Roadmap#

AniList season metadata is being mapped across the library to provide more accurate series, season, and release information.

Launched a focused compatibility service for Findroid, Swiftfin, and Jellyfin for Android TV. Viewers can connect with their existing FireAnime account on Android phones and tablets, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Android TV, Google TV, and Fire TV, then browse and search three language-specific libraries, stream or download episodes, skip supported intros and endings, and keep favorites, watched state, Continue Watching, and Next Up synchronized across compatible clients.

Current guides: connect a compatible client and check offline support for your actual client.

Rebuilt playback around a consistent inline and fullscreen experience with clearer controls, stronger contrast, familiar tap and double-tap gestures, and a responsive episode drawer even for very long series. Mini-player returns, episode-page transitions, and next-episode navigation now preserve the viewing flow with less waiting, reloading, and layout movement, while picture-in-picture and playback progress behave more predictably.

When timing data is available, FireAnime recognizes opening and ending segments for the correct episode and reveals a one-tap or remote-friendly skip action while the segment is playing. The same runtime-aware behavior now works across the website, mobile, Android and Fire TV, LG webOS, and desktop players.

Refined the modern and legacy TV player with a calmer control hierarchy, clearer source and episode drawers, dependable remote focus, and actionable playback failures that replace endless buffering with retry and source-selection options. FireAnime now also checks for new versions after launch, offers a manual check in Settings, and opens the correct package for each TV generation while keeping sideloaded installation instructions honest.

Choose, install and update the correct LG webOS package.

Moved reviews and episode comments into independent data models and APIs, retired the standalone discussion and editorial article surfaces, and redesigned episode comments around fast top-level loading, on-demand reply threads, compact mobile actions, spoiler controls, and playback timestamps.

Redesigned playback around a content-first control overlay with clearer remote focus, a restrained timeline, cleaner source and episode drawers, and subtler loading feedback. VOE remains the preferred source by default while native proxy sources stay available as fallbacks, and resume prompts, synchronized progress, and next-episode autoplay make longer viewing sessions more dependable.

Home rows now preserve the viewer's card column when moving vertically with the remote. The player also renders one consistent timeline on older webOS TVs and keeps rewind and fast-forward symbols centered in their feedback badge.

Left and Right now seek ten seconds while controls are hidden, holding either direction opens accelerated scrubbing, reopening the controls focuses Play/Pause, and source and episode panels restore focus predictably.

Scan the QR code shown on Android or Fire TV, LG webOS, or desktop, then confirm the matching device and account on a signed-in phone or the website. The other screen signs in automatically, while new device-session controls let viewers review and revoke paired sessions from account security.

Redesigned playback controls and kept them visible during remote interactions, made source and episode panels clearer, added a German or English subtitle fallback when the preferred track is unavailable, and improved poster loading and layouts on older TVs.

Playback failures now lead to useful recovery options instead of a dead end. The app can try a same-language alternative automatically and lets viewers retry, choose another source, or report the problem directly.

Playback now starts and stops reliably when viewers switch episodes, leave the player, or use Back, avoiding repeated starts and video continuing after navigation.

Viewers stay signed in between launches across modern and legacy webOS TVs, with a clear restoration screen and automatic cleanup when a saved session is no longer valid.

FireAnime places integrated players in the viewer's preferred language first and keeps series, arcs, and previous and next episode navigation in the intended story order.

Rebuilt the main navigation, quick search, notifications, search results, genre pages, new-episode lists, and release calendar. Viewers gained shareable filters and sorting, anime quick previews, clearer day and language controls, local release times, a friendlier first visit and privacy flow, stronger feedback states, and reduced-motion support.

Redesigned the journey from home and search through anime details, calendar, profiles, and playback. Adaptive browsing layouts, clearer feedback states, refined motion, and more consistent navigation make the app easier to use across phones and tablets.

Reworked the TV experience around distance viewing with a focused navigation rail, unmistakable D-pad states, TV-safe layouts, larger type, calmer motion, and redesigned home, catalog, search, details, calendar, profile, settings, and player screens.

Refined every major desktop screen—from sign-in and server setup to discovery, continue watching, downloads, notifications, playback, and settings—with clearer navigation, stronger empty and error states, and accessibility improvements.

Added a modern package for webOS TV 24–26 and a compatibility build for webOS 4.x–23. Older televisions retain five-way remote navigation and native playback. The same release also improved playback compatibility with slower-loading streams.

Launched home, explore, calendar, search, profiles, settings, anime details, watchlists, subscriptions, and full-screen playback. The app supports pointer and D-pad navigation, source and language choices, resume prompts, autoplay, and synchronized watch progress.

