TV Time’s original founder Antonio Pinto is building a new app called Bingers as the popular TV and movie-tracking service prepares to shut down. The new app is meant to give TV Time users another place to track shows, import their viewing history and continue community discussions after TV Time disappears from app stores.
TV Time is set to stop operating on July 15, 2026, after parent company Whip Media decided to focus on its AI-native enterprise platform. The pending shutdown has prompted more than 25,000 users to sign a petition asking for the app to remain available.
Pinto founded the app in 2011 under the name TVShow Time and sold it to Whipclip, now Whip Media, in 2016. In a post on the Bingers website, he said TV Time had been part of his life for years and that the community felt like another family.
Bingers Will Import TV Time Archives
Bingers is designed to recreate many of TV Time’s core features, including episode tracking, comments and community reactions. Pinto said he also wants to fix issues that frustrated users, especially slow loading and high server costs.
The new app will let users import their TV Time archives through the export tool made available before TV Time shuts down. Bingers’ website already supports archive imports, so users can move their viewing history before the app launches.
Pinto said the import system can also help recreate TV Time’s community comments. That matters because the social layer was one of TV Time’s strongest features, giving viewers a place to react to episodes and read what others thought after watching.
According to Appfigures data cited by TechCrunch, TV Time has more than 26.4 million lifetime installs. Even a small share of those users moving to Bingers could help the new app seed an active community quickly.
Launch Is Expected by the End of July
Bingers is expected to launch on the App Store and Google Play by the end of July 2026. Until then, users can join a waitlist through its website and upload their TV Time archive in advance.
Pinto said the new app has been built with lower server costs in mind, making it more sustainable than TV Time became under Whip Media. He said that should also make the app faster when users mark episodes as watched, even if many people are using it at the same time.
TV Time’s shutdown has created an opening for several tracking apps to attract displaced users. But Bingers has a strong advantage because it is being built by one of TV Time’s original creators and is directly targeting the community that made the old app popular.
For users who relied on TV Time to track shows, movies and episode reactions, Bingers offers the clearest attempt to preserve that experience. The app’s success will depend on whether it can launch quickly, import user data smoothly and rebuild the community before TV Time’s audience scatters.
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