Kuro is a high-performance, modern anime streaming application built with React Native and Expo. It provides a seamless experience for discovering, tracking, and watching anime content with a focus on speed and visual excellence.
This application currently utilizes a free public instance of the backend API hosted, Please Host ur own The source code for this API can be found at: GitHub: aryaniiil/anime-api
Please be advised that the public instance is subject to rate limiting and cold-starts. For production use or a more reliable experience, it is strongly recommended to host your own instance of the API following the documentation in the repository linked above.
- Dynamic home screen featuring spotlight carousels, trending titles, and recent releases.
- Advanced exploration through genre-based filtering and global search.
- Segmented rankings for Top Upcoming, Top Airing, and Most Popular titles.
- HLS (M3U8) streaming support via expo-video.
- Dynamic quality switching (Auto, 1080p, 720p, 480p, 360p).
- Robust subtitle engine supporting VTT formats with custom overlay rendering.
- Playback speed controls ranging from 0.5x to 2.0x.
- Responsive orientation handling with seamless landscape transitions.
- Integrated intro and outro skip functionality.
- Localized watch history tracking for immediate resume from last playback position.
- Saved list functionality to bookmark anime for later viewing.
- Persistent data storage using asynchronous local storage modules.
- Node.js (Latest LTS)
- Expo Go (for mobile testing) or a local emulator (Android Studio / Xcode)
- Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/aryaniiil/kuro.git
- Install dependencies:
npm install
- Start the development server:
npx expo start
- Framework: React Native with Expo (Managed Workflow)
- Navigation: Expo Router (File-based routing)
- Styling: NativeWind (Tailwind CSS for React Native)
- Video Handling: expo-video
- Icons: lucide-react-native
- Storage: @react-native-async-storage/async-storage
Refer to the LICENSE file for details on project usage and distribution.