Changelog

April was another busy month, with updates for our TV apps, improvements to translations, and roadmap items moving from “requested” or “planned” to “shipped.”

This month, the focus was on making V3 more complete, more useful on desktop, and easier to use across Web, iOS, Android, and TV apps.

Here’s a peek at what we shipped in April.

▶️ Plex Play enters beta

Plex Play is now available in beta on Apple TV and Android TV.

This is an important step toward making Trakt feel more connected to the media you already have. If you use Plex Sync, Trakt can now do more than tell you something is in your Library. It can help you start watching it from your TV.

We’ll keep improving that experience over the next few weeks.

👉 Join the beta
📖 Read the announcement

🌍 Help improve Trakt in your language

We’re continuing to expand language support across Trakt V3.

The first version of translations helped us make Trakt available to more people, but good localization is more than converting words from one language to another. It needs to feel natural, clear, and familiar to the people using it.

That’s where the community can help.

If you spot wording that feels awkward or unclear, you can now help improve it through Crowdin.

👉 Translate Trakt
📖 Read the announcement

🗺️ Roadmap Highlights

Your feedback continues to shape what we work on.

This month, several highly requested items moved forward, and some are now completed.

✅ Completed

Vertical UI for V3 Desktop
V3 now relies less on horizontal scrolling to reveal more information. Most rows now have a dedicated drilldown view, giving you the full set of details in a clearer vertical layout. Desktop navigation has also been improved with better use of the sidebar and top navigation across the app.

Make Icon on Top of Page Floating (web, v3)
The top bar on desktop web is now sticky, so you no longer need to scroll back to the top to switch media types. Filters, sorting, and page titles now stay easier to reach while browsing.

Bring Back Progress Page
Progress is back, with dedicated drilldowns for in-progress, completed, and dropped shows, giving you a better way to organize and view your TV show progress.

Display Episode Airtime
Episode airtime is back in both the details section and calendar pages, making it easier to see when new episodes air.

Add External Links
External links are now available in more places, including direct links to TMDb and more.

🧪 In progress

We’re also actively working on bringing users’ comments and ratings back to profile pages.

And yes, season-level information and actions are still warming up. This one is further along in the design phase, so it is moving, but it still needs some cooking.

👉 You can keep voting and submitting ideas on the Trakt Roadmap.

💻 Trakt on the Web

April was a strong month for the web app, with weekly releases focused on restoring important workflows, improving desktop usability, and tightening up the everyday V3 experience.

Highlights include:

• Progress is back with a new profile Progress section for in-progress, completed, and dropped shows

• Episode airtimes are now easier to find

• Activity heatmaps and an updated streak experience make watching activity more visual

• Season drilldowns improve navigation inside seasons and episodes, vertically

• Watch history now has its own dedicated drawer

• Media links were expanded in details panels

• Where to Watch was improved with better grouping and clearer categories

• Comment editing is now available

• Data import received its first native version and clearer guidance

• Calendar loading now works more naturally when scrolling

• Start Watching now uses the Watchlist foundation and supports sorting

• Recommendations can now be hidden

• Watchlists can now be cleared when you want a fresh start

• Date of birth can now be updated from settings

We also shipped a lot of smaller fixes around reliability, popovers, drawers, settings, authentication, i18n, and general UI consistency.

📖 Read the latest Web release notes

📱 Trakt on iOS

Trakt for iOS 3.3 shipped with a mix of richer summaries, better list support, and important bug fixes.

Highlights include:

• Improved Sentiment Analysis with refreshed data and UI

• Trivia added to movie and show summaries

• More details available through the “i” icon in the summary metadata section

• Stats, network information, external links, social links, and TMDb links added to the details panel

• Smart Lists can now be viewed, created, and deleted from the Lists tab

• “Watching until a specific episode” is now an explicit action in the episode context menu

• Watchlists and personal lists can now be sorted by title

We also fixed issues with personal list collapsed states, ratings showing in the wrong context, and bulk-added episodes appearing out of order in history.

📖 Read the iOS release notes

🤖 Trakt on Android

Trakt for Android 3.6 shipped this month.

Highlights include:

• Trivia sections for shows and movies

• Custom profile covers using show, movie, or episode fanart

• Extended details moved into a bottom sheet

• A new button at the top of summary pages for faster access to details

• Miscellaneous crash fixes and bug fixes

📖 Read the Android release notes

🧑‍💻 Note for API users

We also shared an early heads-up for developers using the watched endpoints.

