Ryuusei for AniList
Find and track anime & manga
Free · In‑App Purchases
Ryuusei is a detailed and quick-to-use app for AniList.co—a website to track, share, and discover anime and manga.
• Quick to Use - The Dashboard shows you all the things you're currently watching and reading, and lets you quickly update your progress and score. Home Screen widgets show at a glance when anime you're watching air next.
• Switch Between Anime and Manga - Simply swipe or tap to switch between anime and manga for the page you're on.
• See Everything - Look through everything you have on your lists, including the ability to filter, sort, and search. Filters also support your custom lists! Use the index on the right to quickly scroll through that massive backlog you'll never get to.
• Tons of Detail - Dive into details about when an item aired, alternate titles, tags, recommendations, related items, characters and voice actors, producers, and more.
• People Too - Tap on voice actors and staff to see what else they've worked on. Tap on characters to see all the anime and manga they appear in. Add media to your list as you go. Tap on a tab at the bottom to get yourself out of the rabbit hole you went down.
• And Even Songs - Stargazer members can see opening and ending songs for anime, quickly copy song details, and find links to listen on multiple streaming services (when available)
• Discover New Media - See what's popular this season, and what has stayed popular over time.
• Find What You're Looking For - Search for anime, manga, staff, characters, studios, and other users. Use advanced filters to find exactly what you want.
• Get Notified - See notifications about things like new seasons or adaptations of series you follow, new episodes of currently-airing shows you're watching, likes/replies on your status messages and forum posts, and more. Plus get system notifications when new episodes of your anime air. Stargazer members can get system notifications for all AniList notifications!
• Crunch Numbers - Get statistics on your anime and manga habit. Check out other users' stats and follow them if they have good taste.
• See Your History - Items you view throughout the app are saved in your browsing history so you can easily get back to them later. You can always see the most recent 5 items in your history, and Stargazer members can see a full 30 days of history.
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Stargazer is an optional subscription that adds extra features for Ryuusei and supports development of the app.
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Privacy Policy: https://ryuusei.moe/legal/privacy/
more I just tried all the AniList apps that have been updated within the past year and this one definitely has the best UI for me. I love that it has a dedicated page for updating your current watches and reads. Being able to scroll vertically through everything is really nice. So many apps make you scroll on tiny little horizontal lists as the only option. I also like the way anime and manga are organized. If I’m in anime mode, so is the app! My one complaint is that you can’t see your favorites on your profile. That would be a really nice addition.
Developer Response Thanks for your feedback! Profile page improvements (including seeing favorites) are on my todo list for future versions!
I just tried all the AniList apps that have been updated within the past year and this one definitely has the best UI for me. I love that it has a dedicated page for updating your current watches and reads. Being able to scroll vertically through everything is really nice. So many apps make you scroll on tiny little horizontal lists as the only option. I also like the way anime and manga are organized. If I’m in anime mode, so is the app! My one complaint is that you can’t see your favorites on your profile. That would be a really nice addition.
Thanks for your feedback! Profile page improvements (including seeing favorites) are on my todo list for future versions!
It’s nice to have a means of connecting to AniList through an app instead of using it in the browser all the time. I appreciate that it shows you on the dashboard how many days there are to the next episode.Edit: Along with the dev response, I’ve noticed the issues I wrote down using the website in browser in addition to using it through the app and removed the issues I listed.
Developer Response Thank you for your feedback! AniList.co has been having some search issues lately, they are aware and working on it (ref: https://anilist.co/forum/thread/72971). Similarly I have seen an increase in connectivity issues lately, especially on weekends. These are also due to server errors on AniList.co's side. Hopefully they'll be worked out before too long! :)
It’s nice to have a means of connecting to AniList through an app instead of using it in the browser all the time. I appreciate that it shows you on the dashboard how many days there are to the next episode.Edit: Along with the dev response, I’ve noticed the issues I wrote down using the website in browser in addition to using it through the app and removed the issues I listed.
