I use Anilist. It has a nice clean and user friendly interface. The progressive web app also works well on my device.
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 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.
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.
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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.
Anilist.
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 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 moved to Anilist when MAL went down for several months a few years ago. I never looked back, its nice there.
None (I forget to keep watching stuff halfway through the season)
started using anilist during that time MAL went down in 2018; liked the sleek interface, the choice in rating systems, the GraphQL API… i transfered my data over and never looked back.
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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.
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.
I use MyAnimeList, but I’m actually going to attempt to write my own soon enough using Laravel and Vue. I was planning on starting this week, but I’ve been completely knocked out with a viral infection, so I dunno when I will start on it, but I do plan on working on it at some point even though I seem to keep delaying it it’s still something I really want lol.
