anilime vs Floatplane
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
anilime
Manage your anime and manga lists directly from your iPhone or iPad. This application synchronizes with your AniList account, allowing you to keep track of your progress and preferences.
- AniList account management
- Track anime progress
- Track manga progress
- iPhone and iPad support
- Syncs with AniList.co
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anilime lets you manage your AniList (https://anilist.co) account from your iPhone or iPad.
Floatplane
This platform allows users to support content creators directly, offering an ad-free and high-quality video viewing experience. The mobile app extends this premium content access to users on the go.
- Ad-free viewing
- High-quality video
- Support content creators
- Personal premium experience
- Mobile access
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Say hello to Floatplane! We believe in supporting both content creators and fans by providing a stable platform to grow on, with ad-free viewing and high-quality video for a personal, premium experience for all. Floatplane’s iPhone app lets you bring all this awesomeness with you wherever you go!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Floatplane at 4.1 against anilime's 3.4. Floatplane also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (394 vs 14). anilime's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Floatplane holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Floatplane has 394 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 52% of anilime's written reviews are positive against 51% of Floatplane's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
anilime ships an update every 3 months, Floatplane every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | anilime | Floatplane |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (14 ratings) | 4.1 (394 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.4% of reviews — better | 50.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 394 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Mark Philpot | Floatplane Media Inc. |
Customer experience
anilime
Floatplane
Bugs and requests
anilime
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Floatplane
Reported bugs
4 issues- Inconsistent video loading indicators
- Unreliable login/sign-up process
- Orientation issues on iPad
- Casting/mirroring problems
Requested features
5 requests- Picture-in-Picture mode
- Resume playback across devices
- Notification settings
- Offline video downloads
- Improved video scrubbing
In-app purchases
anilime
No in-app purchases
Floatplane
No in-app purchases
