Comments are a nice way to leave a public review for show or movie, but what if you want something more personal? Media item notes are private to you and open ended to write whatever you want. User activity notes can be private or public. Trakt VIP members can write notes throughout the Trakt website and (soon) official apps.

Media Items

Drop a note on any movie, show, season, episode, or person. Each summary page has an Add Private Notes button just under the overview. Your note gets added right to the page for quick reference later.

Note badges are also added to the top left on any media posters or fanart throughout the website. This is super helpful to always have access to your notes, even when viewing other member profiles.

User Activities

Notes can also be added to any item in your watched history, collection, or ratings. Hover over a poster and you’ll get a button to Add Notes along with privacy and spoiler settings. After adding the note, it will display over the poster and update your notes page.

List Items

Notes can be added to items in your watchlist, favorites, and any personal lists. Click the Manage icon, then click the Notes Icon on any item.

View all your notes in one place

A new notes section is available under your Trakt profile. This displays all media and user activity notes. List item notes are still only displayed on the list itself. You can edit and delete any notes right from this page too.

Support Trakt & become a VIP!

Trakt is a bootstrapped startup, directly funded by VIP memberships. Hide ads, help pay for servers, and unlock awesome VIP only features like…

• No ads on the website and official apps
• Yearly and All Time year in review
• Early access to Android and iOS apps
• Watch now notifications and filtering
• iCal, RSS, and CSV feeds
• Plex scrobbler
• Unlimited lists with up to 10,000 items
• List collaboration, notes, bulk copy, and bulk move
• Notes on media items, activities, and list items
• Automatic backups of all your data
• VIP only forums
• and lots more…

Learn more about VIP →

Personal Notes was originally published in Trakt Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Rewatching is a big part of watching TV shows. We love to watch our favorites over and over. Before a new season comes out, we want to rewatch and refresh our memory. As a VIP member, you can easily track what you’re rewatching, without affecting your previous watched history.

How can I rewatch?

Rewatch a show from any show page, your progress page, and your dashboard up next. Click the rewatch icon and it will ask when you started rewatching the show.

Here is what the rewatch icon looks like in the various pages.

How does rewatching affect Trakt?

Rewatching a show doesn’t change any of your watched history (no plays will be lost!). It just sets a point in time and we recalculate your watched progress from that point forward.

Note: You can undo a rewatch and no plays are actually removed, so there is no risk to trying it out.

Here’s what you see on a main show page. The button icon and text changed to indicate you’re rewatching. Hover over the progress bar to see the original watched progress calculations.

The icon changes in other places too, such as search results. Hover over the icon to see your rewatched and original watched progress.

Seasons also calculate your rewatching and original watched progress.

You’ll also see a rewatching icon in other places to quickly know you’re rewatching a show.

How can I undo a rewatch?

Since rewatching a show doesn’t actually change your watched history, it’s super easy to undo the rewatch. Go to your hidden items settings page and just click on the poster for any show you want to restore.

What if I don’t want the rewatch to update everywhere in Trakt?

We have a setting for that too. If you prefer to see your global watched percentage everywhere, just change the global Rewatching setting.

Note: The dashboard up next and progress page will always use the rewatching data no matter what this setting is.

Support Trakt & become a VIP!

Trakt is a bootstrapped startup, directly funded by VIP memberships. Hide ads, help pay for servers, and unlock awesome VIP only features like…

• No ads on the website and official apps
• Yearly and All Time year in review
• Early access to Android and iOS apps
• Watch now notifications and filtering
• iCal, RSS, and CSV feeds
• Plex scrobbler
• Unlimited lists with up to 10,000 items
• List collaboration, notes, bulk copy, and bulk move
• Notes on media items, activities, and list items
• Automatic backups of all your data
• VIP only forums
• and lots more…

Learn more about VIP →

Rewatching TV Shows was originally published in Trakt Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Your Trakt data is important. As a VIP member, you can schedule daily and weekly automatic backups, on the day and time you want.

How does it work?

We export all your data into separate JSON files, group them into folders, then compress it all into a single ZIP file. The ZIP file is uploaded to your connected backup services on your selected schedule.

Security: all data is processed on Trakt servers, uploaded to the backup service, then removed from Trakt servers. We only request the minimum permissions needed for the backup service to allow uploads from Trakt.

Here’s an example of all the folders and files we generate. It includes collection, comments, hidden, likes, lists, network, ratings, user, and watched.

What backup services are supported?

We support Email, Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive. We’re considering Box, NextCloud, and pCloud as the next backup services. If you have other suggestions, let us know in the VIP forums.

Configure your backups.

Your backup settings is where you connect backup services and schedule the automatic backups. The columns on the right enable weekly and daily backups. Clicking a box displays additional settings to choose the day of the week (weekly only) and time you’d like generate the backups.

Note: we queue up the backup at your preferred time, but it might take up to an hour to upload and be available in your connected backup service.

Support Trakt & become a VIP!

Trakt is a bootstrapped startup, directly funded by VIP memberships. Hide ads, help pay for servers, and unlock awesome VIP only features like…

• No ads on the website and official apps
• Yearly and All Time year in review
• Early access to Android and iOS apps
• Watch now notifications and filtering
• iCal, RSS, and CSV feeds
• Plex scrobbler
• Unlimited lists with up to 10,000 items, collaboration, notes, bulk copy, and bulk move
• Notes on media items, activities, and list items
• VIP only forums
• and lots more…

Learn more about VIP →

Automatic Backups was originally published in Trakt Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Here’s a list of updates and bug fixes to the Trakt API in 2023. View the full API Docs on Apiary. Please ask questions in our GitHub project.

If you’d like to support Trakt, please consider signing up for VIP.

June 7, 2023

UPDATES

• The OAuth flow can force a sign in page instead of using the signed in session. This is useful for mobile apps with embedded webviews where it’s not easy for the user to sign out.
• /networks method includes the country and ids along with the name of each network.
• Replaced the networks filter with the more accurate network_ids filter. This is way more accurate instead of relying on a name based match.

BUGS

• Improved performance when loading large lists.
• Correctly hide lists with link privacy.
• Fix collection metadata to allow editing existing metadata values.

May 22, 2023

UPDATES

• Added new methods to update notes on list items, personal recommendation items, and watchlist items. Notes on list items and watchlist items are 🔥 VIP Only methods.

BUGS

• Allow new lines when adding notes to list items.

April 16, 2023

UPDATES

• Lists support a new link privacy option. This is essentially a private list, with a share_link to allow anyone with the link to view the list. This is useful for private user profiles that still want to share their lists with others.

