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大智 Daichi

Daichi (大智, "great wisdom") is a free, open-source anime app built with Expo, React Native, and TypeScript. Discover trending anime, browse episodes, manage your personal library, and enjoy a clean streaming experience with smooth native animations.

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Features

Features of Daichi include:

• Browse trending, latest, upcoming, and top airing anime
• Dual API Providers (AniList & Kitsu Fallback): Transparent fallback to Kitsu API if AniList experiences outages or server stability issues
• One-Click Provider Switch & Settings Toggle: Switch providers seamlessly directly from error screens or toggle in Settings
• Search thousands of anime instantly
• Save anime to your personal library
• Browse episodes with an interactive bottom sheet
• Built-in video player with automatic AniList ID resolution for reliable streams
• Resume watching from your history
• Smooth native animations
• Clean dark-themed interface

Tech Stack

• Expo + React Native + TypeScript
• Expo Router for navigation
• NativeWind (Tailwind for React Native)
• AniList GraphQL API & Kitsu API for metadata catalogues
• Zustand + AsyncStorage for persistent library and settings
• EAS Build for native builds

Issues, Feature Requests and Contributing

Please make sure to read the full guidelines. Your issue may be closed without warning if you do not.

Issues

1. Before reporting a new issue, take a look at the already opened issues.
2. Make sure you're on the latest version, it may have already been solved.

Bugs

• Include version you are currently using
• Include steps to reproduce (if not obvious from description)
• Include screenshot (if needed)
• Don't group unrelated requests into one issue

Feature Requests

• Write a detailed issue, explaining what it should do or how. Avoid writing just "like app X does"
• Keep one request per issue
• Include screenshot (if needed)

License

Copyright 2026 King Grey (lohit-dev)

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

Disclaimer

The developer of this application does not have any affiliation with the content providers available.