Personal iOS anime client
Saizen
sai・zen — the optimal
Animestreamingatthecomfortofyourphone.
Install stream modules, sign in with AniList or MyAnimeList in a player built for the way anime actually gets released. Everything runs on your device.
Next.js + Capacitor 7 + Swift·iOS 15+·Sideload only — no App Store build
Everything below is shipping in v1.4.2 and proven on a physical iPhone.
Discover rails with a View more link into Search filters, continue watching, and list-backed shelves after AniList or MAL sign-in. Personalised rails paint from cache first, then refresh in the background.
Search by title, then narrow with the Filters sheet. Open an anime, come back, and the session is still there. The keyboard hides the tab bar instead of fighting it.
Character, VA and staff rails with their own pages. Relations laid out as a watch order rather than a flat list. Edit your list entry without leaving the page, and tap an OP or ED title to copy it.
The Schedule tab shows what airs when, switchable between your list and the current season — no mental timezone maths.
Custom AVPlayer chrome for CDN HLS and MP4. AniSkip marks openings and endings, then offers a Skip pill or skips them for you.
Pause, resume and cancel stay responsive while native work runs off the bridge thread. HTTP downloads report speed and bytes; HLS reports percent rather than inventing a total. Clear cache sweeps orphaned and partial packs.
Sign in once and your lists drive Home. Tokens live in the Keychain and nowhere else. Deleting an entry clears continue-watching without a restart.
Flip Incognito on to pause list sync and Home continue. Session resume clears when you leave it. Downloads already on disk stay put.
An icon-only frosted tab bar with drag-to-scrub selection across Home, Search, Schedule and More. Settings → Appearance controls the accent colour plus tab bar and top chrome transparency, with an optional Frosted blur.
No company, no ads, no telemetry — an open build anyone can run, inspect, or fork.
Saizen isn't submitted to the App Store, so there is no listing and no TestFlight. What exists instead is an open-source IPA — signed and sideloaded from GitHub Releases, with the full source available for anyone who wants to build it themselves.
