The TV Time app is shutting down on July 15th, 2026. TechCrunch has more details: the company behind was bought up, will switch to making “AI” tools to try to make more money.
Request an export of your TV Time data
Make sure to export your data before TV Time shuts down on July 15, 2026.
Request an export of your TV Time data at TV Time - GDPR Data Export. This export contains most of your data and should help you to import it into another service in the future.
Importing into SeriesGuide
The currently easiest solution that will keep most of your data is to
- create an account with the third-party Trakt service,
- import your data to your Trakt account (forum post with details) and
- connect it to SeriesGuide.
Note that Trakt lists can currently not be synced with SeriesGuide.
If you don’t want to use Trakt and only SeriesGuide, read on:
Export with TV Time Out, transform and import into SeriesGuide
Export your TV Time data using the TV Time Out by Refract browser extension.
It produces JSON files that then must be transformed to a structure that SeriesGuide understands.
I created a tool for this: TV Time to SeriesGuide JSON Transformer
Note: to import movies, you must use SeriesGuide 2026.3.0 or newer, currently available in preview.
If you want to create an appropriate JSON file yourself
The recommended values to import shows from TV Time are:
[
{
"tvdb_id": 332331,
"title": "Altered Carbon",
"language": "pt-BR",
"favorite": false,
"seasons": [
{
"tvdb_id": 1,
"season": 1,
"episodes": [
{
"tvdb_id": 1,
"episode": 1,
"title": "Out of the Past",
"watched": true,
"plays": 1
}
]
}
]
}
]
- The
tvdb_idof seasons and episodes don’t need to be valid, but must be1or greater. Thetvdb_idfor the show must be valid (see notes on importing below). title(optional): the title of the show or episode, allows to identify a show or episode by name if migration fails.language(optional): one of the supported values. If not set, must be set per show inside the details screen of each show.favorite(optional):trueorfalseseason: the number of the season (0or greater,0for special episodes). Used to match with season on TMDB.episode: the number of the episode. Used to match with episode on TMDB.watched:trueorfalseplays(optional): watched count,0ifwatchedisfalse,1or greater otherwise.- You can provide additional values, see the documentation for all supported values. But they should get filled in by the migration process.
The recommended values to import lists from TV Time are:
[
{
"items": [
{
"externalId": "332331",
"type": "show"
}
],
"name": "A list"
}
]
externalId: the TVDB ID of a show
To import the JSON files created by the transformer tool into SeriesGuide:
From the “More” screen,
- select “Export and Import”, then
- under Import select the JSON file created by the transformer for each “Shows”, “Lists” and “Movies”
- select “Import data” at the bottom.
After importing, return to the Shows screen and trigger a sync to run the migration to TMDB data:
- select the three dots in the top right to display more options,
- select “Sync manually” and then
- select “Sync & Update”
It’s possible that some shows or episodes can’t be migrated, because they can’t be found on TMDB. See the post on TMDB migration issues for potential solutions.
What if I previously imported only lists with shows using the old transformer tool?
Note that when you import in SeriesGuide all your current data is replaced.
If you previously used the transformer tool before it supported movies, you need to re-transform the file for lists and create a new one for movies. And then only import those files, skipping the shows file.
Assuming you use the same export files you created previously and have not made any changes to your lists no data should be lost.