March 30, 2023

UPDATES

• Added Mastodon sharing parameters to /checkin and /users/settings.
• /recommendations include recommended_by which is an array of all members who recommended the item and any notes they left why. This can be used to replicate the Trakt dashboard and display the avatar and notes.

BUGS

• Fix 500 error with unauthed recommendations.
• Several performance improvments to the /sync methods.

January 5, 2023

BUGS

• Fixed /checkin 500 error. (GitHub issue)
• Fixed ?watchnow=favorites in /users/saved_filters to automatically inject all the favorites. (GitHub issue)

API Changelog 2023 was originally published in Trakt API Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Here’s a list of updates and bug fixes to the Trakt website in 2023. If you’d like to support Trakt, please consider signing up for VIP.

October 30, 2023

VIP UPDATES (more info)

• Added episode type to the advanced filtering when viewing data containing episodes such as calendars and episode searches.
• Calendar notification emails adjusted to display more posters per row.

• New finales email notifications added for calendar and watch now notification emails.
• List CSV files include additional fields like country, language, IMDB ratings, and Rotten Tomatoes ratings.

UPDATES

• Sticky sidebars updating throughout the website to use CSS instead of JavaScript. The results are much smoother and should remove a lot of the weird scrolling bugs we used to see.
• New calendars added for My Finales and All Finales.
• Dashboard upcoming schedule can be set to display your finales.

• Premieres calendars and dashboard upcoming schedule adjusted to include series premieres, season premieres, and mid season premieres.
• Welcome wizard only displays streaming services with links, this helps hide some of the sports services that we don’t actually index.
• Summary pages have a dedicated Add to list secondary button. If you have the main action set to Add to watchlist, you can click this new button or long press (this already worked).

• Added too short as a comment reporting reason.
• Character count added to add notes popup.
• Click on a date to switch it to a relative format. Click on a runtime to see it in minutes (we already had this).

BUGS

• Fixed some calendar display issues with it not picking the correct first date and page title.

September 25, 2023

VIP UPDATES (more info)

• Lists can be sorted by lots of different ratings from Trakt, IMDB, TMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, and Metacritic.

UPDATES

• Trakt displays episode tags for series premieres, mid season finales, season finales, and series finales throughout the website. We get this info from TMDB, so any updates over there will sync to Trakt about 24 hours later.

• User ratings page has updated colors and labels for all your ratings.

• Welcome wizard only displays watch now services with at least 1 streaming item. This helps remove sports and other services that don’t actually have any watch now links on Trakt.

September 14, 2023

VIP UPDATES (more info)

• Add notes to your media and activity items! Drop a note on any movie, show, season, episode, or person. Notes can also be added to any item in your watched history, collection, or ratings.

• Search added to your comments and notes pages. Click the search icon or press t on your keyboard.

UPDATES

• Improved the cookie consent banner so it’s easier to reject all cookies. Some website functionality will be degraded if Functionality cookies are rejected.

• Reduced the intrusive website ads to improve the user experience. Ads suck, but they help pay the bills. Ads are hidden throughout the website and official apps for Trakt VIP members.

August 8, 2023

VIP UPDATES (more info)

• Twitter rebranded to X 😅 and sharing fixed. X sharing has become a VIP only feature since we have to pay a monthly fee in order to automatically post.

BUGS

• Fixed some default states for advanced filters.
• Fixed IMDB lists.

July 18, 2023

VIP UPDATES (more info)

• Rotten Tomatoes enhanced with separate Tomatometer (critics) and Audience Scores. If enabled in your settings, movie and show summary pages will include the scores (if we have the data). Advanced filtering allow filtering by both scores too.

• Advanced filtering allows filtering by Studios.

UPDATES

• Episodes and time remaining to watch added to tooltips throughout the website. All grid views and summary pages have this info.

• User profile has some more design tweaks and much improved performance. The top section goes back to a squared look, last 30 day stats added, recently watched is split to episodes and movies, ratings switched to a bar graph, most watched and comments default to the last 30 days.

• When viewing your own user profile, there are customize icons so you easily change defaults for everyone who sees your profile.
• Shows display a tagline when available.

• Mastodon sharing allows a specific language to be set.
• If you display your Mastodon icon on your Trakt profile, we include additional code to make your Trakt profile a verified link on your Mastodon profile.
• Progress sorting by release date updated to ignore episodes that air in the future. A new filter added if you want to include those future episodes (only impacts shows you’ve 100% watched).

BUGS

• Fixed calendar month name so it’s not 1 month off.
• Fixed iCal all day events in Outlook.
• Hide comments on a link (private) list so they don’t display on your public user profile.
• Auto redirect some show pages if they were using an old slug URL.

June 22, 2023

VIP UPDATES (more info)

• Plex scrobbler supports managed user accounts.

UPDATES

• The website user profile got a big redesign! Your top 3 favorites are listed, recently watched has more detail, graphs are refreshed, most watched added, and your recent comments are visible too. Check out your profile.

• If you only 50 shows and movies to bring with you on a deserted island (with a sweet 4K home theater), what would they be? Our new Favorites feature (formerly personal recommendations) is designed to showcase your all time favorites on your user profile. Read the blog post.

• Progress sorting options updated to be more clear and they all support ascending and descending.

• Improved selected states for all drop down menus.
• Updated sorting options to be more clear and consistent across the website.

June 7, 2023

VIP UPDATES (more info)

• Refresh JustWatch button added to each movie and show page. This queues up the streaming links to refresh in the new few minutes.
• You can re-send the Android beta invite email if you need to use a different email address that is linked with Google Play. First, change your email in the settings. Second, click the You’re Invited button on the apps page to resend the email. Third, change your email back if you’d like.
• Switched networks to use an internal ID instead of relying on the network name. This allows more precise results on the Year in Review, Advanced Filters, and summary pages. Some networks have the same name in different countries, so that should be displayed more accurately now.

UPDATES

• We’re up to 139 countries with watch now streaming links!
• Removed swap arrow icons in various places since they were confusing and not actually clickable.
• Calendar has improved text to indicate the full month in the main title and the date range when viewing weekly. Also improved the Toggle Sidebar link for VIP members.

BUGS

• Fixed Shows & Movies calendar to use the correct start date.
• Correctly render lists with link privacy.
• Fix collection metadata to allow editing existing metadata values.
• Improved actor hover state styling on summary pages.
• Fixed movie searching to use the translated titles. There was an issue with some titles being blank from TMDB, so we handle that more effectively now.

May 15, 2023

Trakt for Android

• Trakt for Android is officially released! Many thanks to all the VIP members who beta tested the app and provided helpful feedback throughout!

