November was all about tightening the new Trakt experience across Web, iOS and Android. A lot of what shipped this month won’t shout at you from a single big feature but together, they make Trakt feel more consistent, more predictable and more fun to use day-to-day.
Trakt on the Web
A Home that feels like home
No more horizontal scrolling on wide screens!
Continue Watching and Start Watching now mix movies and episodes more naturally and avoid unreleased or in-progress items where it doesn’t make sense.
High-level Media/Shows/Movies filtering makes it easier to quickly refine what you see at a glance.
More control over what you see
Summary and Home pages got solid performance improvements.
Search queries are better too, making it easier to find what you want without extra steps.
Person pages now show birthdays and social links, so cast/crew browsing feels richer.
Profiles, Navigation, Action
Profiles now surface Libraries and Watch History, with a more compact “this month” view.
A new minimal sidebar and a typography pass (less ALL CAPS, better spacing, new base font) make the whole site feel better and lighter.
The evolving “Action Bar” is now available across all screen sizes, giving you consistent access to key actions wherever you are.
Trakt on iPhone and iPad
Design catching up
The new Summary screen continues to improve with more refined interactions.
The Media/Shows/Movies filter lets you jump straight to movies, shows or both without digging through menus.
Profile, rebuilt from the ground up
Profiles have been completely overhauled with a new layout. You get clear sections for Month in Review, History, Favorites, Library, Followers and Following, making it easier to understand what you’ve been watching and how others use Trakt.
Glassier than ever
Search now feels native with the new integrated tab bar. Headers, cards and tabs all pick up Trakt’s newer look while embracing Apple’s latest design language.
Trakt on Android
Media mode that follows you
The new Media/Shows/Movies selector now drives Home, Discover and Lists, including when you want to “view more”.
Favorites and Comments
Favorites (movies and shows only) got proper add and remove flows.
Comments gained full support for adding (with spoiler toggle), replying and deleting reviews.
Mark Watched, not always now
You can now mark titles as watched at a specific date and time, at release date or at an unknown date.
Long-press on the “mark as watched” tick or use the 3-dots menu to access all options.
That’s a wrap
The theme for the last few months has been clear: a unified Trakt experience across platforms. Same concepts and capabilities, tuned to each device.
As always, your feedback is what guides the next iterations.
Keep it coming.
Thumbs up for finally adding filters to lists, but why seasons pages are still not supported in the new trakt / trakt app? Old trakt treats seasons as individuals items, the same for shows, movies or episodes. Meanwhile, seasons/episodes are still missing from New Trakt personal lists
We have been discussing notes and this basically boils down to: notes currently feel too “open” and we are asking ourselves the question “how can we improve notes?” before jumping on migrating them to the new experience.
Questions we have (to give you an idea of the process):
if notes are used to say “I watched this with XYZ”, maybe a better way to do it would be to have user mentions attached to history entries,
if notes are used to say “I watched this at the cinema”, maybe a better way to do it would be to have a location link attached to history entries,
if notes are just used to add an additional information that could be a tag, a tagging system would be better,
if notes are there to add a personal comment, maybe private comments would be better suited for that,
…
Can you please help me understand how you are using notes?
Episodes and Seasons not displayed in Lists in the New Trakt is considered as a bug by our team, it will be fixed asap.
Regarding adding Seasons and Episodes (or People) to Lists, we are currently looking at how we could improve that.
Can you share some lists examples where it is important for you to have Seasons and Episodes? We usually see this in “universes” like Star Wars or Marvel to have a fine-grained timeline of the universe. Would you be okay to have those lists be “official” or “community” lists you could follow but not add Seasons or Episodes to Lists on your own?
Mostly for missing information, my own language overview since trakt iOS apps can’t extract other languages then English.
Where I saw it, sometimes private options. Keeped for my self, like when I think I movie or episode is really crap.
I use public, when missing IMDb link.
Private notes for Sometimes also for collection purposes when buying something, price, time. Etc
Hope this clears up the question
I also like to have disc information when colllected
NCIS: Los Angeles (TV Series 2009-2023), Season 6, Disc 2
Sedd 1a gĂĄng pĂĄ TV3, med reklam via Telenor Stream
Sedd 2a gång på egen ägd DVD
For me a list is incomplete if missing overhead, and seasons episode 2.1
So if that question was for me I don’t have a concrete example.
I don’t like to follow or like list. Prefer to have my own partly because I like to see those dots, green,purple, blue depending on how collected, seen, or in a list
I put my next collected item in watchlist, because I I haven’t found out how to just rewatch certain seasons or episodes only whole series, sometimes I don’t want rewatch everything from start just……..
My notes tend to be added to add an location mentioned in an episode, reason I delayed watching, service I used to watch but waiting for new episodes, etc. (Basically what ever comes to mind at the time.)
