As TV-tracking app TV Time shuts down, its founder builds Bingers, a new home for fans

TV Time, the fashionable TV and movie-tracking app whose pending shutdown has prompted more than 25,000 users to petition against its closure, is getting a reboot of sorts.

One of the app’s archetypal founders, Antonio Pinto, says he’s creating a caller TV amusement tracking app, Bingers, which volition effort to rebuild the champion features of TV Time portion besides addressing the issues that bothered him implicit the years.

Bingers volition connection TV Time’s existing users a imaginable lifeline soon aft the archetypal app disappears from the app stores. It besides gives the existing societal assemblage different spot to spell to proceed discussing TV episodes, thing that not each TV amusement tracking apps offer. According to information from app quality supplier Appfigures, TV Time has much than 26.4 cardinal beingness installs, galore of those users perchance helping effect the caller app’s community.

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Pinto, who is based successful Paris, sold his app, past called TVShow Time, to Whipclip (now Whip Media) successful 2016, aft the institution promised it could turn the app’s idiosyncratic basal importantly acknowledgment to its Los Angeles ties. When helium heard the app was being coiled down arsenic Whip Media shifted its absorption to AI, Pinto said helium felt sad.

“Sad due to the fact that TV Time was portion of my beingness for truthful galore years. And bittersweet due to the fact that this assemblage was similar my different family. Reading the assemblage reactions aft each occurrence became a ritual for me, and for galore others,” Pinto wrote successful a blog post connected the caller Bingers website.

“I decided to physique the caller location wherever the TV Time assemblage could go. I wanted to rebuild each TV Time[‘s] large features, but besides hole everything that ever bothered me,” helium said.

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Notably, the caller Bingers app volition code TV Time’s show issues, which often caused the app to load dilatory and made it costly to run. Pinto claims precocious server costs led to the shutdown, noting that its premium subscription program lone covered astir 10% of those expenses owed to the size of its community.

Instead, Bingers has been architected it support its server costs low, making it much sustainable, Pinto claims. It volition besides let the app to respond faster erstwhile users people an occurrence arsenic watched, adjacent erstwhile millions of others are connecting astatine the aforesaid time.

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The developer tells TechCrunch that the caller app volition beryllium disposable connected the App Store and Google Play by the extremity of July 2026. Until then, the website is collecting sign-ups for a waitlist that volition alert users erstwhile the caller app is acceptable for launch.

Of course, Bingers volition besides beryllium capable to import information from users’ TV Time archives, disposable done the app’s GDPR-compliant export tool earlier its removal from the app stores connected July 15. By importing users’ archives, Pinto says Bingers volition beryllium capable to recreate TV Time’s assemblage comments arsenic well.

The archive import is already up and moving connected the Bingers website, truthful your TV viewing past volition already beryllium disposable erstwhile the app launches connected the app stores.