UPDATES

• Summer TV shows added to Discover.
• Refreshed fanart on home page.

BUGS

• Fixed movies box office page and other IMDB lists.
• Fixed share icon positioning on mobile web.
• Fixed Apple Sign In errors that some members were seeing.

April 24, 2023

VIP UPDATES (more info)

• Tons of updates to help with rewatching TV shows. Read the blog post.

• Share private lists with a special link. This works even if your Trakt profile is set to private, anyone with the link can view the list.

UPDATES

• Official list title added above the movie title and navigation arrows added to quickly see the previous or next movie in the list.

BUGS

• Fixed editing notes on recommended items.
• Fixed avatars on collaborative lists.

March 30, 2023

VIP UPDATES (more info)

• Search added to your history, collection, and ratings pages. Click the search icon or press t on your keyboard.

UPDATES

• Calendar has a combined My Shows & Movies view.
• Dashboard recommendations includes any notes from the member who recommended the item.

• Change mobile theme color to black to be less striking than the red was.

BUGS

• Fixed Tumblr sharing and connecting your account.
• Re-send your Android beta invite by clicking the You’re Invited button again on the apps page.
• Fixed some Plex scrobbler issues and improved detection of some media items.
• Year in review has navigation arrows when loaded inside the Trakt mobile app.
• YouTube videos linked in a comment play in a popup window.

March 7, 2023

VIP UPDATES (more info)

• Added advanced filters for list search.

UPDATES

• Mastodon sharing! Connect your account and automatically share what you’re watching, rating, and commenting on.

BUGS

• Handle invalid images when refreshing show and movie metadata.
• Fixed emoji rendering in List names.

February 7, 2023

UPDATES

• Search your lists in the add to list popup.

• We improved the password policy and enforcement. It now indicates how strong your password is when signing up or changing your password.

January 23, 2023

VIP UPDATES (more info)

• Automatic Backups added for Microsoft OneDrive and Email.

UPDATES

• Microsoft sign in added.

January 12, 2023

VIP UPDATES (more info)

• Automatic Backups are here! Connect to Dropbox or Google Drive and schedule daily and weekly backups.

• Year in review fills in a lot more network logos instead of using the text.

UPDATES

• New members see an improved setup screen after completing the welcome wizard.

January 1, 2023

VIP UPDATES (more info)

• Your 2022 Year in Review is ready!

Website Changelog 2023 was originally published in Trakt Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Android Changelog 2023/24

Here’s a list of updates and bug fixes to the Trakt Android app in 2023/24. If you’d like to support Trakt, please consider signing up for VIP. VIP members get early beta builds and can test new features before anyone else.

March 26, 2024

beta version 1.4 (113)

UPDATES

• Support User Following via Profile.

BUGS

• Fixed an issue when trying to go ‘back’ from the main screen of the app which would display a blank screen and require another ‘back’ action.
• Fixed an issue with with multiple languages causing some network errors.

March 5, 2024

beta version 1.4 (109)

UPDATES

• Adjusted Summary screens to include the new list of languages instead of a single language.

BUGS

• Fixed an issue with the Up Next spinner potentially not being removed in some cases.
• Fixed a crash on some devices when revealing spoilers is a Season’s list of Episodes.

February 27, 2024

beta version 1.4 (106)

UPDATES

• Added an option to view, via the website, Watched Progress for Watchlists and Personal Lists.
• The List type option is now stored across sessions, eg. When choosing Liked lists.
• Added an option via the Settings screen to set Up Next to only display the Show image rather than episode images.
• Added support for Up Next to optionally require you to manually refresh to view the next episode to match the web and iOS.

BUGS

• Fixed a potential issue when authentication requires a refresh.
• Fixed an issue where some users may have had Shows they’d hidden still be visible in Up Next.
• Fixed an issue where the long press options were not working on Up Next items.

February 7, 2024

beta version 1.4 (105)

UPDATES

• Up Next is now processed locally and therefore should update a lot quicker. The first sync may take a while to load depending on how many shows it has to load and process.
• Added item count to the list of Collection items.
• Collection and History list filters are saved across sessions.

BUGS

• Fixed an issue causing items with lowercase as first letters not being sorted properly.

January 29, 2024

version 1.3 (102)

UPDATES

• Support for viewing and managing personal Notes throughout the app.
• Added Writers to the Movie Summary Details section.
• Comments should now exclude blocked user’s comments by default.
• Person Summary includes an action to add to lists via the ‘More’ (•••) button.
• Support for Themed icons should work on all devices now.
• Fixed an issue with Year in Review loading as if you were not authenticated.

BUGS

• Fixed some issues with Multiline text entry not capitalising new sentences as expected.

January 17, 2024

beta version 1.3 (102)

UPDATES

• Support for viewing and managing personal Notes throughout the app.
• Added Writers to the Movie Summary Details section.
• Comments should now exclude blocked user’s comments by default.
• Person Summary includes an action to add to lists via the ‘More’ (•••) button.
• Support for Themed icons should work on all devices now.

BUGS

• Fixed some issues with Multiline text entry not capitalising new sentences as expected.

January 2, 2024

beta version 1.2.3 (90)

UPDATES

• Fixed an issue with Year in Review loading as if you were not authenticated.

December 22, 2023

version 1.2.2 (89)

UPDATES

• Your 2023 Year in Review is ready!

November 20, 2023

version 1.2.1 (86)

UPDATES

• Added support for episode type tags throughout the app.
• Added support for adding/removing/reordering the main tabs within the app. Available in the Settings screen via Me tab for the option to ‘Edit Bottom Tabs’.
• Discover Sections can now be toggled to display some of the items rather than the compact card.
• Improved how Collaborative lists are displayed when adding items to lists.
• Added support for viewing Finale based calendars.
• Some sync improvements based on recent API changes.

BUGS

• Fixed an issue with trailer buttons generally always showing up and not working either way.
• Fixed an issue with external links not opening for some devices causing log in to not be possible.
• Fixed an issue causing the app to crash on launch for some devices.

August 30, 2023

version 1.1.4 (77)

UPDATES

• Updated Me/Profile UI: Improved Favorites UI, added Recently Watched episodes and movies, improved Most Watched Shows and Movies, and added some extra details to Latest Comments.
• Included time left in Up Next and Progress sections.
• Added List and Collection Status buttons to History items.
• Season Summary now uses the episode level runtimes for the Total Runtime calculation.
• Support viewing Movies and Show history at the same time.

BUGS

• Fixed a crash related to the Profile screen in certain conditions.

