September brought big improvements across both backend and frontend: new features polished, performance boosted and steady progress on Trakt, Trakt LITE, iOS and Android. And with Liquid Glass flowing out across third-party apps, the Trakt ecosystem is looking sharper than ever.

✨ New on Trakt

Comments just got more expressive! ❤️😂👏
Reactions are now live on Trakt and Trakt LITE, coming soon to our iOS app and later this year to the new Android app.
📖 Learn more

Discord Rich Presence Bot

Bring your Trakt activity into Discord with our new Rich Presence bot.
This is currently an engineering preview, not user-friendly.
If you can’t wait, you can clone the repo and run it.
🧑‍💻 Open source on GitHub

Under the Hood

• Search → Ongoing work continues to make it even faster and more accurate while we expand beyond basic searches to power trending, anticipated, popular, and custom results.

• API performance → We’ve rolled out significant backend optimizations to improve speed and reduce server load. This briefly affected “Up Next” in our own apps, but the end result is a faster, more efficient API for both Trakt apps and third-party developers.

⚡️ Trakt LITE

Lots of quality-of-life updates this month:

• Toggles

  • Better toggles in search & list headers (#997)

  • Improved favorites (#1001)

  • Toggle states now persist in your browser

• Lists & Navigation

  • Redesigned Social List (#1007)

  • New mobile nav bar (#1009) with bottom search bar on non-iOS devices

  • Better list loading states (#1014)

  • Grouped activity items by episode – perfect for binge-watchers (#1043)

  • New drill-down design for lists (#1063)

• Filters

  • “Ignore watched/watchlisted” no longer enabled by default (#1017)

  • “This year” added to decade filter (#1057)

  • Smarter saved filter handling (#1056)

• Search

  • Actor birthdays shown as placeholders (#1036)

  • Trending searches for movies/shows displayed (#1083)

• Other Improvements

  • Prompt to rate recently watched titles (#1019)

  • Animated emoji reactions (#1013)

  • Fresh landing page for new visitors (#1055)

  • Mobile redesigns for summary pages (people, movies, shows, episodes): #1050, #1051, #1052, #1053, #1071, #1072, #1075, #1078, #1082

🤓 Want to dive deeper? Each update links to a GitHub pull request with details and screenshots.
And since Trakt LITE is open source, you can follow along as it evolves!

🤖 Trakt Android & Android TV

Our brand-new Android app is shaping up fast. Here’s a sneak peek:

🍎 Trakt iOS & tvOS

• iOS 2.8 (BETA) → Now available for beta testers 🎉

  • Full support for iOS 26 and Liquid Glass

  • Refreshed Search tab with trending movies/shows and monthly birthdays

  • Added support for comment reactions ❤️😂👏

  • This update will be available publicly in October.

• tvOS 1.7

  • Open Movies, Shows, and Episodes directly in Plex or Infuse

  • Dedicated Filters section in Settings

  • “Collection” renamed to “Library”

  • Fixed sync reliability when returning to the app

🤗 Trakt Community

Apple’s iOS 26 introduced Liquid Glass and our third-party developers quickly embraced it:

• Sequel v2.6 → Full redesign, refreshed navigation & detail screens, putting your media first.

• Konsensus v1.14 → Cohesive new look with smoother interactions, aligned with Apple’s latest design.

• Rippple v26 → A stunning new Liquid Glass design — lighter, fluid, expressive, yet instantly familiar.

If you’re a developer building a great Trakt app, we’d love to hear from you!
If your favorite Trakt app isn’t mentioned here and you’d like it featured, let us know.

👉 That’s a wrap for September! What update are you most excited about?