AniList
Track, share and discover your favorite anime and manga with AniList.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Online
Features
Properties
- Clean design
- Customizable
Features
- Anime / Manga Tracking
- List import
- Dark Mode
- Different scoring systems
- Communities
- Community-based
- Channel reccomendation
- Custom List Creation
- No registration required
- User Rating
- Ad-free
- Airing anime notification
Tags
- manga
- Anime
- anime-review
- manga-collection
- anime-collection
AniList News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
ettouiloualid added AniList as alternative to WebNovelDB- lumb reviewed AniList
Has a good amount of features, gives really looking graphics for viewing statistics. I haven't had an issues with not finding a piece of media I've searched for yet. The search bar is pretty robust and will show you Anime, Manga, Characters, Staff, Studios and other users while typing. Anilist has very good third party apps developed for it and does a good job at listing some on the website itself. This makes for automatic tracking pretty easy, many apps have Anilist tracking built in which...
POX added AniList as alternative to Akira: Daily Anime Schedule
nubesurrealista added AniList as alternative to Chibi for Anilist- gramblo353 reviewed AniList
Has all the features I need to track and save shows. I wish reviews could be shorter though
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What is AniList?
The next-generation anime platform
Discover your obsessions What are your highest rated genres or most watched voice actors? Follow your watching habits over time with in-depth statistics.
Bring AniList anywhere Keep track of your progress on-the-go with one of many AniList apps across iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows.
Join the conversation Share your thoughts with our thriving community, make friends, socialize, and receive recommendations.
Tweak it to your liking Customize your scoring system, title format, color scheme, and much more! Also, we have a dark mode.
AniList information
Developed by
Josh Star Licensing
Proprietary and Free product.Rating
Average rating of 3Alternatives
42 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
Has a good amount of features, gives really looking graphics for viewing statistics. I haven't had an issues with not finding a piece of media I've searched for yet. The search bar is pretty robust and will show you Anime, Manga, Characters, Staff, Studios and other users while typing. Anilist has very good third party apps developed for it and does a good job at listing some on the website itself. This makes for automatic tracking pretty easy, many apps have Anilist tracking built in which makes it a good alternative to MyAnimeList which is a more mature platform. I find manual tracking to be pretty good through the website as well. I'm not a fan of the 1-100 rating scale. 1-5 or 1-10 would be preferred. A lack of export feature is much missed. Anilist does a good job at serving statistics you might want to know, but it obviously prevents most users from moving to or trying different platforms without an export feature.
I'm not really sure how much more partial I am to AniList over other similar sites, but I'm giving a higher rating primarily because other reviewers are in my opinion giving it low ratings in bad faith based on their own political biases which in my opinion is not relevant to how good of an alternative it is to website that help you track anime and manga watched. It's important to note that Alternatives being recommended are also proprietary and have their own moderation. So the comparison being made is not based on ownership or other metrics Alternativeto.net takes into account. They all have moderation, the issue at hand is that Anilist is particularly good about LGBTQIA+ topics and stopping perceived hate speach.
With the lack of export feature, I'd likely give this a 4 star for it's features, good looks and website design. It's staying as a 5 star until others review it more decide to review it without apolitical bias.
There is no export functionality for your list, so I can't make any backups to be safe. Setting anime status as private does nothing - it's still publicly visible on the profile. The minimum length of review is 2200 characters, which is ridiculous. It's 500 characters on MAL.
Good UI, rich stats, custom lists, few different rating methods, great API, and many community-made mobile apps, but that doesn't matter in the light of mentioned missing/broken features
Has all the features I need to track and save shows. I wish reviews could be shorter though
website is good and has a more updated look unlike myanimelist but the mods (taluun) make it much worse, adding bias into posts where it is not needed, mod abuse, and much more etc.
Anilist.co is a good anime/manga tracker, with a good UI and API but big flaws.
Both technically and in terms of usability, the platform is very advanced and fun to use. Of course, there is still room for improvement here and there, but compared to other providers, Anilist.co is already very far ahead.
The community itself is stagnating and is represented by a very toxic woke part, as well as some very extremist woken moderators. This does not really invite sharing opinions or discussions, which is why most users stay away from the community, and this lowers the offer and quality of Anilist.co. For more details, just Google, Reddit or actively follow the Anilist forum, but honestly, it's not worth the time.
However, my biggest and often-ignored criticism of AniList.co is that the database is unfortunately RACIST and RESTRICTED in terms of offering manhwa, light novels, and webtoons: the platform focuses exclusively on Asian creations. This means that works from NON-ASIAN countries, such as the USA or countries from the EU, are not included, regardless of their quality, popularity or appreciation. The most common excuse is that they would have to include comics and don't have the capacity to do so (neither of which is true).
Accordingly, if you're looking for a full anime/manga tracker, you'll unfortunately miss a lot of good light novels, webtoons and manhwas on Anilist.co. But hey, it also has an advantage: "If the title is not on Anilist, you know it's not an Asian author/artist!" ;)
Especially, most of the current Asian productions often suffer from a lack of new imagination and use the same scenarios, tropes and stories over and over again. Non-Asian works often stand out when they use similar ideas and styles, but break out of the boring tropes and trends and usually know how to surprise with better characters and storylines. This doesn't mean that all Asian work is bad, but just the origin shouldn't dictate if some not non-asian is not good enough.
Those database restrictions are not uncommon for anime/manga tracking websites. To my memory MyAnimeList has even more restrictive guidelines. They need defined rules for what they allow and saying "we know anime when we see it" is not a good way to run a database. It would only open them up to even more complaints when they don't add X or Y show that someone thinks is "anime-esque", hence why they say they would be opening themselves up to a massive amount of extra work adding comics.
I read a lot of webtoons, korean manga, and more, and I also wish they could be added but the moderators are understandably careful with their guidelines to prevent overloading their volunteers.
After using it for years, I noticed it has become a very woke community mod. if you disrespect a man user it's okay, but if you disrespect a woman you will get banned and get called toxin.
I can't give a good rating to Anilist. Conceptually it's a great site and it has potential. Unfortunately it has corrupt moderators. I'm sure that most moderators on the site are doing a great job but two in particular make it their life's mission to make everyone else's life really hard and it completely detracts from the enjoyment and usability of the site.
Standards are extremely strict, including minimum word counts, you have to use specific LGBT terms despite prevalence across the Anime community. So good luck finding relevant content that you enjoy. These terms are obscure and you will only find out about them when they give you a ban.
Moderators will publicly post personal messages to one up users, despite lack of relevance to the conversation. They will publicly accuse members of lying and trolling without any evidence. They're the staff.
There is no realistic appeals process. If you attempt to appeal, the punishments are increased.
Attempts to submit corrections based on publicly available data including with sources, if it doesn't match the often incorrect sources they use, they will reject them.
The terms of service are neither complete, nor accurate, most people won't bother with them, but if you're one of those people that do but don't actually use the sites forums for the reasons above, you're in for a rough ride.
This way of running the site has basically lead to a complete dearth in user generated discussion, most threads on anime discussions are ancient and haven't been posted on in years. The forums themselves are filled with spam forum games and little else because of the culture of fear the staff breeds.
AniList could be a friendly place, it clearly attracts friendly people but sadly it is managed poorly.
Yeap. it had become a very toxin site rule by community mods the abuse their power.