July 16, 2023

version 1.1.3

UPDATES

• Updated references of Personal Recommendations to Favorites.
• Added support for liking/unliking Official Lists.
• Added support for updated Progress Sort options.
• Added a more options button to comments to allow Sharing and Copying the text.

BUGS

• Fixed an issue with resetting filters in the Watchlist/List Items screens not clearing the Watch Now services filter.
• Fixed an issue with the clearing of Watch Now services not applying as expected.

June 16, 2023

version 1.1.1

UPDATES

• Added support for the Comment spoiler’s account setting, which should now hide full comments.
• Added missing Rating badge to episodes displayed within the Season Summary.
• Added missing empty states when filtering Watchlist and Personal lists resulting in no matches.
• Added support for the Comment spoiler’s account setting, which should now hide full comments.
• Movie, Show, Seasons, and Episode Summary screens now allow the main title labels to be selected in order to copy them, like the People Summary screen update previously.
• Pressing either system back action or app back button from the main Filter screen will now confirm if you’d like to apply or discard changes if something was adjusted.

BUGS

• Filter value selections are now set when using the system back action instead of just the app back button.
• Fixed an issue with Year In Review not loading properly for private accounts.
• Fixed an issue causing unexpected search results when using an ‘&’, eg. ‘Brothers & Sisters’.

May 29, 2023

version 1.1

UPDATES

• Support for Rewatch specific Show status information.
• Added various App Shortcuts.
• Added custom Settings screen.
• Sections headers displaying the date now include the weekday in sections such as the Profile’s History and Collection lists.
• Added a ‘See Calendar’ button to the Home tab’s Upcoming Schedule card to make it more obvious the Calendar is accessed via there.
• Added a screen for viewing Year In Review that includes a navigation menu to jump to the various sections.
• Added support for updating your preferred genres and Watch Now sources via the Settings, similar to when going through the Account Configuration flow new accounts get access to.
• The Person Summary screen now allows the person’s name label to be selected in order to copy it.
• Adjusted the height of the top banners in the main tab screens such as Home.
• Added additional Rating badge to the poster in Summary screens for consistency with the web and rest of the app.
• Adjusted the order of the labels and hearts in the Rating pop up to make it easier to see what was selected rather than it potentially being blocked by your hands.
• Attempting to log in should now always require you to enter your details rather than just assuming you want to log in to the same account.
• Some changes to improve error messages when failing to log in.

BUGS

• Fixed an issue causing the Profile’s refresh control to not finish in certain cases.
• Fixed a UI layout issue in the Profile’s Progress section when Season names were very long.
• Fixed some issues with borders incorrectly visible on the Profile’s Progress cards in certain cases.

May 15, 2023

version 1.0

UPDATES

• Android when? NOW!

May 13, 2023

beta version 1.0

UPDATES

• Some app icon adjustments, including support for Android Themed Icons.

May 11, 2023

beta version 0.11

UPDATES

• Added support for the Link privacy option of Personal Lists including being able to share those links via the share button on the List Items screens.
• Added a count of cast/crew credits to each section in the Person Summary screen.
• Added Network to Season Summary airing details, where applicable.
• Added a count of items to the History screens, as well as the History section of the Me/Profile screens.
• Added a count of items to the Watchlist screen.
• Added a button to each personal Comment in Comment sections of the app with options to delete and edit instead of requiring a long press.
• You can now view the profile of users in the Home tab’s Social Activity card by tapping on their profile photo.
• Added a setting option to adjust the number of items loaded in the Home tab Up Next card.
• Added a setting option to support what action is chosen by default when opening the History pop up. By default it uses ‘Just Finished’, however you can choose to use the ‘Watching Now’, ‘Other Date’ or ‘Release Date’ options.
• Added a button to the Calendar screen to recenter back to the last date that was loaded. By default that date is ‘Today’ when loading the screen until using the ‘Jump’ button.
• Added links in Summary screens from the Country/Language/Genres details to open Popular Movies/TV Shows with filters based on the selected link, for VIPs to use, similar to the website.

BUGS

• Fixed an issue causing the app to crash when trying to load Ratings or Collections in the Profile screen when the user has a lot of ratings or collected items.
• Fixed an inconsistency with episode air dates in the Episode section of the Season Summary screen.
• Fixed an issue with History additions showing a spinner for longer than necessary.

April 28, 2023

April 28, 2023

beta version 0.10.7

UPDATES

• Adjusted the Summary History FAB to display a percentage rather than a partially filled tick when started though not complete (i.e. 1% — 99% Watched).
• Adjusted references to ‘Reset Show Progress’ to ‘Rewatch Show’ to match the website updates.
• You can now trigger a Rewatch from the Show Summary’s FAB.

BUGS

• Fixed an issue causing the Account Configuration card to hang around if no changes are made upon completion.
• The VIP upgrade card should no longer be visible for VIPs in the Summary screen.

April 25, 2023

beta version 0.10.5

UPDATES

• Added a button to go back ‘Home’ from the Summary screens.
• Added a way to jump to the first episode from the Show summary when tapping the Show title.
• Support for Movie Calendar Notifications.
• Added share button to Me tab/Profile screen.
• Added Welcome Screen Onboarding on first launch.
• Added Account Configuration Onboarding card to Home tab.

BUGS

• Fixed an issue with the Delete action not working in the History section of the Me tab, and the History screen.
• Fixed issue with the Collection section of the Me tab showing a Delete button when it shouldn’t.

March 31, 2023

beta version 0.9.13

UPDATES

• Added support for Android 13 Notification Permissions — If you’ve already enabled notifications in the app, in the app Settings menu choose the ‘Prompt Notification Permissions’ option, or disable and reenable them.
• Watch Now Quick Links in Summary screens will show the 4K indicator where applicable.

BUGS

• Fixed and issue where adding a Show or Season to your History would also locally add all unaired episodes to History until the sync fixed it.

March 27, 2023

UPDATES

• Added support for local Episode Calendar Notifications.March 27, 2023

beta version 0.9.12

UPDATES

• Added support for local Episode Calendar Notifications.
• Added quick links to Watch Now sources in Summary screens, where applicable, prioritizing your favorites.
• Personal ratings for items can now be seen in various spots throughout the app, such as lists of History and Collection items, as well as in the Watchlist/Personal List screens.
• Added TMDB rating, where applicable, to Summary screens.
• Added support for searching lists within the add to list pop up.
• Emojis should now be displayed as expected throughout the app.
• Show Progress items can now be expanded to view season/episode details within the Me tab/Profile screen Progress section.
• Adjusted the Most Watched Shows section of the Me tab/Profile to use the number of plays rather than time spent, to be more consistent with the website.

