Tonkatsu Box
by Tonkatsu Box · Open-source collection tracker for games, movies, anime, manga and books
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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 Tonkatsu Box markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on Tonkatsu Box’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“Your games, movies, shows, animation, anime, manga, novels & books — all in one box”
- Angle: All-in-one / consolidation
- Hero: Product screenshot
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Tonkatsu Box’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
API quality
Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
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
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.
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Where this comes from
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