# Anime boxes — user reviews > 129 indexed App Store user reviews of Anime boxes by Bisimplex Technologies, rated 4.57/5 from 325 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/anime-boxes/id525540312/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/anime-boxes/id525540312.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 254 · 4★ 32 · 3★ 10 · 2★ 11 · 1★ 14 ## What do users think of Anime boxes? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Efficient browsing - 👍 Great for finding anime art - 🔒 Secure and private - 💡 Ability to add custom servers **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs - 🔍 Inconsistent search results - 📥 Issues with saving/downloading images - 🔌 High battery consumption **Commonly reported bugs** - Login errors - Images failing to load - Webm playback issues - Disappearing 'save' buttons **Most requested features** - Add support for more image boards - Sync favorites across devices - Customizable categories for favorites - Sort by date/score for 'Hot Now' feature - Option to disable content filters ## Newest reviews (13 of 129) ### 3/5 — Not a fan of the newest update *2026-03-10* Personally I did not like the newest update that came out in which the home pins was reworked. I do not like that now pins do not show the images from the pin but now you have to click on them for it to load which is counterintuitive in my opinion. If not for this update I would rate the app a 5. It would be appreciated if there was a reversal or a way to change the home pins back to the older version. ### 4/5 — Pin Previews *2026-03-08, version 1.8.7* I adore this app and have for years, I hope to amend my review to 5 stars if they can add pin previews back, as the removal of them is not as good of a change. ### 4/5 — If a video *2023-10-22, version 1.8.2* Was the last thing shown before you left the app, the audio will still be playing before they enter the PIN code… might have to do with stream mode? ### 4/5 — Almost 5 Stars *2022-12-04, version 1.8* It’s a wonderful app, I can even use it for r34, but only paheal and not the original site. Will change once updated ### 3/5 — It just won’t work anymore! *2022-07-03* Okay, this is an amazing app! But there is a problem that puts it down from five to three for me. I have had this app for around a year or a couple of months. I used to open this app all of the time for pictures on my IPhone for fun! Though, recently I have stopped using it. A week or two ago I opened it back up, but kept getting error messages or the “not found” but I could’ve sworn when I used it there was a whole bunch. I just decided to leave it alone for a bit, assuming it was some type of glitch. I opened the app back up today, and I wanted to see if it fixed up and I could use the app again. And guess what? The same problem was still there but this time.. the error messages wasn’t there and it was just the “not found” message everywhere but my favorites! I decided to mess around with it and see if it would fix up anything. So after re-installations, iPhone restarts, checking typos, and trying everything I could think of into the search… Nothing was fixed… So now I’m left with some sorta probably corrupted (or at least glitched or broken) app. If you guys read through this whole thing, thanks so much for your time! But did anyone else issue my problem? ### 2/5 — Great app *2022-03-07, version 1.7.7* Great app. Been using for years. Recent update has made it where I can’t play WEBM videos. ### 3/5 — Great viewer, Odd content loading issue *2021-06-04* So this booru viewer is pretty good, looks great and native thanks to swiftUI Gets the job done at displaying images from various boorus and makes browsing boorus on mobile just easier in general However there is one issue that makes this app difficult to practically use, it would seem there’s a content loading issue where some content for some reason just doesn’t show up, you’ll search for something on a booru within anime boxes and get no results back and then search on the official booru site and get back plenty of results Or you’ll search for something on a booru within anime boxes and only get back limited results with a bunch of images that don’t even show up in the results and go to the booru site and search the same thing and get back many more results If this one issue got fixed anime boxes would be my favorite way to browse anime images But as it stands I hope the developer fixes this issue I know this is an old app, but it’s one that definitely still holds up today and deserves some fixes ### 4/5 — Works nice *2020-12-19, version 1.7.3* Would be nice if it also supported safebooru however ### 5/5 — Great App, Slow Updates *2020-09-23* I’ve been using this app for a solid 3-4 years now, and when I first started using it, it was very slow, clunky and didn’t load right half the time. Then they started updating it and it got way better very fast, then with the last update before this newest one it got slower before