BUGS

• Fixed the wrong Show Status being displayed for Shows that are currently airing.
• Fixed the wrong airing information for Shows in certain cases.
• Removed a rouge ‘subtitle’ being displayed in the list of History items.

February 27, 2023

beta version 0.9.3

UPDATES

• Added support for loading Saved filters in TV and Movie tabs as cards, along with the ability to save and delete filters.
• Added support for reordering Watchlist and Personal List items.
• Added support for updating Personal List details, eg. Title, Description.
• Added notes to the Watchlist and Personal List items. Long press on the item to view the full note in the case it’s too long to fit on screen.
• Watchlist and Personal List items will now show contextual details when sorting by the various options, eg. Sorting by rating displays the votes and rating.
• You can now share links of the Watchlist and Personal List item screens.
• Personal List items screens now show the description and history stats, along with item count and the first ranked item’s banner image.
• Added support in the app settings for selecting the default Profile tab that is loaded.
• Added support for rendering markdown in comments.
• Filters in the Profile Progress section are now saved across sessions.
• Profile Collection section will now show dated section headers when sorted by added date.
• Added buttons to the Summary screens to switch to the previous and next related episode/season/movie.
• Adjusted the tab swiping behaviour in the Me/Profile tab/screens to hopefully be less jarring to switch between.

BUGS

• Fixed an issue with the logged in user’s show history being loaded when trying to view another user’s show history via their profile.

February 6, 2023

beta version 0.8.9

UPDATES

• Adjusted the width of horizontal tabs in various spots.

BUGS

• Fixed an issue causing Watch Now filtering not working correctly for TV Shows in the Watchlist/Personal list item screens.

February 3, 2023

beta version 0.8.7

UPDATES

• Added support for VIPs to filter Watchlists and Personal Lists by Streaming Services. A play button has been added to their respective tool bars.
• Added behind count to up next items in Continue Watching.
• Added rewatching indicator to items marked as rewatching in Continue Watching, and respective items in Me/Profile tab Progress section.
• Added icons to the like/replies buttons of comments along with filling in the like icon as an indication as to if you’ve liked the comment.
• Added support for adding and removing items from Collaborative Lists.
• Added support to view Liked Lists from the Lists section of the Me tab.
• Added support for searching in the Me tab/Profile screen’s Lists section.
• Added support for Advanced filters in Search.
• Added support for saving, loading, and deleting Search saved filters from within the Search screen and respective filter screen.
• Watchlist and Personal List item screens now remember applied filters, including search terms and Watch Now filters.
• Split Discover tab into two tabs for TV and Movies respectively.
• Items can now be hidden directly from the Calendar by long pressing on them.
• Studios are now displayed in Movie/Show Summary screens.
• The Me/Profile tab Progress list filters are now handled by the API to avoid having to load multiple potentially empty pages.
• Lists in the List pop up will now be sorted with Lists the item is on at the top as expected.
• Added support for toggling off the bottom tab titles from the Settings.
• Improved the way ratings are synced to reduce the time it takes to update when rating directly within the app.
• Layout toggle in Discover list screens (Trending, Popular, etc.) option is now remembered across app sessions.

Android Changelog 2023 was originally published in Trakt Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

iOS Changelog 2023/24

Here’s a list of updates and bug fixes to the Trakt iOS app in 2023/24. If you’d like to support Trakt, please consider signing up for VIP. VIP members get early beta builds and can test new features before anyone else.

April 17, 2024

beta version 1.16 (611)

UPDATES

• Some improvements to the Up Next API card implementation including more accurate refreshing and better error handling.
• Fixed missing time remaining in Up Next API card implementation.
• Adjusted large UI (eg. iPad) to use a card for the Watchlist and moved Social Activity to the bottom of the list.

April 11, 2024

beta version 1.16 (603)

UPDATES

• Experimenting with new API based Up Next card data on the home tab when sort option is the default watched date sort.
• Added support for VIPs to queue a refresh of metadata of Movies, Shows, and People. A ‘More’ button (•••) has been added to Movie and Show Summary screens, and the action has been added to the existing People Summary screen’s ‘more’ actions.
• Improved/reduced the amount of information locally cached on device. The app’s size should reduce within the next few launches after updating.
• Adjusted how some cached info is stored to avoid being unnecessarily stored in iCloud backup.
• Added some options within the settings screen to view the size of, and clear, the image cache.
• Updated some logic for various progress sorting options to match the website.
• Multiple content languages metadata is displayed for applicable Movies and Shows rather than the single language.
• Reduced episode info fetched for swiping between episodes.
• Increased number of items displayed in the main Discover screen sections.
• Defaulted Trending Discover sections to use the horizontal scrolling cards rather than single compact card.
• Added Watchlist section to Home tab.
• Moved Stats section from Home tab to Me/Profile tab.
• Comments and Actors are expanded by default and will remember the last setting, respectively, across sessions.
• Watch Now links should now load in app and take you from the app to the external app or website directly rather than via the browser.

BUGS

• Fixed a crash that could happen when logging out.
• Fixed an issue with comment spoiler toggle UI missing.
• Fixed an issue where sync would show an error just because the initial sync network call was ‘Cancelled’.

March 9, 2024

beta version 1.15.1 (581)

BUGS

• Fixed search filter not working in places like the list of streaming services and explore filter screens.
• Fixed streaming service filtering when viewing other user’s Watchlists.

February 28, 2024

version 1.15 (579)

UPDATES

• Added an option to view, via the website, Watched Progress for Watchlists and Personal Lists.
• The List type option is now stored across sessions (eg. When choosing Liked lists)
• Adjusted Up Next images to work as they previously did to show episode thumbnails where applicable, and instead added an option via the Settings screen to set Up Next to only display the Show image.
• Adjusted Up Next ‘Refresh’ option to use the Dashboard/Up Next account setting (accessible via the website settings page) rather than the ‘Progress’ section setting for more consistency.
• Comments should now exclude blocked user’s comments by default.
• Added Writers to the Movie Summary Details section.
• Added item count to the list of Collection items.
• Collection and History list type options are saved across sessions.
• Hiding Shows from Up Next should disappear straight away.

