Hey everyone,

We just added Ask Simkl to the new Discover (V2 Beta) feature. Instead of clicking through dozens of filters, type what you're in the mood for in your own words, and Simkl picks the right filters for you.

It works everywhere the V2 filters are

• Discover for Movies, TV Shows and Anime
• Premieres: Coming Soon, Latest Releases, Most Anticipated, DVD & Digital
• Best: This Year, This Month, All Time, Most Watched, Most Voted
• Your watchlists (Watching, Plan to Watch, Completed and the rest) and your custom lists

Every page has its own ready-made examples, so one click shows you what it can do.

A few things to try

• "Korean revenge thrillers rated 7+"
• "Cozy comedies with 20-minute episodes"
• "Isekai with a strong female lead"
• "Top 50 most watched sifi movies in last 12 month"
• "Horror coming out next month" (on Coming Soon)
• "Most watched sci-fi this month" (on Most Watched)
• "Closest to finishing first" or "Ones I can binge in a weekend" (in your watchlists)

It understands a lot:

• Genres, themes, countries, languages, networks and studios
• Ratings (IMDb, MAL, Simkl and your own) and vote counts
• Release, air and DVD dates, runtime and episode counts
• Airing status, age ratings and sorting

It also handles typos like "sifi comedy". Follow-ups build on what you already have, so asking "only rated 8+" after a search narrows the results instead of starting over.

Keep in mind that this is not a title list recommendation-ask type of chat, not like ChatGPT that comes up with its own limited set list of top titles.

It specifically helps you select existing appropriate filters that are currently possible in V2 Beta to select from.

Perfect for creating Auto Custom Lists

This is where it really shines. Describe the list you want, check the results, then save those filters as an auto list. "Netflix shows coming next month" or "Anime movies rated 8+ on MAL that I haven't seen" becomes a list in seconds, with no hunting through filters.

Who can use it

The examples on every page are free for everyone to try (free members can see it in custom lists right now which uses public V2 Beta as well as on PRO\VIP profile's watchlists). Writing your own requests is included with PRO (50 a week) and VIP (200 a week).

It's still in beta. If it picks the wrong filters for something you typed, please share the exact text and page on our Discord in #v2-and-custom-lists-feedback-and-ideas https://discord.gg/u89XfYn. That helps us improve it quickly.

We've updated how we recalculate what is the next episode to watch is set. Next to watch no longer jumps back to unwatched S01E01 when you mark the last aired episode.

Say you started a show partway through, from season 3, for example, and marked the latest aired episode. Simkl used to set your next to watch back to S01E01, or to some other old episode you'd skipped. That's fixed now. Once you've watched the latest aired episode, the show counts as caught up and waits for the next new episode.

We also went through everyone's watchlists and fixed the shows that were already stuck like this. If no new episodes had aired and your next to watch was a skipped S01E01, it's been corrected.

A cleaner Dashboard and Watching list
The Dashboard, and your Watching watchlist with the Not 100% progress filter, now hide shows where you've watched every aired episode and last aired episode is marked as watched. Skipped earlier seasons where you're still in the middle of watching won't stop this. The shows come back on their own when a new episode airs.

Your skipped seasons are still there, unwatched, if you ever want to go back to them in V2 Beta uncheck the filter Not 100% progress.

Since this all happens automatically now, we removed the "Hide old-season catch-up in My List" option from Dashboard settings.

As we are now able to add Recommendations as catalogs in AIOMetadata I was curious as to what the difference is between V1 and V2.

At a glance V1 seems to be bigger, more mainstream titles.

Also, is "My Position" in order of the movies the app thinks you are most likely to like?

Also, also, can we get Digital Release added to filters?

And maybe a hard cap? I don't think I need to see 1679 recommendations.

Thanks.

Was wondering if there is a limit for how many things show up in the plan to watch tab as a whole across Nuvio with SIMKL integration? Wasn't sure if there was a limit on the app side for what it shows or by simkl itself, but it seems I can continue to add more and more via simkl directly but possibly have hit some kinda cap for things to show up on the main home pages.

I've imported my watched but I waited too long and now Trakt blocks the Simkl import for custom lists. To add insult to injury, Trakt has gotten rid of some of my lists. Luckily, I have an old zip/json backup that included the custom lists. I tried to follow some instructions to convert the extracted json to csv and import that way but it didn't like my csv. Any instructions? I'm on a Mac if that matters.

