just losing their beloved app.
Anyone who has used TV Time to track series for years (including many Thai users) needs to export their watch history before July 15, or they'll lose that data permanently. Bingers offers a new option that lets users migrate their data right away.