With TV tracking app TV Time shuttered, its founder has built Bingers, a new home for fans

TV Time, the popular app for tracking TV shows and movies Waiting for closing He has Demands More than 25,000 users to petition Against its closure, it is getting a reboot of sorts.

One of The original founders of the app, Antonio PintoHe says he’s creating a new app to track TV shows, pingerswhich will attempt to rebuild TV Time’s best features while addressing the issues that have bothered it over the years.

Bingers will offer existing TV Time users a potential lifeline shortly after the original app disappears from app stores. It also gives the existing social community another place to go to continue discussing TV episodes, something not all TV tracking apps offer. According to data from the application information provider Application formsTV Time has over 26.4 million lifetime installs, and many of those users will likely help grow the new app’s community.

Pinto, who is based in Paris, sold his app, then called TVShow Time, to Whipclip (now known as Whip Media) in 2016, after the company promised it could significantly grow the app’s user base thanks to its relationships in Los Angeles. When he heard that the application was discontinued as… Whip Media has shifted its focus to artificial intelligence, Pinto said he felt sad.

“Sad because TV Time has been a part of my life for so many years. And sad because this community has been like my other family. Reading the community’s reactions after each episode has become a ritual for me and many others,” Pinto wrote in a post. Blog post On the new Pingers website.

“I decided to build the new home where the TV Time community could go. I wanted to rebuild all the great TV Time features, but also fix everything that had always bothered me,” he said.

Notably, the new Bingers app will address TV Time performance issues, which often caused the app to load slowly and make it expensive to run. Pinto claims that high server costs led to the shutdown, noting that its premium subscription plan only covers about 10% of those expenses given the size of its community.

Instead, Bingers is designed to keep its server costs low, making it more sustainable, Pinto claims. It will also allow the app to respond faster when users mark an episode as watched, even when millions of others are online at the same time.

The developer told TechCrunch that the new app will be available on the App Store and Google Play by the end of July 2026. Until then, the website remains available Collect subscriptions for the waiting list This will alert users when the new app is ready for launch.

Naturally, Bingers will also be able to import data from users’ TV Time archives, available through the app GDPR compliant export tool Before being removed from app stores on July 15. By importing user archives, Pinto says Bingers will be able to recreate TV Time community comments as well.

Archive import is already turned on on Binger’s website, so your TV viewing history will already be available when you launch the app in app stores.