Let’s be honest!!!!

Lately, Trakt doesn’t feel like the same platform anymore....

(The original founder seems missing in action, features keep disappearing, and there have been too many API issues, outages, and random errors.) - feels like either it got acquired or v3 ui is very buggy...

Meanwhile, SIMKL... once the underdogm seems to be improving fast with great features, strong anime support, and an active developer/community presence.

Which one do you think is actually better right now, has the more sustainable future for tracking movies, TV shows, and anime?

The only problem right now with SIMKL is, its run by a small team and most of its amazing feature are behind v2 beta..

And SIMKL also does need a bit learning curve to understand the website...

(but I realized that you can also get the Free SIMKL Pro for LIFE, if you visit the site for 20 days)

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And also, why are users still using trakt? is there something, I am unaware of?

I originally built this for my own use, but a few people—especially those who use Trakt.TV—found it helpful and encouraged me to keep developing it.

I'd genuinely appreciate any feedback or thoughts you have as it evolves.

https://ReelRifter.com

Here is a list of things you cant do anymore or current issues:

• trakt podcast tracking app - removed
• Cant automatic backup - removed
• Rating system changed - from 100 to 5 star
• personal notes - removed
• custom calendar - removed
• Rewatching super simplified - sucks
• All your replays gone
• Managing collections & library - removed
• Several amazing Custom lists - removed
• Custom lists & smart lists - sucks
• Grandfather pricing removed - now $60 or $90 who knows...
• v1 & v2 both removed.. v3 sucks
• Cant change your password
• posts on reddit - removed
• posts on forum - removed
• instant banned if you speak on emails - sucks
• Justin no where to be seen
• current developers seems to be promoting showly, instead of improving track app
• app & site both super laggy
• cant refund
• Kevin promoting ripple and says he does uses trakt as well
• API always down
• limits on watchlists
• Import back up does not work
• Regional VIP pricing has too high taxes almost 2x the price
• Sooo many questions unanswered
• Again, where is justin???

Is there still a reason to stay with this site? or member still find a reason to stick with it?

Please tell me, why are you still using it? so that I will too!

I've been maintaining a fork of Yamtrack for the past several months focused on the daily-driver experience: a history page, richer stats, shareable lists, daily use polish, and more media types like music and podcasts.

Here's some of what's landed this week:

1. Customize your Home! Add your own rows and make home exactly what you want it to be.
2. Lists have been cleaned up to match other parts of the app.
3. Speeeed! Two different pages have been updated to load more quickly. More work to come to make sure the app is snappy and responsive!
   1. Home Screen: 11.95s / ~8995 queries, down to 1.216s / 41 queries
   2. Statistics: 3.071s / 197 queries / 392 eager images, down to 0.166s / 1 query / 0 eager

Docker image:

ghcr.io/dannyvfilms/yamtrack:latest

Happy to answer questions about setup or what's different from stock Yamtrack.

This is beyond hilarious.

If you’re here because Trakt no longer works for you and you’re looking for something new, I wanted to share something that isn’t really trying to replace it. Cinebla.com is not so much about tracking, logging, or writing the usual review after finishing an episode. It goes in a different direction.

The idea is to comment on shows and movies while you’re watching them, with each comment tied to a specific moment in the episode or film. So when a scene comes up, you see the observations, trivia, jokes, theories, or reactions that other people left for that exact moment. It feels closer to community-made “director’s commentary” than to a traditional review.

For me, the difference compared to a watch party is that you don’t need everyone to be there at the same time. With a watch party, the whole experience depends on everyone being online together, and once it’s over, that shared moment is basically gone. Here, the comments stay attached to the movie or episode, so you can revisit that experience later, even if you watch it on a different day or at your own pace.

That’s why I don’t see it as an alternative to Trakt or to other apps you use to log what you watch, but more as a complement. You can keep using whatever you want for tracking, and use Cinebla as an extra layer to discover scene-specific details, leave your own commentary, or just have fun seeing how other people experienced the exact same moment you’re watching.

Web: cinebla.com

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cinebla/id6760119641

Android: https://cinebla.uptodown.com/android

If you watch on desktop, there’s also a Chrome extension that can show featured Cinebla comments directly over the video while you watch. That makes the whole thing feel even more like a real commentary layer, because you don’t need to switch to your phone or read everything separately before or after the episode. It keeps the experience tied to the exact scene in a much more natural way.

Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/cinebla/ahgdfobodgdiennnfmcgojcdejojjbhk

I know this sub gets a "I built a Trakt alternative" post every other day right now, so I'll lead with the one thing I haven't seen elsewhere: VibeWatch can pull streams from your own Jellyfin or Plex inside the title page. You hit play on a movie you're tracking, it plays from your server. No app switching, track progress too.

I left Trakt last year and tried the usual suspects. Yamtrack is great if you self-host. Cinopsys and Sofa Time are solid if you want mobile-first. I wanted a hosted web app that didn't suck and could also play the thing I was tracking.

What it does:

- Watchlist, watched, ratings (1-10), reviews

- Imports from Trakt, Letterboxd, and IMDb

- Stats: watch time, top genres, decade breakdown

- Release calendar showing when episodes you're tracking actually air

- Jellyfin/Plex hookup (optional) for streaming from your own server, or you can hook up an iframe source like vidfast even if you want.

Curious what's still missing from the trackers you've tried.

vibewatch.app

I've been maintaining a fork of Yamtrack for the past several months focused on the daily-driver experience: a history page, richer stats, shareable lists, daily use polish, and more media types like music and podcasts.

Here's some of what's landed this week

1. Collection data from Radarr and Sonarr has been added and polished

2. Release date has been added as an option when tracking, and can take into account the movie duration if watched on release date

3. More tuning to the discovery page to make suggestions more relevant. Also bug fixes, like filters more reliably remembering your settings when leaving and returning to a page

Docker image:

ghcr.io/dannyvfilms/yamtrack:latest

Happy to answer questions about setup or what's different from stock Yamtrack.