Sadly the rewatch feature is a priority for me which I wasn’t aware simkl didn’t have so currently a dealbreaker, have you tried yamtrack with this function?
Just wish the Trakt team used their smarts here and split out charges, eg Plex scrobbling and rewatching and didn’t hike the charges for me with features I don’t need.
I checked out Simkl, but I personally dont like how it looks. 
I’m a full-stack developer with specialty in front-end, so I started working on my own webapp that has the features, functionality, and style I am looking for.
I code a lot for work, so it might take a while since I work on it at home (I have until December before my VIP here expires)… When I have more of something, I’ll be happy to share it with other manual trackers who would be interested.
I had been holding out, but after a week or so of Simkl traking my watches, and no response here from anyone at trakt… I just canceled.
v2 is in development for almost 5years so don’t hold your breath for at least another few years. Honestly, SIMKL is good, interface is cool but it lacks refinement and sophistication. And even after all the customisation that v2 brings, they also makes it look even more old-school forum-like.
Trakt is easy on the eyes while SIMKL isn’t especially the Movie/TV Title Pages look so over the top and unnecessarily cluttered.
this syncs plex to emby/jellyfin I believe GitHub - arabcoders/watchstate: Self-hosted service to sync your plex, jellyfin and emby play state. without relying on 3rd-party external services.
omg this would be the perfect opportunity to make it an open source project as everyone with experience could then contribute 
This thread has now become a smikl how to use it thread 
Also will repost the same. The increase is about 6$ per month for a yar, smikl is
Yes, i see the lifetime but as trakt and the grandfather for the price are you confident that once smikl gets that big will not change a plan ? Trakt did it which is massive, why not the copycat ?
I mean… from the standpoint of being a software developer myself, I can assure you that building a fully-integrated API (or an interface like Trakt’s) takes way more time than a bear turning of Light Mode
I would even enhance my observation by assuming Trakt wouldn’t have taken the decision to increase the prices so drastically and to break all their promises (verbal, not bound by any legal requirement) to keep the grandfathered prices if they knew there was at least one service out there with the same look-and-feel and the same functionalities available right now. In other words, lack of competition let this happen.
Maybe the influx of new customers (and revenue) will help the guys speed up the development; it’s an opportunity they shouldn’t miss, I would say. There’s definitely place for a second Trakt on the market.
I’m sorry you don’t get accustomed to the design, maybe it’s easier for me because I don’t mind cluttered interfaces - I’d probably choose that over a simplified version (that’s exactly why I was never fond of Trakt Lite either). I even added the app to the Home Screen of my iPhone to simulate an app and it’s been good so far.
Worth mentioning that you can get a more Trakt-like experience with Simkl’s API using Sofa Time. You can also create custom lists in there, but those will save only locally from what I understood.
You’re correct , it could happen.
The major issue here is the lack of transparency and false hoods. ( I don’t want to call anyone a liar , but the truth appears to in question here)
I think a lot of people ( self included) are making choices on principle , more so than dollar figure.
Just my thougt, I might be wrong, it’s happend before.
Likewise, I did cancel the subscription. Any other services that you can import your trakt data to?
At this point, definitely not. The price increase was one thing. The lack of any sort of communication, transparency, or engagement is something else entirely. They went back on their word with their most loyal users and now are too cowardly to confront them. @justin may have been outvoted, but it’s especially disappointing he’s apparently hiding and hoping this blows over as well. It’s hard to feel valued at this point.
More than that, I feel like the writing is on the wall. They’ve already doubled subscription fees, reduced features for free users to try to persuade them to pay up, and now they’re going back on their word for grandfathering (or trying to redefine the word to not sound as bad). Seems like they’re either lacking for funds or gearing up for some sort of transition.
Either way, I suspect this is the last bad news we get this year as they look for ways to increase cashflow (which I’d anticipate even more features becoming restricted). I’m a little wary of subscribing at this point when I’m not confident the Trakt I knew and love will continue to exist.
It’s just madness to pay such money for a secondary service that does not provide a direct service, but is engaged in aggregation and information.
Netflix, which creates content, charges $54 per year (my package). Creating content!
Trakt simply collects information, events, user actions and moderates it in the finished product. Your product is the actions and events of users. Too bad. My $30 was even too much, and $60 is just a spit in the eyes of those who paid for these years.
I know for sure that when the subscription ends, I won’t even tell you, goodbye
In the end, there are still similar services, less developed than Trakt, covering basic “needs”, but which will rapidly grow due to the departed audience. After all, in a free account, you are essentially not much different from others, and in a paid account, Trakt has greatly overestimated itself.
Search query, alternative to trakt, is gaining popularity
Yes, these other services are less developed. Just like Trakt was in the beginning. Trakt workrd and improved to what it is now. I believe that these other services will improve to bring their offerings up to eclipse Trakt. I just hope that thay remember those that helped in their learning phase.
Trakt had a very shaky start. I kept checking back and they returned. At this point I became a VIP in order to reward Justin and Sean for their efforts, Only for them to say Thank yoy now go away we do not need you anymore.
No, they won’t remember those who helped! They don’t care about us anymore. They just ignore us. We are absolutely nothing to them anymore.
My issue now is, Simkl is ~$70 per year for the VIP tier, 10 more than the new Trakt plan, or I go with Lifetime at $149 with no real confidence that this would never go up either, it’s a 2/3 year commitment to keep it even per se.
It’s all relative of course, in my currency that’s not far off $250 for lifetime, it’s a conundrum now, I can stick with Trakt and pay the increase with something I know works or take a chance , same as I did with Trakt and hope it works.
Apple TVos is important to me, so that’s something I’m looking at also, wish this never happened, haha.
How? You’ll get free Pro (not VIP) after 20 visits in one month.
As others have said, just login to SIMKL enough times a month and you’ll get free Pro membership. That’s what I’m starting at. Plus, their Plex scrobbling is in the free-tier anyway and not locked behind a pay-wall like trakt. Lots of features that I need are included for free, which is not the case for trakt. Those are already marked improvements imo.
Sounds like trakt has become overengineered and reliant on 3rd party infrastructure for all these new ideas that they forgot what most people want.
I would rather they go into maintenance mode and start consolidating and optimising to run on their own hardware. Their vision of what they are doing to justify costing more is muddy at best and when pushed to give an answer they might as well say “Trust me bro” with their promise on big things coming, are these things we want or just more things that are costly to run for the sake of staff portfolios?
The greedy will soon raise it to $10 
So, @marius says Trakt wants constructive criticism. Sure. Here’s a quick review of how Trakt evolved over the years for me:
2014:
2016:
2022:
2025:
I do not use ANY of the things you provide (scrobble, ical, netflix sync, mobile app, etc.)
Now that’s factual : the service gets more and more shitty for free users, “forcing” you to get subscribed (no longer “I should support” but “if I want to have a watchlist with more than 100 items I need to subscribde”) AND at the same time the price doubles.
That’s enshittification if I’ve seen any : you provide my specific usage with less things over the years, introduce artificial limitations, and propose “new” things I do not care about, and ask for a higher price.
So, I cannot justify 5$/month for a “list app”, just to have the limit for the watchlist go from 100 items to around 250 items (what I actually use)… That’s half the netflix or disney+ price for something that used to be completely free. That’s CRAZY.
How to resolve this? Introduce tiers. Give a better free experience and ask high prices for people that actually want to use some features: