If you are a movie buff like yours truly, then probably you have all sorts of apps and tools to help you organize your collection or just to keep track of what your favorite movies or TV shows are. But if you are still looking for even more useful products, you might want to have a look at Trakt TV, a new service which automatically tracks TV and Movies you’re watching.
Track TV can track every TV show and movie you watch, and it does so automatically from your media center. Currently the service works with Kodi, Plex, MediaPortal, Infuse for iOS, Emby, iTunes and VLC. You can also access Trakt on the go from your phone and tablet, as it comes with partners apps for iOS, Android and Windows Phone.
Trakt.tv lets you leep a comprehensive history of everything you’ve watched and be part of a global community of TV and movie enthusiasts. The service comes with a bunch of special features, as follows:
- Automatically scrobble what you’re watching
- Personalized TV and movie calendars
- Personalized TV and movie recommendations
- See what’s trending in the community
- Manually check in from the website and mobile apps
- Full history of everything you’ve watched
- Catalog your entire TV show and movie collections
- Personalized TV and movie calendars
- Real time sharing to your social networks
- Track your TV show progress
- Follow and discover friends
- Personalized TV and movie recommendations
- Watchlists, custom lists
- Post reviews & shouts
- See what’s trending in the community
- Email notifications
And these are just the standard features, but if you choose the VIP plan, you will get the following:
- No advertising
- VIP discussion forum
- Early access to new features
- Custom profile cover image
- iCal feeds
- RSS feeds for IFTTT
- Trigger data refreshes
- Short profile URL
- Advanced filtering
- VIP badge
- Watched widgets
- Push notifications
The VIP plan costs $2.50 per month which is $30 per year. After you will have made an account, you will need to setup your media center to automatically scrobble movies and TV shows you’re watching. You can also manually check in on the website or from one of the many Trakt powered mobile apps. It might seem at little difficult in the beginning but you will get used to the service in no time.