TV Time co-founder launches Bingers to revive the beloved TV tracking app

Bingers, a caller TV amusement and movie tracking app, has arrived to capable the spread that TV Time’s closure left. The caller app is developed by 1 of TV Time’s archetypal founders, Antonio Pinto, who said past month helium would effort to rebuild the champion features of TV Time aft its owner, Whip Media, decided to unopen down the merchandise to absorption connected AI efforts instead.

Whip Media’s exit from the abstraction amazed and upset TV Time’s loyal userbase. The app had been installed a full of much than 26.4 cardinal times erstwhile it was unopen down, decent traction for an app of this nature.

Angered by the quality of the closure, more than 28,000 users signed a petition begging Whip Media to prevention TV Time by offering enactment for crowdfunding donations oregon subscriptions. However, the app was unopen down arsenic planned.

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Unlike different trackers that fto you simply people whether you’ve watched a amusement oregon movie, users resonated with TV Time’s forum that fto them socialize astir the latest occurrence of their favourite content. That societal constituent allowed users to marque connections with different fans, and permission posts and comments detailing their theories, making memes, and more.

“I judge TV Time was a diamond successful the unsmooth that benignant of mislaid its way,” Pinto told TechCrunch. “I was stunned to spot that the assemblage stayed truthful progressive and truthful large adjacent aft the app was neglected for years and received nary updates. To me, that was the motion that TV Time had thing unsocial that nary different societal level has.”

With Bingers, Pinto aims to bring backmost that societal element. It besides offers a mode to import information from TV Time’s archives. (TV Time provided a GDPR-compliant export tool before its removal from the app stores connected July 15, 2026, which Bingers has offered to re-upload.)

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Bingers has 3 main components: a instrumentality that lets you way the shows and movies you ticker oregon privation to watch; a mode to observe caller things to watch; and a societal web of sorts.

Like TV Time, fans tin make profiles and remark connected shows and movies, including by adding media similar photos and GIFs. They tin besides complaint episodes, explicit their opinions with emojis, and ballot connected favourite characters — fun, interactive features that fewer TV trackers offer.

Meanwhile, to code the issues astir the fiscal costs that contributed to TV Time’s closure, Bingers has been designed to load users’ libraries connected their phones, which allows the app to offload dense processing, similar your viewing calendar and watchlist, to users’ devices alternatively of the company’s servers, Pinto says.

Bingers volition initially monetize by letting users lend straight to assistance with server costs, arsenic they had petitioned TV Time to do. Longer term, Pinto has ideas astir a concern exemplary that would bring radical unneurotic successful existent life, but isn’t sharing further details conscionable yet.

The caller app is disposable for some iOS and Android.