Simkl does not enforce a hard cap on how many TV shows, anime, and movies you can track. Free members can track any number of titles, and Simkl’s default watchlists automatically organize them by status, such as Watching, Plan to Watch, Completed, On Hold, and Dropped.
That said, your watchlists work best when you use them for real tracking — what you have already watched and what you genuinely plan to watch. Simkl’s watchlists are part of the platform’s core tracking flow, including progress updates, notifications, recommendations, and dashboard behavior, so they should stay focused and intentional.
If you add thousands of random titles to Plan to Watch that you will never actually start, it may confuse recommendations and Simkl may become slower or less responsive for your account, or completely stop working if the CPU can't handle all the filters between millions of movies and your thousands of watchlists to compare in filters, as it will require opening your full watchlists on every page you visit. The safest rule is simple: only keep real watch intent in your watchlists. Large catch-all collections belong somewhere else, for example, in Custom Lists.
For giant idea banks, themed collections, ranked lists, franchise orders, and “maybe someday” titles, use Custom Lists instead.
So the short answer is: there is no strict tracking cap, but there is a practical best practice. Keep your watchlists limited to what you watched or realistically plan to watch, and move everything else into Custom Lists. For current custom-list plan limits, check the latest Simkl plan and pricing pages at https://simkl.com/vip/, since those details can change and are documented separately.
Watchlists are loaded across Simkl and are meant for active tracking, so accounts with very large watchlists may become slow or unresponsive; if you want to save big collections of random or low-priority titles, put them in Custom Lists instead.
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