Thank you for your feedback! AniList.co has been having some search issues lately, they are aware and working on it (ref: https://anilist.co/forum/thread/72971). Similarly I have seen an increase in connectivity issues lately, especially on weekends. These are also due to server errors on AniList.co's side. Hopefully they'll be worked out before too long! :)
This is a great app for tracking anime and manga. It is very easy to use and I love the ui. It is consistently updated. I highly recommend this app.There are so many cool and helpful features, but I have three requests for this app.1. I would love to be able to click on the year of the manga or anime and I would love to click on the anime season like winter 2024 for example.2. I would love to be able to see reviews from other users and friends plus their activity feed.3. I would love to be able to edit my profile info plus my profile picture and background image. Thank you for creating this app. I look forward to more exciting updates you have planned for the future.
Developer Response Thanks for your awesome feedback, I've got all your requests in my backlog for future versions!
This is a great app for tracking anime and manga. It is very easy to use and I love the ui. It is consistently updated. I highly recommend this app.There are so many cool and helpful features, but I have three requests for this app.1. I would love to be able to click on the year of the manga or anime and I would love to click on the anime season like winter 2024 for example.2. I would love to be able to see reviews from other users and friends plus their activity feed.3. I would love to be able to edit my profile info plus my profile picture and background image. Thank you for creating this app. I look forward to more exciting updates you have planned for the future.
Thanks for your awesome feedback, I've got all your requests in my backlog for future versions!
For the love of god I have tried making an account or logging into my current one for 15 minutes and it keeps sending me the same email! I gotta be doing something wrong other then that looks like a nice app
For the love of god I have tried making an account or logging into my current one for 15 minutes and it keeps sending me the same email! I gotta be doing something wrong other then that looks like a nice app
- Fixed a crash when tapping on “No information available” rows on media detail screens
2.14.3 May 25
- Fixed "More Information" lines not showing a Copy button when long-pressed
2.14.2 May 10
This update includes some small improvements and bug fixes:
- Login can now share information with your main web browser. In other words, Ryuusei will try to log into the same account you're logged in with in your web browser, if any. This should hopefully reduce issues related to email confirmation links and Captcha failures. If you don't want to use the same login as in your web browser, long-press the login button in Ryuusei and press "Fresh Login".
- Fixed an issue with some error messages appearing as banners that should only be popup dialogs or full-screen
- Under the hood modernization of some screens
2.14.1 Apr 22
This update includes big Profile enhancements, external links for media, plus other improvements and fixes:
- Profile screens have a whole lot more info, including the user's bio, favorites, followers/follows, and whether they are a moderator or admin! Plus, the profile screen now follows the user's color theme.
- External Links are available for anime and manga, where you can find project websites and social media, and official places to watch or read the media
- When looking at media details, users you follow with that media on their list have a new design that includes episode/chapter progress
- Updated the Recommendations screen to make community votes easier to understand
- Added support for submission update notifications
- Fix crashes on various screens resulting from duplicate items being present. In particular this should help on Notifications, and on staff media lists where the staff member has a lot of associated media.
- Fix vertical alignment of studio media without any genres.
- Fix invalid login tokens sometimes staying around if you cancel out of the "log back in" prompt
- Fix extra whitespace around some notification text
2.14 Apr 3
This update includes minor improvements and bug fixes:
- When filtering the List screen or editing an item, your custom lists are now sorted the same as on AniList.co, including any manual sorting you've set up
- On iOS 26, the Search page's input would change its height based on whether the paste button was being shown. This was annoying. The input now stays at the taller height all the time.
- Remember a couple updates ago when I "[possibly] fixed a [possible] crash on iOS 26"? The good news is that fix seemed to work. The bad news is it uncovered a couple of similar crashes in other parts of the app. This update should fix those!
2.13.1 Mar 10
This update includes new features for voice actors, plus other improvements:
- Cast info for languages other than Japanese! Tap "View All" on a list of characters, then tap the speech bubble button to switch between the available dub languages for that anime.
- Multiple voice actors can now be shown for a single character in an anime (for example, when a second actor plays a younger version of a character)
- Fixed section headers on the Discover screen being slightly cut off on iOS 26
- Fixed Recommendations sometimes showing duplicate items
- Under-the-hood changes to how text labels throughout the app are set up
- Ryuusei now collects usage data with TelemetryDeck, a privacy-preserving analytics tool. This data will help me understand which features are used the most, and how I can improve everyone's experience with Ryuusei. Usage data is anonymized and is not tied to your AniList account or any other persistent identifiers. If you'd like to learn more, please check the updated privacy policy at https://ryuusei.moe/legal/privacy
- If you live in a region with age verification laws, and are running iOS 26.2 or newer, certain media will not be visible in Ryuusei until you verify your age. You can check in Profile > Settings > General to see if you're impacted by this. (So far this is only Texas, but the number of regions will increase over time.)
