I’ve been evaluating this app with Simkl as its backend this week. There are a few pet features in the client I miss from TV Forecast, but otherwise I’m content with the experience and will be switching.
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Sofa Time is only an app, right?
No back-end included, but it can sync with Trakt/SIMKL.
Yes, I know this won’t be a popular opinion but one of trakt’s biggest downfalls IMO is that it grew from community feedback.
If memory serves, trakt started out life as a last.fm for tv/movies. That was the goal. Scrobbling & suggesting and obviously allowing manual check in also.
It continued to evolve in lots of different directions delivering solutions for a wide array of people in the community. TV calendar/list manager/stats/ratings & reviews/3rd part integrations/apps etc etc
No doubt doing a great job, but the problem is that they’ve been left with a product that doesn’t have a razor sharp definition of what it does and so that’s proving quite hard to price and communicate the value proposition to the customer IMO
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Hiding away. @justin ‘s profile is now marked as hidden.
Definitely lurking around though, we now know for sure.
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I am also testing Film Noir
Well -1 subscriber after 8 years double the price. No thank you I was tracking manually because not great automations. After cancelling Netflix, Prime Video, apple TV, Disney + due to the stupidity of US, my goodwill Has really short fuse.
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Well, I was pretty sure I was going to cancel, but I thought I’d give it a few days to see how they responded to the criticism. Being as @marius statement effectively doubles down on their position, I have now cancelled my subscription.
Realistically speaking, my media watching habits have changed in recent years to the point that trakt’s usefulness was already questionable for me. I think this has given me the final push to not only cancel the subscription, but delete my account too. It really is a shame to see a site that started out with such promise and community passion, become yet another soulless “service” which feels justified in exploiting prior goodwill to squeeze the few remaining drops of blood from a stone, but I’ve been on the internet long enough to recognise this pattern only too well.
Goodbye, trakt. It was fun while it lasted.
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Doesn’t Film Noir use Trakt as the back-end?
(I don’t think it has SIMKL integration)
It does indeed
That’s just the simple ios app to mark episodes watched on the fly. Evidently, they don’t put much value in the app and suggest for full functionality that you use the ‘Add bookmark to home screen’ function to turn the full simkl website into an ‘app’. I think this is one area where Simkl is far inferior to Trakt.
Edit: Directly from the main Simkl Dev just a few hours ago on Discord:
Simkl Lists app was always designed to be very simple with main function - to quickly mark somthing as watched and see the next episode number to watch.
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Well the iOS app is just a wrapper for their web application, so there aren’t really many updates needed. It stays up to date as deploys are made to the site.
That said, I think Simkl offers a great core product that’s accessible to third-party developers. Sofa Time is a solid app of which I only have a few minor requests.
70 euro for 1 year Simkl VIP is also nuts
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Totally fair point — 70€ for one year of Simkl VIP does sound steep if you’re outside their targeted USD pricing region. That said, I ended up going with their $149 Lifetime VIP deal a couple days ago — mostly because after what just happened here with Trakt, I’ve realized any recurring subscription feels fragile now, even when it’s “grandfathered.”
And yeah, I get that lifetime deals can vanish too, but at least with Simkl I know I’ve paid once and don’t need to re-evaluate my subscription every year. Add to that their referral perk (1 free VIP year for each signup using your link) and their dev team actually engaging in feedback, and it starts to feel like a platform worth trying — at least for now.
Still rooting for Trakt to course-correct, but actions (or lack of them) are speaking louder than words lately.
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Well you know they’re going to have an influx of funding real soon, haha.
Plenty of VIP’s from here there already, $$ to develop.
Lmfao this is absolutely hilarious to me…
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Thx for your response
If only SIMKL would only fix their privacy issues. Being able to see someone’s profile by their email is such a disaster waiting to happen. A scraper could literally use email list (or even brute force) to get user profiles and sell the data (or who nows if worse).
They did mention on their Discord server recently that they might double the lifetime price soon (yes, also a 100% raise!), because they have an unusual high number of people (former Trakt users?) choosing that option instead of a subscription…
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Each user gets a unique ID; not even a username.
How is that coupled to an email address?