I use Anilist. It has a nice clean and user friendly interface. The progressive web app also works well on my device.
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’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.
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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.
I used to use 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 used to use MAL but switched to AL when MAL wasn’t listing a lot of Korean webtoons that I was reading since the start of the pandemic.
I use a FOSS alternative to MAL, kitsu.io
Is there any “real” benefit to using it over MAL or anilist though? The main (and sole) public instance is riddled with more social media trackers than MAL itself.
I’ve been eyeing Ani.db, which is not open source to my knowledge but its barebones enough to not have trackers, but it doesnt work with MALsync.
Anilist
I use anime-planet, just because it was the first thing I found back in the day and I’m not switching now. The scoring systems is a bit limited, using the five stars (essentially just 1-10). I do like the simple design, makes it very clear where everything is, and your profile has a nice big overview of how much of your life you have wasted :D
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
Anilist after the MAL hack a few years back. Nice aesthetics are a plus for sure
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Anilist.
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.