2.13 12/19/2025
If ever there was an update for me to phone in the release notes, it'd be this one. "Bug fixes and other improvements", as big companies would say. But no! Instead I will talk about the changes in far too much detail:
- When pages have no data to display, they now show a nicer explanation of why they're empty. Sometimes there's just no data. Other times, you might need to log in or do something else to get data to show up. In all these cases, the app now explains it a bit better, and the messages themselves just look nicer.
- Quality of life improvements to the way errors are handled! Exciting, right? In a perfect world, you would never see these changes because errors would never happen. But they do, so you will eventually. This actually stems from the item above. What started as just a simple change for empty states spiraled out of control into a large overhaul of how I handle errors. It's actually kind of complicated, especially when you factor in differences between the "older" way of writing iOS apps (UIKit) versus the "newer" way (SwiftUI) (Ryuusei uses both)! To summarize the changes: most errors that happen on initial page load will now be shown inline rather than as a popup, which means that in most places you'll no longer see the weird behavior from before where you could cancel out of an error popup and see a loading spinner forever even though nothing was loading. And these inline error messages look nicer and are a bit easier to read! They're built on the same foundation as the "empty state" messages from the item above. There were more changes than that, but those were mostly under-the-hood things for better consistency in how errors are handled everywhere.
- [Possibly] fixed a [possible] crash on iOS 26 that was impacting a small number of users a large number of times. Like, a suspiciously large number of times. To the point that I wonder if it was actually crashing, or if the crash reporting system was spazzing out. It seems like this was happening especially when the app was first launched. Unfortunately I was not able to get it to happen myself. Anyway, I hope this is fixed now.
- Fixed a rare issue where songs could have a blank title, which was especially weird-looking in the "Copy" menu. Now it'll say "(Untitled)". I doubt this will happen often (I only saw this happen on CITY THE ANIMATION).
- Fixed error banner messages having 5 pixels of extra padding on the top (only on iOS 26), making them slightly off-center.
So yeah, "bug fixes and other improvements."
2.12.1 10/31/2025
This version of Ryuusei is built for iOS 26 and its new design with Liquid Glass:
- The app's icon has a new glass look
- Updated design of navigation bar buttons and menus
- Updated score picker background color and toolbar buttons
- Reorganized toolbar items on the Browsing History screen [iOS 26 only]
- Updated the organization of Sort menus
- Updated design of confirmation popups for destructive actions
- Message banners (like for some errors and warnings) have a new glass appearance [iOS 26 only]
2.12 09/15/2025
This update adds new features and improvements:
- Custom lists! Edit the custom lists an item is on by using the item's watching/reading status button. The Lists screen allows filtering items based on which custom lists they're on.
- Fixed web links in descriptions and biographies always opening a context menu when tapped
2.11 06/22/2025
This update adds new features and improvements:
- Browsing history! Ryuusei can now save all the items you view throughout the app so you can easily get back to them later
- You can always see the most recent 5 items in your history, and Stargazer members can see a full 30 days of history
- History is enabled by default, but you can limit what kinds of items are saved, or turn it off completely
- Songs now offer buttons to search Apple Music and Spotify when a direct link is not available
- The Search screen now always shows a paste button. You can paste AniList.co links to open them directly in Ryuusei, or quickly paste any text into the search box
- This resolves an issue where sometimes the Apple paste button would not show up even when you had an AniList.co link copied
- Fix the Dashboard showing a blank screen when you have no items in progress
- Fix a crash that could occur when tapping the Songs button on Anime Detail
- Fix alignment issues on songs with long artist names
- Fix a rare issue where data would sometimes not load properly when launching the app
This update no longer supports iOS 16.
2.10 04/23/2025
This update adds new features and improvements:
- Push notifications have new alert sounds to choose from!
