AniPlay is a modern, open-source mobile anime streaming client designed for Android devices. Built using a hybrid web-native architecture (React + Vite + Capacitor), it offers a fluid, glassmorphic UI, responsive controls, and high-performance video playback.
AniPlay provides a sleek, modern, and intuitive user interface designed to match major streaming platforms. Below is an overview of the key screens and features:
| Welcome & Onboarding | Spotlight & Home | Discovery Feed |
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| Welcome Screen A stunning glassmorphic intro screen featuring a blurred collage of popular anime art, prompting guest access ("Watch now") or credentials sign-in. |
Featured Spotlight An immersive home banner highlighting trending titles (e.g. Solo Leveling) with dynamic context-aware backgrounds, quick list-adds, and recent episode updates. |
Content Discovery Scrolled home view detailing Top Airing, Airing This Week, and Popular This Season grids with clear video quality (HD) and rating indicators. |
| Upcoming Release Schedule | Advanced Video Player |
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| Release Calendar A chronological, timezone-aware calendar displaying upcoming episode releases, integrated with AniList metadata and quick watchlist actions. |
HLS Video Player & Episode Hub Feature-packed media player with double-tap seek, fit options, sub/dub selectors, multi-source streaming routes (e.g. AniHD1, Neko, Waves), and a scrolling episode drawer. |
- 🎭 Elegant UI & Fluid Animations: Modern, dark-themed user interface utilizing curated indigo/violet accent gradients, responsive carousels, and micro-interactions.
- 💾 Native Device Storage (Capacitor Preferences): Save watchlist details, favorites, and track precise watch history directly to the native Android SharedPreferences database (cache-wipe proof).
- 📺 High-Performance HLS Player: Custom HTML5 media player tailored for mobile touchscreens, featuring double-tap seek, automatic orientation locking/unlocking, gesture controls, and clean error states.
- 📡 Dynamic Server Aggregation: Fetches and aggregates public streams on-demand, automatically parsing subtitle tracks, available resolutions, and host metadata. Designed with a zero-trust architecture that never stores user credentials locally.
- 🔄 Serverless Live Updates: Built-in background update checker that compares installed versions against GitHub releases, enabling remote updates and domain hot-swaps instantly.
- 📅 Adaptive Schedule Feed: Fully integrated with the AniList GraphQL API to fetch upcoming episode releases, schedules, and metadata.
AniPlay is built on the Capacitor WebView Bridge standard:
- UI Layer: React Single Page Application (SPA) powered by Vite.
- Styling: Vanilla CSS utilizing custom properties and modern layout elements (Flexbox/CSS Grid).
- Native Integration: Capacitor plugins for hardware lifecycle hooks, status bar overlay, device orientation locks, and native SharedPreferences database access.
To run AniPlay on your Android phone, download the latest build from the Releases tab:
- Go to the Releases page.
- Download the app-release.apk file.
- Open the downloaded file on your Android device.
- Enable "Install from Unknown Sources" if prompted by your system.
- Tap Install and launch AniPlay!
AniPlay values your privacy:
- All favorites, watch history, and playlists are stored locally on your device.
- No personal data or user accounts are sent to external databases.
- Streaming connections are requested directly to aggregation endpoints, keeping the user interface completely independent.