A modern Windows desktop anime library & tracker.
Watches what you play, keeps your library organized, and syncs it all to AniList — automatically.
Important
This is an AI-generated project. AniVault was designed, written, and is maintained with the assistance of AI (Anthropic's Claude). Treat it accordingly — review the code before relying on it, and expect the rough edges that come with automated development.
AniVault is a lightweight, native Windows app that tracks the anime you watch and manages your local collection. Leave it running in the tray and it detects playback in your media player, recognizes the episode, advances your progress, and pushes the update to AniList, with no manual logging. It also indexes your local video folders, maps files to their shows, and keeps a calendar of upcoming episodes.
It's a clean-room reimagining of the classic Taiga, rebuilt on a modern stack (Rust + Tauri 2 + Svelte 5 + SQLite).
Grab the latest installer (AniVault_<version>_x64-setup.exe) from the
Releases page and run it. To upgrade, install
over the previous version; your library is kept. AniVault shows a notice when a newer release is
available.
- Airing today, with download status for each episode.
- Ready to watch: shows whose next episode is already on disk.
- Missing downloads, with a one-click request to Sonarr.
- Jump back in to the shows you're watching, refreshed live as you watch.
- Detects mpv, mpv.net, VLC, MPC-HC, MPC-BE, PotPlayer, SMPlayer, KMPlayer, GOM Player, Kodi,
MPlayer and Windows Media Player, and recognizes the playing episode from its filename or window
title, including season markers like
S02E05. - Advances progress, completes a series at its final episode, records it in your watch history, and queues the change for AniList.
- Up Next: when an episode ends, offers the next one, with a configurable minimum watch time.
- Low-confidence matches can be confirmed from Now Playing. Pause tracking any time from the tray.
- Scan your anime folders; AniVault parses filenames (season/episode, release group,
SxxExxand1x01formats) and matches each file to its show with a confidence score. - Searchable, sortable Library in table or poster-grid layout, grouped by season, with a countdown to the next episode for shows you're watching.
- Collection: a poster wall or table of the series you have on disk, with disk usage per series.
- File Manager for bulk mapping, ignoring and removing indexed files, with a deep AniList match for tricky titles.
- Files deleted from disk are pruned on rescan, guarded so an offline drive never wipes your data.
- Readable English titles for entries AniList leaves untranslated, taken from the prequel's English title or AniDB. Nothing is machine-translated.
- OAuth sign-in and one-click import of your existing list.
- Progress, status and score changes sync to AniList in the background, retrying through outages. If your login expires, AniVault asks you to reconnect and syncs the queued changes afterwards.
- Rich detail pages: cover art, synopsis, progress and score editing, watch history, related entries, and next-airing countdowns.
- Seasons page to browse any season, with shows added since your last visit grouped at the top.
- Month grid and agenda views of upcoming episodes for the shows you follow, with a Today button.
- Episodes you've already watched are checked off.
- Sourced from AniList's airing schedule, with Sonarr as a fallback, and cached for offline use.
- Connect your Sonarr instance to import series, matched automatically to your library.
- Choose which Sonarr tags to import from a list of your tags.
- See episode availability on a show's detail page, and request missing episodes from the home page.
- Searchable watch history.
- Statistics, including your score distribution.
- Import from a legacy Taiga v1 installation.
- Back up and restore the database, and export or import your data as a JSON file.
- Secrets (AniList and Sonarr credentials) are encrypted at rest with Windows DPAPI.
- System-tray icon, close-to-tray, and quit confirmation.
- Optional launch-on-startup, which repairs its own registry entry across reinstalls.
- Remembers the window's size and position, with a collapsible, reorderable sidebar and a choice of start page.
| Layer | Technology |
|---|---|
| Backend / engine | Rust, Tauri 2, sqlx (SQLite), reqwest, tracing |
| Frontend | Svelte 5, TypeScript, Vite |
| Storage | SQLite with versioned migrations |
| Secrets | Windows DPAPI |
| Packaging | NSIS installer |
Prerequisites: Windows, Node.js, the
Rust toolchain with the MSVC build tools, and the Tauri CLI
(cargo install tauri-cli --version "^2").
cd next
npm install
cargo tauri dev # run the desktop app in development (from next/)
npm run verify # full check: type-check, svelte-check, Vitest, cargo check --tests
npm run bundle # build the Windows installer (NSIS)Individual checks:
npm run test # frontend tests (Vitest)
npm run check # TypeScript type-check
cd src-tauri
cargo test # Rust unit and integration tests
cargo test --test <name> # one integration test filenext/
├── src/ # Svelte frontend (TypeScript, Vitest)
├── src-tauri/ # Rust backend (Tauri 2)
│ ├── src/engine/ # scanner, parser, matcher, anilist, sonarr, migration, storage
│ ├── migrations/ # SQLite schema
│ └── tests/ # Rust integration tests
└── scripts/ # verify.ps1, bundle.ps1
Inspired by and based on Taiga by Eren Okka. AniVault is an independent reimplementation and is not affiliated with the original project.
GNU General Public License v3.0 — same license as the original Taiga.