April 3rd, 2026
Product Updates
March brought updates across the platform, community, roadmap, and apps.
Here’s everything that shipped this month.
Automatic tracking for HBO Max is now available to everyone. Previously VIP-only, this change helps ensure your watch history stays intact as streaming services evolve and merge.
It also gives you a preview of how automatic tracking works, with more services available with Trakt VIP.
🔄 Automatic Tracking for HBO Max, Now Free
We’ve retired Automatic Backups.
This feature made sense when our infrastructure was less resilient. Today, with frequent internal backups and improved system reliability, it adds more complexity (and risk with third-party credentials) than value.
If you relied on it, you can export your data manually or use the Public API to build your own automated backup workflow.
Free users are now automatically redirected to the new Trakt experience (V3) on web.
This reflects where the product is today: V3 is the main experience going forward. V2 remains available for VIP users while we continue closing remaining gaps.
The Announcements category on the forums is active again. Replies are limited (VIP-only) to keep discussions focused and easy to follow.
⚗️ Testing Something New: Announcements Are Back
We refreshed the forum guidelines.
Nothing drastic, just a clearer version focused on three ideas:
Be helpful
Be kind
Stay on topic
📢 Update to our Forum Guidelines
Your feedback continues to shape what we work on. VIP members can submit ideas and vote on what matters most:
👉 roadmap.trakt.tv
🧭 A New Home for Feedback
Detailed season-level insights like watch progress, runtime, and descriptions remain one of the most requested missing pieces in V3.
🗳️ See and vote
Knowing exactly when episodes air helps users better plan around weekly releases.
🗳️ See and vote
A more vertical layout is frequently requested for better usability on large screens.
🗳️ See and vote
Quick access to external resources like IMDb or TMDb from media pages.
🗳️ See and vote
See guest stars with a better way to identify series regular and guests.
🗳️ See and vote
Provides convenience for skipping individual episodes without impacting tracking or cluttering Up Next.
🗳️ See and vote
Rippple is now an official Trakt app, available under Trakt’s Apple account.
Built as a native Apple experience around Trakt
Open source for the community
Rippple (Mark I) remains available for now to support data migration.
👉 Rippple for Trakt – Mark II App - App Store
🍿 Rippple II: A New Home
March’s update introduced new profile insights, early multi-language support, and major improvements to lists and performance.
Highlights include:
📊 Profile progress insights (Month-to-Date, Year-to-Date)
🌍 Initial multi-language support
🧩 Improved lists (better previews, ordering, and discovery)
⭐ Post-watch prompts to rate or favorite content
👥 More context in social activity (ratings from others)
📱 Optimized layouts for larger screens (iPad, grid views)
⚡ Full pagination across key areas for better performance and reliability
📖 Trakt for iOS 🍎 - #9 by Ohifriend
No release in March as our Android developer took a short break.
Work has resumed and the next update is coming soon
We shipped continuously throughout March, with a focus on refining the V3 experience.
Key highlights include:
🎨 Light Theme refresh → less gray, improved shadows, and stronger focus on images
💎 VIP experience upgrade → new page, clearer usage and limits, smoother upgrade flow
👤 Redesigned profile pages → optimized layouts for larger screens with improved "this month/year" views
🎯 Advanced filtering (first steps) → multi-select filters, sliders (year, runtime, rating), and simple/advanced modes
📅 New calendar views → more visual activity and history tracking with faster navigation
🧠 Improved tracking → better history sorting, last watched date tracking, and ratings visibility
Alongside these, we continued improving performance, refining UI across key pages, and making the experience better.
Get all the details from the weekly release logs:
📖 Trakt for Web 🌐 - #7 by kcador
📖 Trakt for Web 🌐 - #8 by kcador
📖 Trakt for Web 🌐 - #9 by kcador
📖 Trakt for Web 🌐 - #10 by kcador
To be continued…
🍿 The Trakt Team