As TV-tracking app TV Time shuts down, its founder builds Bingers, a new home for fans
As TV-tracking app TV Time shuts down, its founder builds Bingers, a new home for fans
随着电视追踪应用 TV Time 即将关停，其创始人打造了粉丝新家园 Bingers
TV Time, the popular TV and movie-tracking app whose pending shutdown has prompted more than 25,000 users to petition against its closure, is getting a reboot of sorts. One of the app’s original founders, Antonio Pinto, says he’s creating a new TV show tracking app, Bingers, which will attempt to rebuild the best features of TV Time while also addressing the issues that bothered him over the years. 备受欢迎的电视与电影追踪应用 TV Time 即将关停，这一消息引发了超过 2.5 万名用户联名请愿反对。如今，这款应用迎来了一种“重启”。该应用的创始人之一安东尼奥·平托（Antonio Pinto）表示，他正在开发一款名为 Bingers 的全新电视节目追踪应用。Bingers 将尝试重建 TV Time 的核心功能，同时解决那些多年来一直困扰他的问题。
Bingers will offer TV Time’s existing users a potential lifeline soon after the original app disappears from the app stores. It also gives the existing social community another place to go to continue discussing TV episodes, something that 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, many of those users potentially helping seed the new app’s community. 在原版应用从应用商店下架后，Bingers 将为 TV Time 的现有用户提供一条潜在的“救生索”。它还为现有的社交社区提供了一个继续讨论电视节目的新去处，而并非所有电视追踪应用都能提供这种社交功能。根据应用情报提供商 Appfigures 的数据，TV Time 的历史安装量超过 2640 万次，这些用户中的许多人有望成为新应用社区的种子用户。
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 grow the app’s user base significantly thanks to its Los Angeles ties. When he heard the app was being wound down as Whip Media shifted its focus to AI, Pinto said he felt sad. 常驻巴黎的平托在 2016 年将他的应用（当时名为 TVShow Time）出售给了 Whipclip（现为 Whip Media），因为该公司承诺凭借其在洛杉矶的人脉资源，能显著扩大应用的用户群。当听说 Whip Media 将重心转向人工智能并准备关停该应用时，平托表示他感到很难过。
“Sad because TV Time was part of my life for so many years. And sad because this community was like my other family. Reading the community reactions after each episode became a ritual for me, and for 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 TV Time[‘s] great features, but also fix everything that always bothered me,” he said. “难过是因为 TV Time 多年来一直是我生活的一部分。也难过是因为这个社区就像我的另一个家庭。阅读每一集播出后社区里的反馈，对我以及许多人来说已经成为了一种仪式，”平托在 Bingers 新网站的博客文章中写道。“我决定建立一个新的家园，让 TV Time 的社区成员有处可去。我不仅想重建 TV Time 的所有优秀功能，还要修复那些一直困扰我的问题，”他说道。
Notably, the new Bingers app will address TV Time’s performance issues, which often caused the app to load slowly and made it expensive to run. Pinto claims high server costs led to the shutdown, noting that its premium subscription plan only covered about 10% of those expenses due to the size of its community. Instead, Bingers has been architected to keep its server costs low, making it more sustainable, Pinto claims. It will also allow the app to respond faster when users mark an episode as watched, even when millions of others are connecting at the same time. 值得注意的是，全新的 Bingers 应用将解决 TV Time 的性能问题，这些问题曾导致应用加载缓慢且运营成本高昂。平托称，高昂的服务器成本是导致关停的原因，并指出由于社区规模庞大，其高级订阅计划仅能覆盖约 10% 的开支。相比之下，Bingers 在架构设计上旨在降低服务器成本，使其更具可持续性。平托表示，即使在数百万用户同时在线的情况下，该应用在用户标记剧集为“已观看”时也能做出更快的响应。
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 website is collecting sign-ups for a waitlist that will alert users when the new app is ready for launch. Of course, Bingers will also be able to import data from users’ TV Time archives, available through the app’s GDPR-compliant export tool before its removal from the app stores on July 15. By importing users’ archives, Pinto says Bingers will be able to recreate TV Time’s community comments as well. The archive import is already up and running on the Bingers website, so your TV viewing history will already be available when the app launches on the app stores. 该开发者告诉 TechCrunch，新应用将于 2026 年 7 月底在 App Store 和 Google Play 上架。在此之前，其网站正在收集候补名单注册信息，以便在新应用准备就绪时通知用户。当然，Bingers 还将能够导入用户在 TV Time 的存档数据（用户可在 7 月 15 日应用下架前，通过符合 GDPR 标准的导出工具获取）。平托表示，通过导入用户存档，Bingers 还能重现 TV Time 的社区评论。目前，存档导入功能已在 Bingers 网站上线，因此当应用在商店发布时，您的电视观看历史记录将可以直接使用。