Tonkatsu Box
by Tonkatsu Box · Open-source collection tracker for games, movies, anime, manga and books
24.8 — BenchRank score out of 100
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Overview
Tonkatsu Box is an open-source desktop and Android app for building collections of games, movies, TV shows, animation, anime, manga, visual novels and books. It searches sources including IGDB, TMDB, AniList, VNDB, OpenLibrary and ComicVine, tracks status and episodes, and rates items 1–10. Items can be ranked in tier lists or arranged on visual boards and exported as PNG.
- Best for
- Hobbyists cataloguing games, movies, anime, manga and books on Windows, Linux, macOS or Android
- Pricing
- Free and open source under the MIT License; no prices or paid plans are shown.
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Free and MIT-licensed, with source and releases on GitHub
- Searches IGDB, TMDB, AniList, VNDB, OpenLibrary and ComicVine
- Imports from Steam, Trakt.tv, RetroAchievements, MyAnimeList, AniList
- Interface localised in six languages, switchable at runtime
Trade-offs
- macOS build is marked experimental; no iOS or web version listed
- Version 0.40.0, so still pre-1.0
- No accounts or cloud sync described; sharing is via exported files
- .xcoll exports need internet for images; only .xcollx works offline
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
- MCP support
- 0 out of 100
- API quality
- 0 out of 100
- Documentation
- 0 out of 100
- Agent friendliness
- 67 out of 100
- Changelog
- 100 out of 100
- Marketing site structure
- 50 out of 100
- Operational trust
- 0 out of 100
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
- Openness
- 60 out of 100
- Maintenance
- 100 out of 100
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