Privacy

AniBeam runs on your own computer or phone. The project behind it runs no server that receives your data. There are no AniBeam accounts, no telemetry, no analytics, no ads and no crash reports.

Your library, watch history and settings stay on your device. AniBeam talks to the services listed below, and only for the jobs listed.

The library, history, matches and settings live in a database in AniBeam's data folder. Sign-in tokens and passwords go into your system's keyring. Without a keyring, they go into a file only your user account can read. On Android they sit in the app's private storage, and Android backups are off for AniBeam.

• AniList and TVmaze get your folder names, to work out which show each folder holds, and show IDs, to fetch details, airing times, recommendations and posters. Phone searches send what you type.
• Jikan, a MyAnimeList data service, gets show IDs for episode titles.
• AniSkip gets a show ID, an episode number and its length when you play a file that has no intro or outro chapters.
• IMDb and Wikidata serve public rating files, downloaded once a week. They see only your IP address.
• AniList and MyAnimeList, once you connect an account, get the changes you make to your list: an episode watched, a status, a score or notes.
• Discord, only while "Show what you watch on Discord" is on, gets the series, episode and poster through the Discord app on your computer, which shows them on your profile. It is off until you turn it on.
• GitHub answers the update check the desktop app makes at launch. Installs from the AUR, apt or dnf ask the AUR or anibeam.app instead. An update downloads only when you choose to install it.
• Sources you add, such as RSS feeds and indexers, get your searches. Torrent trackers and peers see your IP address and what you download. AniBeam comes with no sources.
• Cloudflare, then Google, resolve web addresses for the Android app, over encrypted DNS. Names on your home network stay local.
• Your own network carries casting to a TV and the Tailscale sharing between your devices, and only while you use them.
• GitHub Issues gets a report only when you submit one. "Report a problem" fills one in with the show title, folder and file names, and you see all of it before sending.
• Claude Code or Codex, if you have one installed, gets show and library details for the features that use it, and passes them to its own provider.

Each of these services has its own privacy policy, which applies to what it receives.

anibeam.app is a set of static pages hosted on GitHub Pages. It sets no cookies and loads nothing from other sites. GitHub may log visitors' IP addresses, as covered by its own privacy statement.

Changes to this page are dated above, and every earlier version is in the project's history on GitHub. Questions go to the issue tracker.