How Shiori works

Search for a title, or browse the catalog by genre, year or format. The Catalog and Seasonal switch at the top of the catalog changes between all anime and this season’s collection.

You can sort the results.

The catalog can have gaps, and viewing links are not checked for your region.

Open the calendar to see anime day by day, in your own time zone.

Times are original broadcast times from AniList.

Streaming availability and release times can vary by region and service.

Drag the anime card left for Not for me or right for Interested; mouse and touch both work.

• You can also use the buttons.
• For you ranks anime using titles you have watched and your explicit choices. With no watch history, start with Catalog picks, which do not use those taste signals.
• Interested alone does not add a title to your list; Add to list creates a Plan to watch entry.
• Guest choices and Catalog picks last only for this visit. Signed-in For you choices last 90 days, appear in your data export and are deleted with your account.
• Suggestions does not save which cards you viewed; this tab only remembers your place in the current round, so Back returns you to it.

Pick a status, then save episode progress and a title rating. Ratings stay private.

• The statuses are Watching, Plan to watch, Completed, On hold and Dropped.
• Your list rows follow your profile visibility choices.
• On a poster, the bookmark ribbon shows your saved status; when signed in, quick-add saves a title without leaving the page.
• On My list, Bulk update applies one status or progress action to selected rows; Select all applies only to this page.

Keep watching puts your in-progress titles within reach. Use +1 to log an episode; Undo can reverse it.

Turn on alerts for a title that is airing, from its page or the bell on its card. New episodes appear under the bell.

• Optional episode alerts distinguish episodes confirmed by members from estimates, and do not promise an air time.
• Based on the available broadcast schedule. Times may change, and regional streaming releases may differ.
• You can also get alerts by e-mail; choose that in Notifications settings.

Finish the story can surface a sequel from your Home shelf and Completed list. Add it to Plan to watch or choose Not interested.

Suggestions depend on catalog relationships, so some gaps will have no match.

A title’s Watch order can show how its series and films connect.

Choose a time to see how many whole episodes of one title fit. Missing episode lengths are never guessed.

• Tonight offers titles from Plan to watch, follow-ups and catalog picks.
• Refresh picks changes the suggestions; the arrows browse the current set.
• Titles in progress show their fit in Keep watching.

The optional episode planner is browser-only: episode scores and your budget stay on this device.

It estimates a series using listed episodes and your pace; it is not a release calendar or a combined Tonight itinerary.

Your Taste page and the Season passport are private pages built from your list.

• Your Taste page is private and summarizes your ratings once you have rated at least 10 titles. Score comparisons appear when at least 10 eligible rated titles also have catalog scores.
• The Season passport is private too: completed titles fill each season according to its notable titles. “Best you missed” shows first entries; later sequels belong in Finish the story.

Account has one panel for each job: sign-in methods, two-step sign-in, e-mail, support and your data. Each panel opens a short “What you can do here”.

While there are steps left, a Set up your account checklist at the top shows your progress and links to each step. It checks itself off as you go, and you can hide it; this browser remembers that.

In Profile, choose a display name and an avatar: an original one, a character, an anime cover or one you draw.

A cover banner can be an original banner or artwork from an anime.

Profiles start private. Make yours public if you like, and follow members to see titles they add or update in Activity.

You choose what your profile shows: collection counts, your anime list and your activity.

Rating numbers stay private.

You can block or report anyone.

Pick up to 10 titles from your list and put them in order. They appear first on your public profile; with fewer than 10 it is called Top picks.

Only titles appear, never ratings. If your anime list is hidden, your Top 10 is hidden too.

You can sign in with an e-mail and password, with Google, or both. Add or change a method in Account.

• Two-step sign-in asks for a six-digit code from an authenticator app after your password or Google, and gives you recovery codes in case you lose your phone.
• If you sign in only with Google, two-step sign-in is not offered: Google protects the sign-in.

Share on Your taste, on a Season passport and on your Profile makes a card you can save as an image or copy as text. The card is drawn in your browser and you choose what goes on it. Scores on a taste or season card stay off unless you turn them on; a profile card never shows ratings.

On your profile, the Link tab has Copy link, which opens your public profile. If your profile is private, the sheet asks you to confirm before making it public.

Import an anime list .xml file in My list, and export yours at any time.

Every import shows a review first, nothing changes until you confirm, and imports never delete titles.

Appearance, episode-by-episode scores and the optional planner stay on this device. Taste and Season passport are private account pages.

Catalog details come from the open anime-offline-database, Wikidata and Wikipedia. Data can be incomplete; viewing links are not checked for your region.

Signed-in members change background, accent, poster size and motion from Appearance in the account menu (on phones: Profile). Your choices stay in this browser.

Choose English, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French or German from the language menu in the header. Shiori remembers your choice in this browser.

Not yet. Shiori is a free, independent beta. Some things may change or break while we polish it.

Your list can always be taken out: export it from My list, in Import & export.

If something looks wrong, tell us from the feedback form.

On the Feedback page choose one to five stars, from Poor to Great. You can also say what works well and what we should improve; both are optional.