Refract, compared with the apps you may be using today

Refract tracks movies, TV shows and anime in one library, free, with no ads, and imports from every app below. These pages compare it feature by feature with each one, as of October 2026, and say plainly where the other app is better. Every page has a date; when a fact changes, the page changes with it.

Head-to-head comparisons

• Refract vs Trakt: The scrobbling ecosystem against a free, ad-free cross-media tracker.
• Refract vs Letterboxd: The film community against one library for films, TV and anime.
• Refract vs Simkl: Two cross-media trackers; ads and interface are where they differ.
• Refract vs Serializd: A social TV-only tracker against a cross-media one.
• Refract vs TV Time: What changes now that TV Time is closed, and how to import your export.

Alternatives and rankings

• The best cross-media trackers in 2026: Eight apps ranked by one rule: three media types, free, no ads.
• TV Time shut down: the best replacement: Three situations after the closure, with the import path for each.
• TV Time data recovery: What can still be saved, which files Refract reads, and why TV Time Out stopped working.
• Letterboxd alternative: For people who want films and TV in the same diary.
• Trakt alternative: After the VIP price increase.

Switching is a file, not a project

Refract imports from Trakt, Letterboxd, Simkl, IMDb, JustWatch, Netflix, Bingers, Sofa Time, Movie Paradise, Showly, Muvy, SuiteTV, a CSV template and TV Time's saved exports. Each has a step-by-step guide: import guides. Every import is additive and can be undone in one tap.