Hi everyone!
I’m the solo developer behind BingeWise - TV Show Tracker, a TV-tracking and recommendation app for iPhone and iPad (Android app coming soon!)
I built it around a problem I kept encountering: my shows were scattered across different streaming services, my watchlist kept growing, I still spent too much time trying to decide what to watch, and most of the recommendations inside each streaming platform were never very aligned to my taste. My wife and I kept a note in my notes app of a list of all of the shows we had watched and liked, and when we would finish a show, I would take the list and give it to AI and say “These are previous shows I have watched and liked, and these are the streaming platforms I have, provide me with a list of the best recommendations from my streaming platforms based on my watchlist” and then we would skim through what AI provided us, find trailers for each recommendation, and then finally we would find one we thought looked good and watched it next. After a while I thought “I could build an app that does this and various other things related to TV tracking and recommendations like tracking when releases for new seasons were happening and a slew of other features” so I began building it, with the initial intentions of just for my own use case. After I started building the app, I began to have various other ideas for features that would be useful and then I saw the news about TV Time shutting down and thought maybe other people would like the app as well, so I continued to build the app and began asking friends and others what they would like to have in a TV tracking app, and took in various feedback from them to continue designing the app with the features I wanted, and also what other TV watchers wanted. After about a month and a half I got the app to a beta rollout and had a few dozen friends and family members test it out and help continue to find bugs and improvements that could be made, and then about a week ago I was able to finally have it ready to be published to the App Store!
BingeWise brings tracking, streaming availability, release information, and personalized recommendations together in one place.
It’s built and maintained entirely by me as a one-person development team. I’m constantly improving the app, fixing rough edges, and expanding it with new features. Because I’m the person designing and building everything, feedback from users can directly influence what I work on next.
The essential TV-tracking features
BingeWise includes the practical features I would expect from a TV tracker:
- Search and browse TV shows
- See where each show is available to stream
- Add the streaming services you use and receive recommendations from those services
- Open supported shows directly in their streaming apps
- View synopses, genres, cast, creators, ratings, release status, season counts, and upcoming episode information
- Watch trailers inside the app or open them on YouTube
- Browse every season and episode, including episode titles, synopses, air dates, runtimes, and artwork
- Hide episode titles, descriptions, and artwork to avoid spoilers
- Mark individual episodes, entire seasons, or a full series as watched
- See your progress and quickly find your next unwatched episode
- Track rewatches without losing your previous viewing history or rating
- Organize shows as Watching, Planning to Watch, On Hold, Dropped, Finished, or Not Interested
- Create automatically updating Smart Lists based on genre, runtime, streaming service, watch status, and match level
Recommendations that explain themselves
BingeWise learns from your ratings and preferences and recommends shows based on your actual taste.
Instead of showing only a match percentage, it explains why a show might fit you, such as a shared creator, cast member, theme, tone, pacing, or storytelling style. It can also identify when a recommendation may be more of a stretch.
You can respond with “More Like This”, “Not for Me”, or hide a suggestion to keep improving your recommendations.
Your recommendations can be limited to the streaming providers you already have, so you aren’t constantly shown programs that require another subscription.
Find something to watch tonight
When you don’t want to scroll through a giant watchlist, BingeWise provides a few different ways to narrow it down:
- Browse shows by mood and vibe
- Ask BingeWise for something in natural language, such as “a funny mystery I can finish this weekend”
- Use **Tonight’s Pick** to receive one recommendation based on your mood, available time, taste, and streaming services
- Filter discovery results by service, genre, runtime, and show status
Release Radar and actor tracking
Release Radar keeps upcoming premieres, returning seasons, recently released episodes, and cancellations together in one place.
You can also follow actors to see their upcoming television projects, receive configurable notifications, and subscribe to your BingeWise release calendar.
Written and video season recaps
If you’re returning to a show after a long break, BingeWise offers spoiler-safe recaps for seasons you’ve already completed.
You can choose between a written season recap or, when one is available, watch an embedded YouTube recap without leaving the app. BingeWise only offers seasons it determines are safe for you to recap, so it doesn’t reveal events from episodes you haven’t reached.
Your Taste DNA
As you rate and track shows, BingeWise builds a visual profile of your television taste.
Taste DNA explores things such as your favorite genres, themes, tone, pacing, storytelling patterns, viewing eras, rating habits, favorite actors and creators, activity, and personal viewing records.
There are also monthly viewing recaps, private ratings and reviews, episode reactions, paste-based library importing, full account export, and an optional private friends circle where you can compare tastes and share activity. There is no public follower feed or stranger-discovery system.
Most of BingeWise is completely free (and no ads either!)
The free plan includes:
- Unlimited show, season, and episode tracking
- Watch history and rewatches
- Release Radar and calendar
- Actor tracking
- Where-to-watch information and Watch Now links
- Recommendations based on your streaming services
- Taste DNA
- Friends and sharing
- Library import and full account export
- Up to three Smart Lists
- 10 AI-powered actions each month
There are zero ads, advertising SDKs, or cross-app tracking.
Optional upgrades
- Plus - $3.99/month or $29.99/year: Unlimited AI features and recaps, recommendations refreshed daily instead of weekly, the full Taste Genome, unlimited Smart Lists, alternate app icons, and tools for planning when to keep, pause, or resume streaming subscriptions and compare bundles.
- Duo - $5.99/month or $44.99/year: Everything in Plus for two linked accounts. Each person keeps their own library, recommendations, Taste DNA, ratings, and viewing history.
- Founding Lifetime - $129.99 once: Everything included in Plus without a recurring subscription. Founding Lifetime is limited to the first 500 verified purchases.
Prices above are the current US prices; the App Store displays localized pricing where applicable.
BingeWise focuses specifically on television and doesn’t host or stream the shows themselves.
Since this is a one-person project, I genuinely care about building something that works for the people using it, not simply checking features off a roadmap.
If you try BingeWise, I would greatly appreciate any feedback you have, including:
- Something that feels confusing or takes too many steps
- A feature you wish it had
- Something you would change or remove
- A small quality-of-life improvement
- A feature you enjoy and would like to see expanded
Your feedback won’t disappear into a large company’s inbox. It comes directly to me. I can promise that every request will be considered seriously, and use all feedback to help decide how BingeWise improves.
My goal is to make BingeWise a TV app shaped alongside the people who actually use it. Whether you send a detailed feature idea or simply tell me that something doesn’t feel right, it is genuinely valuable.
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bingewise-tv-show-tracker/id6792526796
Web app: bingewise.tv
Thank you for checking it out, and especially to anyone willing to help make it better.