Comparison

Rochi vs AniCue

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

Head to head
About

Rochi

Features
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Your favorite anime might be 40% filler. That means hundreds of episodes that were never in the manga and are safe to skip. Rochi fixes that. Every episode is labeled canon, mixed, or filler. Pick your watch mode and Rochi always shows you exactly what to watch next. No more Googling filler lists. No more accidentally watching 20 episodes of nothing. TRACK YOUR WAY Open the tracker and see your progress as a color-coded grid. Each show gets its own colors pulled from its cover art. Mark episodes with a single tap. Add shows to your watchlist before you start watching. Pick them up when you're ready. Archive shows when you're done. YOUR ANIME COMMUNITY Rochi is built for talking about anime with people who actually get it. Rate shows on a 5-star scale. Write reviews with built-in spoiler tagging so readers choose whether to see spoilers or filter them out. Every episode has its own discussion thread. Talk about what just happened without ruining it for people who are still catching up. Follow other fans, build your feed, and see what the community thinks before you commit to a 500-episode journey. TASTE MATCH Rochi scores how closely your taste aligns with every other user based on your ratings, favorites, and completed shows. Before you trust a review, see if the person who wrote it actually watches like you do. Follow the people whose taste matches yours and your feed fills with opinions that are relevant to you. YOUR ANIME IDENTITY Set your Four Favorites: the four anime that define you. Share them with friends like a calling card. Your profile lives at rochi.io/yourname and includes your taste signature, stats, watch history, rankings, and reviews. Send it to friends, drop it in your bio, share it anywhere. RANKINGS AND TIER LISTS Create ranked lists and tier lists. Share them as images sized for TikTok, Instagram, and group chats. Remix other people's rankings with your own takes. Argue about who's right. That's the point. EPISODE DISCUSSIONS Every episode of every show has its own comment thread. Spoiler tags on every post so the conversation stays safe no matter where you are in the series. Sort by newest, oldest, or most liked. This is where the real conversations happen. 2,000+ SHOWS AND GROWING Over 2,000 anime in the catalogue with new shows added automatically every week. 330+ shows have full episode-by-episode filler data with more being added constantly. Browse by genre, decade, or popularity. Search anything. PRIVACY AND TRUST No ads. No data selling. Sign in with Apple or Google. Dark mode and light mode. Delete your account anytime from Settings. Your data is yours. Whether you're finally tackling a 1,000-episode epic, rewatching a classic, or keeping up with what's airing this season, Rochi tells you what to watch next, helps you skip what doesn't matter, and connects you with fans who share your taste.

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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

Rochi4 screens
AniCue4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rochi at none against AniCue's 1. Rochi also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. AniCue sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Rochi asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 3 level
Rochi versus AniCue: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRochiAniCue
PriceFreeFree
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB81 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAaron AhadiAnsh Sharma

In-app purchases

None

Rochi

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

AniCue

One-time1
  • AniCue S-Rank$2.99

Questions

Is Rochi free?
Rochi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AniCue free?
AniCue is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Rochi or AniCue have ads?
AniCue shows ads; Rochi does not.

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