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Binge Senpai now answers the only question that matters: what do I watch tonight?
This is the biggest update we've ever shipped — one drop, thirteen features, all aimed at the same moment: it's evening, you've got ninety minutes, and you want to spend them watching, not scrolling. Here's everything, starting with the one you'll feel first.
The Tonight Board — open the app, get an answer
Your home page is now a three-slot board that answers, every single evening: what do I continue, what do I try, and what's new for me. Logging the episode you just watched is one tap, right on the card. The board recomputes at 3pm your time, every day — so tomorrow's board is tomorrow's answer, not a rerun.
Notifications that respect you
The bell finally does something. Binge Senpai will now tell you when an episode of a show you're watching drops, nudge you about a show you shelved and forgot, and flag news on the stuff you're planning. Three rules we hold ourselves to:
- Never more than 3 unread. We collapse instead of piling up. No red-badge anxiety farm.
- Mute any show in two taps. Loved the season, done hearing about it? Mute it and keep the rest.
- Every notification says why you got it. No mystery pings.
And if you're on Android: you can now install Binge Senpai as an app and get these as real push notifications — no store, no download, it's the same site with a home-screen icon. We'll only ask you once, and we show you exactly what a notification looks like before you decide.
The Evening Digest — one email, at your hour, actually useful
Opt in and every evening — your evening, not some server's — you get one short email: what to continue, what aired, one pick, and news on your plan-to-watch. Every link signs you in and lands you on your board. And yes, the unsubscribe link is real and works in one click. Confirm your email and it's yours.
The Shelf Sprint — your entire anime history, rated in minutes
Everything good in Binge Senpai gets better the more of your history it knows — and entering history used to be a form per title. Not anymore. The Sprint is a full-screen wall where rating a title takes about two seconds. Rated one season of a franchise? We fan out the rest so you can sweep the whole saga. There are decade shelves for remembering what you watched in 2009, and unlocks along the way at 10, 30, and 100 titles.
Prefer the express lanes? Paste any list of titles — a text file, a friend's recommendations — and we'll match it with a confirmation receipt before anything saves. And by popular demand: AniList import is here. Just your username — no file export, no OAuth dance.
Your week, on one page — and a card worth sharing
Every Sunday evening we now write your Weekly Shelf Report: what you watched, the shape of your week's taste, the moment worth remembering, and where your momentum points next. Quiet week? Two gentle lines. Never guilt.
From your stats or your report you can now mint a Taste Card — a clean, shareable image of your top shelf and your taste in three words. WhatsApp it, download it, or share the link; friends who tap it land on a page with exactly one button: build your own.
Browse & search that tell you the truth
Search now leads the catalog, and when it comes up empty it tells you why: whether results are hidden by your filters (with an honest count and a reveal), whether you meant a different spelling — "bluelock" finds Blue Lock now — or whether we genuinely don't have it, in which case you can ask Senpai directly. Result cards get a quick-shelf button, and there's a hidden-gems row for the stuff everyone sleeps on.
After Dark, done properly
If you use the mature-content side of the catalog, it finally works like it should: your content mode is now a three-way setting that sticks to your account — Everyday, Everything (with clear 18+ badges), or After Dark only. One age gate, asked once, remembered forever. Discreet covers where you'd want them, and leaving is always a single tap that never asks questions. We don't advertise this mode anywhere — it's simply there if it's yours.
Also new, because details matter
- Show pages: tracking an airing show now includes "tell me when episodes drop" in the same tap, there's a countdown-and-pace panel for what you're watching, and a one-tap score row when you finish something unrated.
- "More like this" got honest: the recommendation rail on show pages now skips what you've already logged — and says so.
- Calendar: follow a show and opt into its episode alerts in one gesture, and Catch-up is now "Tonight's queue" with logging built into every row.
- Mobile: long-press the Home tab for the quick-log sheet — your three current shows, one thumb, two taps, logged.
- Explore is now "Guide" — the label finally matches what's inside.
- Plus a sweep of fixes: the mobile search link that broke, tab badges that tell the truth, and onboarding tooltips that now know when to retire.
Two changes to know about
- Content mode persists now. It used to reset every visit; now it's saved to your account behind a one-time age gate. If you relied on it resetting, set it to Everyday in the navbar and it stays put.
- In-app notifications are on by default — capped at three unread, every kind individually switchable, every show mutable. Push and email never happen unless you explicitly say yes. If it's not for you, two taps in the bell turn any of it off.
All of this is free — no tier, no unlock, no catch. If something feels off, or something feels great, tell me: I read everything. This app gets built out of your replies more than you'd guess — the AniList importer exists because many of you asked.