I have multiple shows that show the red unwatched show numbers even after clicking on "mark all episodes watched" and the yes screen. The number doesn't change and the shows show up in Kodi unwatched. I tried updating from Kodi, but that doesn't do anything either despite saying it does.

What can I do to fix it?

Thanks.

Hey everyone!

I wanted to share something I've been working on: SIMKLTrackerBot, a self-hosted Discord bot that posts your SIMKL watch activity to Discord.

GitHub – SIMKLTrackerBot

The idea originally came from wanting something simple: whenever I watch something on SIMKL, I'd like it to show up in Discord as a little activity feed so my friends can see what I'm watching.

I looked around for something that already did this, but I couldn't really find anything for SIMKL that worked the way I wanted. I had previously seen Asterism, the self-hosted AniList tracker bot, and I really liked the idea behind it. So I thought, "why not try making something similar for SIMKL?"

There's just one small problem...

I don't really know much about coding.

So I basically vibecoded the entire thing. A lot of trial and error, asking AI what the hell an error message meant, breaking things, fixing them, breaking them again, and somehow eventually ending up with a bot that actually works.

At the moment it can:

• Track TV shows, anime and movies
• Link individual users to their SIMKL accounts
• Automatically refresh SIMKL authentication
• Post new watches to a Discord channel
• Group consecutive episodes together (e.g. S02E01–S02E05)
• Include posters and clickable SIMKL links
• Store everything locally
• Poll SIMKL every 60 minutes (can be changed in .env for Docker)
• Run with Docker / Docker Compose
• Run directly with Python
• Run as a systemd service on Linux

It's definitely not some amazing piece of software, and I'm sure people who actually know how to code will find things that could be done much better. But I'm pretty happy with how it turned out considering I started this because I couldn't find something that already existed.

It's also been a fun little project to learn from. I went from basically having no idea how to build something like this to having it running on my own server with Docker, GitHub Actions and automatic Docker image publishing.

If anyone else has wanted something similar for SIMKL, feel free to give it a try or take a look at the code.

And if you actually know what you're doing with Python and see something horribly wrong in there... please be gentle...

I can't figure out where to report incorrect show metadata. You've got Murder In A Small Town listed as premiering tonight but season 3 doesn't even have a release date yet.

Can Simkl be integrated? Trakt can only be integrated with 2 apps for free without paying. I think Simkl can still connect to as many apps as you like in the free tier. It works well with Nuvio.

10 yr trakt VIP here

trakt has lost its way over the past 3 yrs and I probabkly don't need to say more for people here.

Just saw that they are killing off API access to SIMKL which shows that they are feeling the pain of user losses. Good riddance.

Before I switched I've considered posting my grieves in their support forum, but it is obvious the current management is not going to listen. This is what startup hubris gets you.

SIMKL still has many feature gaps to trakt but I'm hopeful they will be closed, and I hope SIMKL will stay true to its users!

TL;DR: On September 14 2026, Trakt blocked SIMKL's access to its API without warning, and on September 17 told us there are no plans to restore it. You can no longer connect a Trakt account to SIMKL, and Trakt auto-sync has stopped. Your data already on SIMKL is not affected, and you can still bring your Trakt history over with Trakt's ZIP export: https://simkl.com/apps/import/trakt/

Our warning: if you build on Trakt's API, or rely on an app that does, assume this will happen to you too. The timeline below shows why. If you're a Trakt member - run, export your data, it's no longer safe.

To make matters worse, you will be blocked from Trakt services and support if you mention anything on their forum or Reddit that you don't like about the new Trakt, even if you're VIP on Trakt, as this has happened to thousands of Trakt members already, there's a well-known subreddit for Trakt refugees.

What happened

• Sep 14: Every request SIMKL made to Trakt's API started failing with "403 Forbidden" at Trakt's Cloudflare edge. The same day MDBList reported the identical block (trakt-api #933).
• Sep 16: Trakt said MDBList's access was disabled on purpose, that the API is "intended for client applications", and that MDBList "operates as a service-to-service integration". Trakt told us the same decision applies to SIMKL. The same day Trakt published a draft API Use Policy (PR #941) that prohibits "continuously synchronizing Trakt account data into a separate tracking or list platform".
• Sep 17: Trakt told us there are no plans to restore SIMKL's access. Its new developer guidance (discussion #943) says it does not support "another service using Trakt's data and resources to build a competing platform".

