5 Open Source Alternatives to TV Time After the Shutdown

Yamtrack is a self-hosted media tracker built with Django that covers movies, TV shows, anime, games, books, and manga. It pulls metadata from TMDB, IGDB, and other sources, supports multiple users, and stores everything on your own server.

• Broad coverage of media types in a single web interface
• Metadata from TMDB, IGDB, and other open sources
• Multi-user support with a clean Django admin
• Deployable via Docker with a minimal footprint
• Licensed under AGPL-3.0 and free

Yamtrack is a solid pick if you prefer a traditional Django-based stack and want one app to track everything you watch, read, and play.

Scrob bills itself as a private combination of Letterboxd + Trakt, and it lives up to the comparison. It is a self-hosted media tracker that syncs your full library and watch history from Jellyfin, Plex, or Emby — including real-time webhook updates — and adds social features like following other users, comments, and personal lists.

• Two-way sync with Jellyfin, Plex, and Emby, plus optional push to Trakt and SIMKL
• Integrates with Radarr and Sonarr so you can add new movies and shows from the UI
• Season-level ratings, custom lists, and TMDB-sourced metadata
• PWA install for an app-like feel on phones and tablets
• Licensed under GPL-3.0 and free

Scrob is the most polished option for users who already run a media server and want a private social layer on top of it.

Ryot — short for Roll Your Own Tracker — is a self-hosted platform that goes far beyond TV. If TV Time felt too narrow and you also want to track anime, books, podcasts, video games, and even your workouts, Ryot is built for you.

• Unified tracking for movies, TV, anime, manga, books, audiobooks, podcasts, music, and games
• One-click imports from Trakt, Goodreads, MyAnimeList, Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, and Kodi
• Automatic scrobbling from Jellyfin, Plex, Kodi, and Emby so nothing has to be logged by hand
• Workout logger, body measurements, and progress graphs in the same app
• GraphQL API, OpenID Connect, and a PWA for mobile use
• Ships as a single Docker container backed by PostgreSQL
• Licensed under GPL-3.0, with an optional paid Ryot Pro tier for sharing and recommendations

Ryot is the right pick if you want to consolidate every tracker you currently use into one self-hosted instance — and stop paying for a stack of subscriptions.

Watcharr is a self-hostable watchlist tracker for movies, TV shows, anime, and video games, with a clean modern interface. Each user gets a personal profile with a status (planned, watching, completed, dropped), a rating, and a chronological history of everything they have consumed.

• TMDB metadata for movies, TV, and anime out of the box, with optional IGDB support for video games
• Multi-user with authentication, a discover page, and per-user stats
• Built with Go on the backend and SvelteKit on the frontend
• Ships as a single Docker image, uses SQLite — trivial to deploy on a NAS or home server
• A community-built Kodi plugin can auto-mark items as watched from playback
• Licensed under GPL-3.0 and free

If you want a no-fuss self-hosted watchlist that you can put on a Raspberry Pi and forget about, Watcharr is the one.

MovieLab is a focused, free Android app for tracking movies and TV shows. If you are not looking to self-host anything and just want a clean replacement for TV Time on your phone, it is the simplest jump in this list.

• IMDb-backed metadata, including cast, crew, recommendations, and episode guides
• Track watch history, mark favorites, and discover new titles from the largest movie database on the web
• Lightweight Android app with no account required
• Free, licensed under Apache-2.0

MovieLab is the closest one-to-one replacement in terms of feel: open the app, search for a show, mark what you have watched, move on.