Comparison

Sakuri vs AniCue

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

Head to head
About

Sakuri

Features
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Sakuri is your home for everything anime and manga. Keep track of what you're watching and reading, discover your next favorite series, and share it all with friends — in one beautifully simple app. TRACK YOUR LISTS Build your watchlist and reading list, mark what you've finished, and pick up right where you left off. Import your existing library so you're set up in seconds. DISCOVER SOMETHING NEW Browse hand-picked rails of trending, seasonal, and top-rated titles. Search thousands of anime and manga and dive into rich detail pages with trailers, ratings, and where to watch. READ Enjoy a curated feed of anime and manga stories, news, and features in a clean, magazine-style reader. PLAY Test your knowledge with trivia, guess the anime in a game of 20 Questions, and challenge your friends to see who's the real fan. CONNECT WITH FRIENDS Add friends, compare lists, build tier lists, and share your taste. Interactions stay friends-only, with reporting and blocking built in to keep things safe. Sakuri filters out adult content by default, so it's a friendly space to explore what you love.

About

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

Sakuri4 screens
AniCue4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sakuri at none against AniCue's 1. Sakuri 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. Sakuri asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 3 level
Sakuri versus AniCue: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSakuriAniCue
PriceFreeFree
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB81 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperBenjamin JacksonAnsh Sharma

In-app purchases

None

Sakuri

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

AniCue

One-time1
  • AniCue S-Rank$2.99

Questions

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

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