Adding a quick way to put where exactly something was actually watched and then easily sorted/filtered by that captured information may be a good idea. (Different from where it’s available because that is not always accurate.)
I’ll keep asking until you or someone from the team answers - what is the status of the Progress page for the New Trakt? That’s one of the most useful tools of the current website.
Also, notes are notes. Why are you trying to reinvent the wheel when it’s perfectly fine the way it is? The comments about our favourites are also MIA.
Not everything needs to be changed, why does the team insist on making changes for the sake of making changes?
I’m going to ask questions, don’t take it as a “no”, a “maybe” or a “yes”. I just want to understand and confirm some of our assumptions.
What about the progress page do you find most useful?
Isn’t the Continue Watching on the home page good enough?
Is it the mix of Watched/Completed with your Continue Watching?
Or the sorting/filtering?
The progress bar?
There are some shortcomings with the current notes. Since we are moving things from one to the other, why not look at how we can improve it along the way? You may like it more (or less) but until we do, we can’t know.
Which comments? Shooting in the dark I’d say: you can currently favorite things you’ve rated 5/5 and find them back under your profile. We are going to improve that feature but what are you missing? Sorting? Filtering? Another way to display favorites? Why?
While we are moving from one technical stack to another, and from a design system to another, why not try to improve things along the way? 15 years of change is what brought Classic Trakt to the point it reached. Change is what will make New Trakt the next step in its evolution. We embrace change. We don’t want New Trakt to be what it is today, we want what it can be. Can we agree on that?
The Progress page is the one place on the website you can find all of the shows that you’ve ever watched in order, easily see season by season progress, maybe you’re looking into rewatching something of old that you’ve already seen - it’s easily accessible with only a few clicks.
The sorting and filtering on the Progress page is also very useful, yes, as is the progress bars and the “Watched percentage”, Time Left To Watch and Total Amount of Shows at the top of the page.
It’s all in the details, at least for me. Such a page is a blessing in disguise.
It’s the little comments we’re currently able to add on Trakt Classic when we add a show to our favourites. It makes the section much more personable and brings a sense of purpose to the Profile page. The current New Trakt Favorites section also does not have a way of reordering its items, which I think needs to be brought over.
As is, the New Trakt profile page does not feel personal, you can’t really make it your own, aside from the Cover Art feature and it gives users less of a reason to go to each other’s profiles altogether.
I’m attaching a screenshot of the Favorites comments for you to see. All in all I hope that over time you can make profiles on the New Trakt feel more like a user’s home and less like an afterthought.
Absolutely. I just wish it was a little more feature complete so maybe we could have seen what your vision for the future truly represents.
However, it launching like it currently is brought a much needed conversation to the frontlines and I feel like it’s gonna benefit Trakt in the long run. Hope I’m right on that one.
That’s one way to bring me back as a VIP, I desperately want to see this service succeed.
How does the new Start Watching work for items in the watchlist?
Does it use the air date of the original country or is it country specific?
eg, If I add a new show/movie into my watchlist, it should only place it in the Start Watching section when it is released in my country, not when it gets released in it’s original country
Note taken on… notes (lol) on Favorites, progress and general profile improvements. All of these things are being looked at to be improved and this kind of feedback is very helpful. Thanks again!
It is currently specific to the country of origin of the show/movie. Sometimes it’s even more specifically the “live” air date of the episodes on the network of origin, even if all episode of the show are already available on streaming platforms.
This is a data limitation we’d like to address in the future.
We would love to be able to give country specific air dates and display dynamic lists like this one based on your country, or even based on the availability of each title on your favorite streaming platform.
Would you be okay to have those lists be “official” or “community” lists you could follow but not add Seasons or Episodes to Lists on your own?
I would not be okay with that, adding seasons to my personal lists is important to me because I want to specifically add the season, as an example, Season 1 of “The OA”, to my list. This would not work if I added the entire show page because I did not watch Season 2 of “The OA”.
The current Trakt has the feature of showing the % of items you watched on lists. This feature would not work without seasons, because a show like “The OA” would always count as not watched.
(adding individual episodes is not important to me, but i had to mention it in my previous comment.)
I have lists for all the streaming services I subscribe to and I add each episode to a list so I know which service I watched it on. At the end if the year I can then compare all my lists (aka services) and decide which ones are worth keeping because I know exactly how much I watched on each one. So if there’s a better watch to track that, I’d be all for it.(using where the episode is available doesn’t work because it can move around or Js available on multiple services.)
You mean Library. Trakt team has rebranded collection to Library not long ago. And for some reason, they claim many ppl “misuse” library and they supposedly plan to change the way it works… and they say it isn’t coming back anytime soon.
Trakt on the Web
Trakt on iPhone and iPad
Trakt on Android
That’s a wrap
The Trakt Team
