April was another busy month, with updates for our TV apps, improvements to translations, and roadmap items moving from “requested” or “planned” to “shipped.”
This month, the focus was on making V3 more complete, more useful on desktop, and easier to use across Web, iOS, Android, and TV apps.
Here’s a peek at what we shipped in April.
Plex Play enters beta
Plex Play is now available in beta on Apple TV and Android TV.
This is an important step toward making Trakt feel more connected to the media you already have. If you use Plex Sync, Trakt can now do more than tell you something is in your Library. It can help you start watching it from your TV.
We’ll keep improving that experience over the next few weeks.
Join the beta
Read the announcement
Help improve Trakt in your language
We’re continuing to expand language support across Trakt V3.
The first version of translations helped us make Trakt available to more people, but good localization is more than converting words from one language to another. It needs to feel natural, clear, and familiar to the people using it.
That’s where the community can help.
If you spot wording that feels awkward or unclear, you can now help improve it through Crowdin.
Translate Trakt
Read the announcement
Roadmap Highlights
Your feedback continues to shape what we work on.
This month, several highly requested items moved forward, and some are now completed.
Completed
Vertical UI for V3 Desktop
V3 now relies less on horizontal scrolling to reveal more information. Most rows now have a dedicated drilldown view, giving you the full set of details in a clearer vertical layout. Desktop navigation has also been improved with better use of the sidebar and top navigation across the app.
Make Icon on Top of Page Floating (web, v3)
The top bar on desktop web is now sticky, so you no longer need to scroll back to the top to switch media types. Filters, sorting, and page titles now stay easier to reach while browsing.
Bring Back Progress Page
Progress is back, with dedicated drilldowns for in-progress, completed, and dropped shows, giving you a better way to organize and view your TV show progress.
Display Episode Airtime
Episode airtime is back in both the details section and calendar pages, making it easier to see when new episodes air.
Add External Links
External links are now available in more places, including direct links to TMDb and more.
In progress
We’re also actively working on bringing users’ comments and ratings back to profile pages.
And yes, season-level information and actions are still warming up. This one is further along in the design phase, so it is moving, but it still needs some cooking.
You can keep voting and submitting ideas on the Trakt Roadmap.
Trakt on the Web
April was a strong month for the web app, with weekly releases focused on restoring important workflows, improving desktop usability, and tightening up the everyday V3 experience.
Highlights include:
- Progress is back with a new profile Progress section for in-progress, completed, and dropped shows
- Episode airtimes are now easier to find
- Activity heatmaps and an updated streak experience make watching activity more visual
- Season drilldowns improve navigation inside seasons and episodes, vertically
- Watch history now has its own dedicated drawer
- Media links were expanded in details panels
- Where to Watch was improved with better grouping and clearer categories
- Comment editing is now available
- Data import received its first native version and clearer guidance
- Calendar loading now works more naturally when scrolling
- Start Watching now uses the Watchlist foundation and supports sorting
- Recommendations can now be hidden
- Watchlists can now be cleared when you want a fresh start
- Date of birth can now be updated from settings
We also shipped a lot of smaller fixes around reliability, popovers, drawers, settings, authentication, i18n, and general UI consistency.
Read the latest Web release notes
Trakt on iOS
Trakt for iOS 3.3 shipped with a mix of richer summaries, better list support, and important bug fixes.
Highlights include:
- Improved Sentiment Analysis with refreshed data and UI
- Trivia added to movie and show summaries
- More details available through the “i” icon in the summary metadata section
- Stats, network information, external links, social links, and TMDb links added to the details panel
- Smart Lists can now be viewed, created, and deleted from the Lists tab
- “Watching until a specific episode” is now an explicit action in the episode context menu
- Watchlists and personal lists can now be sorted by title
We also fixed issues with personal list collapsed states, ratings showing in the wrong context, and bulk-added episodes appearing out of order in history.
Trakt on Android
Trakt for Android 3.6 shipped this month.
Highlights include:
- Trivia sections for shows and movies
- Custom profile covers using show, movie, or episode fanart
- Extended details moved into a bottom sheet
- A new button at the top of summary pages for faster access to details
- Miscellaneous crash fixes and bug fixes
Read the Android release notes
Note for API users
We also shared an early heads-up for developers using the watched endpoints.
If your app uses:
/users/{id}/watched/{type}/sync/watched/{type}
you should read the GitHub discussion and review your integration.
The short version: watched endpoints are getting pagination, and the default extended behavior is changing. Apps should send page and limit, handle pagination properly, and stop assuming one request returns a user’s full watched history.
Season progress data will also become explicit through extended=progress, while extended=min can be used when you only need compact watched data.
Upcoming API Changes: Watched Endpoints Pagination & Extended Defaults
That’s a wrap for April
Thanks again to everyone sharing feedback on the forums, roadmap, GitHub, Reddit, and support.
We’ll keep listening, improving, and shipping.
The Trakt Team