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.
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.
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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.