BUGS

• Fixed an issue with sliders not always working within the Explore filter screen on some devices.
• Fixed an issue with notes not displaying some characters properly.
• Fixed a crash that could happen when authentication requires a refresh.
• Fixed an issue where trying to delete a List’s description wasn’t being saved.
• Fixed an issue where overviews in Summary screens (Movies, Shows, etc.) that had spoiler UI applied were being partially revealed unexpectedly in certain cases such as leaving and returning to the app.
• Fixed an issue causing items with lowercase as first letters not being sorted properly.
• Fixed some issues when sorting Up Next by Activity, Plays and Time Left.
• Fixed an issue where some users may have had Shows they’d hidden still be visible in Up Next.
• Fixed an issue with Up Next sorting not adjusting properly if you only adjusted the sort direction via the website’s account settings.
• Fixed an issue with Year in Review loading as if you were not authenticated.
• Fixed an issue causing the app to crash on iOS 12.4.1.

February 26, 2024

beta version 1.15 (579)

UPDATES

• Added an option to view, via the website, Watched Progress for Watchlists and Personal Lists.
• The List type option is now stored across sessions (eg. When choosing Liked lists)
• Adjusted Up Next images to work as they previously did to show episode thumbnails where applicable, and instead added an option via the Settings screen to set Up Next to only display the Show image.
• Adjusted Up Next ‘Refresh’ option to use the Dashboard/Up Next account setting (accessible via the website settings page) rather than the ‘Progress’ section setting for more consistency.
• Adjusted Search filters applied to places like Lists and Collection to be saved only for the session rather than across sessions to avoid unexpected filtering to be applied when returning a while later.

BUGS

• Fixed a crash that could happen when authentication requires a refresh.
• Fixed an issue where trying to delete a List’s description wasn’t being saved.
• Fixed an issue where overviews in Summary screens (Movies, Shows, etc.) that had spoiler UI applied were being partially revealed unexpectedly in certain cases such as leaving and returning to the app.
• Fixed some sorting issues when sorting Up Next by activity.
• Fixed an issue where some users may have had Shows they’d hidden still be visible in Up Next.
• Fixed an issue with Up Next sorting not adjusting properly if you only adjusted the sort direction via the website’s account settings.
• Fixed an issue causing the app to crash on iOS 12.4.1.

February 7, 2024

beta version 1.15 (569)

UPDATES

• Added item count to the list of Collection items.
• Collection and History list filters are saved across sessions.
• Hiding Shows from Up Next should disappear straight away.

BUGS

• Fixed an issue causing items with lowercase as first letters not being sorted properly.
• Fixed some issues when sorting Up Next by Plays and Time Left.

January 17, 2024

beta version 1.15 (565)

UPDATES

• Comments should now exclude blocked user’s comments by default.
• Added Writers to the Movie Summary Details section.

BUGS

• Fixed an issue with sliders not always working within the Explore filter screen on some devices.
• Fixed an issue with notes not displaying some characters properly.

January 3, 2024

beta version 1.14.1 (561)

BUGS

• Fixed an issue with Year in Review loading as if you were not authenticated.

December 21, 2023

version 1.14 (560)

UPDATES

• Your 2023 Year in Review is ready!
• Support for viewing and managing personal Notes throughout the app.
• Viewing all Up Next from the Home tab now supports Sort and Search.
• Person Summary includes an action to add to lists via the added ‘More’ (•••) button, along with a share action.

December 16, 2023

beta version 1.14 (556)

UPDATES

• Support for viewing and managing personal Notes throughout the app.
• Viewing all Up Next from the Home tab now supports Sort and Search.
• Person Summary includes an action to add to lists via the added ‘More’ (•••) button, along with a share action.

November 29, 2023

version 1.13.1

BUGS

• Fixed an issue causing crashes in older versions of iOS.

November 20, 2023

version 1.13

UPDATES

• Added support for episode type tags throughout the app.
• Added support for adding/removing/reordering the main tabs within the app. Long press on a tab or go via the Settings screen for the option to edit.
• Added List and Collection icons to the list of History items.
• Added support for Copying, Sharing, and Editing comments from the ‘More’ (•••) button. Deletion adjusted as option with the rest rather than as a long press.
• Sorting Up Next by total runtime now uses episode-level runtime rather than show-level.
• Sorting Up Next by watch date now orders by air date if it hasn’t been watched yet, where applicable, eg. for Watchlist shows.
• Updated list editing flow with more, clearer, options/UX including deletion support.
• Selecting the number of watchers will now display a list of users.
• Improved the button for reloading the next episode in Up Next.
• Improved how Collaborative lists are displayed when adding items to lists.
• Added episode tags to the Season Summary’s Episode list. Also added missing personal ratings when viewing the large (eg. iPad) version of the list.
• Attempt to fix stats showing an extra hour in the Home tab.
• Adjusted watched date sorting for Up Next to what should match the website.
• Added support for viewing Finale based calendars.
• Some sync improvements based on recent API changes.

BUGS

• Fixed some issues related to displaying comments in specific cases causing them to be unexpectedly truncated.
• Fixed an issue with the Upcoming schedule not displaying properly in some cases.
• Fixed an issue with social activity items not navigating in some cases from the home card.
• Made a change to hopefully fix an issue with stats on the home tab being wrong (eg. having an extra hour) in somewhat random cases.
• Fixed an issue with Up next including unaired episodes added to history in the calculations for how many episodes/time left.

July 17, 2023

version 1.12.1 (529)

UPDATES

• Updated references of Personal Recommendations to Favorites.
• Updated Me/Profile UI: Improved Favorites UI, added Recently Watched episodes and movies, improved Most Watched Shows and Movies, and added some extra details to Latest Comments.
• Updated Progress sorting options to include the new options to match the website.
• Included time left in Up Next and Progress sections.
• Official Lists can now be liked/unliked.
• Updated Progress Season progress views to support segmented episodes display.
• Added personal rating to the episodes in the Season Summary episode list.
• Added a toolbar to the keyboard when searching in Onboarding Watch Now Sources selection screen with an option to dismiss the keyboard.
• Added an app setting to allow the Track button in Up Next to use the preferred ‘Watch Now Button’ account setting when Rewatching to support adding to history with one tap as usual.

BUGS

• Fixed the ‘Share’ external open option in the Season Summary not opening externally as expected.

June 1, 2023

version 1.12 (513)

UPDATES

• Added a ‘See Calendar’ button to the Home tab’s Upcoming Schedule card to make it more obvious the Calendar is accessed via there.
• Added additional Rating badge to the poster in Summary screens for consistency with the web and rest of the app.
• Adjusted the order of the labels and hearts in the Rating pop up to make it easier to see what was selected rather than it potentially being blocked by your hands.
• Attempting to log in should now always require you to enter your details rather than just assuming you want to log in to the same account.
• Show Summary seasons now display the number of episodes watched vs aired in addition to the total number of episodes, where applicable.

BUGS

• Fixed an issue causing the Show Summary’s Rewatch button not to work on iPad layouts.
• Fixed an issue causing the History pop up to now show the correct contextual information straight away when your app setting’s default action is not ‘Just Finished’.

