2.4.0

DesktopQuality of life30 October 2026

New

Settings shows whether Discord is connected, under Playback
Set a show's schedule under Fixes: pick episodes and a date, or paste a list
Fixes is three items: Episodes and dates, Files and Match
Refresh a show's info from its Match panel, and rescan its folder from Files
A season on a break stops showing a made-up next episode
Show Out now on Airing as a list instead of cards, in Settings under Appearance
Pick how many Out now episodes Airing shows, in Settings under Appearance
Sort Airing by score, next episode, episode count or title
Airing can show any season: open the arrow beside the next season
Hide what is on your lists or in your library from Airing
Run AniBeam as a service with no window, so your devices always reach it
Settings shows whether that service runs, under Phone app
Pick a dark app icon in Settings, under Appearance
The phone app plays this library's episodes over Tailscale
Shows you mark not interested on the phone are hidden here too
Episodes too big for the phone's link are converted as they play
Developer options, in Settings under About, time every page and turn images off
Magnet-only search results show their seeders and leechers
Pick Stable or Nightly updates in Settings, under About
Update installs the new version and restarts, no trip to GitHub
An AUR install shows the command that updates it, once the AUR has it
Downloaded lists every show on disk, not only what the torrent client holds
Downloaded shows how much of the disk is watched and how much is not
Delete watched clears every watched episode, or every finished show you saw
Right-click a show on Gaps or Downloaded to delete it
Deleting episodes removes their torrent too, so they can be downloaded again
Ctrl-click a release group or one of its episodes to pick all it has missing
Get says it is sending to your torrent client the moment you click it
Set how many episodes a TVmaze show's season has, so no more are predicted
A version can have a name, shown in What's new and when an update is out
Hold a show on Airing now, or Ctrl+click it, to pick several at once
Put every picked show on Planning, or mark them all Not interested
Get lights the episodes a click will pick, before you click
Hold the mouse on the video to play at 2x until you let go
Page Up and Page Down jump between chapters, now marked on the seek bar
S saves a screenshot of the video to Pictures/AniBeam
Home goes to the start of an episode and End to its outro
F11 toggles fullscreen
A resumed episode says where it picked up, with Start over
The Next button names the next episode, or only its number if you like
Arrow keys and Enter pick audio and subtitle tracks
N, P and C say why when there is nothing to do
Right-click a show for Open, Open folder, Copy title and Open on AniList
Right-click an episode to play it, open its folder or copy its path
Forward, from the menu, Alt+Right or the mouse's forward button
Library tabs show how many each holds, and so do Airing now's filters
Ctrl+F searches the page you are on
Select and copy a show's synopsis
Pick all when deleting episodes
Characters open their page on AniList
Marking several episodes watched at once has Undo, and so has Hide
Toasts have a close button and stay while the pointer is on them
A missing episode in Metadata opens Get
This week on Home links to Airing now
Airing now's menu leads with Play next for shows you have
Mark episodes watched on a show with no tracker; AniBeam keeps them
An unmatched show shows what folder and file names match
Right-click a release to copy its magnet or open its page
Open the folder a download is saving to
A failed source says why, and a click asks it again
A slow search offers the other sources
Downloads opens with your last search, unless you switch that off
Reset subtitles to how they came, in Settings, Playback
Check for updates now, in Settings, About
Open the folder an export went to
Click a line in Activity to copy it
Shift+F10 or the Menu key opens the right-click menu
Tooltips show on keyboard focus too
Press ? anywhere for the list of keys
Exports carry an episode count you set by hand
Exports carry quick fixes, and an import applies them
The player's controls set subtitle and audio delay; a and A shift the audio
Discord shows what you are watching, a switch in Settings, Playback
An endpoint repo can search your own Prowlarr or Jackett over torznab
An endpoint repo can add a source that answers in JSON
Airing times of your shows can go to a calendar app, set in Settings
Change a show's list status from its status pill or right-click menu
Pick several shows in Library with Ctrl or Shift and hide, rate or move them
A first-run setup walks you through your folder, your list and downloads
No anime folder yet? Setup makes one for you
Run setup again from Settings, under About
Home shows what is out now and popular this season before you add a folder
A first scan ends with what it found, and walks you through what did not match
Watching has a Planning tab: start a planned show or get its episodes
Starting and finishing a show dates it on AniList and MyAnimeList
Finishing a completed show again counts a rewatch
Write notes on a show's list entry from its page
A followed show's feed is read the moment a new episode airs
The activity log says when a followed episode has not turned up after three days
A Stats page shows hours watched, genres and seasons, and a year recap
Screen readers can name every button, switch, field and card
Change the text size in Settings, under Appearance, from smaller to largest
Help in Settings answers common questions, each with a button to the fix
Ask Claude Code to look a show's episode dates up, under Episodes and dates
Errors say what to do next, with a button for it and details a click away
Settings, Downloads picks whether AniBeam or anirss runs searches
Switch off any device on your tailnet in Settings, Phone app
Stream episodes has its own switch in Settings, Phone app
Watch history, resume points and matches merge between your computers
A notification says when an episode of a show you watch is out
Set a status and a score with no AniList or MyAnimeList account
Export carries the lists kept on this device
Connecting AniList or MyAnimeList offers to move the list kept on this computer
Each person on your tailnet sees their own progress from this computer
Airing sorts the season by score, trending, start date and more
Home's Coming up can hide the days with nothing on
Your phone can send downloads to this computer, into its library
Click a show on Watching or Planning to search its episodes at once
Plan to watch from a Downloads search result or a show's Get page
Cast the playing episode to a Chromecast or DLNA TV from the player

