Following last month’s sunsetting of TV Time, one of the app’s co-founders, Antonio Pinto, announced Bingers, a new TV and movies tracking app that leans more heavily on social features. Here are the details.
When Whip Media announced it would shut down TV-tracking app TV Time, one of the app’s co-founders announced Bingers, “a fast and beautiful watchlist with a fun community.”
Now, as spotted by TechCrunch, Bingers is available to download on iOS and Android, offering a spiritual successor of sorts for users who have yet to find a replacement for what was once one of the world’s most widely used TV-tracking apps.
Former TV Timer users who used the platform’s export tool to save their data before the app’s shutdown can import their archive into Bingers to pick up where they left off, while users who didn’t export their data or are new to TV-tracking apps can start anew.
Bingers leans heavily on community-driven features, such as user profiles, comments, episode ratings, GIFs, polls, and character voting, which Pinto tells TechCrunch were key to TV Time’s enduring appeal:
“I believe TV Time was a diamond in the rough that kind of lost its way,” Pinto told TechCrunch. “I was stunned to see that the community stayed so active and so big even after the app was neglected for years and received no updates. To me, that was the sign that TV Time had something unique that no other social platform has.”
For users simply looking for a platform to track the TV shows and movies they have watched, Bingers offers dedicated watchlists and viewing histories. Like TV Time, it also shows a calendar of upcoming episodes and premieres, along with how many days remain until launch.
Bingers is available for free on the App Store and currently has no in-app purchases.
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