A personal anime library manager for watching and tracking your collection in real time. Lightweight, powerful, and paws-itively fast. No waiting required!
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Shiru is a feature-rich anime library manager built around speed, control, and a seamless viewing experience, with full mobile support. Your files play directly for near-instant playback, giving you full native video performance with no transcoding and no compression.
- 🪟 Windows
- 🐧 Linux
- 🍎 macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel)
- 📱 Android 7.0+ (Nougat)
- 📺 Android TV 7.0+ (remote navigation is a work in progress; mouse, keyboard, or touch recommended)
- 🪄 AniList & MyAnimeList Integration - manage your lists, auto-track progress, rate and score anime, and explore related series, all without leaving the app
- 🎤 Dub-first support - Shiru tracks both dub and sub release schedules independently, with a Prefer Dubs setting that hides series from continue watching until the next dubbed episode is available
- 🔔 Real-time release notifications - instant alerts for new sub, dub, and hentai episode releases, including delayed and batch announcements
- 💬 Full subtitle support - softcoded and external subtitles (VTT, SSA, ASS, SUB, TXT) with per-series subtitle memory, CJK glyph fallback, and in-player track cycling
- 🌐 Extension support - optionally bring your own content sources, such as a personal media server, directly into the app
- 📱 Full mobile support - a complete Android experience with landscape/portrait support, immersive full-screen, external player integration, and progress tracking
- 🎮 Fully customizable keybindings - drag-and-drop keybind editor with extensive default shortcuts for playback, subtitles, navigation, and more
- 📡 Offline support - your library, watch history, and previously loaded media are fully accessible offline, with local file playback and media resolving working entirely without an internet connection
- 🎭 Multiple profiles - separate libraries, settings, and watch lists per profile, with optional cross-profile sync as you watch
- 🖥️ Discord Rich Presence - shows what you're watching, your current progress, and paused/browsing states
- Filter by name, genres, tags, season, year, format, and status
- Manage your watching and planning lists with a built-in list editor
- Automatically mark episodes as completed after watching
- Watch trailers and previews directly in the app
- Rate, score, and explore related anime and recommendations
- Image search to find and identify anime by picture
- Fully customizable home page with user-built sections based on custom genres, tags, and search queries
- Sequels You Missed and Stories You Missed home sections to catch up on related entries
Shiru has one of the most thorough dub tracking systems available. Each series independently tracks its sub and dub release schedules, with per-episode audio labels showing exactly what is available and when.
- Prefer Dubs - a setting that hides series from continue watching if your progress matches the latest aired dub
- Dubbed Audio filter - filters the search page to only show dubbed series, and toggles the airing schedule to show dub air times instead of sub air times for currently airing dubbed series
- Dub, Sub, and Hentai release feeds - live feeds sorted by newest release so you never miss a drop
- Dub and Sub notifications - separate scheduling and tracking for both, including delayed, indefinitely delayed, and batch release announcements
- Audio labels on cards, episode lists, and the banner showing Dub, Sub, or Dual Audio status
Out of the box, Shiru plays files you already have locally. Extensions unlock additional content fetching for legally owned media, such as accessing your own personal media server remotely.
- Automatic series and episode detection from file names
- Support for custom RSS feeds and resolution preferences
- Adjustable network speeds
- Dynamic extension loading, with results appearing as each extension completes rather than waiting for all to finish
- Design and use custom extensions to connect your own content sources
- Real-time alerts for new sub, dub, and hentai episodes
- Delayed and indefinitely delayed episode notifications
- Series announcement notifications for upcoming anime
- In-app notification tray that tracks all alerts regardless of system notification settings
- Notifications are auto-marked as read when the relevant episode is watched
- Notification filtering by list status, so you only get alerted for what you care about
- Optional prefer dubs setting that ensures you are only notified when a dubbed episode is available, falling back to sub only if no dub exists for the series
- Softcoded and external subtitles: VTT, SSA, ASS, SUB, TXT
- Per-series subtitle memory, with your preferred track saved per source, so your choice carries over automatically
- CJK glyph fallback using Noto Sans for missing characters
- Subtitle file selector directly in the player
- Cycle through subtitle tracks with a single key
- Near-instant local file playback with no transcoding or compression
- Automatic thumbnail generation as files buffer, making timeline scrubbing easy even without chapters
- Chapter-aware seekbar with progress indicators and skippable sections (OP, ED, recap, filler)
- Filler and recap detection with a prompt to skip or continue
- Autoplay next episode with fast episode transitions
- Multi-audio track support with descriptive labels
- Picture-in-Picture (PiP) mode
- Miniplayer with drag, resize, and auto-hide on pause
- Volume boost beyond 100% (desktop)
- Discord Rich Presence showing title, episode, and playback progress
- External player support on both Android and desktop
- Built-in file manager for viewing all files, with the ability to manually correct misidentified series names and episode numbers
All keybinds are fully customizable via drag-and-drop in the keybinds UI (`).
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
S |
Skip opening (seek forward 90s) |
R |
Seek backwards 90s |
→ / ← |
Seek forward / backward 2 seconds |
↑ / ↓ / Scroll |
Increase / decrease volume |
M |
Mute |
C |
Cycle subtitle tracks |
F |
Toggle fullscreen |
P |
Toggle Picture-in-Picture |
N / B |
Next / previous episode or file |
O |
View anime details |
V |
Toggle volume limit boost |
[ / ] |
Increase / decrease playback speed |
\ |
Reset playback speed |
I |
Show video stats |
H |
Open file manager |
, / Shift+, |
Subtitle delay -0.1s / -1.0s |
. / Shift+. |
Subtitle delay +0.1s / +1.0s |
` |
Open keybinds editor |
paru -S shiruOr if you use yay:
yay -S shiru-
🔗 Download the
linux-Shiru-version.debfrom the releases page. -
📦 Install using the package manager:
apt install linux-Shiru-*.deb
For Windows 10 1809 or later, or Windows 11:
winget install shiru- 🔗 Download from the releases page:
- Installer:
win-Shiru-vx.x.x-installer.exe - Portable:
win-Shiru-vx.x.x-portable.exe(No installation required, just run it)
- Installer:
Credit to NoCrypt for doing the legwork on this.
- PNPM (or any package manager)
- NodeJS 22.21.1
- Visual Studio 2022 (if on Windows)
- Docker (with WSL on Windows)
- ADB & Android Studio (SDK 34)
- Java 21 (JDK)
- Navigate to the Electron directory:
cd electron - Install dependencies:
pnpm install
- Start development:
pnpm start
- Build for release:
pnpm build
- Navigate to the Capacitor directory:
cd capacitor - Install dependencies:
pnpm install
- Run the doctor to check for missing dependencies:
pnpm exec cap doctor - (First time only) Build native code:
- Windows:
pnpm build:native-win
- Linux:
pnpm build:native
- Windows:
- (Optional) Generate assets:
pnpm build:assets
- Open the Android project:
pnpm exec cap open android - Connect your device with ADB and start development:
pnpm dev:start
- Build the app for release (APK will not be signed):
pnpm build:app
This project follows the GPLv3 License.
