Original TV Time creator is building Bingers to replace shutting app

Antonio Pinto, the original founder of TV Time, is building a new TV show tracking app called Bingers, aiming to rebuild TV Time’s best features while fixing the problems that bothered him for years. Pinto says Bingers will be available on the App Store and Google Play by the end of July 2026 — shortly after TV Time is removed from app stores on July 15, as its parent company, Whip Media, shuts the app down and shifts its focus to AI.

TV Time has accumulated more than 26.4 million lifetime installs, according to Appfigures, the app intelligence provider that supplied the download figures. The pending closure has already prompted more than 25,000 users to petition against it, a sign of how central the app’s episode-discussion community became for its audience — a community Bingers is designed to give a new home.

Pinto, who is based in Paris, sold his original app — then called TVShow Time — to Whipclip (now Whip Media) in 2016, drawn by the Los Angeles company’s promise to grow the app’s user base. He says high server costs ultimately drove TV Time’s shutdown, noting that its premium subscription plan covered only about 10% of those expenses given the size of its community. Bingers, he says, has been architected to keep server costs low and to perform faster than TV Time, making the new app more sustainable to run.

“Sad because TV Time was part of my life for so many years. And sad because this community was like my other family. Reading the community reactions after each episode became a ritual for me, and for many others,” Pinto wrote in a blog post announcing Bingers.

To help preserve that community, Bingers offers a GDPR-compliant export tool — a data-transfer utility built to the European Union’s data-protection standards — that lets TV Time users import their viewing history and community comments directly into the new app before TV Time disappears from app stores on July 15.

Why it matters

The shutdown of TV Time, which counts more than 26.4 million lifetime installs, has pushed its original founder to build a replacement, Bingers, aimed at preserving the community while fixing the performance and cost problems that plagued the original app.