Comparison

AniDrop vs AniCue

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

AniDrop

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Your watch list has been lying to you. AniDrop fixes that. Miss a week of releases? Juggling five seasonals at once? AniDrop tracks every episode individually — so you always know exactly where you left off, what aired while you were gone, and what's dropping next. — TRACK SMARTER — PER-EPISODE TRACKING Every broadcast slot is logged separately. Skip a week and AniDrop quietly remembers what you owe — no manual fixing, no "wait, did I watch that one?" CATCH-UP QUEUE One dedicated queue, oldest unwatched episode first. Mark it done, the next one slides in. Getting through a backlog has never felt this satisfying. LOCK-SCREEN & HOME-SCREEN WIDGETS Six variants — from a compact inline countdown to a full episode queue right on your home screen. Within two hours of an episode airing, the lock-screen widget starts counting down silently. Your phone becomes an anime dashboard. LOCAL NOTIFICATIONS Get pinged the moment a new episode drops, in your timezone. No app refresh needed. CUSTOM LISTS Watching, completed, dropped — fine, but you probably need more than that. Build whatever lists make sense for how you watch. MYANIMELIST IMPORT Already tracking on MyAnimeList? Pull everything over in one tap and pick up right where you left off. PROFILE & STATS Total episodes, favourite genres, average rating, watch history — all visualised. Finally, something to show for all those hours. — PRIVACY, FOR REAL — No ads. No analytics. No tracking. Your data lives on EU servers and you can delete it whenever you want. Built by one developer who actually watches anime. --------------------------------------------- Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://suprise7.github.io/anidrop-legal/ AniDrop Pro is an auto-renewable subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings.

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AniCue

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Manga doesn't keep a schedule. A chapter lands on a Thursday, the next one turns up eleven days later, and then the author takes a break nobody announced. So you check. And you forget to check. And three weeks later you find out from someone else's timeline that the arc you'd been waiting on already ended. AniCue got built because that kept happening. Tell it what you're reading and what you're watching, and it does the watching for you. When a new chapter goes up, your phone lets you know. When the next episode airs, you hear about it in your own timezone instead of doing arithmetic on someone else's. That's the whole idea. BRING YOUR LIST WITH YOU Already tracking on AniList or MyAnimeList? Import the whole thing in one tap. Your titles, your progress, all of it. Nothing to rebuild before you start. THE COUNTDOWN, WITHOUT OPENING ANYTHING Put your next drop on your Home Screen or your Lock Screen and watch it tick down. Small, medium, large, or one quiet line above your clock. Tap it and you're straight into the title. ANIME KEEPS A RHYTHM. MANGA DOESN'T. Simulcasts mostly behave, and AniCue lines your week up so you know what's landing tonight and what's still a few days out. Manga is the half that actually needs watching, and it's the reason this app exists. No fixed day, no warning, no announcement post. We keep looking so you don't have to, and you hear from us when a chapter is properly out, not when the rumours start. TODAY'S DROPS, THE MOMENT YOU OPEN UP Everything releasing today across everything you follow, sitting on the first screen. No hunting for it. A CALENDAR THAT'S ACTUALLY YOURS Your season laid out properly. What's airing, what's close, what's worth staying up for. Tick off episodes watched and chapters read as you go, so you always know where you left off. WHEN YOU WANT SOMETHING NEW Anime and manga picked around what you already love. The genres you keep coming back to, what's big this season, what's coming next. And when a title really gets you, the figures and volumes for it are a tap away. YOUR LIST STAYS YOURS Follow four titles or four hundred. Quiet down the ones you've drifted away from and pick them back up whenever. Everyone does eventually. Nothing here shouts at you. You'll only hear from AniCue about titles you've actually followed, and you can turn any of it off whenever you want. S-RANK More room, fewer interruptions, one purchase: • No ads anywhere, ever again • Follow up to 500 titles instead of 10 • Get the nudge 15, 30, 60 or 120 minutes early • Mute a title without unfollowing it • Sub or dub, set per title • Your schedule synced into Apple Calendar or Google Calendar • Alerts on every device you're signed into • Alternate app icons: crimson, gold leaf, sumi ink, screentone • Episodes watched, chapters read, titles finished, counted on your profile • The golden badge, obviously No subscription, no monthly anything, nothing to cancel. If you've ever been blindsided by a surprise chapter drop, you already know why this exists.

Screenshots

AniDrop4 screens
AniCue4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: AniDrop at none against AniCue's shown. AniCue's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. AniDrop sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and AniCue sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
AniDrop versus AniCue: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAniDropAniCue
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB81 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperGIANNI GROTTOAnsh Sharma

In-app purchases

3 purchases

AniDrop

Subscriptions2
  • AniDrop Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • AniDrop Pro Yearly$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • AniDrop Pro Lifetime$79.99
1 purchases

AniCue

One-time1
  • AniCue S-Rank$2.99

Questions

Is AniDrop free?
AniDrop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is AniCue free?
AniCue is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do AniDrop or AniCue have ads?
AniCue shows ads; AniDrop does not.

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