Is There a LiveChart.me App for iPhone? The Best Alternatives (2026)

What LiveChart.me Does, and What iPhone Users Miss

LiveChart.me lays out the current anime season as a chart of cards, one per show, each with a live countdown to its next episode and air times adjusted to your timezone. You can scan it without an account, and a free account adds a watched list and opt-in notifications. On Android those notifications arrive as push alerts from its app.

On iPhone there is no app to send them. The site still works in Safari, so the chart itself is one tap away. What you lose is the thing an app does on its own: telling you that an episode is out when you are not looking at the chart.

So the right alternative depends on which part you relied on. Most people used LiveChart.me for one of three jobs: seeing the season, knowing when the next episode airs, or keeping a list of what they watch. Each has a different best answer on iPhone.

How to Put LiveChart.me on Your iPhone Home Screen

If the seasonal chart is what you want, you do not need a replacement at all. Safari can save the site as an icon that opens like an app:

1. Open livechart.me in Safari and sign in if you have an account.
2. Tap the Share button.
3. Choose Add to Home Screen, name it, and tap Add.
4. Open it from the new icon. Set the site's timezone to yours if the air times look a day off.

That gets you the chart and its countdowns. It does not get you a calendar of only the shows you follow, alerts before an episode airs, or a countdown on your Lock Screen. For those, you want an app built around the week ahead.

The Best LiveChart.me Alternatives for iPhone, by Use Case

App	Best for	Cost	Account
Rexy	Countdowns and the week ahead	Free for 7 shows; Rexy+ $1.99/mo, $9.99/yr or $29.99 once	None
LiveChart.me in Safari	The whole season at a glance	Free	Optional
MyAnimeList	Full watch history, community	Free with ads	Yes
Simkl	Anime plus TV and movies	Free with ads; paid tier	Yes
AniList client	An existing AniList list	Varies by client	AniList
AnimeSchedule.net	Dub and sub air times	Free	Optional

Best for countdowns and the week ahead: Rexy

This one is ours, so weigh it accordingly. We built Rexy for the job LiveChart.me does best, knowing exactly when the next episode lands, and narrowed it to the shows you follow. Its main screen, Watch Week, groups this week's episodes by day with a next-episode card counting down to the minute. Air times come from real episode data (Rexy reads air dates from AniList) converted into your timezone, so a late-night Japanese broadcast that lands on a different calendar day is already sorted out for you. Alerts fire at the lead time you choose, and Where to Watch links each series out to the services that carry it. Rexy does not host or play video.

The Season Browser is the closest thing to LiveChart.me's chart: the whole season as a poster grid with an A to Z index and filters for where to watch, studio, genre, format and status. There is no account and no sign-up; your list syncs through iCloud, and recommendations run on your device.

Pricing: free for up to seven shows, with Watch Week, countdowns, alerts, the season browser and the Catch Up planner included. Rexy+ is $1.99 a month, $9.99 a year or $29.99 once for unlimited follows, Live Activity countdowns on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, all ten themes and icons, and friend sharing. Not for you if: your iPhone cannot run iOS 26, or you want a public profile and a lifetime watch history. Rexy is Apple-only.

Best if you want LiveChart.me itself: Safari

The Home Screen shortcut above is the honest first answer. You keep the exact chart you know, your account and its list, at no cost. The trade is alerts: what an app would push to you, you check for yourself.

Best for a full watch history: MyAnimeList

MyAnimeList's official app is free on iOS and Android with ads, and it has the largest catalog, the reference score most people quote, and seasonal charts of its own. It is a logbook first: excellent for what you have watched and rated, and it shows air dates rather than a live countdown. Our comparison of anime trackers covers it alongside AniList and Anime-Planet.

Best for anime next to regular TV: Simkl

Simkl tracks anime, live-action series and movies in one library, with iOS and Android apps and alerts for new episodes. The free tier carries ads. Pick it if your watchlist is not only anime.

Best if your list lives on AniList: a third-party client

AniList has no official iOS app, but its open API means independent iOS clients read and write the same account, and anilist.co lists them. If your list already lives there, a client keeps it in one place. Features, including airing notifications, differ from client to client, so check the App Store listing before you commit.

Best for dub times: AnimeSchedule.net

AnimeSchedule.net is a free website with a weekly timetable in your timezone and separate raw, sub and dub times. A dub schedule is a different calendar, and most tools ignore it. Like LiveChart.me, it saves to your Home Screen from Safari.

Which One Should You Pick?

If you opened LiveChart.me to see the season, keep using it in Safari. If you opened it to know when your shows air, use an app that counts down and alerts you, which on iPhone is what Rexy is for. If you opened it to keep a list, use MyAnimeList or, for TV too, Simkl. Several people use two: a tracker for history and a schedule app for the week. Wondering when a show you finished comes back? Our guide to finding when your anime returns covers that, and the Fall 2026 premieres guide lists this season's dates.

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