🚀 Trakt Product Roundup – March 2026

Trakt Product Updates
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March brought updates across the platform, community, roadmap, and apps.

Here’s everything that shipped this month.

:counterclockwise_arrows_button: Platform & Policy Updates

HBO Max tracking is now free

Automatic tracking for HBO Max is now available to everyone. Previously VIP-only, this change helps ensure your watch history stays intact as streaming services evolve and merge.

It also gives you a preview of how automatic tracking works, with more services available with Trakt VIP.

🔄 Automatic Tracking for HBO Max, Now Free

Retiring Automatic Backups

We’ve retired Automatic Backups.

This feature made sense when our infrastructure was less resilient. Today, with frequent internal backups and improved system reliability, it adds more complexity (and risk with third-party credentials) than value.

If you relied on it, you can export your data manually or use the Public API to build your own automated backup workflow.

🔄 Retiring Automatic Backups

Free users now default to V3

Free users are now automatically redirected to the new Trakt experience (V3) on web.

This reflects where the product is today: V3 is the main experience going forward. V2 remains available for VIP users while we continue closing remaining gaps.

↩️ Free Users Redirect to V3

:speech_balloon: Community & Communication

Announcements are back

The Announcements category on the forums is active again. Replies are limited (VIP-only) to keep discussions focused and easy to follow.

⚗️ Testing Something New: Announcements Are Back

Updated Forum Guidelines

We refreshed the forum guidelines.

Nothing drastic, just a clearer version focused on three ideas:

  • Be helpful
  • Be kind
  • Stay on topic

📢 Update to our Forum Guidelines

:world_map: Roadmap Highlights

Your feedback continues to shape what we work on. VIP members can submit ideas and vote on what matters most:

:backhand_index_pointing_right: roadmap.trakt.tv
🧭 A New Home for Feedback

:glowing_star: Here’s the current Top 5 (okay 6 with a draw)

1. Bring Back Season Pages

Detailed season-level insights like watch progress, runtime, and descriptions remain one of the most requested missing pieces in V3.

:ballot_box_with_ballot: See and vote

2. Display Episode Airtime

Knowing exactly when episodes air helps users better plan around weekly releases.

:ballot_box_with_ballot: See and vote

3. Add a Vertical UI/UX for the V3 Web for Desktops

A more vertical layout is frequently requested for better usability on large screens.

:ballot_box_with_ballot: See and vote

4. Add External Links

Quick access to external resources like IMDb or TMDb from media pages.

:ballot_box_with_ballot: See and vote

5. Show Guest Stars for TV shows

See guest stars with a better way to identify series regular and guests.

:ballot_box_with_ballot: See and vote

5. (Draw) Skip An Episode From Up Next

Provides convenience for skipping individual episodes without impacting tracking or cluttering Up Next.

:ballot_box_with_ballot: See and vote

:mobile_phone: Apps & Ecosystem

Rippple joins Trakt

Rippple is now an official Trakt app, available under Trakt’s Apple account.

  • Built as a native Apple experience around Trakt
  • Open source for the community

Rippple (Mark I) remains available for now to support data migration.

:backhand_index_pointing_right: ‎Rippple for Trakt – Mark II App - App Store
🍿 Rippple II: A New Home

Trakt on iOS

March’s update introduced new profile insights, early multi-language support, and major improvements to lists and performance.

Highlights include:

  • :bar_chart: Profile progress insights (Month-to-Date, Year-to-Date)
  • :globe_showing_europe_africa: Initial multi-language support
  • :puzzle_piece: Improved lists (better previews, ordering, and discovery)
  • :star: Post-watch prompts to rate or favorite content
  • :busts_in_silhouette: More context in social activity (ratings from others)
  • :mobile_phone: Optimized layouts for larger screens (iPad, grid views)
  • :high_voltage: Full pagination across key areas for better performance and reliability

:open_book: Trakt for iOS 🍎 - #9 by Ohifriend

Trakt on Android

No release in March as our Android developer took a short break.
Work has resumed and the next update is coming soon :flexed_biceps:

Trakt on the Web

We shipped continuously throughout March, with a focus on refining the V3 experience.

