Serializd (serializd.com) is an online community built specifically for tracking television: members mark shows as watching, watched, or want-to-watch, rate individual episodes and seasons, write reviews, build themed lists, and follow what other fans are watching. The problem it targets is that mainstream trackers emphasize check-ins over expression — compared with TV Time or Trakt, Serializd's verifiable differences are that it catalogs TV shows only (no movies), centers the experience on per-episode ratings and long-form reviews, and offers fuller social features such as a following feed and notifications. Its official FAQ describes it as "to TV what Goodreads is to books, or Letterboxd is to movies," while explicitly stating it is not affiliated with Letterboxd.

The Serializd homepage: the hero reads "For fans of TV... all of it.," with App Store and Google Play badges and three feature sections below

The screenshot above shows the Serializd homepage: the hero line "For fans of TV... all of it.," App Store and Google Play badges, and three feature sections — track your shows, join the community, and discover your next watch. The hero backdrop rotates with the season's big releases (at the time of review it featured the 2026 series A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms).

At a glance

  • URL: https://serializd.com
  • Type: TV show tracking + review community (user-generated content)
  • Cost: Every feature is free, with no paid tier; the site is sustained by Playwire ads, voluntary Patreon support, and a merch store (per the official FAQ and homepage footer as of 2026-09-25)
  • Registration: Browsing show pages, charts, and the blog requires no account; logging, rating, and reviewing require email-and-password sign-up
  • Interface language: English only (the App Store metadata lists EN as the sole language code)
  • Platforms: Web, iOS, Android (official FAQ)
  • Launch: The founder says the web version has been around since 2020; the iOS app shipped on September 23, 2021

Background: one person's "dream TV app"

Serializd is an independent project rather than a company-scale operation. Its creator, Humad, is a software engineer who explained in a May 2023 interview that no existing app combined TV tracking with a real fan community, so he built his "dream TV app" himself. It began as a web-only site shared with a handful of friends, then gradually expanded to iOS and Android. He still does all development alone, with a friend handling UI design, and both hold separate full-time jobs — "Serializd is not a company. It's truly just a passion project." The App Store seller entity is registered as Serializd LLC.

Scale figures are self-reported: the Product Hunt launch page (April 2023) claimed 100k+ users and 10k+ daily active users, while the official press kit (a snapshot from around early 2025) claims 200k+ users.

A major category shift happened in 2026: TV Time, the long-standing leader in TV tracking, announced it would shut down on July 15, 2026 and delete all user data, saying it "was no longer sustainable to continue operating the service as a free app" (Engadget). Serializd responded with a dedicated TV Time migration page, on which the founder writes that "Serializd has been around since 2020 and it will stick around for the foreseeable future." Activity checks confirm the project is alive: the official blog published its weekly chart for September 13–20, 2026 during the review week, and the latest iOS update (version 1.986) shipped on August 28, 2026.

Core features: episode-level ratings and a review community

Serializd's features revolve around "record + express" (per the About page):

  • Tracking: mark shows as watching, watched, paused, or plan-to-watch; log progress episode by episode, with reminders for upcoming releases.
  • Ratings: rate at the episode, season, or whole-series level on a five-star scale, with per-episode averages aggregated across the community — a key difference from TV Time, which has no per-episode ratings.
  • Reviews and discussions: write long-form reviews for a series, season, or single episode, or start a discussion; replies and likes surface in a notifications tab.
  • Lists: build themed lists of shows, seasons, or episodes (e.g., "best pilot episodes") for recommendations and discovery.
  • Stats: profiles summarize total watch time, completed shows, and genre breakdowns; show pages display community-wide aggregates.

The Game of Thrones show page on Serializd: poster, metadata, streaming availability, and a community stats panel

The screenshot above is the Game of Thrones show page, fully viewable without logging in: the poster and eight-season list sit on the left, while the Stats panel on the right shows a 4.34 community average, a per-season rating histogram, and aggregate counts of 353.2K watched and 53.9K watchlisted. Streaming availability is credited to JustWatch. Catalog data (seasons, episodes, genres, streaming platforms) comes from TMDB, which the FAQ notes does not endorse or certify Serializd.

