Show 20 earlier versions
1.7.0
12 October 2026Shipped
A yearly goal, an easy move to a new phone, and iPad at full width
- A yearly goal. Pick how many films and episodes to watch this year and watch the rings fill, with past years kept as a record. Free, and counted on the phone.
- Moving from another phone? Say which phone you had and the app shows you the way to bring your library over, from an old iPhone or Android.
- iPad at full width. Posters and cards now use the whole width of the screen.
- Your devices. With Plus, see every phone and tablet on your account and remove one you no longer use. Up to five at a time.
- Your own server, no Plus needed. If you run the OpenTV server yourself, backup and sync to it are free.
- A second phone can't undo your profile. Your public profile is published from one phone, so it no longer flips between two libraries, and a phone that starts fresh asks before replacing a full profile.
- Get it on GitHub. Every release has a signed Android APK on GitHub, for Obtainium and Komi Store.
- Fixes. Hide watched episodes now stays on, the Tonight row can be closed, and Wrapped's calendar opens any month or year.
1.6.8
12 October 2026Shipped
Seasonal looks, profile templates, and a line to the developer
- Seasonal looks. Decorations for your profile picture during events like Halloween and Christmas, and the loading screen dresses up too. Free while the season is on; Plus keeps them.
- Profile templates. With Plus, ready-made looks, or one made from your own shows and films: banner, colours and blocks in one tap.
- Arrange it your way. With Plus, tap any block while arranging your profile to change its style or size, or swap it for another.
- New app icons with Plus, Halloween and Christmas included.
- Message the developer. A private thread inside the app for a bug, an idea or something missing, and the reply arrives as a notification. Settings → Message the developer.
- Starting fresh? Add your shows in three steps: pick them, say how far you are, then tick the films you have seen.
- The bell opens your inbox again. Follows, likes, replies and requests had been out of reach since 1.6.4. They are back.
- Safer backups. Android offers Google Drive backup when you start, and OpenTV Backup catches up the next time you open the app if a backup never went out.
1.6.7
8 October 2026Shipped
Creator codes
- Have a code? The OpenTV Plus screen now takes a creator's code for Plus at half price. On iPhone it opens Apple's own redeem sheet.
1.6.6
4 October 2026Shipped
TV Time's comments are back, and a banner that is really yours
- TV Time's comments are back. The whole archive under every show, episode and film, through CommsUni.tv, in its own tab beside OpenTV's. Read them, reply, and share your own there if you choose.
- Translate any comment. One tap puts a comment into your language, CommsUni's included.
- Your lost pictures, recovered. Imported TV Time comments get back pictures that had disappeared, from the archive.
- A banner you can arrange. Drag it, pinch to zoom and fade its edge into the page; with Plus, resize it and upload your own GIF. A new banner sets the theme from its colours.
- Change your username in Edit profile.
- Stremio. Sign in once and episodes you watch there tick themselves off here, for shows you already follow.
- Restore from Google Drive. The Android welcome screen can now bring a Drive backup back.
- What's new appears once after each update, and coming back to the app no longer freezes it.
1.6.5
1 October 2026Shipped
Wrapped, rebuilt
- Up to fourteen cards a month. Each one appears only when the month has something to put on it, so no card shows a zero.
- Everything you watched, every title on film strips, with dates or episode counts.
- Film of the month as a ticket stub: the poster, your stars, the runtime and the day you saw it.
- A month of films reads as films. Three new watching types for those months: the film purist, the double feature and the night owl.
- Wrapped is back in Settings, under Make it yours.
1.6.4
29 September 2026Shipped
IMDb, an account that is only an account, and share cards that fit
- It opens on iOS 27. The new iOS stopped the app at launch. Fixed.
- An account that is not a profile. Sign in for backup and sync without joining the community: no username, nothing published, nobody can find you until you choose to join.
- Import from IMDb. Your ratings arrive as watched films, and your watchlist as a watchlist.
- Files made for Letterboxd. Lists other tools write for Letterboxd's importer, a JustWatch history among them, import here too.
- Share cards that fit. Each card is shaped for where it is going, so a feed no longer crops off the bottom, and a card never says a film is on your watchlist when it isn't.
- Film names you can read. A film imported under a title in another script shows its English title, and the original still finds it.
- You stay signed in. Members were quietly signed out after a week, which stopped backup and sync. Sessions renew themselves now.
- Wrapped opens from Stats, free, and marking a film watched takes you to its own page instead of the synopsis.
Making it yours
1.6.3
21 September 2026Shipped
Cloud backup, your devices kept level, and your shows in your calendar
- Cloud backup. One copy of everything you have tracked, kept off your phone —
on our server, or on one you run yourself. It is the only copy that crosses between an
iPhone and an Android, which no other backup here can do.
- Your devices, kept level. Tick an episode on one and it is ticked on the other.
What travels is the intent, not the library — so the things you take back cross
too, which a backup file can never express.
- Your shows in your calendar. Upcoming episodes written into the calendar you
already check, rather than a screen you have to remember to open.
- Ask Siri. What is next, mark it watched, have I seen this film.
- Ratings got a home. A chart of how you actually rate, a grid worth posting, and
a page of their own.
- A favourite character for every episode — the way the question was always asked,
and the way it is now finally kept.
- Trakt and Simkl. Two more histories you can bring with you.
