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Allow marking a show as "Completed" without marking every episode as watched
Currently, marking a show as completed automatically flags all of its episodes as watched. For many shows this is fine, but it doesn't fit how people actually watch certain series.
For anime especially, a lot of episodes aren't essential viewing, filler arcs, recap/summary episodes, side stories, and so on. Plenty of viewers intentionally skip these but still consider the show "finished." Right now there's no way to reflect that: I either have to mark episodes I never watched, or leave the show as incomplete even though I've seen everything I wanted to.38 votes -
Global/Mixed lists
It would be grate to have mixed lists and not only "TV Shows"/"Anime"/"Movies" lists, but a global one where we could put the 3 types.
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Social Watch Activity: Which Friends Are Watching / Recently Watched Episode or Film
I would love to see SIMKL introduce a more social “watch activity” system for movies, TV episodes, and anime episodes.
Right now, we can already see friend ratings, but it would be amazing if SIMKL expanded this into real-time and recent viewing activity.
1. Show who is currently watching
For a movie, TV episode, or anime episode, display:
- Which users are currently watching it
- How many people are currently watching
- How many of your friends (followers/following) are currently watching
Example:
- “63 people watching”
- “5 of your friends are watching now”
This would make SIMKL feel much more alive and social.
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Chronology
Please include the chronological order of the movies and series, as well as the anime.
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Enable adding TV episodes (not just seasons) to lists
One of the things the disastrous Trakt v3 upgrade killed was the ability to add individual TV show episodes to lists. I used that feature extensively and losing it was one of the last straws that caused me to fire them.
This is useful in a lot of different scenarios, like for listing actor/actress appearances in filmography lists.
One of my favorite applications was curating lists of holiday-themed episodes (like Christmas, Thanksgiving and Halloween episodes) I could refer back to each year when I'm in the mood to watch something season-appropriate. Everybody has Christmas music playlists and many have Christmas…
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Optional setting to group related anime seasons and cours into one series
I recently migrated from TV Time and Trakt, and the way separate anime seasons and cours are structured and displayed on Simkl is currently one of the biggest obstacles for me.
Many anime that are presented as one show with multiple seasons or continuous episode numbering on services such as Crunchyroll and Trakt are listed as completely separate anime titles on Simkl.
For example, SPY x FAMILY Season 1 consists of 25 episodes on Crunchyroll and Trakt, while Simkl separates it into two entries with 12 and 13 episodes. I understand that this may follow AniDB’s structure and that the…
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Dub completion notifications + dub filter and infos in general
Hey! I was referred here by Azmarine from the forum. I'm a VIP member and honestly one of those people who recommends SIMKL to basically everyone I know, so this comes from a good place!
There's one thing that's been genuinely frustrating me for a while though. I watch a lot of shows and anime dubbed, and SIMKL only notifies me when something finished airing, not when the dub is done. It sounds minor but it really isn't. I get excited about a new show or season, start watching, get invested after like 4 episodes and then the dub just…
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Personal recommendations based on personal ratings
Currently, Simkl generates recommendations based on what you've watched. It would be much better to build recommendations based on personal ratings. For example, I don't want to see something similar that I marked as 1-5, for example, which is kind of more logical.
164 votes -
Season number under anime titles is inconsistent. Show every season or remove the label.
On anime lists, some titles show a season number under the name. Other seasons in the same franchise do not.
Example (Attack on Titan):
Attack on Titan → shows Season 1 under the title
Attack on Titan Season 2 → in the list, but no season number under the title
Attack on Titan Season 3 (part 1 / part 2) → in the list, but no season number under the title
Attack on Titan Final Season / The Final Season → shows Season 4 under the titleSeason 2 and Season 3 are on the list. The under-title season label…
8 votes -
Allow sorting tv shows by time left to watch
In the "My TV Shows" section, please add a "My time left to watch" option. This would sort the shows by the time remaining in them that is unwatched.
The closest thing to it, that currently exists, is the "My Eps. Left to Watch" option. However, this is less helpful given different shows can have episodes of very different average lengths.I would like to be able to know which shows in my back-catalogue would be quickest to finish off.
It already has this information to pull from too. If you use the "card" view, it gives an estimate of time…
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Better lists rearranging
The ability to drag and rearrange my lists instead of having to pin them in specific orders
10 votes -
When selecting "Marked as watched" have a confirmation before removing the watch history
Hi there. I've come from Trakt and I'm still getting used to things. When I saw "Marked as watched" on something I had seen, I selected it. The expected result was that it would show me when I had seen it. The actual result was that it unmarked it as watched, and deleted the history. Now I know how it works I'll avoid it, however, I think it would be a good idea to have a "are you sure you want to delete all watch history for this episode/movie?" confirmation.
Maybe even a 5 second timer after where you have…
12 votes -
Add option to list only free streaming, not ones you have to pay for.
I love that I can choose movies that are already streaming so I can easily pick my next movie for the night. I also love that I can choose all the apps I have and it tells me where I can watch the movie I want. What I would love is to be able to see which movies are free on one of the streaming apps I already have, rather than having to click on the movie and then finding out that it's on Prime but I have to pay $19.99 to stream it.
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Landscape view (16:9) option for "Latest Unwatched Episodes"
Hi Simkl Team,
I’d like to suggest a feature improvement for the dashboard layout.
Currently, the "Latest Unwatched Episodes" section uses vertical posters (portrait view). While posters work great for movies, for individual TV episodes it makes everything look the same and hard to distinguish at a glance.Feature Proposal:
Could you add a toggle in Settings to switch the "Latest Unwatched Episodes" layout from Poster view to Landscape view (16:9)?Having a horizontal landscape layout for episodes—as seen in some other media tracking services—would make the dashboard much cleaner and more intuitive to navigate. Adding this as an optional…
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Show the mobile progress bar and episode total on desktop Watching lists
On mobile, each show or anime has a clear yellow progress bar and the total number of episodes.
On desktop, hovering a title only shows a yellow bar under the row. There is no clear bar and no episode total. Visitors on desktop cannot tell at a glance how far the profile owner has gotten. Mobile already gives that. Desktop should too. This should apply to both TV Shows and Anime Watching lists.Request:
- On desktop My TV Shows and My Anime Watching lists, show the same clear yellow progress bar that mobile uses.
- Show the total amount of episodes…
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Folder system for nested custom lists
The ability to automatically group lists that are part of our custom collections (they share a title) into a folder. Or have an option to manually create folders that we can organize lists into, for the "my lists" page.
For example: if i have a list named "Animation (Movies)" and another named "Animation (TV Shows)", yes they become a collection however, the "my lists" page has no distinction that they are part of a collection besides their names.
(picture was made with AI just as an example)3 votes -
4 votes
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Option to choose if you want separate tabs or combined.
So, when I'm looking for something to watch, I'd like the option to combine everything (TV, Movies & Anime) instead of having to go to each tab and search through them. Would it be possible to get an option where we can combine all three on the discovery/recommendation page? I'd also like lists to be combined, too, instead of having to separate them.
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4 votes
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Actor Pages as checklists (sort & filter entries)
I'd like Actor Pages to have the ability to sort/filter specific actor's TV shows (or movies) by status [completed, watching, plan to watch]. Maybe also by runtime, rating, or some other statistic.
So we would essentially be able to use the actor pages as sort of a checklist for what we've seen from that actor or director, track a full filmography from a favorite actor, easily find a missed gem, bring their highest rated entries to the top to easily see what's worth checking out.
8 votes
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