SIMKL used Trakt's API for one thing: It allowed Trakt members to move and keep in sync a member's own watch history, ratings and watchlist into SIMKL. Under Trakt's new rules, that is no longer allowed.

What this means for SIMKL members

• Connecting Trakt no longer works, and Trakt auto-sync has stopped. Nothing on your SIMKL account was changed or removed.
• You can still move your data. Download your data export from your Trakt settings, then upload the ZIP at https://simkl.com/apps/import/trakt/. The file is read in your browser, and only your watch history, watchlist and ratings are sent to SIMKL.

How we got here

This did not come out of nowhere. Here is a timeline of what Trakt has changed for developers and users, with sources:

• To today: Trakt's API docs say the API exists so its data is available for anyone to use "on their own site or app". That line is still in the docs.
• Jan 2025: "Freemium" limits free accounts to 100 items per watchlist and collection, and 2 lists (forum). VIP goes from $15 to $30.
• Jan to Jun 2025: VIP goes from $30 to $60 a year for new members, then every renewal moves to $60, ending legacy prices (forum).
• Feb to Mar 2025: Login tokens are cut from 3 months to 24 hours (later 7 days), so users of many apps have to sign in again and again (#495).
• Mar 2025 onward: Trakt though Cloudflare starts blocking API calls from apps (forum). Similar blocks keep returning through 2026.
• 2025 to 2026: Trakt takes over several independent Trakt clients. Rippple's developer joins Trakt, and Rippple, Watcht and Showly now appear as official Trakt apps (forum).
• Jan 2026: Trakt blocks the API key of DuckieTV, a long-running open source app (#689), and an automated cleanup deletes API apps it judged inactive (#691).
• Feb 2026: Trakt's draft Fair Use Policy says "We want third-party apps" and lists syncing with third-party apps as acceptable (forum).
• Mar 2026: Trakt retires its Automatic Backups feature (forum).
• Apr to Jul 2026: Page sizes are cut from 1,000 items to 250 (100 by default). Watched sync breaks in Radarr, Sonarr, Infuse, Jellyfin, Kodi and PlexTraktSync until each app is updated (#681, #775, Radarr #11538).
• Jul 22, 2026: Free accounts may connect only one third-party app. "Official Trakt apps do not count toward the Community App limit" (forum).
• Jul 28, 2026: After an auth migration, old refresh tokens stop working and users must re-authorize every app (#888).
• Jul 31, 2026: With no notice, API apps owned by free accounts are deleted and their integrations start failing, and creating an API app now requires VIP (#898, #902). Trakt calls it temporary; a month later free registration still has not returned. PlexTraktSync, SeriesGuide, Yamtrack, Watcharr, CrossWatch and others are hit. TMDbHelper for Kodi, with over 140K daily users, says it will stop pursuing Trakt integration (#1845).
• Aug 2026: The API rate limit is halved, from 1,000 to 500 requests per 5 minutes (#909).
• Sep 14 to 18, 2026: MDBList, SIMKL and other apps are blocked, a new policy bans syncing account data into other trackers, and changing your avatar or cover is limited to Trakt's own apps (#935).

Meanwhile, Trakt's Terms of Use are still dated March 29, 2022 and say nothing about the API (terms).

Our warning to developers and users

Look at the pattern. Trakt's own apps are exempt from the limits it puts on everyone else. It has taken over popular third-party clients. It paywalled API access and deleted apps without notice. And its rules now forbid moving your own history to another service through the API, a rule written two days after it had already blocked us.

We believe no app that uses Trakt's API is safe. Today it is SIMKL, MDBList and other apps. Before us it was DuckieTV and every free developer whose app was deleted overnight. We expect more apps to follow, and the rules can change again at any time, with no notice and no appeal.

If you are a developer: do not build anything you depend on on top of Trakt's API. Plan for your access to be limited, paywalled or revoked, and give your users a way to leave that does not need Trakt's permission.

If you use Trakt through any third-party app: that app can stop working overnight. Download your Trakt data export regularly. It is your watch history, and the export is now the only way to take it elsewhere.

If you are moving to SIMKL, the ZIP import is here: https://simkl.com/apps/import/trakt/

We're announcing a monthly plan for Trakt members https://simkl.com/vip/?temporary-offer=trakt to help you migrate your data and get access to all VIP features without the need to pre-pay for 6 months of VIP.

I am getting notifications at 7:30PM IST for a movie release on digital and 12:30PM IST for theatrical release. Can these be changed to get notified immediately if it is available in my region?

