TV Time, the popular TV and movie-watching app whose termination is pending is prompted more than 25,000 users report against closing it, it kind of restarts.
One of the original founders of the app, Antonio Pintosays it’s building a new TV-watching app, Bingerswhich will attempt to rebuild the best features of TV Time while also touching on the issues that have preoccupied him all these years.
Bingers will offer existing TV Time users a potential lifeline soon after the original app disappears from the app stores. It also gives the existing social community another place to continue discussing TV episodes, which not all TV watch apps offer. According to data from the application information provider AppfiguresTV Time has more than 26.4 million lifetime installs, many of these users potentially help build the new app’s community.
Pinto, who is based in Paris, sold his app, then called TVShow Time, to Whipclip (now Whip Media) in 2016 after the company promised it could significantly grow the app’s user base thanks to its Los Angeles ties. When he heard that the app was going down as Whip Media shifted its focus to artificial intelligence, Pinto said he felt sad.
“Sad because TV time has been a part of my life for so many years. And sad because this community has been like my other family. Reading the community’s reactions after every episode has become a ritual for me and many others,” Pinto wrote in a blog post on the new Bingers website.
“I decided to build the new home where the TV Time community could go. I wanted to rebuild all of TV time[‘s] great features, but also to fix everything that has always bothered me,” he said.
Specifically, the new Bingers app will address TV Time’s performance issues, which often caused the app to load slowly and make it expensive to run. Pinto claims that high server costs led to the shutdown, noting that the premium membership plan only covered about 10% of those costs due to the size of its community.
Instead, Bingers is designed to keep its server costs down, making it more sustainable, Pinto claims. It will also allow the app to respond more quickly when users mark an episode as watched, even when millions of others are logged in at the same time.
The developer tells TechCrunch that the new app will be available on the App Store and Google Play by the end of July 2026. Until then, the site is collecting entries for a waiting list which will notify users when the new app is ready for release.
Of course, Bingers will also be able to import data from users’ TV Time files, available through the app GDPR compliant export tool before its removal from app stores on July 15. By importing user files, Pinto says Bingers will be able to recreate TV Time’s community comments as well.
File import is already up and running on the Bingers website, so your TV viewing history will already be available when the app launches in the app stores.
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