If your app uses:

• /users/{id}/watched/{type}

• /sync/watched/{type}

you should read the GitHub discussion and review your integration.

The short version: watched endpoints are getting pagination, and the default extended behavior is changing. Apps should send page and limit, handle pagination properly, and stop assuming one request returns a user’s full watched history.

Season progress data will also become explicit through extended=progress, while extended=min can be used when you only need compact watched data.

📖 Upcoming API Changes: Watched Endpoints Pagination & Extended Defaults

👉 That’s a wrap for April

Thanks again to everyone sharing feedback on the forums, roadmap, GitHub, Reddit, and support.

We’ll keep listening, improving, and shipping.

🍿 The Trakt Team

March brought updates across the platform, community, roadmap, and apps.

Here’s everything that shipped this month.

🔄 Platform & Policy Updates

HBO Max tracking is now free

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

Retiring Automatic Backups

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.

🔄 Retiring Automatic Backups

Free users now default to V3

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.

↩️ Free Users Redirect to V3

💬 Community & Communication

Announcements are back

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

Updated Forum Guidelines

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

🗺️ Roadmap Highlights

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

🌟 Here's the current Top 5 (okay 6 with a draw)

1. Bring Back Season Pages

Detailed season-level insights like watch progress, runtime, and descriptions remain one of the most requested missing pieces in V3.

🗳️ See and vote

2. Display Episode Airtime

Knowing exactly when episodes air helps users better plan around weekly releases.

🗳️ See and vote

3. Add a Vertical UI/UX for the V3 Web for Desktops

A more vertical layout is frequently requested for better usability on large screens.

🗳️ See and vote

4. Add External Links

Quick access to external resources like IMDb or TMDb from media pages.

🗳️ See and vote

5. Show Guest Stars for TV shows

See guest stars with a better way to identify series regular and guests.

🗳️ See and vote

5. (Draw) Skip An Episode From Up Next

Provides convenience for skipping individual episodes without impacting tracking or cluttering Up Next.

🗳️ See and vote

📱 Apps & Ecosystem

Rippple joins Trakt

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

Trakt on iOS

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

Trakt on Android

No release in March as our Android developer took a short break.
Work has resumed and the next update is coming soon

Trakt on the Web

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

In February, we talked about limits. Fair use. Data quality. Physical and digital libraries.

We also opened a new home for feedback as we continue building more in the open.

Some of these conversations were intense. That's okay.

📏 Limits, Fair Use & What This Means

We first shared a draft of the Fair Use Policy and opened it up for feedback:
🛠 Draft: Trakt Fair Use Policy (Feedback Welcome)

Then we followed up with Updated Limits for 2026:
📢 Updating Trakt Limits for 2026

And finally, we clarified things about Fair Use and Limits:
📌 Follow-Up: Fair Use, Abuse Prevention & What Happens at the Limits

If you are a heavy user tracking, rating, curating meaningful lists, you're not the target.

Structural misuse, automation abuse, infinite retry loops, and "export-the-entire-database" patterns? That's what we're addressing.

We know this is sensitive. History, ratings, and library are core Trakt features.

That's why we're being transparent early, sharing drafts, and explaining the reasoning instead of just flipping a switch.

📀 Physical Library Update

One of the strongest feedback threads was about Physical Library handling:
📚 Update on Physical Library Handling

Here's where we landed:

• Physical entries stay mixed with Digital/Playable Library

• No migration to List required

• At least two metadata fields (Format + Resolution) are now required

Why require format and resolution? Because Library is structured data. Without minimum metadata, Physical entries become indistinguishable from generic entries and start breaking assumptions across apps, exports, filters, and third-party integrations.

The goal isn't to redefine what your Library is. It's to keep your Library meaningful while ensuring long-term consistency and sustainability.

🧭 A New Home for Feedback

We moved away from Productboard, had a little pause, and re-launched roadmap.trakt.tv using Featurebase:
🧭 A New Home for Feedback

Why?

• Less friction

• Public discussions and votes on ideas

• More community-driven

We're currently testing and iterating with VIPs only and will open up more when we're ready.

🔄 App & Web Updates

February also brought steady improvements across platforms.

🍎 iOS

Recent updates focused on:

1. 📅 Fully Redesigned Calendar A complete visual and structural overhaul with a smoother, modern layout -- plus smarter grouping of episodes airing at the same time into a single item.

2. 🏠 Home Screen Widgets for Everyone Widgets are no longer VIP-only. All users can now add Trakt widgets directly to their iOS Home Screen.