May 15, 2023

version 1.11 (512)

UPDATES

• Added support for viewing Rewatch specific Show status information when the Rewatching account setting is enabled, similar to the website changes.
• Added support for the Link privacy option of Personal Lists including being able to share those links via the share button on the List Items screens.
• Adjusted Progress calculations to not include Seasons or Episodes as part of the ‘include watchlist’ setting to match the website logic.
• Added a count of items to the Watchlist screen.
• Added a count of History items to the Profile History section and History screens.
• Added a more explicit error message to the full list of Recommendations.
• Adjusted the format for runtime in the Season Summary’s Episode list.

BUGS

• Fixed an issue with the “Jump to” option in the Profile History section causing the app to freeze.
• Fixed an issue with the share button in the Me/Profile tab being behind the top bar.

May 12, 2023

beta version 1.11 (512)

UPDATES

• Added support for viewing Rewatch specific Show status information when the Rewatching account setting is enabled, similar to the website changes.
• Added support for the Link privacy option of Personal Lists including being able to share those links via the share button on the List Items screens.
• Adjusted the format for runtime in the Season Summary’s Episode list.
• Added an item count to the Item specific History screen, such as when viewing plays of a specific Show or Movie, etc.

April 25, 2023

beta version 1.11 (505)

UPDATES

• Added a count of items to the Watchlist screen.
• Added a count of History items to the Profile History section and History screen.
• Adjusted Progress calculations to not include Seasons or Episodes as part of the ‘include watchlist’ setting to match the website logic.
• Added a more explicit error message to the full list of Recommendations.

BUGS

• Fixed an issue with the “Jump to” option in the Profile History section causing the app to freeze.
• Fixed an issue with the share button in the Me/Profile tab being behind the top bar.

April 7, 2023

version 1.10 (26)

UPDATES

• Split Discover tab into two tabs for TV and Movies respectively.
• Added quick links to Watch Now sources in Summary screens, where applicable, prioritizing your favorites.
• Personal ratings for items can now be seen in various spots throughout the app, such as lists of History and Collection items, as well as in the Watchlist/Personal List screens.
• Added a rewatching indicator to items marked as rewatching in Continue Watching, and respective items in the Me tab/Profile Progress section.
• Added icons to the Like/Replies buttons of Comments, along with filling in the Like icon as an indication as to if you’ve liked the comment.
• Attempting to add an episode to history from the Season Summary’s Episode list will prompt if you’d like to add prior unwatched episodes to your history also. Includes an option to ignore for that Show.
• Added TMDB rating, where applicable, to Summary screens.
• Added support for searching lists within the add to list pop up.
• Added support for viewing friends (in addition to existing followers/following) in the Friends section of Me tab/Profile screens.
• The Grid/List toggle option is now remembered in the lists of TV/Movies (Trending, Anticipated, etc.)
• Watchlist and Personal List item screens now remember applied filters, including search terms and Watch Now filters.
• Improved the empty states for Watchlist and Personal List item screens when filters result in zero items.
• Added support for choosing the default section that loads in the Me tab. Option available in the Settings.
• Added support for toggling off the bottom bar tab titles. Option available in the Settings.
• Added support for increasing the number of Up Next items on the home tab up to 5.
• Added support for viewing Movies and TV Shows together in All History/Profile History section.
• Adjusted the Most Watched Shows section of the Me tab/Profile to use the number of plays rather than time spent, to be more consistent with the website.
• The Me tab/Profile Progress section filters are now handled by the API to avoid having to load multiple potentially empty pages.
• Filters in the Me tab/Profile Progress section are now saved across sessions.
• Emojis should now be displayed as expected throughout the app.
• Added alternative log in flow options when long pressing Sign In buttons on the home tab in an attempt to solve some issues some users are seeing.

BUGS

• Fixed an issue where list items were not always being removed when swiping to delete from the List items screen.
• Fixed some issues with Calendar Notifications potentially not working as expected when using an offset that should alert you after the standard notification time, such as 1 hour after.
• Fixed an issue when viewing another user’s Profile Collection section where the date headers would be incorrect.
• Fixed an edge case issue with episode titles being displayed in the wrong spot in lists of items such as History.

April 5, 2023

beta version 1.10 (26)

UPDATES

• Include 4K icon in Summary Watch Now Quick Links.
• Fixed an edge case issue with episode titles being displayed in the wrong spot in lists of items such as History.

March 27, 2023

beta version 1.10 (20)

UPDATES

• Added quick links to Watch Now sources in Summary screens, where applicable, prioritizing your favorites.
• Personal ratings for items can now be seen in various spots throughout the app, such as lists of History and Collection items, as well as in the Watchlist/Personal List screens.
• Added TMDB rating, where applicable, to Summary screens.
• Added support for searching lists within the add to list pop up.
• Emojis should now be displayed as expected throughout the app.
• The Me tab/Profile Progress section filters are now handled by the API to avoid having to load multiple potentially empty pages.
• Filters in the Me tab/Profile Progress section are now saved across sessions.
• Adjusted the Most Watched Shows section of the Me tab/Profile to use the number of plays rather than time spent, to be more consistent with the website.

BUGS

• Fixed some issues with Calendar Notifications potentially not working as expected when using an offset that should alert you after the episode has aired, such as 1 hour after.

February 27, 2023

beta version 1.10 (17)

UPDATES

• Added rewatching indicator to items marked as rewatching in Continue Watching, and respective items in Me/Profile tab Progress section.
• Added icons to the like/replies buttons of comments along with filling in the like icon as an indication as to if you’ve liked the comment.
• Attempting to add an episode to history from the Season Summary’s Episode list will prompt if you’d like to add prior unwatched episodes to your history also. Includes an option to ignore for that Show.
• Added support for increasing the number of Up Next items on the home tab up to 5.
• Grid/List toggle option is now remembered in the lists of TV/Movies (Trending, Anticipated, etc.)
• Improved empty states for Watchlist and Personal List item screens when filters end up with zero results.
• Watchlist and Personal List item screens now remember applied filters, including search terms and Watch Now filters.
• Support for viewing friends (in addition to existing followers/following) in the Friends section of Profile.
• Support for choosing default Profile/Me tab section that loads. Option available in the Settings.
• Support for toggling off bottom bar tab titles.
• Split Discover tab into two tabs for TV and Movies respectively.
• Added support for viewing Movies and TV Shows together in All History/Profile History section.

BUGS

• Fixed an issue where list items were not always being removed when swiping to delete from the List items screen.
• Fixed an issue when viewing another user’s Profile Collection section where the date headers would be incorrect.