Key highlights include:

  • :artist_palette: Light Theme refresh → less gray, improved shadows, and stronger focus on images
  • :gem_stone: VIP experience upgrade → new page, clearer usage and limits, smoother upgrade flow
  • :bust_in_silhouette: Redesigned profile pages → optimized layouts for larger screens with improved “this month/year” views
  • :bullseye: Advanced filtering (first steps) → multi-select filters, sliders (year, runtime, rating), and simple/advanced modes
  • :date: New calendar views → more visual activity and history tracking with faster navigation
  • :brain: Improved tracking → better history sorting, last watched date tracking, and ratings visibility

Alongside these, we continued improving performance, refining UI across key pages, and making the experience better.

Get all the details from the weekly release logs:
:open_book: Trakt for Web 🌐 - #7 by kcador
:open_book: Trakt for Web 🌐 - #8 by kcador
:open_book: Trakt for Web 🌐 - #9 by kcador
:open_book: Trakt for Web 🌐 - #10 by kcador

To be continued…

:popcorn: The Trakt Team

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Can I just say that forcing people to use V3 is a horrible idea. V2 is not perfect, but it is 100 times better than V3… and basically any other site I have tried.

  • Even as a VIP still, I keep getting directed to V3 as opposed to V2.
  • I basically had to go back to mainly using my Non-Trakt Apps in order to get things done. But that’s not perfect either because not all the episodes marked in the app is getting saved to Trakt.

I am not trying to be unhelpful or unkind, but it seems that something was trying to be fixed that wasn’t broken.

It is great that Free Users have the option to try the scrobbler for HBO.

  • BUT, I do want to point out that the scrobbler is still not pulling the Watchlist from the streaming services even though there is a column that shows that it will be an option for pulled data. But that’s also an issue because you have cut the number of items allowed to be saved to the Watchlist in half. Also a decision I’m not happy with.

And just so you know, voting for and submitting new ideas for the site can only work when people believe that they will be heard. Just wanted to point that out.

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From what I have read, the key thing that is broken in V2 is scalability and cost to keep it running.

Unnecessary exposition and monologuing to follow:

I have been a software developer for many years and I am going to play a speculation game here. Some code bases become so large that it is overwhelming to try to fix core problems in it. At this point there is a tendency to roll out a new version mostly from scratch to build the thing you really wanted. But that process takes a very long time. And you will inevitably end up with a different product.

Also as a startup founder and business owner, along the way you have to prioritize the cost of features you keep, change and add. You will lose customers. But you better gain new ones.

So far, Trakt has walked a line trying to shut down V2 and get everyone onto V3. I love Trakt V2 and I think it’s the best on the market. I don’t hear a lot of people screaming that they love V3, but unhappy users are the most vocal. V3 doesn’t have the features I need yet and I live in fear that V2 will go away before I’m ready. But I’m just 1 user.

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i had this problem as well and signing out and back in was a temp fix. when you sign back in, instead of using the magic link in the email they send, change the link to https://trakt.tv/signin this has kept me from reverting back to v3 when i visit the site at a later time

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Ultimately, what they need to do is keep the backend stuff of V3, and simply modify the UI to look and work like V2. Some subtle visual changes are fine, but the overall structure of the page should be the same. Start with that, then they can introduce small changes over time and see how the community reacts instead of one massive overhaul.

If V3 started off with all of the performance and maintainability improvements, and even some of the “theme” of V3, but maintained the overall visual structure and functionality of V2, you wouldn’t have had anywhere near as many complaints. It would solve the internal problems they have with maintaining it without introducing such a massive overhaul to the user experience that nobody wants. Just because some users are forcing themselves to get used to it doesn’t mean anybody actually enjoys the new experience. The feedback is overwhelmingly negative, and no “sunk cost” of developing the redesign is worth turning off such a large portion of your userbase.

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