How Much TV Have I Watched? Your Hours, Episodes and Genres
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Most people guess low. A few shows a year does not sound like much. Then you add up ten years of it, and the answer is measured in months.
OpenTV works it out for you from your own history: how long you have spent watching, how many episodes, which genres and networks, your biggest marathons, and how long it would take to catch up on everything you started.
The Stats are free and work with no account.
The quick answer, on your profile
Open the Profile tab. Near the top are your numbers: Shows, Episodes watched, Movies watched, TV time and Movie time.
The two time cards are written as a clock, in MONTHS, DAYS and HOURS. That is the number most people screenshot.
Tap the numbers to open the full Stats page.
The Stats page
Stats has two tabs, Shows and Movies. Each one is a long page of cards. Here is what the Shows tab holds.
Time spent watching episodes. Your all-time total, how many hours you watched in the last seven days, and a chart of hours per week.
Episodes watched. The same, counted in episodes instead of hours.
Biggest marathons. The shows you binged hardest, with the episodes and hours of each marathon.
Added shows. How many shows are in your library, and how many of those are still in production.
Top show genres and Top show networks. What you actually watch, ranked. This is often the surprising one. People who think of themselves as drama watchers find out they watch a lot of comedy.
Voted ratings and Most voted rating per show. How many episodes you have rated, and the score you gave most often in each show.
Character votes and Most voted characters per show. Your favourite in every show, from the "who was your favourite?" vote under each episode.
Remaining episodes. How many episodes you have left in the shows you started.
Upcoming episodes. What is still to air in the shows you follow.
How fast are you catching up? Your pace in episodes a week, based on what you watched in the last two months.
Time to watch and Future watch time. How many hours the rest of it would take.
When will you catch up on your episodes. At your current pace, the day you would be done. If you are up to date, it says "You are caught up!" If the pile is growing faster than you watch, it says so, gently.
Badges. App badges, watch badges, and badges for ratings, comments and follows.
The Movies tab has the same idea for films: Time spent watching movies, Movies watched, Top movie genres, your watchlist, upcoming films not yet released, and how long your watchlist would take at your pace.
Why the numbers are honest
Time totals are only as good as the running times behind them, and plenty of episodes in the big databases have none. Adding up only the known ones would make your total much too low.
OpenTV fills the gaps. When an episode or film has no runtime, it uses a sensible one from the same show or a typical length, so a decade of history is not quietly cut short.
The numbers are worked out on your phone, from your own library, every time you open the page. Nothing is sent anywhere to count them.
Deep Stats, with Plus
Near the top of the Stats page there is a row called Deep Stats: "Taste DNA, binge report, you vs the crowd". Deep Stats is part of OpenTV Plus.
It adds:
- Taste DNA: your Top genres, Top decades and Top networks across shows and films
- Most-watched shows and Favourite characters
- Binge report: your Biggest day, Longest streak of days in a row, Days watching and Episodes per active day
- Rating personality: whether you are Generous, a Tough crowd, a Steady hand, Balanced or All or nothing
- When you watch: by hour of day and day of week, for watches that carry a time
- You vs the crowd: where your ratings agree with everyone else's and where they differ, with a Contrarian score
Deep Stats is computed on your phone too. Share your taste turns it into a card you can post.
Comparing with friends
On the time cards there is a link: COMPARE WITH THE PEOPLE YOU FOLLOW. It puts you next to each person you follow, with time watched, episodes, films and a taste match.
That one needs the community, because it uses what other people share on their profiles. Joining is optional and free, and nothing is sent until you do.
Getting the real number
A tracker can only count what it knows. If you only started tracking last month, your total will say last month.
If you used TV Time, Trakt, Simkl, Letterboxd or IMDb before, import that history and the numbers go all the way back. See how to get your TV Time history back and how to move from Trakt, Letterboxd, Simkl or IMDb.
Get OpenTV
OpenTV is free on the App Store for iPhone and iPad and on Google Play for Android. Stats are free. Deep Stats comes with OpenTV Plus.
Questions or ideas? Ask on Discord or r/opentv_app.