How to import your TV Time export
Last updated 13 November 2026
If you saved your TV Time data export before TV Time closed on 15 July 2026, Showpile brings in your shows, every episode you marked watched with the date TV Time recorded, and your watchlist. You pick the ZIP in Profile → Import, and it's deleted as soon as Showpile has read it.
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Import completeExample
14 TV Time episode ratings found — we've never found a published scale for them, so we've kept them with your import record rather than guess at stars.
Step by step
The same steps you'll see on Showpile's Import screen. A big library takes a few minutes, because each show is looked up on TVmaze.
- Find your ZIP
It's the file TV Time's export tool at gdpr.tvtime.com gave you. Check your email and your Downloads folder. If you unzipped it, zip the folder up again.
- Open Profile, then Import
In Showpile, go to Profile and tap "Import from TV Time, Trakt, Simkl or Serializd".
- Choose TV Time and pick the ZIP
Under "Where are you coming from?", TV Time is already selected. Tap "Choose your TV Time ZIP" and pick the file.
- Keep the screen open
A count of matched shows climbs as it goes. Showpile matches each show by the TheTVDB id in your export, then by its exact name.
- Check the report
It shows how many shows matched, how many episodes came in and your watchlist count, and lists any show it couldn't match for you to fix.
What Showpile reads (and what it ignores)
TV Time's export is a ZIP of about 55 files. Showpile opens only the eight below. The rest are never unzipped, read or stored. That includes your login tokens, IP address logs, password-reset tokens, Facebook data, advertising IDs and device details.
followed_tv_show.csvThe shows you followed, including any you archived, and when you started.user_tv_show_data.csvTV Time's own count of episodes seen per show, used to cross-check your history.seen_episode_source.csvEvery episode you marked watched, with the date and time TV Time recorded.show_seen_episode_latest.csvThe last episode you saw of each show, used to confirm show names.user_show_special_status.csvShows you saved for later. They become your watchlist.ratings-prod-episode_votes.csvYour episode ratings. TV Time kept them in three overlapping files.ratings-3-prod-episode_votes.csvMore of your episode ratings.ratings-v2-prod-votes.csvMore of your episode ratings.
Watch dates
Every episode keeps its own date and time, however long ago you watched it. Nothing's shortened or reset to the day you import. TV Time recorded when you marked each episode, so that's the date you'll see. Watched something more than once? Showpile keeps the earliest date and counts the plays. A row with no date is left out rather than given a made-up one.
TV Time ratings
Showpile counts your TV Time episode ratings and keeps them with your import record, but it doesn't show them as ratings in the app. We've never found a published scale for them, so turning them into stars would mean guessing, and a wrong rating is worse than none. The report tells you how many it found. Ratings from Trakt, Simkl and Serializd do come in as ratings for shows in your export, and only where you haven't already rated them in Showpile.
Left behind
Episode reactions and custom lists are in the export too, but Showpile has nowhere to put them, so it doesn't open those files. Films are skipped: Showpile tracks TV only.
The ZIP is deleted as soon as Showpile has read it.
If some shows don't match
Showpile won't guess. If a show doesn't match by its id or its exact name, it's listed at the end so you can pick the right one.
- Each show is listed with how many watched episodes are waiting for it.
- The search box already holds the show's name. Change the spelling if you need to, and search TVmaze.
- Tap "Use this" next to the right show, and its episodes come in.
Not now? Tap "Skip for now". The rest of your import stays, and you can add those shows by hand later. If an episode isn't in TVmaze's listing for its show, which happens with some specials, the report counts it under "Episodes we couldn't place".
Almost thereExample
We couldn't match 3 shows — fix them here
Skip for now — you can add these manually later
If you didn't export in time
We're sorry: there's no way to get it back now. TV Time said all personal account data would be deleted after 15 July 2026 (TV Time Support, MacRumors), and its export tool needed a TV Time sign-in. When we checked on 13 November 2026, the export site didn't respond.
Moved to another app in July?
If you took your history to Trakt, Simkl or Serializd, export it from there and import that instead. On the Import screen, choose the app under "Where are you coming from?" and follow its two or three steps.
Used TV Time Out?
If you saved your history with the TV Time Out extension, choose "TV Time Out file" and pick the file whose name starts with tvtime-series.
Rebuild quickly
Search for a show and add it, then mark the latest season you've finished as watched. Showpile offers to mark all the earlier episodes too, so a long-running show takes a moment.
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