- The three a stranger found in an hour. The app was posted somewhere unfriendly
and the first reply was three bugs, all fair: the buzzing could not be turned off, A–Z
filed "The Great" under T, and the filter buttons hid under Android's navigation bar.
All three are fixed.
1.6.2
7 September 2026Shipped
Wrapped redesigned, Jellyfin, and a server you can run yourself
- Wrapped, rebuilt. Every month and every year now gets its own card rather than
the same layout with different numbers in it, and a year no longer looks like a long
month.
- Jellyfin. Connect a Jellyfin server and episodes you watch there tick themselves
off here, the way Plex already did. It only ever reads, and only episodes of shows you
already follow.
- All aired. The shows whose every episode exists — the ones you could actually
finish this weekend, rather than catch up on and then wait.
- The feelings calendar became a profile block. A year of days coloured by how
each one felt, on the profile rather than buried a screen away.
- Your own server. The community half is open source and self-hostable, and the
app has a setting to point at your own instance. Tracking never needed a server at all;
this is only about the optional community.
- Plus ends when it ends. A subscription that lapses stops being Plus, and takes
nothing with it — every theme, list and statistic you made stays exactly where it is.
1.6.1
2 September 2026Shipped
The films TV Time left out of your lists
- Your lists were missing most of their films, and nothing said so. A TV Time
export names a film in a list only if you had already watched, rated or commented on it
— so the films that make a watch order a watch order were the ones it could not name.
One real 22-film list arrived with 8. OpenTV now recovers the rest.
- Exports were dropping them too. Films with no name were left out of every
backup, and the count was recalculated from the survivors, so the result looked
correct. Fixed — and this one predates the feature above.
- Something to do while it works. Rebuilding a very large library can hold the
startup screen for a while, and the only thing on it was a number going up. There is a
snake that eats popcorn there now, and a shuffle button for the older catching game.
1.6.0
1 September 2026Shipped
A light theme, Memories, and Plex
- A light theme, free for everyone. A subscriber said the dark interface was hard
for them to read, so this is legibility rather than decoration. Settings → App → Theme:
Light, Dark, or follow your phone.
- Memories. What you were watching on this day in every earlier year, with the
artwork, and an optional reminder when there is something to see.
- Plex. Connect a Plex server and episodes you watch there tick themselves off here.
It only ever adds episodes of shows you already follow, and never writes back to Plex.
- Your TV Time name. One export can now claim one profile, so the same file cannot
be used to take name after name.
- The startup repair screen stopped appearing on every single launch.
1.5.0
30 August 2026Shipped
Shared lists, profile widgets, and OpenTV Plus
- Shared lists. A list two people build together, where every row says who added it.
- Profile widgets. The profile became blocks you arrange yourself instead of one fixed layout.
- Live translation of comments written in a language you do not read.
- OpenTV Plus. Optional, and it buys extras — unlimited lists and favourites, the accent
colour, OLED black, custom app icons. Tracking, importing and exporting stay free, permanently.
1.4.1 & 1.4.2
18 August 2026Shipped
A backup Android actually has
- Google Drive backup. iPhones had silent iCloud backup since 1.1; Android had a button
you were asked to remember to press. Same schedule, same file, same restore — Android just
had further to travel.
- 1.4.2 was a same-week fix: opening somebody's profile could crash the app.
1.4.0
15 August 2026Shipped
Wrapped, filters, and private accounts
- Wrapped — a monthly and yearly look back at what you watched, free, calculated on the phone.
- Private accounts, and control over which shows other people can see.
- Advanced filtering across your library, and a page for every actor.
- The app went open source, so the import pipeline stays available to whoever needs it.
The community
1.3.0 & 1.3.1
11–13 August 2026Shipped
Comments, ratings and people — all optional
- Sign in with Google or Apple, pick a username, and comment on episodes, rate them and follow people.
- Skip it and nothing changes. The tracker never contacts a server, and your episode-by-episode
history stays on the phone whether you join or not.
- 1.3.1 arrived two days later with the fixes the first real day of traffic found.
The tracker
1.2.1
7 August 2026Shipped
Six languages
English, Arabic — properly right-to-left, not mirrored text in a left-to-right layout —
French, Italian, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese.
1.2.0
30 July 2026Shipped
TheTVDB, lists, sharing and iPad
- TheTVDB became the main source of show information, which fixed a long tail of
anime and older series that were matching to the wrong thing.
- Custom lists, share cards, iPad layouts, and an offline cache that means the app works on a plane.
1.1.9
24 July 2026Shipped
Rescuing photos from a CDN that was switching off
Photos attached to old TV Time comments lived on TV Time's servers. This release pulled
them down onto the phone while they were still there to pull.
1.1.8
20 July 2026Shipped
A faster import, and one worth watching
The import got several times quicker and grew a live count of the shows, episodes and films
landing as they land. Also: custom lists, a poster picker, and character art for anime.
1.1.4 – 1.1.7
17–18 July 2026Shipped
The first week after launch
- Episode notifications, an upcoming schedule, trending, and filters.
- Deleting a show properly, so it stayed deleted, and a counter that stopped drifting when
you unmarked a season.
- Imports became resumable — closing the app halfway no longer meant starting again.
1.0 – 1.1.0
9–12 July 2026Shipped
Hand it the ZIP
The first release. Read a TV Time export — every show, episode, watch date, rating and
comment — and rebuild all of it in a database on your own phone, with no account anywhere.
Everything above is built on this.
