TV Tracker vs Sharkcine
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TV Tracker
Keep track of your favorite TV shows and never miss an episode. Get live countdowns, upcoming episode feeds, and reminders. Sync your watch history or import from other services.
- Live episode countdowns
- Upcoming episode feed and calendar
- Mark episodes/seasons/shows as watched
- Home Screen widget for upcoming shows
- Daily episode reminders
- Trakt sync and import options
- Household watch history sharing
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Know what you're watching, and what's on next. TV Tracker keeps the shows you follow in one place, tells you when the next episode airs, and counts down to it on your Home Screen — so you stop searching for "when is season 3 out" and just know. WHAT IT DOES • Every show you track, with the next episode and a live countdown • An upcoming feed and a calendar, so a week's viewing is one glance • Mark episodes, seasons or whole shows watched — it remembers where you are • A Home Screen widget showing what airs soonest • A reminder on the day an episode lands, only for your shows BRING YOUR SHOWS WITH YOU Already track your shows somewhere else? Turn on Trakt sync and your watchlist and history come across, and stay in step both ways. Or import a file — an IMDb export brings your list and ratings, a TV Time export brings your watch history too. No account with any of them is required. TV Tracker works on its own. WATCH TOGETHER Share a household with one other person and see what you're both up to: who's ahead, who's behind, and the next episode neither of you has seen. An invite code is all it takes, and either of you can end it at any time. HONEST ABOUT YOUR DATA No ads. No selling your data. No posts anywhere, ever. Your watch history is yours, it syncs across your devices, and you can delete your account and everything in it from inside the app in two taps. FREE, OR EVERY SHOW TV Tracker is free for a few shows you choose — Upcoming, Calendar, reminders and the widget follow them, and every show keeps its page, episodes and your history. You can change which ones from time to time. To track every show, subscribe for $3.99/month or $35.99/year. Both plans start with a 14-day free trial. Cancel any time in Settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tvtracker.online/privacy.html Show information and air dates come from TVMaze. Ratings come from IMDb via OMDb.
Sharkcine
This app helps you decide what to watch by sealing a single title from your personal shelf or a movie database. It acts as a cinema companion, recording your choices and notes without playing or streaming any content.
- Decide what to watch
- Seal movie titles
- Keep a watch log
- Manage personal shelf
- Export watch history
- Local data storage
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Sharkcine is a cinema companion for deciding what to watch tonight — then remembering the night. You set Intent and Method, Seal one title from your Shelf or TMDb, and keep a receipt. It never plays or streams the film. It is not a streaming app, not a player, and not a “what’s trending” feed. Open the app and you land on Ritual: seal a citation, then watch elsewhere. Who it’s for • Anyone tired of scrolling and needing one title, not ten tabs • Two people who want a handshake before they commit • Viewers who keep a local Shelf of candidates • People who jot voice notes or a watch log after the film • Anyone who wants a readable history of seals — not a playback library Three steps Ritual. Choose Intent (Solo, Together, or Surprise) and Method (Pick one or Browse three). Together waits for a handshake first. Seal. Draw a citation using tonight’s taste filters and source (Shelf or TMDb). Sharkcine writes a receipt. It does not start playback. After. Watch on your own player, cinema, or service. Use Chronicle for notes. Find the night again in Archive. What’s inside • Ritual setup: audience, mood, runtime, intensity — knobs for Seal, not alerts. No push notifications. • Help search on Ritual for rules (Seal, Together, Shelf, playback). • Shelf: add by hand or cite TMDb (English titles work best). Tag why a title belongs. • Chronicle: Live Notes and a watch log. Microphone and speech stay on device for transcription; we don’t upload that audio to Sharkcine servers. • Archive: receipts you can read, mark watched, share, or export as JSON. • Optional poster from your Photo Library for handwritten Shelf entries — saved locally. On your device No login is required. No iCloud sync. Seals, Shelf, notes, and receipts stay on your iPhone or iPad unless you export or share them yourself. Uninstalling the app removes that local store. Film and TV titles, overviews, and posters come from The Movie Database (TMDb). This product uses the TMDb API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDb.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sharkcine at none against TV Tracker's 2. Sharkcine also leads on ratings volume (53 vs 1). TV Tracker's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. TV Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Sharkcine asks for nothing beyond the download.
TV Tracker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sharkcine has 53 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
TV Tracker ships an update every 2 days, Sharkcine every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.
| Parameter | TV Tracker | Sharkcine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.8 (53 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 53 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Yaron Frost | 祎喆 杨 |
Customer experience
TV Tracker
Sharkcine
In-app purchases
TV Tracker
- Monthly14 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Yearly14 Days trial$35.991 Year
Sharkcine
No in-app purchases