Pricing and monetization

The official FAQ is unambiguous: "Serializd is completely free to use. It costs nothing to use any of its current features," and the Product Hunt and press kit pages both stress "no paid tiers or hidden fees." In the 2023 interview, the founder said he was not considering ads or subscriptions and wanted to keep the app accessible for as long as possible. The practical reality as of 2026-09-25: the site footer carries Playwire advertising with an "Advertise on this site" link, account settings include a Patreon support entry (the tiers could not be verified), and there is a merchandise shop. In other words, no paywall exists at the feature level — the project runs on ads and voluntary patronage.

Accounts and openness

Sign-up requires only an email and a password (at least 8 characters with uppercase, lowercase, and a number). For inbound migration, Serializd offers official importers for Trakt and TV Time: they bring over watch history, show and episode ratings, and the watchlist — but not text reviews or custom lists — and they skip items that already exist rather than overwriting them.

Outbound portability is the clear weakness: there is no official data export and no open API comparable to Trakt's, so leaving with years of history means relying on third-party GitHub tools (such as serializd-export or serializd_to_trakt). Data does not sync with Trakt; your log lives entirely inside Serializd.

Copyright and content policy

As a UGC community, Serializd maintains a community policy with in-app reporting: users flag violating content with a reason, and a moderation team reviews reports. Child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE) content can be reported in-app or by email, and the policy commits to prioritizing such reports and referring them to NCMEC and law enforcement as required by law. Two caveats deserve mention: the full privacy policy and complete community policy text could not be loaded during review, so details like data retention and minimum account age cannot be asserted; and no standalone copyright/DMCA takedown page was found. Show artwork and metadata are displayed via TMDB's data feeds, while user uploads consist mainly of written reviews and custom poster images.

The official Serializd blog: weekly "Most watched episodes of TV this week" charts, the latest covering September 13–20, 2026

The screenshot above shows the official Serializd blog, which publishes a weekly "Most watched episodes of TV this week" chart plus data-driven pieces like "Top 10 House of the Dragon episodes" based on community ratings. The charts are a direct product of the site's tracking data — and a useful signal of how active the community is.

Who it's for

  • Viewers who want to rate and write about each episode right after watching, and who care about episode-level granularity.
  • People who prefer a public "watching diary" over scattered one-line comments, and want to follow what friends are watching.
  • Former TV Time users looking for a new home after the shutdown (the official importer brings history across directly).
  • Letterboxd users who want an equivalent product on the TV side.

Limitations

  • English-only interface: neither the website nor the apps offer Chinese or any other language.
  • TV shows only: movies and non-serialized variety content are out of scope, so all-in-one media logging requires a companion tool.
  • No data portability: without an official export or open API, years of history are costly to move out.
  • Sustainability risk of a one-person project: development, moderation, and support all rest on the founder, so responsiveness depends on one person's availability (Product Hunt reviews range from "responsive to feedback" to "no reply to reported issues"); the free model itself depends on ads and patronage covering costs — TV Time's shutdown is the cautionary precedent.
  • Opaque scale figures: user and activity numbers are self-reported with no third-party verification.
  • Incomplete legal pages: the full privacy policy was inaccessible at review time, so users who care about data terms cannot read them in advance.

Alternatives

  • Letterboxd: the film-side benchmark that clearly inspired Serializd's shape, though the two are unaffiliated.
  • Trakt: movies-plus-TV tracking with ten-star ratings, an open API, and a rich third-party ecosystem; Serializd offers a one-way official import from Trakt.
  • TV Time: once the largest TV tracker, it shut down on July 15, 2026; its founder's successor app, Bingers, launched in late July 2026.
  • SIMKL: tracks shows, movies, and anime; the founder names it as one of his inspirations on the migration page.

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