January 6, 2023

beta version 1.9.3 (2.1)

UPDATES

• Added alternative log in flow options when long pressing sign in buttons on the home tab in an attempt to solve some issues some users are seeing.

January 5, 2023

version 1.9.2 (5)

UPDATES

• Added behind count to up next items in Continue Watching.
• Added links to Privacy Policy and Terms of Use to the Settings screen.
• Added link to delete account to the Settings screen.

BUGS

• Fixed an issue with Search not loading the next page of results.
• Fixed an issue causing the app to crash on launch on Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 13 and up.
• Fixed an issue causing the Recommendations section refresh button from working after swiping through them on the mobile layout.

iOS Changelog 2023 was originally published in Trakt Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

We use TMDB as the primary source for all movie metadata. TMDB is an open database, so it’s free to sign up and edit info. Contributing to TMDB (please read the TMDB Contribution Bible and follow all their rules) helps Trakt and thousands of other apps that use TMDB metadata. We really appreciate your help with keeping the data updated!

Here’s how to import a movie:

1. Make sure the movie exists on TMDB with English information filled out. The more complete the TMDB entry is, the better it is for Trakt and all the other apps that use TMDB.
2. On the Trakt website, click the Import Movie link in the footer.
3. Type in the TMDB ID and click the Import button.

A 404 error could mean a few things:

• There is no English translation.
• TMDB has too much blank or invalid data.
• The movie is a duplicate (usually indicated in the title).
• The movie is marked as adult content.

Behind the scenes, here is what we do:

1. All main English movie info is imported from TMDB.
2. Aliases, translations, genres, language, and actors are imported from TMDB.
3. The highest rated English or No Language poster and fanart are also imported from TMDB. 1080p (or larger) is preferred for fanart and we’ll only use 720p if nothing better is available.
4. Supporting images are imported from Fanart.tv (logo, banner, thumb, clearart) and it’s used as fallback for other images (poster, fanart).
5. Site ratings are imported from OMDb and other data (homepage, runtime) is used as a fallback if it doesn’t exist on TMDB.

Daily refreshes

Movies are automatically refreshed every 24 hours. We check TMDB each day for any changes, then queue up those movies to get refreshed information. Existing images are left alone, but any missing images will be added.

Note: Some movies have locked poster and fanart (indicated on the left sidebar). This means we have specifically set those images and they won’t be auto updated with a refresh.

New movies

We automatically refresh any movies that recently premiered between 14 days ago and 21 days in the future. All data and images and are refreshed.

What if a movie isn’t refreshing correctly?

Movies sometimes get stuck and don’t refresh their data from TMDB correctly. If it’s been over 48 hours, go to the movies’s main page, click the Report Movie sidebar link and let us know data isn’t getting refreshed.

VIP refresh

Trakt VIP members can queue up a movie to be refreshed more quickly by clicking the Refresh Data sidebar link. Movies should be auto refreshing every 24 hours, but this allows a quicker update on Trakt if needed.

Movie Metadata was originally published in Trakt Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

With hundreds of streaming services out there, it’s tough to know where TV shows and movies are streaming. Watch now notifications to the rescue! As a VIP member, receive daily and weekly watch now emails in your inbox, on the day and time you want.

Uses your watchlist.

We use your watchlist to determine what TV shows, seasons, episodes and movies you want to be notified about. Once you watch an item on your watchlist, it gets automatically removed so you won’t be notified about that item anymore.

Email notifications.

Each email includes all TV shows, seasons, episodes or movies that started streaming in the last day or week. Series and season premieres are indicated with a green banner and the episode titles respect your spoiler settings. Each poster is linked to the specific episode or movie on Trakt. Direct streaming links show up under the poster and look just like the website and mobile app. The email is formatted for desktop and mobile in any modern email client.

Email only what you want.

There are separate settings for each type of watch now notifications including TV shows, premieres, finales, new shows, seasons, episodes, and movies. The columns on the right enable weekly and daily emails. Clicking a box displays additional settings to choose the day of the week (weekly only) and time you’d like to receive the emails.

Support Trakt & become a VIP!

Trakt is a bootstrapped startup, directly funded by VIP memberships. Hide ads, help pay for servers, and unlock awesome VIP only features like…

• No ads on the website and official apps
• Yearly and All Time year in review
• Early access to Android and iOS apps
• Watch now filtering
• iCal, RSS, and CSV feeds
• Plex scrobbler
• Unlimited lists with up to 10,000 items
• List collaboration, notes, bulk copy, and bulk move
• Notes on media items, activities, and list items
• Automatic backups of all your data
• VIP only forums
• and lots more…

Learn more about VIP →

Watch Now Notifications was originally published in Trakt Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

If you only had 50 shows and movies to bring with you on a deserted island (with a sweet 4K home theater), what would they be? Keep this question in mind when building your favorites on the Trakt website and mobile apps.

Look for the orange stars.

Add shows and movies to your favorites by clicking an orange star. You’ll see these buttons on every summary page and in most grid views throughout the Trakt website and mobile apps.

Why did you favorite this?

After adding something to your favorites, we’ll ask why? This note helps others understand why this show or movie made your top 50 of all time. These notes will show up on your profile and mobile apps too.

How do we use favorites?

Favorites are featured on your Trakt website profile and will soon be in the mobile apps. By default, the top 3 items are displayed. If you edit the default sorting on your favorites list, your profile will update accordingly.

To keep your profile fresh, try using random as the default sorting.

We use favorites to power Trakt social recommendations, which you see on the website dashboard and home tab of the mobile apps. Hover over an avatar to see why it was favorited.

Discover new things to watch with the most favorited shows and movies. VIP members can apply advanced filters and adjust the time period and a bunch of other things.

Removing a favorite.

Since you only have 50, you might need to remove a favorite to make room for something else. Click the orange star again and it removes it from your favorites. You can also manage your favorites list like any other list.

Support Trakt & become a VIP!

Trakt is a bootstrapped startup, directly funded by VIP memberships. Hide ads, help pay for servers, and unlock awesome VIP only features like…

• No ads on the website and official apps
• Yearly and All Time year in review
• Early access to Android and iOS apps
• Watch now notifications and filtering
• iCal, RSS, and CSV feeds
• Plex scrobbler
• Unlimited lists with up to 10,000 items
• List collaboration, notes, bulk copy, and bulk move
• Notes on media items, activities, and list items
• Automatic backups of all your data
• VIP only forums
• and lots more…

Learn more about VIP →

Your favorite shows & movies was originally published in Trakt Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.