Install it
Get the installer for your computer from the download page. Linux, Mac and Windows each have one, and Android has an app of its own.
The first setup
The first time Anibeam opens, it walks you through a short setup. Every step has Skip for now, so nothing has to be done today.
- Press Choose folder and pick the folder your anime lives in. With no folder yet, I don't have a folder yet makes an empty Anime folder for you. Your library has the details.
- Connect AniList or MyAnimeList, and every episode you finish is marked there. AniList and MyAnimeList walks through it.
- Pick who fetches episodes: Let Anibeam handle it runs a torrent client of its own, I already use qBittorrent uses yours. Under Somewhere to search, paste a source list's address and press Add, or leave it for later. See Sources and Downloads.
- Type the name friends see when you watch together.
- Press Open Anibeam.
Run the setup again
- Open SettingsAbout.
- Press Run setup again.
Anything the setup asked can also be changed on its own in Settings.
Find your way around
- Home has what you are watching and what comes next.
- Library has every show in your folders.
- Airing has the shows on air this season.
- Downloads searches your sources and follows shows as they air.
- Join room opens a room a friend sent you.
- Settings has everything else. Its search field finds a setting by name.