🚀 Trakt Product Update – October 2026
Since our last update, several things from “what’s next” are now done: adding seasons and episodes to lists, managing collaborators on lists, separating main and supporting cast, and attaching GIFs to comments. We’ve also been improving Smart Lists, rebuilding Plex Sync, and making it easier to build apps with Trakt.
See what’s changed, what you can try, and what’s taking shape across the Trakt ecosystem.
👥 Find your next watch through people you follow
Today brings together what the people you follow have been watching, rating, and discussing. Open it from the top bar, browse the activity, or move through it as stories. It’s another place to find something worth watching through people whose taste you know.
We’re also making shared recommendations easier to remember. When you share a title from Trakt, the link includes a share code identifying you. When someone opens it, Trakt remembers who shared that title with them and shows “Shared by…” as a reminder when they return to it.
📚 Build lists your way
Adding seasons and episodes to lists is back. Save a favorite season, collect standout episodes, or put together a viewing order that mixes movies and episodes.
You can add people who follow you as collaborators on a list, and they can add or remove items alongside you. Useful for a shared movie night list or deciding what to watch together.
The “Add from your lists” option lets you bring movies and shows over from another of your lists, including your Watchlist, in batches.
🧠 Let your lists keep themselves up to date
You can now edit an existing Smart List. Change the filters as your interests change, without starting again.
Smart Lists can also use your Watchlist, Library, or Recommendations as their source. And when you’ve filtered a discovery page, your Watchlist, or Library into something you’d like to revisit, you can create a Smart List directly from those filters.
With a personal list, you choose each title. With a Smart List, you set the rules, and Trakt automatically keeps matching titles up to date.
🎭 Find the cast you’re looking for
We’ve improved cast information to make the distinction between main and supporting cast more accurate.
You can now switch between main cast and supporting cast to find the person you’re looking for. These data improvements are also available through our API, so all apps depending on Trakt can offer clearer, more accurate cast information.
💬 Share how it made you feel
Sometimes you just want to leave a 👍, share a 🤣, or say a movie left you 💔. Emoji reactions give you a quick way to express how a movie or show made you feel, without choosing a rating or writing a review.
Comments and reviews now support GIFs, and the text editor makes formatting, quotes, and spoiler tags easier to add.
📅 Plan your watching
VIP members can subscribe to their Trakt Calendar in Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, Outlook, or another calendar app. Choose your movies, shows, premieres, finales, and filters before copying or opening the subscription link.
VIP members can also try the redesigned Calendar, with updated date navigation and filtering. We’re still checking the details across different screens and schedules.
🔄 Keep your Plex watching in sync
Plex Sync setup has been completely rebuilt under the hood to provide a clearer, smoother, and more reliable experience.
The guided flow walks you through choosing your server, profile, and libraries, helps prevent configuration errors, and lets you control which history, ratings, collection, and Watchlist data to sync. You can also check server status and recent sync activity from the same settings.
📱 Enjoy a more consistent Trakt across devices
We’re bringing more of these improvements to our native apps too, so the features you rely on feel consistent across the web, iOS, and Android, with controls that feel at home on each platform.
Recent updates to both iOS and Android add movie and show reactions, GIFs, richer comment formatting, and more filtering options, bringing more ways to discover and share to whichever device you use.
See the iOS updates · Get Trakt for Android
🔌 Build on Trakt
Your Trakt account connects your watching across the web, our apps, and third-party apps and players. We keep improving the platform behind those experiences, making it easier to connect securely and keep your history, ratings, and lists in sync.
For people building on Trakt, the developer portal now brings app management, updated guides, and testing tools together. Creating an app no longer requires VIP, with a one-time GitHub verification to get started.
Explore the developer portal · Join the developer community
⚔️ Explore our own takes on Trakt
A few of us on the Trakt team have been building our own takes on Trakt. Here are three open-source side projects we maintain, each shaped by how we like to use Trakt.
Trakt Time: a mobile-first fork of V3, inspired by TV Time and focused on keeping up with your shows. Try it · Source
Rippple for Trakt: another take on a native client for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, built on the Trakt API. Its latest update gets ready for iPhone Duo with Smart Lists, better search, and more room to work side by side. Explore Rippple · Source
Trakt OG: another fork of V3, bringing back a familiar browsing experience for those who miss the classic layout. Still in the works, coming soon. Follow its development →
🔭 Get ready to look back on 2026
Work has started on Year in Review 2026, including new ways to look back at your watching and share it. It’s still in development; we’ll have more to show closer to the end of the year. It’s going to be legen—wait for it...
🫵 Tell us what you think
That’s what’s new across Trakt this month. Try the updates, explore a side quest, and tell us what you think in the replies. If you’re building something with Trakt, we’d love to see that too.
Till next time, happy watching!
🍿 The Trakt Team