Best Apps to Track Movie, TV, Music, and Game Releases in 2026
A friend of ours found out about Kendrick Lamar's GNX album three days after it dropped, and the thing is, he follows the guy on every platform: Instagram, Twitter, Spotify, all of it. The algorithm just decided that memes were more important than the biggest hip-hop release of the year. We sent him a link to Calendia after that.
Stories like his are exactly why we built the app, but before we get into our own thing we wanted to give an honest look at what else is out there because some of these apps are legitimately good at what they do.
The options
Surprisingly few apps try to track releases across movies, TV, music, and games all at once. Most pick one lane and go deep on it, which means you end up needing several of them, which is its own problem (more on that below). We've used all of the apps listed here at various points.
Calendia
We're biased, obviously, so take this section however you want.
Calendia tracks movies, TV shows, music, video games, books, actors, directors, and authors. The actor/director tracking is worth calling out because most other trackers skip it entirely: follow Pedro Pascal and you automatically know about every new project he's attached to without having to Google him every few weeks.
Spotify and Apple Music import means you don't have to manually search for every artist you listen to, the calendar view puts everything on a single timeline, and you get push notifications on release day. Free to download and use, with a premium tier that most people probably won't need.
What we'd change about our own app if we could snap our fingers: the community is still small compared to more established players, and we don't have social features yet so you can't see what friends are tracking. We're working on it.
Sequel
Really well-made iOS app that covers movies, TV, games, books, and audiobooks, and the UI is noticeably polished in a way where you can tell someone who actually uses the app every day designed it. They have a "Where to Watch" feature that shows you which streaming service has something (we have this too, but credit where it's due, theirs was first).
iOS only though, and no music at all. If albums are a big part of what you follow, that's a pretty significant gap.
Showly
TV-first tracker with solid Trakt integration, so if you're already in that ecosystem it fits right in without any friction. Active community, regular updates, and it handles movies too.
Doesn't touch music, games, or books, so if you care about any of those you'd need something else alongside it. For people who mainly watch TV though, it's probably the best dedicated option out there.
MusicButler
Been around since 2018 doing exactly one thing: telling you when artists release new music via email alerts and push notifications. Simple, and it works.
The issue is the same one we keep running into with all the specialist apps. You'd need MusicButler for music, plus Showly for TV, plus Sequel for movies, plus something else for games, and at that point you're managing four different apps which is exactly the kind of setup that falls apart after a few weeks.
One app or the specialist approach?
We're obviously going to say "one app" because that's what we built. But we've lived the alternative and that experience is what convinced us.
Before Calendia, several of us had three tracking apps installed and the pattern was always the same: the TV one stayed on our home screens and got checked constantly, the music one collected dust for weeks at a time, and the movie one got opened maybe once a month when someone mentioned a trailer. Everything in the app we actually used worked great, and everything else got missed, and we kept having the same "wait, that came out already?" conversations over and over.
If there's always something relevant in the app, you open it. If you open it, you see everything. That's the whole idea behind building something that covers all of it.
Our recommendations
For TV, Showly is great. For iOS users who don't care about music tracking, Sequel is hard to beat on design.
For everything else we built Calendia. Download on iOS or Android, follow what you care about, and stop finding out about big releases three days late from a friend's Instagram story.