TV Time co-founder launches Bingers to revive the beloved TV tracking app
Antonio Pinto, a co-founder of TV Time, has launched Bingers, a new app aimed at reviving the beloved show and film tracking service after its owner, Whip Media, shut it down to focus on artificial intelligence. TV Time's closure had angered its loyal community, with more than 28,000 users signing a petition urging Whip Media to keep it running via crowdfunding or subscriptions, but the shutdown went ahead regardless. Bingers seeks to recreate the social features that set TV Time apart from rival trackers, such as forums for discussing episodes, alongside letting users import their old data.
TV Time had amassed over 26.4 million installs before it was removed from app stores on 15 July 2026, having offered a GDPR-compliant data export tool beforehand, which Bingers now helps users re-upload. The new app combines tracking, discovery and social networking, allowing users to build profiles, comment with photos and GIFs, rate episodes and vote on favourite characters. To avoid the running costs that contributed to TV Time's demise, Bingers offloads processing such as viewing calendars to users' devices, and will initially rely on user contributions towards server costs, with Pinto hinting at a future business model built around real-world meetups. Bingers is now available on iOS and Android.
- TV Time co-founder Antonio Pinto launches Bingers as a successor app
- Aims to revive TV Time's social features after Whip Media shut it down
- Available now on iOS and Android, funded initially by user contributions
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TV Time was an app where people kept track of the programmes and films they watched, rated episodes and talked with other viewers. It built a large following, with more than 26 million installs, in part because it combined viewing records with social features such as episode discussions.
TV Time’s owner, Whip Media, shut the app in July 2026 to focus on artificial intelligence, despite a petition from users asking for it to continue. Co-founder Antonio Pinto has since launched Bingers, which offers tracking and discussion features and lets former users bring over their TV Time data.
Bingers is available on iOS and Android. Its approach matters because it aims to bring back a service its community valued while keeping running costs down; Pinto says it will initially depend on user contributions and may later explore real-world meetups.