3. 🔄 Automatic Tracking for HBO Max Automatic Tracking for HBO Max is now available to all users, with behind-the-scenes improvements to increase tracking accuracy across the app.

See full notes here:

• https://forums.trakt.tv/t/trakt-for-ios/80418/7

🤖 Android

The new Android foundation continues to evolve quickly.

Recent updates include:

1. 🔍 Powerful Lists Upgrade Users can now search official and custom lists, like custom lists, manage liked lists from the Lists screen, and view seasons and episodes directly inside lists (read-only).

2. 🎬 Now Watching Available Everywhere "Now Watching" (aka Check In) is now accessible through track menus across the entire app, making it faster and more consistent to log what you're watching.

3. 🔄 Automatic Tracking for HBO Max All free users can now link their HBO accounts for Automatic Tracking, expanding streaming integrations beyond VIP.

Release notes:

• https://forums.trakt.tv/t/trakt-for-android/96628/2

• https://forums.trakt.tv/t/trakt-for-android/96628/3

• https://forums.trakt.tv/t/trakt-for-android/96628/4

🌐 Web

Web saw multiple incremental updates this month with:

1. 🎨 Major UI Refresh A significant visual refresh of the Light Theme (less gray, standardized shadows, improved CTAs) alongside redesigned Profile Pages optimized for larger screens and tablets, plus a new carousel component for richer layouts.

2. ⭐ Enhanced VIP Experience & Sentiment Analysis A revamped VIP upsell page with clearer limits/usage display and direct upgrade flow, plus enhanced Sentiment Analysis where VIP users get full insights while free users see structured previews -- all within an improved UI.

3. 📚 Powerful Lists & Library Improvements Expanded Lists capabilities including List Search, improved sorting (with visible sort values), "Add to List" from media popups, pagination for Library items, and clearer like counts -- making list management and large libraries more scalable and usable.

See all and detailed notes:

• https://forums.trakt.tv/t/trakt-for-web/97506/2

• https://forums.trakt.tv/t/trakt-for-web/97506/3

• https://forums.trakt.tv/t/trakt-for-web/97506/4

• https://forums.trakt.tv/t/trakt-for-web/97506/5

• https://forums.trakt.tv/t/trakt-for-web/97506/6

📝 We are publishing more comprehensive, consistent release notes for Web on a weekly cadence. 👉 Small changes. Frequently shipped. Less mystery.

🔭 What's Next

We'll continue refining the changes introduced this month, listening closely to your feedback, and making steady improvements across the ecosystem.

Thanks for reading, for testing, for pushing back when needed, and for helping shape where Trakt goes next.

🍿 The Trakt Team

A lot happened this month 😅

Stepping back, we can say January was about clarity, direction, and improving trust.

We spent the month explaining where Trakt is going, clearing up misconceptions, and opening up more of our process so expectations are clearer on all sides. This is an ongoing process, and we’ll continue to share more as we move forward.

✨ New on Trakt

A New Chapter for Trakt on Mobile 📱

We started the month (and the year) by sharing the next generation of Trakt on mobile. This is the strong foundation that will allow faster iteration, more consistency across platforms, and fewer compromises over time.

📱 A New Chapter for Trakt on Mobile

The Library: What It Is and Where It’s Going 📚

We clarified what the Library is meant to represent in the near future and how it fits into the broader Trakt experience.

In short, the Library will be about media you can actually play, not a general-purpose archive. That distinction matters as we expand integrations and improve playback-related workflows.

📚 The Library on Trakt: What It Is and Where It’s Going

Myth Busters: Clearing Up Common Misconceptions 🧯

January also saw the release of 10 Myth Busters, addressing recurring assumptions and concerns we see across the Forums and Reddit.

The goal wasn’t to win arguments, but to provide context, explain decisions, and reduce confusion where possible.

🔍 Myth Busters

💬 An Important Note on Communication & Community

We read a lot of messages on the Forums, on Reddit, and shared with support, far more than we can realistically respond to one by one.

When we don’t reply, it doesn’t mean feedback is ignored. It usually means we’re managing volume, time, and priorities as a small team. Themes, patterns, and actionable feedback are still actively shared and acted upon internally.

We also want to say thank you to everyone helping out there. Seeing Trakt users debug issues, explain behaviors, and share recommendations with other Trakt users genuinely makes us happy!

We see you and appreciate your contributions 💜

🌐 Trakt Web & Release Notes

We started publishing weekly, more comprehensive release notes for the Web (V3) platform to improve visibility into ongoing changes and fixes.

