I use Anilist. It has a nice clean and user friendly interface. The progressive web app also works well on my device.
Anilist.
Anilist
I use AniList. I also have automatic tracking in Tachiyomi and on my Jellyfin server through a plugin. There’s also a browser addon for that called MAL-Sync, which I used before. Without automatic tracking I’d be too lazy or forget to update my progress.
I use Anilist because the iOS App is great
I switched from MAL to AniList a while back. I think it was back during the API outage, got tired of not having apps for tracking and wanted something with a more modern interface.
AniList is great, though I will say the more modern UI also made the page loading a bit more sluggish.
I’ve been using MAL, but it’s just until I find a good replacement. And by “good” I mean that data is stored locally, like the one from All Mangas Reader.
Might Taiga be anywhere close to what you’re looking for? It’s a desktop client for MAL, Anilist or Kitsu so it does require at least one of them as a backend, but it also stores your list offline in an editable form. For example if you make edits without internet connection, you can sync them back later. You can’t add new shows offline since it needs to fetch the data from those services but you can edit watched counts and scores.
IDK, I just have MAL up, but I don’t “track” anime really. I use MAL to try and get some idea what a show is about. And I read a few of the reviews.
If you use any other tracking software, I would love to hear about it.
Been using Anilist ever since I went on the hunt for an android app with a decent UI. Otraku is what I use now
I’ve also migrated to Anilist form MAL some years ago, but personally I’ve never missed having a dedicated app as Anilist’s website works really well with mobile browsers.
Overall I just hate the “appification” where people put out a mobile app with no functionality that wasn’t already possible to do just as well in the browser. Not everything needs to be its own app.
…but either way, Anilist has a great API, which means you can use any app you desire, best of both worlds.
I used MAL through the MyAniList app (not to be confused with MAL) but switched to AniList during the api outage in 2018. Nowadays I mainly track manga and anime automatically through tachiyomiJ2K and aniyomi respectively so I don’t interact directly with AniList much, apart from browsing upcoming anime and discovering other series from writers, seiyuus, mangakas etc.
I use both, if MAL is down there is always Anilist to keep my episodes tracked.
I use both Anime-Planet and MAL.
I joined Anime-Planet one time MAL had an outage, I think. Both sites have their advantages. A-P has a very rich database of tags, for both anime and characters, and also has a personal feed history that stretches back way longer than MAL’s does. On the other hand, MAL includes metadata fields for when I started/finished watching something, and has some third-party sites that integrate with it, such as anime.plus, which I use to see stats on how much I’ve watched and when and how I’ve rated things.
So, for now, I just use both at the same time.
I once tried Kitsu, back when it was called Hummingbird, but I wasn’t very satisfied with it. Haven’t ever tried AniList or AniDB.
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Using MAL because I don’t have any reason to change. Also like the older aesthetics and the ability to edit the CSS directly.
The biggest thing is being able to use decimal places in ratings. I can’t believe MAL still hasn’t added that after all these years. When I first imported my data I ended up moving a bunch of my 10s to 9.5 and so on because MAL had forced me to round up or down all the time.
Hmmm you do have a point in that. Yeah that would be a great feature!
Anilist plus taiga. Moved from mal do to it going down for like 2 weeks a couple years back. I can’t remember why it went down but I fully converted to anilist because of it.
