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Autoreas Bridge icon: an A monogram crossed by a bridge span
BridgeWindows & Linux desktop
Sync
Autoreas Mobile icon: an A monogram formed by signal arcs
MobileAndroid tablet & phone

Autoreas Bridge × Mobile

Two apps, one catalog that is always up to date.

Finish an episode on the tablet, tap Cap+ without pausing the player, and the desktop catalog already has it.

Download itMeet both apps ↓
The pair

One catalog, two very different jobs

Bridge owns the data and does the heavy lifting. Mobile does exactly one thing well, in half a screen, with one hand.

The catalog, the downloader, the season workshop and the notification center, opening straight on today.

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Today: the screen Bridge opens on. Weekday tabs, the counters one click away, and a mark on the next episode when it runs long.
Downloads: a daily run time, the days it runs, and when it last ran and runs next
Run history: every past run with what started it and how it ended, one opened to what it did. Run id blurred for publication.
Season: one season from intake to selection, with the grade a show needs to stay and the slots it competes for
Editor: the anime, its episode lengths and its schedule, each card saved on its own
History: every episode with the time you watched it, grouped by day, rewatches included
Activity: any transaction opened to its request and its response. Request id blurred for publication.
The notification centre: a finished run still holding the button each episode earned

  • It opens on today

    Bridge lands on the current weekday with the counters already there, and flags the next episode when it runs long. Your catalog, schedule, progress and episode lengths export and re-import whole.

  • Downloads that check reality

    Pick the days and time it runs, or search one anime and pull every episode it is missing. Each run downloads only what your disk does not have yet, in your own hoster order.

  • The notification center remembers for you

    Anything worth acting on is still waiting hours later, with the buttons its outcome needs: open the run, retry the anime that failed, or download the season title still pending.

  • Every episode keeps its history

    Every episode you mark gets its own row with the exact time you watched it, grouped by day like a browser history. Roll one back and only that row disappears; rewatch the series and the earlier history stays.

How they talk

One tap, four guarantees

Synchronization is the product. Follow a single Cap+ from the tablet to the desktop catalog and back.

DesktopLANTablet
The marker on the wire only moves forward once a change is confirmed, so every retry lands exactly once.
When things break

The interesting part is the failure path

Anything can claim to sync on a good day. These are the answers for the bad ones.

  • The internet goes down, or the Bridge is off

    Sync never needs the internet: it runs over your own network. With the Bridge off, Mobile keeps every change and sends it the moment the Bridge answers again.

  • You edit the same anime on both devices

    An edit made on an outdated value is flagged as a conflict on its own, and every other change in the batch still lands.

  • Android decides to kill the app

    Nothing is lost. Your settings and pending changes are already on disk, and background sync restarts on its own within a minute, without you opening the app.

  • A scheduled run fails overnight, or the Bridge was closed

    The Notification Center keeps the record until you act on it, with the button each case needs: retry, copy the links, or run the missed day now.

Downloads

Two installs, straight off GitHub

Both apps publish their artifacts straight from a tagged release, with a per-platform checksum file beside them. Pick the one your machine runs.

Autoreas Bridge

v1.17.0All releases ↗
  • Windows (x64)NSIS installerautoreas-bridge-1.17.0-windows-amd64-installer.exe
    Download ↓
  • Debian & Ubuntu (x64)Package that declares its own GTK and WebKit dependenciesautoreas-bridge-1.17.0-linux-amd64.deb
    Download ↓
  • Other Linux (x64)Portable binary in a tarballautoreas-bridge-1.17.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz
    Download ↓

Starts in the tray and opens on today. The database lives outside the install directory, so an update never touches your catalog. With ffprobe on the PATH, it measures each episode as it lands.

Autoreas Mobile

v1.12.0All releases ↗
  • AndroidSideload APKautoreas-mobile-1.12.0-android.apk
    Download ↓

Not on Play Store: allow installation from unknown sources once, and the APK installs like any other app.

Every release ships a SHA256SUMS file for each platform. Check the artifact against it before you run it: sha256sum -c on Linux, Get-FileHash on Windows.

Get started

Paired in under a minute

  1. Run Bridge on the PC that stores your episodes. It starts in the tray and opens on today.

  2. Open Devices and let it render a one-shot QR for your local network, with a copyable token as manual fallback.

  3. Scan it from Autoreas Mobile. The versioned autoreas-mobile://pair?v=1 deep link fills IP, port and token, and the first sync starts on its own. Allow the battery exemption it offers next, so sync keeps running with the app closed.

Bridge on GitHub ↗Mobile on GitHub ↗
DevicesBlurred
Devices: LAN address, one-shot QR, token and device id blurred for publication.

Or build it yourself

Both apps build from source with the same commands the project itself uses.

  • Autoreas BridgeGo 1.27+ · Bun · Wails CLI
    git clone https://github.com/Disble/autoreas-bridgecd autoreas-bridgewails build
  • Autoreas MobileBun · Docker · Expo token
    git clone https://github.com/Disble/autoreas-mobilecd autoreas-mobilebun installdocker compose -f docker-compose.eas.yml run --rm eas-build

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