WotakuSoftware
Apps and programs for your various devices to watch or read stuff. Covering all the operating systems.
Android
- Aniyomi WebPreview
- Unofficial Tachiyomi fork for anime
- ⚠️ Use preview version for better experience (& the stable version is quite outdated)
- Clean and minimal design
- Offers other types of media too including manga
- Tracking support with enhanced type
- Good amount of extensions are broken
- Cloudstream Web
- Minimalist Customizable UI
- Offers other types of media too
- Tracking & backup support
- Local player support
- Extensions often break
- Dantotsu Web
- App is based on saikou, uses tachiyomi & aniyomi plugins
- ⚠️ App is alpha. So there are optimzation & stability issues
- Decent UI but limited customization
- Can be used offline
- Also offers manga reader
- Anilist and MAL sync
PC
Manga
- Houdoku winmaclin
- Easy to setup
- Good Customizable UI
- Has good amount of extensions
- Tracker integration
- Can download manga
- Tachidesk winmaclin
- Uses the same extensions and backups as tachiyomi so good extension support
- UI is same as tachiyomi
- Can download manga
- No tracker integration
Clients
- Tachidesk base
- lots of sources to pick from
- basic settings for reading
- lacks basic reader features
- complicated requirements such as JAVA
- Sorayomi
- Needs Tachidesk server to work
- Minimal and easy to use
- insufficient features
- loads slowly (depends on your internet)
- Tachidesk JUI
- Needs Tachidesk server to work
- Batch downloading manga
- new tab window while stream reading
Anime
- Miru Web
- Torrent based
- Pretty good UI with schedule and advanced search
- Has AL tracking and RSS feed
- Can stream external magnet link and it'll auto detect the anime.
Novel
iOS
- 9Animator
- Decent UI with extension integration
- Casting & notification support
- Tracking support
- Downloading episode available
- Small number of extensions
- Only available trough sideloading
Downloader
- Hakuneko
- No Crunchyroll implementation
- You have to index each site first, which takes quite a long time, after that the search is almost instant, but loading episodes for anime again takes some time depending on the source.
- Not a great interface, but it does the job, and you can tell it is more thought out for manga.
- Not too many anime sources, some of them do not work.
- Hakuneko 7 working sources, 1 is nsfw
- animdl
- No UI, terminal based
- Easy to use once installed
- Not too many anime sources, some of them do not work.
- AnimDL 7 working sources, 1 is nsfw
- ADL
- No UI, terminal based
- "Complicated" installation, especially on Windows
- Uses many different scripts, including animedl, so lots of functionality
- Tracking capability & many more
- Same amount of sources as AnimDL
- Crunchy-cli
- No UI, terminal based
- "Simple" installation
- Crunchyroll account required, Premium if you want all the anime available
- No streaming, only download
- Crunchyroll Downloader v3.0
- Straightforward UI
- Easy to use
- Crunchyroll account required if you want premium content
- About the same functionality as Crunchy-cli
- No streaming, only download
- Nyaa Downloader
- Runs via terminal, has a pretty simple UI
- Used for torrent downloads that can be redirected/downloaded directly into a BitTorrent client - no DDL functionality
- for nyaa.si only