Trakt now limits free accounts to one connected app, and VIP renewals run $60 a year — after a price change that broke its promise to honor legacy pricing. If that’s not the deal you signed up for, here’s a different one.
How Tessera is different
- No account required. Nothing to connect, nothing to limit. Your history syncs through your own iCloud and never touches our servers.
- A fraction of the price. Tracking, import, export, and sync are free. Pro costs about a third of Trakt VIP — and early waitlist members get founding pricing.
- It gets you back into the show. Trakt records what you watched. Tessera opens the right app from your Up Next with one tap — straight to your episode on services like Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu, and Peacock, and to the show page on others. Each show tells you honestly what a tap will do. On iPhone and iPad, with a real Apple TV app for the big screen.
- Your Trakt history imports cleanly. Export from Trakt, import to Tessera, keep everything.
Who Trakt is still right for
Honest answer: if your setup is Plex or Kodi and you rely on scrobbling across a stack of connected apps, Trakt’s ecosystem is still the tool for that. Tessera is for people who watch on the mainstream streaming apps and want one fast, private Up Next that opens them.