Best Trakt alternatives for TV and movie fans

LazyWatch is our pick among the best Trakt alternatives if you want to bring your TV and movie history with you, then talk about what you watched. We build LazyWatch and publish this guide. We ranked the apps for fans switching to a daily tracker, with special attention to what transfers and what you can do after an episode ends.

We checked official sources on November 5, 2026.

What are the best Trakt alternatives?

LazyWatch comes first for bringing your watched history, watchlist and ratings into a tracker with conversations for individual episodes and movies. SIMKL is the strongest fit here if you want new activity to keep flowing from Trakt on a schedule. Scrob is built for people who run their own media server.

1. LazyWatch for keeping your history and finding the conversation

You can link Trakt with a short code or upload a Trakt export. The import adds your watched history, watchlist and ratings without overwriting progress you’ve already logged in LazyWatch. Check Fix matches for anything the importer couldn’t identify. Our Trakt import walkthrough explains what comes across and where to check it.

The difference shows up when you finish an episode. Swipe to mark it watched, then open Comments for that episode and see what other fans noticed. Movies have their own Comments, so the film you watched on Saturday and the series you’re halfway through both have a place in the same app. If you’re following a show with friends, Watch together shows each person’s progress and gives the group its own chat. Groups hold up to four people, including you.

LazyWatch is free with no ads or paywalls, and it’s available on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. If you’ve been tracking different parts of your history in different places, LazyWatch also takes imports from TV Time, Netflix, AniList, Letterboxd and Bingers. Treat the Trakt import as a way to bring your history over, then use the tracker to mark what you watch next.

2. SIMKL for keeping Trakt activity flowing into another app

SIMKL tracks TV, movies and anime and documents both a free one-time Trakt import and scheduled Auto Import with VIP. The scheduled option can pull new history, ratings and watchlist changes from Trakt. It’s a one-way connection. Activity you log in SIMKL doesn’t go back to Trakt through that integration.

That matters if your player already reports to Trakt and you want to keep that setup while giving another tracker a try. SIMKL also documents different import modes for handling entries you’ve already logged there. Check those settings before importing if you’ve used both services for a while. See SIMKL’s Trakt import options.

3. Scrob for tracking from a media server you run

Scrob is an open-source, self-hosted tracker that connects to Jellyfin, Plex and Emby. It documents webhook-based playback tracking, a Kodi add-on, and a Trakt connection that can import history and ratings. It also tracks personal lists. Its setup guide is worth reading if the same machine already hosts your library and you want to run the tracker yourself. See Scrob’s project documentation.

Scrob belongs on the list because a media-server setup can be hard to replace with a phone app. If a typical watch night starts with a file on your Jellyfin server and ends with your tracker marking it watched automatically, test that whole path before you move your history.

What should you check before leaving Trakt?

Check your data and your playback setup separately. An import moves records you already have. Scrobbling sends playback events from a compatible app so your history can keep updating while you watch. A tool that imports your history may still change how you log your next episode. See how Trakt defines scrobbling.

1. Keep a copy of your Trakt export and pick a few entries you can recognize. A partially watched season, a rated film and a title on your watchlist make a good test.
2. After the import, look for those entries in the new app. Check the last watched episode as well as the show’s presence in your library.
3. Test one new watch using your usual setup. If a player used to log it automatically, check whether it still does. If you want to switch to marking episodes yourself, try that on a night when you’re following more than one series.

For a wider comparison of day-to-day tracking, see our guide to the best TV and movie tracker apps. If keeping up with friends is the reason you’re switching, here’s how to watch a show at the same pace as friends.

Our verdict on switching from Trakt

LazyWatch is our pick if you want your existing history to lead somewhere: a record of what you watched, a thread for the episode you finished, and a group chat for the show you’re following with friends. Bring your Trakt history over, check where you left off, and see who else is talking about that episode. Get LazyWatch.