ManGo - Anime & Manga Tracker

While MyAnimeList is reliable as a source of anime updates, its manga updates lag behind. For instance, this app has little data about the total chapters/volumes available. Only with huge names like Vagabond does it show that information. Meanwhile, even Chainsaw Man gets the question mark in place of total chapters available. I would give this app four stars, but because it advertises itself as a Manga Tracker, I rate it on the value it purports to provide. It is pretty reliable on Anime Tracking because MAL is reliable on that front, but it needs to find a separate source for manga tracking. Primarily, I wish for a singular place to be notified of new chapters for all the manga I’m tracking.

The main reason I downloaded this app was because of the anime notification feature, this app would have easily been five stars in my book if this feature worked as intended, I’ve noticed unfortunately, that this feature does not work properly about 80% of the time. I noticed most of the anime I set to have notifications on for, for some reason don’t save that setting and there is no save button so I can’t really confirm if this was saved in the first place. For me, this is a huge downside since this is the whole reason I downloaded this app over the official MyAnimeList app. Other than that all of the features work perfectly, and the UI is a step up from the official app.

I love the apps clean UI and smooth UX which is definitely a huge plus compared to the official MAL app. One thing I would love to see is easier switching between categories such as “watching” and “planning to watch” without having to press twice, maybe a right/left swap gesture on top of the button to switch between all categories.