Import your watch history
Bring your watchlist, the titles you have watched and your ratings across from another app. Nothing you already have is overwritten, and you can undo the whole import for 7 days afterwards.
Where to get your file
Most of these arrive by email, which is why this page exists — you can upload straight from your computer. Step-by-step help for each is in the export guides.
- TV Time — the ZIP TV Time emailed you before it closed in July 2026 (usually gdpr-data.zip), or the files the TV Time Out or TV Time Liberator browser extension downloaded. Upload the ZIP as it is.
- Trakt — Settings → Data → Raw Export. Free; no VIP needed.
- IMDb — Account Settings → Request My Data, or export a list directly.
- Letterboxd — Settings → Data → Export your data.
- Simkl — Apps → Export → Backup. The JSON backup carries every episode you have watched.
- Any other tracker — use the CSV template the app's import screen provides. One row per title, with a year and a rating if you have them.
What comes across
- Your watchlist, as titles to watch.
- Films and shows you have watched, with each episode where the file has them.
- Your ratings, converted to Trovie's 1–10 scale — a film's, a show's and each episode's.
- From a TV Time export, everything else it kept about your watching is saved with your account too: specials, your favourites and lists (as private lists), how many times you rewatched an episode or a film, how each one made you feel, and every episode's favourite character.
- From a Trovie export, the watchlists you made too (as private lists), the lists you saved, the people you blocked, and any part of your profile you have not set here.
What does not
A title's only opinion on Trovie is its score — so it has no likes, no on-hold or dropped state, no private notes and no per-title tags, and how many times you watched something comes across only from a TV Time export. Anything in your file that has nowhere to go is listed before the import runs, so you know what you are getting rather than finding out afterwards.
If a title cannot be matched
Files from Trakt, IMDb and Simkl name every title with an ID, so those match exactly, as do the shows in a TV Time export. Letterboxd exports — and the films in TV Time's own data export — carry only a name and sometimes a year, so a few titles, remakes especially, need you to say which one you meant. Trovie asks rather than guessing: a wrong film in your library is worse than one it left out, and it tells you how many it skipped either way.
Taking your data out
You can also export from the app — Settings → Export your data. The file is the same format this page reads: your library comes back in, ratings included, while your lists, comments, profile and follows stay in the file as your record.
On your phone
The app can do all of this too — Profile → Import your history — if the file is already on your phone. Whichever you use, the import lands on the same account.
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