📦 Trakt Product Roundup – August 2025

It’s time for another monthly update on what’s new across Trakt. From big Plex Sync improvements to the launch of our Android TV app, here’s everything you need to know.

🎬 Plex Sync Updates

Plex Sync continues to be improved:

• Multiple Plex servers can now be configured.

• Your Plex Watchlist can now be synced to Trakt.

• Some users have reported configuration problems and sync failures. Justin is actively addressing these with updates that improve sync speed, error handling, and support for custom ports.

For many users, Plex Sync is already working well. We’ll keep working through reported issues, but please note that every Plex setup is different. Factors like your Plex Media Server version and library size can affect behavior, which often requires Justin to investigate each case individually.

👉 Join the conversation.

✨ General Updates

• Searching for People is now better. We cleaned the data, making results more accurate and useful on all platforms, even for 3rd-party apps using the Trakt API.

• Logos & Fanart have been improved and will also be available for all.

• Streaming subscription usage is now included in the VIP’s Month in Review email. We’ll add this data into the Month in Review web page soon.

• The Collection is now called Library → read more about why here.

⚡️ Trakt Lite Updates

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Also:

• Your Calendar is now available directly in Lite.

• On a mobile device, look for a Play in Plex button if you’re using the new Plex Sync and a title is in your Library.

• New Search options: Movies, Shows, People, or Movies and Shows combined.

• You can now filter on the Favorite Genres you’ve selected in your account settings.

• Credit Cookies is now displayed in summary pages and when you check in.

• Improved Empty States and the first time user experience across the board.

• A lot of fixes and refinements have also been made.

Don’t forget: Trakt Lite is Open Source.
👉 See all commits on GitHub.

📱 iOS/tvOS Updates

We’re preparing the Trakt app for iOS & iPadOS 26. Navigation is being reworked and the Home, Movies, Shows, and Lists tabs have been rebuilt for consistency while taking advantage of the latest OS features.

Other improvements includes:

• Drop a show directly from its show page

• Filter by streaming services is now available for all users, not just VIPs

And on Apple TV:

• Improved YouTube trailer playback

• Various bug fixes

👉 VIP beta testers, join the conversation here.

📺 Android/TV Updates

The Trakt app for Android TV is now live! 🎉
Browse, discover, track, and start watching directly on your TV.

👉 Check out the announcement [here].
👉 Download Trakt on Google Play

Yes, we’re building a new app for Android!
And It’s looking really good!!

A VIP beta will be available when it’s in a good enough state. Stay tuned!

🗺️ Roadmap Updates

Here’s a quick look at what’s progressing on the Public Roadmap:

• Our Android TV app went from zero to “Now in Theaters” and will be updated to feel familiar and complete.

• Emoji reactions is now in “Preview” on Lite, and coming to trakt.tv, iOS, Android, and 3rd party apps as part of our continued effort to have a unified experience across platforms.

• Plex sync improvements are still in progress, so we are keeping this one in “Preview” for the moment.

• Improved Recommendations and Streaming Subscriptions Usage are also in “Preview” until we polish them further.

• The Mark as Watched… without a date feature is moving forward. We are preparing to support this at the database and API level, then we’ll work on supporting this on all apps.

• We are also exploring ways to improve other users discoveryon Trakt but it is still in the early stages.

• You’ll see this one mentioned a lot and for a long time. This is because it’s a big one for us. We are working to have a Unified Experience Across Platforms. Our objective with this is for all Trakt users to have the same level of experience, regardless of the app they are using. It will stay “In Production” for a while because it also means: developing an Android TV app (that done now), developing a brand new app for Android but also reaching feature parity on all platforms while keeping the UI and UX consistent across the board… all of this while shipping new features and improvements.

👉 Do not hesitate to add cast your votes and submit new ideas either on the Public Roadmap or on the Forums.

That’s it for this month! Thanks as always for your support and feedback, see you in September for the next roundup.
— The Trakt Team