TV Time is going dark. A familiar face is stepping up.
More than 25,000 people have signed a petition begging TV Time to stay alive. But the popular TV and movie tracking app is still shutting down. Its parent company, Whip Media, is pivoting to AI. So TV Time’s community of 26.4 million lifetime installs is about to lose its digital clubhouse.
Enter Antonio Pinto. He’s the French entrepreneur who originally built the app — back when it was called TVShow Time — and sold it to Whipclip in 2016. Now he’s building a new app called Bingers. Think of it as a spiritual successor. A second chance.
“I decided to build the new home where the TV Time community could go,” Pinto wrote on the Bingers website. “I wanted to rebuild all TV Time’s great features, but also fix everything that always bothered me.”
That’s a lot of baggage to carry. But Pinto seems ready.
What Bingers will do differently
TV Time had a serious performance problem. The app loaded slowly. It was expensive to run. Pinto says the premium subscription covered only about 10% of the server costs. That’s a brutal ratio. It’s also a big reason the app is dying.
Bingers is built differently. Pinto claims the architecture keeps server costs low, making the whole thing more sustainable. Users should get faster responses when they mark an episode as watched — even when millions of people hit that button at the same time.
That’s the kind of technical fix that doesn’t make headlines but keeps users sane. Anyone who’s waited five seconds for a checkmark to appear knows the pain.
Import your TV Time data now
Here’s the good news: you don’t have to start from scratch. TV Time users can export their entire viewing history using the app’s GDPR-compliant export tool. That tool will disappear once the app is removed from the App Store and Google Play on July 15.
Bingers already has an archive import tool live on its website. Upload your data now, and your history will be waiting when the app launches. That includes community comments from TV Time — the episode-by-episode chatter that made the app feel like a live watch party.
Pinto says the import will “recreate TV Time’s community comments.” That’s a big deal. Many tracking apps let you log what you watched. Very few let you argue about the finale with strangers.
When can you get Bingers?
The app won’t arrive overnight. Pinto tells TechCrunch that Bingers will hit the App Store and Google Play by the end of July 2026. That’s a long wait. But the waitlist is open now on the Bingers website. Sign up, and you’ll get a notification when it’s ready.
In the meantime, the archive import is already functional. So you can lock in your data and forget about it. When the app finally drops, your history will be there.
Why this matters for TV fans
TV Time wasn’t just a tracker. It was a social network for people who watch too much television. That combination is rare. Most tracking apps are solo experiences. You log your shows, get some stats, move on. TV Time had threads, reactions, inside jokes. It had a culture.
When Pinto heard the app was being wound down, he said he felt sad. “Sad because TV Time was part of my life for so many years. And sad because this community was like my other family. Reading the community reactions after each episode became a ritual for me, and for many others.”
That kind of attachment is hard to replicate. But if anyone can do it, it’s the person who built the original. Bingers might not save every feature. It might not bring back every user. But it gives the community a place to land — and that’s more than most dying apps offer.
If you’re a TV Time user, export your data before July 15. Then join the waitlist. Your viewing history deserves a second act.