- The Dashboard allows sorting by number of new episodes available (I forgot to do this in the previous update!)
- When there are more than 5 items on your Dashboard and you sort by title (A to Z), an index will appear that allows quick scrolling based on titles
- Long-pressing a notification on the Notifications screen shows a context menu that allows you to go to more places than a normal tap (for example, if someone comments on a forum thread you're watching, you can open: the comment, the whole thread, or the other user's profile)
- Tapping a push notification opens the most relevant screen in the app (which screen that is depends on what the notification is about)
- The "Options" menu on push notifications includes a quick link to the in-app notification settings screen
- Data on the Notifications screen is automatically refreshed after a day or so (it was already automatically refreshed if you had unread notifications, but the screen could get out of date if you read notifications on a different device)
A future update will remove support for iOS 16. To continue getting updates to Ryuusei, please consider updating iOS if possible.
2.9 01/12/2025
This version of Ryuusei adds a highly requested feature, plus other improvements and fixes:
- The Dashboard now shows how many new episodes of currently airing anime are ready for you to watch
- On iOS 18, widget design is improved when using a tinted Home Screen
- On iPadOS 18, the tab bar is now at the top of the screen instead of the bottom
- The message shown when AniList.co is experiencing technical issues is easier to understand
- If errors occur immediately after launching (like if you don't have an internet connection, or AniList is experiencing technical issues), screens no longer incorrectly show "Log In" buttons
- Fixed a crash when opening an item from a widget (or ryuusei:// link) when the Profile tab is active
- Separator lines on Dashboard and List no longer disappear when refreshing
A future update will remove support for iOS 16. To continue getting updates to Ryuusei, please consider updating iOS if possible.
2.8 12/08/2024
I'm excited to announce some big, often-requested features in this version Ryuusei:
- Push notifications for all AniList notifications! To enable them: go to the Notifications tab, press the settings button at the top of the screen, then turn on the "Push Notifications" switch. You can also customize push notifications based on what kind of notification you've received (such as mentions, replies, likes, etc.)
- Opening & ending song info for anime! Tap the "Songs" button on an Anime Detail screen to view the OPs and EDs for that anime. You can easily copy info like titles and artists, and find links to multiple music streaming services (when available).
Both of these features are available with Stargazer, a new in-app subscription. These new features require me to run a backend server, which costs me money on an ongoing basis.
Don't worry if in-app purchases aren't your thing! All existing features will remain free, and I'll continue adding new features for free as well.
Over time I'll be adding more features to Stargazer. I hope you'll give it a try!
Questions about Stargazer? Please check out the help page here: https://ryuusei.moe/help/stargazer/
2.7 10/11/2024
This update has a few improvements and fixes:
- You can now pull to refresh profile pages, and the Profile tab will refresh itself occasionally
- Added a "System Status" link in the Help screen where I can communicate about backend outages (you can also visit it directly: https://status.ryuusei.moe)
- Improved handling of errors if AniList is down or blocks your IP address
- Fixed a crash that could occur if logging in fails
2.6.2 09/04/2024
This update has a couple of improvements and fixes:
- You can now track manga volumes read on the Dashboard
- (Hopefully) Fix the Airing Schedule widget sometimes being completely blank / empty
- A couple of under the hood improvements related to error logging
2.6.1 05/29/2024
This update adds system notifications for airing anime episodes, plus other improvements and bug fixes:
- System notifications for airing anime episodes! Go to the Notifications tab to turn these on if you'd like. Tap the settings button in that tab to change whether the notifications make sound or light up the screen.
- Anime on your list in the "Plan to Watch" and "Paused" statuses now appear in the Airing Schedule widget. "Paused" anime episodes always appear, while only episode 1 of "Plan to Watch" anime appears. The widget also shows special indicators for anime in these statuses.
- Fix the Origin Region selector in advanced search showing abbreviations rather than full names
- Fix a crash when expanding More Information on media detail screens after following a deep link (such as from a widget, an AniList link, or the ryuusei:// URL scheme)
- Fix the synopsis and favorite status sometimes not showing correctly on media detail screens after following a deep link
2.6 03/31/2024
This update fixes a couple of bugs:
- Fix a crash when searching for long titles on the List screen
- Fix a situation where the AniList session could expire without showing a message asking you to log back in
2.5.1 02/29/2024
This update includes new features around studios and Shortcuts, improvements to search and Dashboard & List sorting, and various bug fixes.