Changed

A show you marked not interested leaves that list once it is off the air
Out now on Airing shows its episodes as small cards with their wide banners
Library sorts and groups from two menus, with the order said in words
This week shows what is out to watch, then a calendar of the days ahead
Two files of one episode share one row, and you pick which release plays
Searches wait a second between requests to one site, except your own server
Settings lists its sections down the left, each saying how it stands now
Search settings: type a word and land on the setting it names
Accounts, Subtitles, Keyboard, Phone app and About are sections of their own
Unsaved download settings wait in a bar with Save, wherever you scroll
A show's Fixes menu holds Fix files, the episode count, the match and Rescan
Skip outro stays up with the controls hidden, like Skip intro
Skipping an intro lands right where the episode starts
The speed you watch at carries over to the next episode
Tracks read in plain words, like English (file)
Switching a track says which one on the video
The rating prompt goes away by itself
AniBeam opens at the size and place you left it
Settings opens on the tab you left it on
A page from the rail comes back with its search, filter and scroll
The rail icon of the page you are on takes it back to the top
See all on Home opens the Library at that list
Clear match and Forget ask before they drop anything
Closing Fix files with fixes not applied asks first
A click anywhere on a match result applies it, and Return works too
The match panel says where a show is matched, without ids
Searching for an unmatched show starts from a clean folder name
Tabs and switches across the app work with the arrow keys
Films are called movies everywhere in the Library
Library's controls read Sort by and Group by
A downloading show says Cancel, and clears what it wrote unless you untick it
Download all takes the releases the table shows, and says how many
Rows hold still until seeders and dates are in, then sort once
Your column sort stays for the next search
Speeds say down or up, sizes go up to TB, and seeders are called seeders
Later on an update hides it until AniBeam opens again, not for good
Unsaved Downloads settings survive a switch to another tab
Test saves your changes first, then tests them
A subtitle value Settings cannot use turns red
Sliders say what they count, like 60 days
Enter flips a switch, as Space does
Activity's Clear asks first, Copy says Copied, older lines show the day
Downloading now shows the rest past twelve on a click
The status strip says Nothing is running when nothing is
Reduce motion stops every slide and grow, scrolling aside
Settings and errors use plain words instead of anirss terms
The activity log speaks plain words and leaves out background chores
Library, Airing and Feed open two to four times faster and use less memory
Plain words replace jargon: Metadata is Show info, endpoints are sources
On disk marks the release a file was downloaded from, even when it was renamed
Downloads errors say what to do next, with a button that does it
Settings errors say what to do next, with a button that does it
Empty and failed pages say why, with the button that fills them
With AniBeam's own engine, best fit follows the preferences saved in anirss
On AniBeam's own engine, Downloads lists your sources and needs no helper
Downloads search and follow on AniBeam itself, unless you picked the helper
Sources set only in the helper's own config need adding again in AniBeam
A source added by hand needs {query} where the search goes
Get show names each source by the kind of search it runs
Best fit prefers the release groups your sources list as trusted
Some sources need their update under Endpoints to keep their show feeds
The Metadata page opens faster on a large library
Downloads: folders and feeds without a show are full-size cards in the grid
The Next up card puts the poster on the right, fading into the show's colour
A series page reads synopsis, characters, related, tags, then recommendations
Recommendations sit as an even 4x2 grid, or one row of eight when wide
Library groups by Nothing first, set apart from the other groupings
The right-click menu puts a line between its groups of actions
Continue on Home includes the Up next series too