Web release notes are now available alongside iOS and Android release notes under the release-notes category. Unlike mobile apps, the Web is updated continuously and doesn’t use version numbers, so these release notes follow a slightly different format.

🛎️ Make sure you’re “watching” these posts to get notified of new updates!

• Trakt for Web: Trakt for Web 🌐

• Trakt for iOS: Trakt for iOS 🍎

• Trakt for Android: Trakt for Android 🤖

🛠️ Building More in Public

In January, we also started the big move from an internal project management tool to GitHub as part of our ongoing effort to build more in public.

This means you can now:

• Submit bug reports and feature requests using our structured templates

• See priorities, assignees, status, and even some internal discussions and sneak peeks

• Track progress through Milestones for larger features or versions

Repositories and open source status:

• Web V3: has been open source from the start → trakt-web

• Android V3: the source code was made public this month → trakt-android

• iOS V3: the source code remains private for the moment but issues and progress has been opened → trakt-apple

👩‍💻 Developer Updates (API)

Upcoming API Changes

In January, we shared some upcoming API changes that will have an impact on third-party developers:

• 📣 Upcoming API Changes: Pagination & Sorting Updates

• 🔔 Upcoming Change: Seconds and Milliseconds Will Be Zeroed Out in watched_at Timestamps

For all, even non-developers: we work hard to keep breaking changes to a minimum, but some adjustments are necessary to ensure Trakt can scale reliably as our user base continues to grow.

Important Reminder About API Developer Communications

All breaking changes, behavior changes, and important API announcements are shared via GitHub Discussions in the trakt/trakt-api repository.

To make sure you don’t miss updates:

• Watch → All Activity

• or Watch → Custom → Discussions

Keeping GitHub notifications enabled is the best way to stay aligned.

👉 That’s it for January

January was about setting expectations, explaining direction, and improving how we communicate, while continuing work across Web, iOS, Android and the Platform (API, Database, Infrastructure,...) in parallel.

Thanks for the continued feedback and support.

🍿 The Trakt Team

December was short but intense at Trakt!

Short, because the team wrapped up the year with a well-deserved holiday break to recharge. Intense, because everything converged toward one big finale: Your Trakt Year in Review.

🎬 Your Trakt Year in Review

The Year in Review landed just in time to close out 2025, bringing a cinematic recap of how you watched, what you loved, and what defined your year on Trakt.

It highlights:

• Your first and last plays of the year

• The movies and shows you spent the most time with

• Your habits, streaks, genres and favorites

• Shareable snapshots of your movies and TV shows

It’s become a yearly tradition for many of you, and shipping it again this year took a focused end-of-year push across product, design and engineering.

👉 Read more: 🎬 Your Trakt Year in Review is here!

👀 Looking back at 2025

Since December was a quieter month, it’s a good moment to zoom out.

2025 was a huge year for Trakt 🚀

Over the past 12 months, we:

• Rolled out the new Trakt web experience ✨

• Launched Trakt on Android TV 📺

• Entered beta with next-gen iOS and Android apps 📱

• Made major strides toward a unified experience across all platforms 🤝

• Introduced emoji reactions 💬

• Shipped Plex Sync 🔄

• Added “mark watched without a date” ⏱️

• Improved search and discovery 🔍

• Laid critical foundations with backend and database upgrades ⚙️

A lot of this work wasn’t about flashy one-off features, but about building a stronger, faster foundation that will let us move with more confidence and consistency going forward.

💜 Wrapping up 2025

December closed the chapter on a big year of change, progress, and groundwork. We’re proud of what shipped, grateful for your feedback and excited about what’s next.

2026 is already shaping up to be bold, fast, and fun.

🍿 The Trakt Team

November was all about tightening the new Trakt experience across Web, iOS and Android. A lot of what shipped this month won’t shout at you from a single big feature but together, they make Trakt feel more consistent, more predictable and more fun to use day-to-day.

✨ Trakt on the Web

• A Home that feels like home
  No more horizontal scrolling on wide screens!
  Continue Watching and Start Watching now mix movies and episodes more naturally and avoid unreleased or in-progress items where it doesn’t make sense.
  High-level Media/Shows/Movies filtering makes it easier to quickly refine what you see at a glance.

• More control over what you see
  Summary and Home pages got solid performance improvements.
  Search queries are better too, making it easier to find what you want without extra steps.
  Person pages now show birthdays and social links, so cast/crew browsing feels richer.

