TV Time, the popular movie and TV tracking app whose pending closure has prompted more than 25,000 users to file a petition against its closure, it is restarting.

One of the app’s original founders, Antonio Pinto, says he’s creating a new TV show tracking app, Bingers, that will try to rebuild TV Time’s best features while also addressing the issues that have bothered him over the years.

Bingers will offer existing TV Time users a potential lifeline soon after the original app disappears from app stores. It also gives the existing social community another place to go to continue discussing TV episodes, something not all TV show tracking apps offer. According to data from app intelligence provider Appfigures, TV Time has more than 26.4 million lifetime installs, and many of those users potentially help seed the new app’s community.

Paris-based Pinto 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 ties to Los Angeles. When he heard that the app was being disabled when Whip Media shifted its focus to AI, Pinto said he felt sad.

“Sad because TV Time was a part of my life for so many years. And sad because this community was like my other family. Reading the community’s reactions after each episode became a ritual for me and many others,” Pinto wrote in a blog post on Bingers’ new 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 it also solves everything that always bothered me,” he said.

In particular, the new Bingers app will fix TV Time’s performance issues, which often caused the app to load slowly and make it more expensive to run. Pinto claims that high server costs led to the closure, noting that its premium subscription plan only covered about 10% of those expenses due to the size of its community.

Instead, Bingers has been designed to keep its server costs down, making it more sustainable, Pinto says. It will also allow the app to respond faster when users mark an episode as watched, even when millions of people log in at the same time.

The developer tells TechCrunch that the new app will be available on the App Store and Google Play in late July 2026. Until then, the website is collecting registrations for a waitlist that will alert 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’s GDPR-compliant export tool ahead of its removal from app stores on July 15. By importing user files, Pinto says Bingers will also be able to recreate comments from the TV Time community.

File import is already live on the Bingers website, so your TV viewing history will already be available when the app launches in the app stores.