Added dedicated, localized product and download pages for the mobile, Android and Fire TV, LG webOS, and desktop apps, with clear platform compatibility and current release information.

Expanded supported playback and download sources, added clear notices for restricted episodes, improved sign-in restoration around playback, and introduced subscription choices for German Sub, German Dub, and English Sub.

Refined D-pad navigation, media-key handling, seeking, episode switching, saved stream preferences, and Fire TV release support. The TV app also gained more supported sources, restricted-episode guidance, and multi-language subscriptions.

Added full-season downloads, a release inbox with per-language subscription controls, clearer watch progress, remembered episode sorting, clearer playback setup and recovery tools, and automatic update checks with an in-app download and install flow.

Learn how to download a season on desktop and manage queued, canceled or failed downloads.

Reworked playback and offline downloads with better recovery and retry controls, clearer restricted-episode guidance, more flexible stream selection, and improved reliability across supported sources.

The homepage presents useful content sooner, while anime details, series and arcs, seasons, and watch pages are organized into focused views. Source and language selection, episode navigation, sharing, reporting, and loading feedback are clearer along the way.

Friends can create an invite room with synchronized playback, host controls, chat, a live member list, and reconnect support. Everyone can choose their own stream source while following the room's episode and playback position.

Create a room and invite friends, then manage host controls and room membership.

Resume from a saved timestamp or jump directly to the recommended next episode from home and anime pages. Cards also support starting over, marking an episode watched, or removing it from the queue, and signing in carries recent device progress into the account.

Added a dedicated account hub for new episodes from followed anime, with unread counters and filters, mark-one and mark-all-read controls, and per-anime language and in-app notification settings.

Subscribe to anime and use the release inbox. For reply, mention and quiet-hour preferences, see notification settings.

Layout personalization expanded across home, the release calendar, anime overviews, and episode pages. Sections can be reordered, hidden, shown in compact or comfortable density, or arranged with presets such as Focus, Discovery, Schedule First, Community, and Theater Mode.

Customize page layouts, presets and appearance.

Rebuilt the video player and introduced advanced search filters, sorting, background downloads, cancellation, a redesigned download manager, haptic feedback, profile activity heatmaps, infinite watchlists, and more efficient watch-progress syncing. Follow-up releases fixed episode-navigation crashes and made interrupted downloads easier to detect and retry.

Launched a television-focused app with home, search, calendar, anime details, accounts, subscriptions, watchlists, and full-screen playback in a landscape interface.

Introduced a download queue and offline library with cancellation, bulk deletion, and dependable offline playback. Added update checks in Settings and expanded releases beyond Windows to DEB, RPM, Arch Linux, and AppImage packages.

Launched FireAnime for desktop with home, search, calendar, rankings, anime details, server setup, watchlist and progress sync, continue watching, notifications, feedback and stream reporting, next-episode autoplay, player keyboard shortcuts, and richer Discord presence.

New account pages collect a viewer's anime review and episode comment history, with the context and links needed to return to each contribution.

Added scored anime reviews, reactions, and episode discussion threads so viewers can share opinions and continue the conversation after watching.

Added in-product feedback and broken-stream reporting so playback problems and community suggestions can reach the team directly.

Introduced public profiles with custom banners, avatars, bios, personal accent colors, activity heatmaps, and a Top 5 anime showcase.

Added initial MALSync browser-extension support for synchronizing watch history and progress with MyAnimeList.

Current guides explain MALSync versus built-in AniList/MyAnimeList linking and the exact outbound progress rules and limitations.

Rebuilt the website for phones and desktops and introduced the first advanced search, weekly release calendar, subscription alerts, and customizable homepage layouts that later updates expanded.

Added a high-density compact theme and early layout controls for viewers who want more information on screen or a homepage arranged around their priorities.

Added offline episode downloads, an in-app Android update flow, watchlist controls inside the account area, and automatic watch-status updates as viewers make progress.

Expanded mobile browsing with home, release calendar, genre and search experiences, refreshed playback sources, and synchronized episode progress.

Added registration, sign-in, synchronized likes and watch progress, and watchlist statuses including Planned, Watching, Completed, and Dropped.

Introduced a modern integrated player with language-aware source selection and strengthened its reliability as stream providers changed.

Established home, search, the release calendar, new episodes, genre browsing, popular anime, and detailed series and episode pages.

Launched the first Android experience with home, calendar, anime details, search, settings, light and dark themes, streaming playback, refresh controls, and playback that stops cleanly when leaving an episode.