Fixed

A show's synopsis shows symbols like & instead of their codes, in paragraphs
Endpoints from repos reach an anirss built from source, whatever its version
Seeders show for releases from a tracker written with backslashes
Discord shows a series whose title is a single letter
The activity log keeps no feed key after a subscription repair
The activity log keeps no feed key after a new subscription
Sources installed from a repo show up in search on every desktop install
Seeking in an episode converted for the phone works on Nvidia graphics
A busy sign-in port says to try again, not that another AniBeam is open
A qBittorrent address with a backslash is no longer read as this computer
Spy x Family episodes no longer show up as specials
A subscription from a show's page saves new episodes into that show's folder
JSON sources show sizes written with units, and links in capitals
A trusted-only source shows every upload when nothing trusted matches
A source added by hand earlier moves its key out of the address at launch
A search whose picked endpoint fails says why instead of showing no results
A web page answering at the qBittorrent address no longer counts as a login
A library card's right-click menu offers Open on AniList again
Seeders and leechers show for trackers whose address carries a passkey
Next from a season's last episode plays the next season's first
Double clicking the picture into fullscreen no longer plays at 2x
Skip intro skips the opening, not the scene before it
A show you watched to the end no longer stays in Catch up
Cards count a show's episodes, not its files, when two releases share one
A download's speed and time left no longer run under its Stop button
The Replay button no longer stays on the video after you go back
Watching an episode again after its end keeps your place
The rating prompt no longer covers the subtitle delay line
The Movies tab counts movies, not series
Airing now's count follows the filter
Space on a Watching show you do not have no longer opens an empty page
A tracker that refuses a change now says so
Watching no longer says Connected before you connect AniList
An empty Home shows how to connect AniList or MyAnimeList
Tooltips no longer blink and vanish when moving between cards
A show you watched to the end with no tracker reads caught up
An unfolded run of repeated lines in Activity folds back up
Episode cubes in Get now grow under the pointer
A hiccup reaching qBittorrent no longer reads as a wrong password
Episodes listed as "S2 Episode 3" get episode 3's title, not episode 2's
A password or key in a site's address is stored as a secret, not in the open
An imported backup keeps a watched opening or ending as last watched
An endpoint at an IPv6 address shows its full host
An episode folder beside Specials or a sample joins its show
Auto-match tells a second OVA run apart from the first, and finds a first film
Restoring a backup applies your file fixes right away
An extra marked with a v2, like SP01v2, no longer reads as an episode
A feed error names only the feed's host, never a login in its address
A qBittorrent at a name like this computer's no longer counts as this computer
A show titled with a word like Trailer or Special no longer reads as extras
Downloads says plainly why it cannot start, with one button that fixes it
An episode titled with a word like Special or Trailer stays an episode
Two releases of one extra, like SP01 and SP01v2, are one row with one history
On a narrow window the player's buttons no longer cover the volume
A torrent link written with backslashes downloads instead of being refused
A tracker written with backslashes shows its host, not its passkey
A source behind an anirss you run says to add it to that anirss's config
Subscribing to a show you already have saves only into its own folder
Following a show on a source with no feed says so, instead of never matching
The activity log keeps no source's login or API key, older lines included
On a very narrow window the player's right-hand buttons fold into a menu
Downloads no longer show the old anirss after switching to another one
A subscription on a source with no feed says it cannot fetch new episodes
A source with an empty category or filter searches every upload
A source whose address carries its own parameters searches correctly
A poster asked for twice at once is saved whole
Stats counts a rewatch in the year you watched it again
Episodes marked watched by hand no longer add hours to Stats
Out now fills the full width in your chosen grid and shows the last 24 hours
Downloads grids fill the page width, four across on the show tabs
Recommendation posters round their corners like every other card
Hovering a selected menu entry now brightens it instead of dimming it
Library posters now reach the same right edge as the search bar
Holding a card to pick no longer scrolls the page; drag to paint more picks
Picking cards keeps each show's list and library tag
On a very wide window, grids fill the width instead of dropping a column
This week keeps episodes that aired today or yesterday, with how long ago
A show reopens on the subtitles you picked, not a signs-only twin of them
A show with nothing downloaded says not downloaded, not missing

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