Migration
How to Import Your Watch History From Any App (Overview)
Updated Sep 16, 2026
Switching tracking apps usually stalls on one question: what happens to years of watch history already logged somewhere else? The short answer is that most trackers let you export your data, and most also let you import someone else's export — the process is a few minutes of work, not a from-scratch restart, if you do the two steps in order.
The general shape of a migration
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Export from your current app. Almost every tracker has a data-export option somewhere in account settings, usually producing a JSON or CSV file (or a .zip containing several). This step doesn't touch your existing account — exporting is read-only.
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Check what the export actually contains. Watch history and ratings are nearly universal. Custom lists, comments, and social activity are hit-or-miss — plenty of exports only cover the tracking data, not the social layer built on top of it.
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Import into the new app, ideally one that matches by TMDB/IMDb id rather than title text alone. Title-only matching is where migrations go wrong — "The Office" without a year or region can match the wrong version of a show, and a reissued or regionally retitled film can fail to match at all.
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Review before you confirm. A good import tool shows you what it matched and flags what it couldn't, so you catch a wrong match before it's permanently in your history — not after.
What usually doesn't transfer
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Automation rules (a Plex or Kodi scrobbling connection) are app-specific and have to be reconnected on the new side, not imported as data.
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Social activity — comments, followers, likes — is tied to accounts on the old platform and generally doesn't have anywhere to go on the new one.
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Anything mid-progress (partway through a season) sometimes imports as "watched up to episode X" and sometimes doesn't import partial progress at all — worth checking on a test import before you commit fully.
Where to find the exact steps
The general shape above holds across most trackers, but the actual menu paths differ. CouchReel maintains source-specific walkthroughs for the largest trackers people migrate from:
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Switching from Trakt
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Switching from TV Time
If your current tracker isn't listed yet, the general steps above still apply — most export flows live under Settings → Data or Settings → Export, and CouchReel's import accepts the common JSON/CSV shapes those tools produce.