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OneHome Watch Tracker
One flat $25/year app to track the shows and movies you watch, with unlimited lists and a history you can always export.
In plain English
- What category is this?
- A software niche that does not fit the usual catalog buckets cleanly. Here the focus is b2C consumer subscription.
- The idea, briefly
Build one flat price for films and returning series together: unlimited lists and watchlist, free one-click import from TV Time, Letterboxd, Trakt and Simkl, and export plus monthly automatic backup included at every tier instead of reserved for a premium plan. Caveat: Simkl gates its own CSV/JSON export and backup behind PRO/VIP, so importing from Simkl depends on the user already holding a paid export, and the free unlimited-list promise is an inference, not a tested offer.
More ▾- What buyers expect
People comparing tools like Simkl, Trakt, Letterboxd expect the basics to work without surprise fees or missing pieces. The loud complaints are: Letterboxd does not track returning TV shows. Its opened help page says 'No, we do not support returning TV shows at this time', so a fan who logs films there still needs a second app for series. Caveat: the same page adds that Letterboxd is 'working on this as a future platform extension', which weakens this as a durable gap; and when TV Time closed on 15 July 2026 it said all personal data would be deleted, offering only a GDPR export window before removal from the app stores.
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Competitors
4- Simkl$1/mo
Parsed from public pricing blurbs (entry paid tier when available). Max in set: $1/mo.
| Competitor | From | Free tier | Source |
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| Simkl | $1/mo | Yes | simkl.com✓ |
| Trakt | Unverified | — | trakt.tv· |
| Letterboxd | Unverified | — | letterboxd.com· |
| Bingers | See notes | — | bingers.app✓ |
What customers complain about
6| Gap | Src |
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Letterboxd does not track returning TV shows. Its opened help page says 'No, we do not support returning TV shows at this time', | |
When TV Time closed on 15 July 2026 it said all personal data would be deleted, offering only a GDPR export window before removal from the app stores. | |
Trakt's free plan caps personal lists at 2 lists of 100 items and caps watchlists and collections at 100 items. Long-time users reacted in the announcement thread. | |
Trakt standardized every VIP renewal from 12 June 2025, ending the legacy $30 tier, and the announcement says infrastructure expenses doubled. (User reaction is in source 12, | |
Owning your own history is paywalled: Simkl gates CSV/JSON/RSS export, auto backup and import from Trakt or TV Time to paid PRO/VIP, | |
A paid watch tracker is expensive to run: TV Time's founder says its premium covered only about 10% of server costs, |
Documented Interpreted
How competitors find customers
3| Tactic | Src |
|---|---|
| Trakt built a TV Time importer that accepts the GDPR export zip, announced it in the forums and published a step-by-step guide; | forums.trakt.tv✓ |
| Bingers, the TV Time founder's successor, collected a pre-launch waitlist and switched on archive import before the app was live. | techcrunch.com✓ |
| Simkl markets importers from 20+ services (Letterboxd, MAL, IMDb, Netflix) but paywalls importing from Trakt and TV Time, which a free-import rival can target directly. | simkl.com✓ |
Your angle & pricing wedge
| Piece | Claim | Src |
|---|---|---|
| Angle | One flat price for films and returning series together: unlimited lists and watchlist, free one-click import from TV Time, Letterboxd, Trakt and Simkl, | |
| Wedge | Mechanism: charge a flat $25/year (with a $79 one-time option) for the whole tracker and give away the two things incumbents charge for, |
How others got traction
3| Move | Why | Src |
|---|---|---|
| Trakt built an importer that accepts the TV Time GDPR export zip directly, announced it in its foru… | Company-posted result: a Trakt staff forum post links to the Trakt About page with 'Welcome to 1/2 million new users that joined in July!'… | forums.trakt.tv✓ |
| Bingers, built by TV Time's original founder, opened archive import and a waitlist before the app l… | Founder-attributed: he says he built the community a new home and architected it to keep server costs low after TV Time's premium covered o… | techcrunch.com✓ |
| Letterboxd keeps its core free with unlimited films and lists and sells Pro at $19/year, | Company-stated: 'Letterboxd will always remain free to use' (source 15, FAQ snippet) and the help page says 'No, | letterboxd.zendesk.com✓ |
Market heat
TV Time shut down on 15 July 2026 after 26.4 million lifetime installs and deleted users' personal data; its message said 'there was not enough demand for a paid app'.
More ▾Trakt ran a TV Time importer accepting the GDPR export zip and a staff forum post reported half a million new users in July 2026.
Letterboxd's own help page keeps returning TV shows unsupported.
Revenue signals
4| Signal | Src |
|---|---|
Letterboxd: Pro $19/year and Patron $49/year. | letterboxd.com· |
Trakt: VIP $60/year, $6/month or $96 every two years. No revenue or customer count is published. | trakt.tv· |
Simkl: PRO $34.99/year, VIP about $69.98/year, Lifetime VIP $249 one-time, Student VIP $2.99/month. | simkl.com✓ |
TV Time: 26.4 million lifetime installs but no viable paid demand; the shutdown announcement quoted 'there was not enough demand for a paid app', | techcrunch.com✓ |
Should you build this?
The opening is one app for films and returning series that never holds your history hostage: unlimited lists, free import from TV Time, Letterboxd, Trakt and Simkl, and export plus automatic backup included in a flat price of about $25/year. The competitive risk is real and is not only price: Bingers, built by TV Time's original founder and openly recruiting the same displaced community with free archive import and a waitlist, is a direct rival at the exact moment of the gap, and Trakt already built a free importer too. Cost risk is real, because TV Time's founder says its own premium covered only about 10% of server costs, so this only works if the product stays cheap to run and avoids paying per user for a streaming scrobbler the way Trakt does. Before building, recruit 40 people who were TV Time users or currently pay for Trakt, Simkl or Letterboxd, record what each pays and whether a $25/year tracker with free TV Time import and always-on export would make them switch, and ask each for a paid pre-order;
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