the latest version where it’s the fastest it’s ever been. The only issue I’m having now is after the iOS 14 update it causes a complete system crash when loading any webm format videos. Not sure what the cause is, but other than that I can’t recommend this app enough. ### 5/5 — Make Artists Names Clearer *2020-09-01* I would love an update where you make artists clearer *different colour* from the rest of the tags. Thanks for your continuous app support. ### 3/5 — Prefer the old interface *2020-08-25, version 1.7.2* I prefer the old interface and black background. Please make option to go back to that. ### 5/5 — Great App! Need option to sort favorites by random *2020-06-29* App is pretty much perfect, save for not being able to load an image now and again. One feature I'd really like is if you could sort the favorites saved by random instead of just score and date. ### 5/5 — Rule 34 browser on phone *2020-04-28, version 1.7* What else is there to say you can get all the nage boorus ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Bring back pin previews *2026-03-07, version 1.8.7* Newest update removes pinned previews, horrible change. ### 1/5 — Useless trash *2026-02-14, version 1.8.6* App doesn’t work it’s just trash doesn’t work. Nothing pops up ### 1/5 — Not working anymore *2025-12-20, version 1.8.6* Please fix it it doesnt work no picture ### 1/5 — Doesn't do anything *2023-03-13* App doesn't do a thing. Tried all kinds of searches, tried changing servers, changing settings, logging in and out. Literally every search just pulls up "no results" and the "help" section is absolutely useless. There's nothing in my settings that's blocking anything. Can you maybe put something in the help section on how to actually get an image to show up when you search tags?? Maybe basic instructions for a first time user? ### 1/5 — Secret porn app *2022-10-10, version 1.7.9* This app allows the user to not only view xxx content but also sneak past subscriptions for the sites, if you know where you going this app is illegal. ### 1/5 — Leaks your searches *2022-02-22, version 1.7.7* Tags in your searches are sent unencrypted to the developers servers for autocompletion. Even for private boorus ### 1/5 — Latest update RUINED this app! *2020-09-09, version 1.7.2* Latest update made app unusable... it did not just change few things about it, it got changed to the point of looking and operating like something completely different... it is now impossible to freely browse images and save tags. I just want to ask developers - why would you destroy your own app like this? ### 1/5 — Was almost perfect, now unusable *2019-06-18, version 1.6.4* Ever since the app went 64 bit only, I've been unable to use it due to my old iPad, which is a shame as this was the only good imageboard app available. ### 1/5 — Invalid credentials *2018-01-21, version 1.6.1* Please fix the inability to log in!! ### 1/5 — Update broke everything *2017-12-21, version 1.6* I can't even get to the search bar anymore because it is hidden by the boarder much less do anything else. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Newest NEWEST Update *2026-03-24, version 1.8.8* The newest update released *today* is perfect. ### 5/5 — Doesn't seem to be working *2026-01-20* As of 2026, this doesn't seem to work, at least for shimmie2 ru sites. Whenever I search for a tag it hits me with "30 posts were blocked by local filters." ### 5/5 — Feature Request *2025-03-26* Love the app. Is there any way to add the “OR” function to searches? This would be an awesome addition. ### 5/5 — Woooow *2025-01-17* This app is a game changer. I’ve been using Pixiv and Sankaku for years and they have huge flaws like ads, restrictions and paid subscriptions. This app however is incredible! If you put a source and it says “404 no results”, toggle the restricted content when adding servers! Of course not all servers work, but the ones that do is 99% of the content. ### 5/5 — i would be lost on ios without this *2023-12-07, version 1.8.2* booru client absolutely required for someone terminally online like me. highly recommend ### 5/5 — Love it *2023-11-27, version 1.8.2* Best booru browser ### 5/5 — Excellent Quality *2022-11-08, version 1.8* I have probably opened this app eeeeee… 621 times 😇 ### 5/5 — Really great app *2022-10-06* Honestly the best image board browser I’ve used on any platform desktop or mobile. One neat thing that i think the dev can do is from your pinned favorite tags; is to make a single gallery that generates from said pined tags. ### 5/5 — Works Great *2022-01-20, version 1.7.7* Does exactly what you want it to. ### 5/5 — Good but… *2022-01-09* I’m a long time user of this app and it is amazing for finding cool wallpaper. But here recently the whole app has started to act up images don’t show up at all and if they do it says unknown file-can’t detect file size. Please help and I’ll bump it back up to 5 stars! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-24.*