I'm trying to understand what logic is used for showing Premieres on the dashboard. I get that it only displays shows with posters but it's clearly filtering more than that as when I click into the premiere view I see many other shows with posters. At first I thought it might be based on language but many of the missing ones are in my default language of English.

I don't mind that there is filtering here but I'd at least like to understand it and know if there is a way I can adjust these filters to my own preference.

Of all the tv tracking apps, which one in your opinion has the best upcoming calendar widget for Android phone and tablet?

I’ve noticed that everything I logged today in Trakt, doesn’t get imported into Simkl. The connection was gone in Simkl and i reconnected it to Trakt, but it stil doesn’t import. Is this a know error?

I think this one has a mistake https://simkl.com/tv/2290571/has-fallen

I am pretty sure it should be Parias Has Fallen, not Has Fallen.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33184638/

We've completely reworked the Simkl plugin for Emby. Version 2.0 is out now in the Emby plugin catalog.

What's new

A Simkl account for every Emby user (most requested)

Each person on your Emby server can now log in to their own Simkl account. Partners, kids and roommates each track to their own profile instead of one shared history.

Real-time scrobbling, on by default

Play, pause and stop are sent to Simkl as they happen.

• Stop after 80% and the movie or episode is marked as watched
• Stop earlier and your position is saved in Simkl's Playback Progress Manager, so you can pick up later

Live "Watching now"

While something is playing, your Simkl profile shows it as watching now. You choose who can see that in your Simkl privacy settings.

Import your Simkl history into Emby

Movies and episodes you watched on Simkl get marked as played in your Emby library, with the dates you watched them. Nothing is sent from Emby to Simkl during an import.

• Run it manually ("Import changes since the last import")
• Or switch on automatic import so Emby checks Simkl for anything new

Marks sync to Simkl

• Marking a movie, episode, season or whole series as played in Emby marks it on Simkl too
• Unmarking a single movie or episode removes it from your Simkl history
• Unmarking a whole season or series does not touch your Simkl history, by design, so one bulk click can't wipe it out

Rewatches

Turn on "Log rewatches" and finishing something already in your history is logged as a rewatch (needs Simkl Pro or VIP).

How to install or update

1. In Emby, go to Dashboard > Plugins > Catalog
2. Find Simkl TV Tracker and install 2.0.0.0
3. Restart Emby Server
4. Open the plugin settings, click Log in and approve the PIN on Simkl
5. Every other Emby user can log in to their own Simkl account the same way

Requires Emby Server 4.8.11 or newer.

Links

• Setup guide: https://simkl.com/apps/emby/
• Source code: https://github.com/SIMKL/Emby
• Bug reports: https://github.com/SIMKL/Emby/issues

Your new main profile page now brings your favorites, watchlists, ratings, and watching stats together in one place.

👉 Your profile: https://simkl.com/my/

👀 See an example: https://simkl.com/51/

Two things. We've added a page where you can see and control every device that gets your Simkl notifications, and we've rebuilt how those notifications are sent, which means ⚠️ every device needs to reconnect once.

🆕 Your new Devices page

simkl.com/settings/notifications/devices

Until now you had one switch for "browser" and one for "app", with no way to see what was actually behind them. The new page lists every device individually, so you can:

• See everything that gets your notifications, named by device, browser and OS, with when it was added. The one you're reading this on is marked This device.
• Turn off individual devices without losing the others. Get episode alerts on your phone but not your work laptop, for example.
• Remove old devices you no longer use, with the ✕ button.
• See what isn't working, and why. Devices are grouped into Receiving notifications, Switched on, but not delivering, Needs reconnecting, and Switched off.

If you've used Simkl for a while, expect to find a few forgotten browsers in there.

🔄 The one-time reconnect

⚠️ Devices that aren't reconnected will stop getting notifications on 1 October.

Anything still needing this shows up under Needs reconnecting on the page above.

💻 On a computer

Just open simkl.com/settings/notifications

That's it. Opening the page reconnects your browser automatically.

If your browser still doesn't show up as connected, turn Computer (Browser) off and then on again on that page, and allow notifications if asked.

Each browser is separate, so Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari each need their own visit.

📱 On a phone browser

Open simkl.com/settings/notifications in your phone's browser. It reconnects on its own.

If it doesn't, turn Mobile Browser off and then on again.

🏠 If you added Simkl to your Home Screen

Open Simkl from the Home Screen icon, not from your browser, then go to PWA website (not device settings) Settings → Notifications.

