How to track TV shows and episodes
simple/tv/cal is a free TV show tracker built around a calendar: follow a show and every one of its episodes, past and future, lands in a month grid you can browse. This page walks through each part of the app. You can read it before signing up - nothing here is behind an account.
Calendar
The home view: every episode of the shows you follow, past and future, in a month grid. The Tonight strip on top answers what airs tonight, or points to the next episode day. Pick a day to see its episodes and mark them watched (the grid also works with the arrow keys), browse what's next in the Upcoming list, and use the Coming soon chips to jump to a season premiere or a watchlist debut. Shows on your Watchlist appear too, in teal, on the day a brand-new series airs its very first episode. The selected day is part of the page address, so refreshing or sharing the link opens the same day. On phones the grid becomes a scrollable day strip with a day-by-day list from today onward. Dates follow your time zone (Time zone in the account menu (your email at the bottom of the page)), and the day panel, Tonight strip and Upcoming list show each episode's local release time wherever it is known.
Add show
Search any TV show and follow it, or save it to your Watchlist for later. Following adds all of its episodes to your calendar and progress tracking.
Unwatched
Your backlog: aired episodes you haven't watched yet, grouped by show, with the total catch-up time. Continue watching lists the shows with a season you have started but not finished; Other shows holds the rest. Each card shows how many episodes are left, roughly how long they take, and a thin bar of your progress through the show. Click a card to open its episodes across the page, mark them watched one by one, or hide an episode or a whole season. The poster or title opens the show's page. Sort by last aired, most unwatched, or name.
My shows
Everything you follow, with progress and air dates. Sort, filter, and search, or unfollow a show (this also clears its progress).
Watchlist
Shows you're interested in but don't follow yet. Following a show moves it out of the Watchlist. Sort by Upcoming to see only the shows still waiting to debut, soonest first, with undated announcements last.
Stats
Your statistics: watch time by show and network, overall completion, and watched episodes by air year.
Undo and saving
Bulk marks on a show's page (mark a season or the whole show watched, clear all) show a toast with an Undo button for a few seconds. If a change can't reach the server - offline, flaky connection - the app says so instead of failing silently, and syncs when you're back.
Light and dark theme
The moon/sun button in the header switches between the light and the dark theme. Until you use it, the app follows your device's setting; after that, your choice sticks on this device.
Archive
Archiving (from My shows or Unwatched) keeps a show followed and on your calendar but removes it from the Unwatched backlog. Good for shows you keep an eye on without catching up.
Hide
Hiding an episode (or a whole season in Unwatched) keeps it out of the backlog without marking it watched. Good for seasons you plan to skip. Unhide restores it.
Specials
A show's specials (season 0) are in a collapsed Specials section at the bottom of its page. Mark them watched one by one or all at once; they have their own count and never affect progress, next to watch or Unwatched. Show on calendar puts that show's dated specials on your calendar, marked Special.
Refresh
Show data updates automatically, but the Refresh button on a show's page (for shows you follow or have on your Watchlist) re-fetches episodes, air dates, and IMDb ratings from the sources right away. It can be used once per minute per show.
Import
Import a CSV (from Trakt, TV Time, or a spreadsheet) via Add show to bulk-follow shows and mark your watched history in one go.
Export CSV
Export CSV, in the account menu (your email at the bottom of the page), downloads your followed shows and watch status in the same format the import accepts - use it as a backup or to move to another site.
Calendar subscription
Calendar subscription, in the account menu (your email at the bottom of the page), gives you a private feed URL. Subscribe to it and every episode - plus the debut of every show on your Watchlist premiering within the next year - shows up as an all-day event in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook, or any app that takes an iCal address, updating automatically. Events land on their date in your time zone (the one under Time zone in the account menu (your email at the bottom of the page)), with the release time in the event where it is known. Keep the URL private, and reset it there if it ever leaks.
Delete account
Delete account, in the account menu (your email at the bottom of the page), permanently removes your account and all of its data after confirming your password. Consider Export CSV first.
Ready to start? Create a free account and follow your first show.