Apps & Consumer
Bingers relaunches TV Time's social show-tracking model
Antonio Pinto, a TV Time co-founder, has launched Bingers, a TV and movie tracker with a social layer, to replace the shuttered TV Time app.
Bingers, a new TV show and movie-tracking app, has arrived to fill the gap left by TV Time’s closure. It comes from Antonio Pinto, one of TV Time’s original founders, who said last month he would try to rebuild the app’s best features after owner Whip Media decided to shut the product down to focus on AI efforts instead — a move that surprised and upset TV Time’s loyal user base. TV Time had been installed more than 26.4 million times when it closed, and more than 28,000 users had signed a petition urging Whip Media to keep it alive through crowdfunding or subscriptions. The app shut down as planned regardless.
TV Time’s draw was less about simple watch-tracking than its forum, which let users socialize around the latest episode of a show — posting, commenting, trading theories, and sharing memes. “I believe TV Time was a diamond in the rough that kind of lost its way,” Pinto told TechCrunch, adding that the community’s continued size and activity even after years without updates convinced him the app had something no other social platform offered.
Bingers has three components: a tool to track what users watch or want to watch, a discovery feature, and a social network. As on TV Time, users can build profiles, comment with photos and GIFs, rate episodes, react with emojis, and vote on favorite characters. The app also lets users import their TV Time history: TV Time provided a GDPR-compliant export tool before its July 15, 2026 removal from app stores, and Bingers has offered to re-upload that data for users.
To avoid the cost pressures that contributed to TV Time’s shutdown, Bingers processes users’ viewing calendars and watchlists on their own phones rather than company servers, Pinto said. It will initially monetize by letting users contribute directly toward server costs — the same fix TV Time’s petitioners had asked for — before Pinto pursues a longer-term business model built around bringing people together in person, which he has not detailed further. Bingers is available for iOS and Android.
Why it matters
Bingers is a test of whether a niche social layer — rather than pure tracking utility — can sustain a consumer app financially, using a user-funded model instead of the ad- or data-driven approaches that squeezed its predecessor.