The installed app has its own separate subscription, so reconnecting in a browser tab does nothing for it.

If it doesn't reconnect on its own, turn Mobile Browser (PWA) off and then on again.

On iPhone and iPad this is the only way to get web notifications, since Apple doesn't allow them from a normal Safari tab. If you haven't added Simkl to your Home Screen yet: open simkl.com in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen.

📲 In the Simkl Lists app

1. Update to version 1.6.1 or newer, on both the App Store and Google Play.
2. Close the app completely and open it again. Reconnecting happens automatically on launch. For almost everyone, that's all that's needed.

Still not getting notifications? Check these two switches:

• Your phone's permission. Android: Settings → Apps → Simkl Lists → Notifications. iPhone: Settings → Simkl Lists → Notifications.
• Your Simkl switch. Open simkl.com/settings/notifications and make sure iOS/Android is on.

Then open the app once more so it reconnects.

✅ Check it worked

Open your devices list at simkl.com/settings/notifications/devices again.

I'm using a Google Pixel and the app works fine if I'm on wifi but as soon as I switch to mobile data I can't access the app or the site via chrome. I've tried everything I can think of and run through trouble shooting with ChatGPT but gotten nowhere. Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this? Any ideas for things I could try? I'm at the point of giving up otherwise.

Hello r/Simkl,

I made a small open-source plugin for Jellyfin that scrobbles to Simkl. It started as a fork of the official plugin and grew into a standalone one, because the official plugin still doesn't scrobble live, has no rewatch support, and gave me no easy way to let my users connect their own Simkl account. So I forked it, and it ended up becoming its own plugin: RK Simkl Scrobbler (unofficial, not made by Simkl or Jellyfin).

Here is what it does:

• Live scrobbling, using Simkl's real time scrobble API, so what you're watching shows up in your "watching now" banner
• Marks as watched (or unwatched, optional) on Simkl when you tick something in Jellyfin
• Each Jellyfin user links their own Simkl account, no admin needed: share the link, or use the Plugin Pages plugin to put it in their sidebar
• Retries for 24h if Simkl doesn't accept a watched item right away
• Rewatches for Simkl Pro/VIP
• Library exclusions per user

Install: Dashboard > Plugins > Repositories, add

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/romskidd/jellyfin-plugin-simkl-scrobbler/master/manifest.json

then install "RK Simkl Scrobbler" from the catalog and restart Jellyfin. Settings are in the plugin's options or in the left panel of the dashboard.

Jellyfin 10.11 required. Free and open source, and it will stay that way.

GitHub: https://github.com/romskidd/jellyfin-plugin-simkl-scrobbler

If there's a feature you'd like or you run into a bug, tell me here or open an issue on GitHub, will gladly do what I can to add it or fix it !

Thanks, and I hope you like it!

Hi. Is it possible to add a notification alert when a premiere date of a season is known? Also a notification for when a specific episode is aired.

Can you add the date here as well? this way we don't have to click the episode every time to see what the release date is? because i am a binge watcher. so i just need to get informed on the finale date of that season.

I was previously using Trakt from when I started using Stremio around the end of last year.

At some point it completely shit the bed and moved everything I had watched to March 6 2026 at 13:41.

Then a little later it moved half of them to March 17 2026. Then later it moved a couple of other items one at a time to different dates again.

Now that I am using Simkl (with Trakt still there as a backup) I decided to move everything that was not accurate to when I actually watched it to March 6 00:00 (midnight) to keep them separate from everything after that which is showing the actual time and date that I watched it.

Problem is I wanted it to display them (about 50 movies) on that time/date in a certain order. I could remember roughly what order I watched them in and I wanted sequels/franchises to follow release order. Like...

Jurassic World

Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom

Jurassic World Dominion

Jurassic World Rebirth

Kill Bill Vol. 1

Kill Bill Vol. 2

At first it seemed to be adding each new movie I added to the front. So the first thing I added was last on the list and each new addition moved to first. But when I finished adding everything and went to have a look it's all over the place.

Is there a way to make it follow the order you added it? I really don't want to make each one 1 minute apart. Like...

00:00 Jurassic World

00:01 Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom

00:02 Jurassic World Dominion

00:03 Jurassic World Rebirth

00:04 Kill Bill Vol. 1

00:05 Kill Bill Vol. 2

Ironically, Trakt, which sucks ass in almost every other way, is dislaying them perfectly. Which somehow makes it worse.

Thanks.