Tracking what you watch across five streaming services, on two devices, between seasons that drop months apart, is a problem that no streaming platform has ever bothered to solve for viewers.
Each service tracks only its content while your history disappears if you cancel, and there is no single place to manage what you are watching, what you want to watch, and what you have already seen across all of them.
Sofa Time offers a dedicated tracker for movies and TV shows that lives outside any single streaming service, giving viewers one place to manage everything they are watching, have watched, and plan to watch across every platform they subscribe to.
On the App Store, Sofa Time holds a 4.7 rating, while the Android version, still new, has cleared 50,000 downloads on the Play Store. Its growth came about when TV Time users needed an alternative import tool that accepts an official TV Time GDPR backup directly, bringing watched shows and movies, viewing dates, ratings, episode reactions, favourite character selections, and comments with attached images intact.
Trakt, IMDb, and Letterboxd imports are supported too.
What It Actually Does
The tracking covers everything a serious viewer would want, including marking movies, shows, seasons, and episodes as watched; choosing specific viewing dates; rating at every level; and managing a watchlist. It also follows what to watch next through an Up Next section that organizes shows by whether you are currently watching, have not watched in a while, or have not started yet.
Statuses like Watching, On Hold, Dropped, and Completed reflect how people actually engage with their watchlists, which rarely follow a tidy completion arc.
A logbook view builds a scrollable record of everything watched across years, letting a user look back and see exactly what they were watching in a given year, how many episodes they got through, and which ratings they left.
Discovery goes further than most. Title pages show where something is currently streaming with direct links, cinema showtimes, and alerts for when a title becomes available, so the app is useful for finding what to watch next, not just cataloguing what has already been seen. Trending content, upcoming releases, currently airing shows, similar title recommendations, and public community lists all live inside the same browse experience.
The organization is thorough without being fussy. Personal lists can mix movies and TV shows, Smart Lists and automatic lists populate themselves based on criteria set once, a calendar tracks new episodes and movie releases, and saved filters mean regular check-ins do not require rebuilding a search from scratch.
Statistics cover total viewing time, viewing history by year, most-watched content, favourite genres, and rating distribution: the kind of accumulated picture of a viewing life that takes years to build.
The Pricing Model
Premium comes in three tiers: $1.99 a month, $11.99 a year (which works out to $1 a month and is the recommended option), or $29.99 as a one-time lifetime purchase.
The free tier limits users to two streaming services, two local lists, one saved filter, and one connected service at a time, while Premium removes those caps and adds upcoming release notifications, automatic backups, multi-login for connecting multiple services simultaneously, exclusive themes and app icons, widget access, personal notes, and a choice between hearts or stars for ratings.
For anyone who uses the app daily across multiple services, the annual plan in particular is priced well below what most comparable trackers charge.
Who It Is For
Sofa Time earns its place for viewers who treat their watchlist as something worth managing properly. The import tools make it a realistic landing spot for anyone leaving another tracker, and the streaming availability layer makes it useful beyond tracking.
With nearly 250,000 registered users and an Apple TV app in development, the app is clearly building toward something larger, and the trajectory from niche iOS tool to cross-platform community has been fast enough that it is worth paying attention to.