• Profiles, Navigation, Action
  Profiles now surface Libraries and Watch History, with a more compact “this month” view.
  A new minimal sidebar and a typography pass (less ALL CAPS, better spacing, new base font) make the whole site feel better and lighter.
  The evolving “Action Bar” is now available across all screen sizes, giving you consistent access to key actions wherever you are.

🍎 Trakt on iPhone and iPad

• Design catching up
  The new Summary screen continues to improve with more refined interactions.
  The Media/Shows/Movies filter lets you jump straight to movies, shows or both without digging through menus.

• Profile, rebuilt from the ground up
  Profiles have been completely overhauled with a new layout. You get clear sections for Month in Review, History, Favorites, Library, Followers and Following, making it easier to understand what you’ve been watching and how others use Trakt.

• Glassier than ever
  Search now feels native with the new integrated tab bar. Headers, cards and tabs all pick up Trakt’s newer look while embracing Apple’s latest design language.

🤖 Trakt on Android

• Media mode that follows you
  The new Media/Shows/Movies selector now drives Home, Discover and Lists, including when you want to “view more”.

• Favorites and Comments
  Favorites (movies and shows only) got proper add and remove flows.
  Comments gained full support for adding (with spoiler toggle), replying and deleting reviews.

• Mark Watched, not always now
  You can now mark titles as watched at a specific date and time, at release date or at an unknown date.
  Long-press on the “mark as watched” tick or use the 3-dots menu to access all options.

👉 That’s a wrap

The theme for the last few months has been clear: a unified Trakt experience across platforms. Same concepts and capabilities, tuned to each device.

As always, your feedback is what guides the next iterations.
Keep it coming.

🍿 The Trakt Team

October was a foundational month for Trakt. New features launched, new beta dropped and we completed a big infrastructure upgrade. Some changes caused friction along the way (thank you for sticking with us!), but they set us up for a better, more scalable future across all Trakt experiences.

✨ New on Trakt

New Trakt Web Experience
A refreshed Trakt web experience is rolling out as the default for more users. It is fast, modern, accessible and built to support what is coming next.
📖 Learn more

Mark Watched at Unknown Date
A highly requested feature is live on Trakt Classic! You can now mark items as watched without assigning a date. Your stats stay clean and your counters remain accurate. Coming soon to the New Trakt Experience.
📖 Read the announcement

🏗️ Under the Hood

We completed a major upgrade of our database system during two maintenance windows this month:

• The first attempt on October 2 did not go as planned from the start and was reverted quickly to ensure stability.

• The follow-up on October 7 succeeded, but it surfaced several issues linked to very large user’s data sets.

What was affected:

• A small number of accounts with very large watch history and/or lists were temporarily locked

• Lists with more than 1000 items failed to load or update

• Some user stats and counters weren’t accurate anymore

👉 We fixed the most disruptive issues. Today, we continue to monitor and fix the remaining edge cases.

Why this change was important:

• Our previous database system was reaching performance limits. The new one enforces good behavior, which helps keep things fast and consistent,

• The new system also revealed some of the technical debt built up over the past decade, giving us the chance to clean it up,

• And with this new foundation, we can scale more efficiently and work toward lower latency for users outside the US!

👉 It was necessary, it was not painless, but it will ultimately benefit everyone.

🤖 Trakt Android and Android TV

Our brand new Trakt for Android app has entered the VIP Beta phase.
This first version introduces a modern foundation and prepares the app for fast iterations during the coming months.
📖 Read the beta announcement

Trakt iOS and tvOS

The next generation of Trakt for iOS is also now in beta.
This release introduces a refreshed design and prepares the app for new features ahead.
See the beta notes

🍎 Trakt Community

No community highlights this month. Let’s change that for November.

We would love to showcase any of the following:

• Creative Trakt workflows or setup

• Great third-party app updates

• User guides, tips or automations

• Anything you built that uses Trakt

If you would like to be featured in the next roundup, let me know!

🙏 That is a wrap

A big thank you for your patience and support during the database migration.

We also want to thank everyone who shared feedback in New Trakt Feedback. Your input is incredibly valuable and helps us shape the next phase of improvements.

Here are the key areas we are focusing on next based on what you told us:

• Smoother core workflows for everyday use

• A better desktop experience

• More clarity, structure and ease of use across the new interface

• Stronger sorting, filtering and list management tools

All of this is already underway.
The next couple of months will be very exciting.

🍿 The Trakt Team

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?