New features and improvements:
- Studio Details! Tap on a studio from an Anime Detail page or use Search. See all the anime a studio was involved in and mark the studio as a favorite. Open links to studios on AniList.co from your clipboard like other AniList links.
- New App Shortcut to start a search! Quickly start a search using the Shortcuts app, Siri, or from Spotlight (iOS 17). You can even create your own Shortcut using the action to do things like highlight text on the web and immediately start a search in Ryuusei with it! (App Shortcuts are available on iOS 16 and up.)
- The app icon now has a quick link to get to the Search screen. Long-press / 3D Touch on the app icon on your Home Screen or App Library to try it out!
- Added the ability to search for characters and users
- Genres on Details screens can now be tapped to browse top anime/manga with that genre
- Tags can now be tapped to browse top anime/manga with that tag. For tags that are typically spoilers, a warning is shown first. Long pressing a tag gives the option to view a description of the tag.
- The Dashboard and List can now be sorted by when items were added to your list
- The Dashboard can now be sorted by next airing episode
- Improved the layout of the Help & Feedback screen
Bug fixes:
- Fixed: the Airing Schedule widget did not update when Ryuusei was re-opened after an anime aired and the anime had a new episode upcoming
- Fixed: Anime and Manga Detail screens could send unnecessary requests when the app was re-opened, which in some cases caused AniList to rate limit you
- Fixed: tapping on a user's avatar or username could unexpectedly follow/unfollow them
- Fixed: the Dashboard would sometimes briefly show an empty state instead of a loading state when the app was first launched
- Fixed: section headers on Details screens were partially off-screen when using certain iPhones in landscape orientation
This is the last major version of Ryuusei that will support iOS 15. If possible, please consider upgrading to continue getting new features.
2.5 12/15/2023
This update has widgets and new features for keeping track of when upcoming episodes of anime are airing!
• Home Screen widget for airing schedule! This widget displays upcoming episodes of shows you're currently watching.
• If an anime has an upcoming episode, the time until it airs is shown on the Dashboard and on the anime's Detail page. When you're on the Detail page, you can tap to see the exact time.
2.4 09/08/2023
Back with a few more bug fixes!
• Fixed a login failure when your lists were empty (like for new AniList users!)
• Fixed Recommendations page sometimes sending too many requests to AniList
2.3.3 07/04/2023
This update fixes a couple crashes and other issues:
• Fix crashes on Notifications screen
• Fix missing unread markers on notifications in certain situations
• Fix refresh animation immediately ending when refreshing notifications
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Sometimes things go slower than we'd like, or they don't work correctly. This version of Ryuusei improves how the app handles a bunch of situations like those!
• Improved performance when quickly making multiple changes to a list item. Previously, if AniList or your connection was running slow, sometimes your changes would seem to be reverted or otherwise not end up how you'd expect. This is fixed!
• If Ryuusei is suspended in the background and you make changes to your list on another device or on the AniList website, when you open Ryuusei again it now automatically refreshes your list data
• Data on the Discover page is automatically refreshed after a day or so
• Loading indicators are shown when updating the status of an item on your list, and when updating the progress or score of an item is going a bit slow
• Refreshing the Notifications tab no longer clears out the list, which looked weird and occasionally resulted in showing the wrong data after the refresh was done
• Added specific error messages for when requests are being rate limited by AniList and when an item cannot be found
• Improved error messages throughout the app. Error popups are less wordy, and error banners give more information about the problem.
• Greatly improved performance when loading large lists
• Shortened the amount of time the app will wait for network requests to finish
• Viewing the Profile tab while the app is still busy logging in now shows a loading indicator instead of incorrectly showing a Log In button
• Fixed an issue where viewing enlarged cover images on iPad while using multitasking modes would display the image incorrectly
• Fixed crash on Discover pages when loading indicators were tapped
2.3.2 06/25/2023
This update fixes a crash on the Notifications page when reopening the app. It also improves the error message that's shown when a user is not found.
