How to use Show Tracker Web

Keep track of every TV show episode and movie you watch. Here's everything in a few minutes.

Getting started

1. Sign up with your email and confirm it using the link we send. Check Spam or Promotions if it doesn't arrive.
2. Open Search, type a title, and tap Add on the result. Use the TV / Movies switch to choose which kind you're searching for.
3. After you log in you land on Up Next, which shows what to watch next. Open the Library to see everything you've added, movies included.

TV shows

• Tap a show in the Library to open its page with every season and episode.
• Check off an episode by tapping its box. Tap again to uncheck it.
• Check off a whole season by opening the season and tapping Mark season watched, handy when you're catching up. Clear season undoes it.
• Unwatched episodes show their air date: orange if it hasn't aired yet, gray if it's out and waiting for you.
• Give a show your own 1–5 star rating.
• Remove a show from your list at the bottom of its page. This clears your episode checks for it.

Movies

• Tick a movie as Watched when you've seen it.
• On the Movies list, filter by All, Watched or Unwatched.
• Rate a movie 1–5 stars, or remove it from your list.

Reading the Library

Each TV show has a progress bar and a short label that tells you what the show needs from you:

• Not started — you haven't watched any episodes yet.
• N left — N episodes have aired that you haven't watched.
• Caught up — you've watched everything that has aired, and the show is still running. If the next episode date has been announced, it appears underneath; otherwise you'll see "Returning · no date yet".
• ✓ Finished — the show has ended and you've watched every episode.

Shows between seasons say when the next episode airs, or "Returning · no date yet" if no date has been announced. Streaming logos show where a show is available in the US. Use the genre chips at the top of the list to narrow it down.

Search & Trending

• Trending shows what's popular this week. Use the genre chips to filter, and add anything with one tap.
• Open any title for details and Similar shows or movies you might like.
• Titles already on your list are marked in Search so you don't add them twice.

Up Next

• The Up Next page is where to look for what to watch next.
• Earlier comes first. It has one row per show with the oldest episode you haven't watched yet, and how many more are waiting. Tap Watched to check it off, and the next one takes its place.
• Below that, new episodes are grouped by day: Today, Tomorrow, then the days after. A show appears once per day, with its first unwatched episode. If several episodes drop the same day, the row says "+N more that day".
• Flip Only shows I'm watching at the top to hide shows you haven't started. It keeps shows with at least one episode checked off. It applies at once and is remembered while you're logged in.
• Don't want a show here? Open Choose which shows appear, just under that switch, and untick it. It saves by itself a moment after your last tick. The show stays in your Library.
• Ended shows with nothing left to watch don't appear. If a show seems to be missing, open it from the Library to refresh it, then check back.

Friends

• Open Friends in the menu (the green button). Your personal invite link is there: tap Text a friend to send it in a message, Email to send it from your own email app, Share to use your phone's share sheet, or Copy link to paste it anywhere.
• Connecting takes two people. A friend opens your link and taps Connect, and you accept. Requests waiting for you show at the top of the Friends page. You can also open a friend's link yourself to ask them.
• You choose what to share, per friend. Nothing is shared until you tick it: your TV shows, how far you are (for example "10 of 20 watched", never episode details), and your movies. Sharing is one way: what you share with a friend is separate from what they share with you.
• When a friend shares with you, tap See their list on the Friends page. Each title has an Add to Library button.
• Recommend something. Open any title in your Library and use Recommend to a friend, with a short note if you like (no links). Your friend sees it under Recommended for you on the Friends page and can add it or dismiss it. A number on the Friends tab shows when requests or recommendations are waiting.
• You're in control. Remove a friend or block someone at any time. Sharing stops at once and recommendations they haven't answered are cleared. Someone you block can't send you requests and isn't told.
• Pass it on. When you're looking at a friend's list, any title you already have has a Recommend button, so you can recommend it to another friend. On a title page, Friends who also have this shows which friends who share their list have the same title.
• Nicknames and muting. Give a friend a nickname on the Friends page. Only you see it. Use Mute recommendations if a friend sends too many: their recommendations quietly stop arriving and they aren't told.
• Email notices. Turn on Email me about friends to get an email when someone asks to connect, accepts your request or recommends something. It's off unless you turn it on, and you get at most 10 a day.
• Spot what's new. The Friends item in the menu is light green, and darker green when you're on that page. A number on it shows requests waiting for you, friends who accepted your request, and new recommendations.
• Friends only ever see your first name, never your email. You can hide your name on your invitation link with the checkbox on the Friends page, which also shows how many friends have joined with your link.

Your account

• The Account page shows your plan and lets you change your password or email, or delete your account.
• Forgot your password? Tap "Forgot your password?" on the log in page and we'll email a reset link.
• Plans, trial and billing are explained on the Pricing page. If a trial or subscription ends, your list stays safe and viewable, but adding and checking off are paused until you subscribe.

On your phone

Show Tracker Web works in any browser. To use it like an app on iPhone, open it in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. On Android, open the browser menu and choose Add to Home screen.

Questions

A show says "Caught up" but I think there's a new episode.

Air dates come from TVmaze and refresh automatically, but a new episode can take a few hours to appear. Open the show's page to refresh it; if an episode is still missing there, it hasn't been published yet.

I didn't get my confirmation email.

Check Spam and Promotions, and make sure the address was typed correctly. The check-your-email page has a button to send it again.

A show or movie is missing.

Search by its exact title and switch between TV and Movies. Our catalogue comes from TMDB.

Is the iPhone app the same thing?

No. The Show Tracker iPhone app is a separate product with its own data; Show Tracker Web has its own accounts.

Coming from TV Time? Here's how Show Tracker Web compares, and how to move your shows over by hand.

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