search, watch, and download anime

A desktop GUI, not a browser tab or an Electron wrapper. Resume-from-timestamp, AniList sync, Discord Rich Presence, and a manga/comic/ebook reader in the same binary.

rust / egui · linux & windows

continue watching

Cowboy Bebop

ep 5 · 46%

Made in Abyss

ep 11 · 12%

Mushishi

ep 3 · 78%

Vinland Saga

ep 18 · 5%

what it does

A discover dashboard -- Continue Watching, Trending, and Popular rows, click a cover to jump straight to search -- then an episode list, then play, with resume-from-timestamp. AniList tracker sync and Discord Rich Presence built in, not bolted on after.

This is a full Rust rewrite of an earlier Python/PyQt6 version, not a port. Confirmed the actual perf gap before claiming one: same egui code, unoptimized debug build vs. release, showed multi-second slow-frame stalls decoding cover art on startup in debug and zero in release.

sources

anidb.app

default, scraped directly via curl-impersonate

aniwatchtv.to

search and episode listing work; stream resolution not implemented, tracked in TODO.txt

nyaa.si

torrent RSS search, streamed through qbittorrent-nox or downloaded fully for offline viewing

playback & downloads

mpv / VLC

switchable from the top bar, mpv over JSON IPC, VLC over its HTTP control interface with a fresh random port and password every launch

downloads

ffmpeg remuxes HLS to mp4, live percent/ETA from ffmpeg's own progress pipe, cancellable

library

what's already saved plays with no source or network needed at all, including files dropped in manually

sync & presence

AniList

two-way; optional push on finishing an episode, off by default, pull happens automatically once connected

Discord

cover art, live elapsed time, and a watch link during playback, plus a manual movie/TV tracker for anything watched outside aniani

manga & book reader

CBZ, CBR, PDF, and EPUB from disk, plus MangaDex's own public, documented API -- in the same app, not a separate tool.

shows & movies tracker

For anything watched outside aniani's own sources: manual title/season/episode, cover art from TVMaze or Wikipedia, Discord presence with live position if VLC's HTTP interface is reachable, and an optional watch link built from a TMDB lookup.

install

Grab the latest build from Releases -- Windows gets aniani.exe, Linux gets a tarball. Either way you'll also want mpv/vlc, ffmpeg, curl_chrome136, and qbittorrent-nox on PATH. Building from source instead:

# clone and build
git clone --branch rust-remake https://github.com/arshnah/aniani.git
cd aniani
cargo build --release

Built and daily-driven on Linux (Arch/Hyprland). Windows compiles and runs on real hardware, confirmed on two separate machines. macOS is untested and not a current target.