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Sometimes things go slower than we'd like, or they don't work correctly. This version of Ryuusei improves how the app handles a bunch of situations like those!
• Improved performance when quickly making multiple changes to a list item. Previously, if AniList or your connection was running slow, sometimes your changes would seem to be reverted or otherwise not end up how you'd expect. This is fixed!
• If Ryuusei is suspended in the background and you make changes to your list on another device or on the AniList website, when you open Ryuusei again it now automatically refreshes your list data
• Data on the Discover page is automatically refreshed after a day or so
• Loading indicators are shown when updating the status of an item on your list, and when updating the progress or score of an item is going a bit slow
• Refreshing the Notifications tab no longer clears out the list, which looked weird and occasionally resulted in showing the wrong data after the refresh was done
• Added specific error messages for when requests are being rate limited by AniList and when an item cannot be found
• Improved error messages throughout the app. Error popups are less wordy, and error banners give more information about the problem.
• Greatly improved performance when loading large lists
• Shortened the amount of time the app will wait for network requests to finish
• Viewing the Profile tab while the app is still busy logging in now shows a loading indicator instead of incorrectly showing a Log In button
• Fixed an issue where viewing enlarged cover images on iPad while using multitasking modes would display the image incorrectly
• Fixed crash on Discover pages when loading indicators were tapped
2.3.1 06/17/2023
Sometimes things go slower than we'd like, or they don't work correctly. This version of Ryuusei improves how the app handles a bunch of situations like those!
• Improved performance when quickly making multiple changes to a list item. Previously, if AniList or your connection was running slow, sometimes your changes would seem to be reverted or otherwise not end up how you'd expect. This is fixed!
• If Ryuusei is suspended in the background and you make changes to your list on another device or on the AniList website, when you open Ryuusei again it now automatically refreshes your list data
• Data on the Discover page is automatically refreshed after a day or so
• Loading indicators are shown when updating the status of an item on your list, and when updating the progress or score of an item is going a bit slow
• Refreshing the Notifications tab no longer clears out the list, which looked weird and occasionally resulted in showing the wrong data after the refresh was done
• Added specific error messages for when requests are being rate limited by AniList and when an item cannot be found
• Improved error messages throughout the app. Error popups are less wordy, and error banners give more information about the problem.
• Greatly improved performance when loading large lists
• Shortened the amount of time the app will wait for network requests to finish
• Viewing the Profile tab while the app is still busy logging in now shows a loading indicator instead of incorrectly showing a Log In button
• Fixed an issue where viewing enlarged cover images on iPad while using multitasking modes would display the image incorrectly
• Fixed crash on Discover pages when loading indicators were tapped
2.3 06/11/2023
This update has a few big new features (advanced search and rich text!), plus other smaller improvements and bug fixes:
• Advanced search! Use advanced search to find anime and manga based on season, genres, publishing status, region, whether it's already on your list, and more.
• Ryuusei now supports the majority of rich text formatting features on AniList! No more «br», ~!spoilers!~, and so on! Links that Ryuusei can open are opened directly in the app. Spoilers have first-class support, expanding inline when tapped.
• Titles and "more information" on anime, manga, staff, and character detail screens can now be copied! Long-press on the text to show the copy button.
• Discover Anime now has a section for "next season," and Discover Manga now has a section for "Trending"
• Character biographies are now included on character details pages. I had been holding off since those can have a lot of spoilers on them. Now that Ryuusei supports rich text, it was a great time to add character bios!
• The general design of the Discover page has been cleaned up
• Fixed a crash on newer versions of iPadOS 16 when trying to share a user profile
• Pressing the Favorite button on staff and character details now correctly asks you to log in if you aren't already
• Possible fix for a rare situation where cover images could show images belonging to the wrong item
• Incredibly minor tweak to navigation bar button alignment
2.2 03/27/2023
This update contains small improvements and bug fixes:
• Anime and manga detail pages now show origin region under More Information if the media originates from somewhere other than Japan
• The Discover page should load a little faster on slow internet connections
• Fix an issue where recommendations could sometimes fail to load
• Fix a couple of situations where notifications could fail to load
• Minor under the hood improvements to error logging
2.1.1 02/09/2023
- Fixed a crash when tapping on “No information available” rows on media detail screens
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