About Hobbistas
Hobbistas tracks games, anime, manga, movies, TV and books in one place. Here's what it does today, what it deliberately does not, and what is coming next.
How you use it
Most trackers decide for you whether your hobbies are a private record or a public performance. Hobbistas lets you pick — and starts on the private side.
How every account starts
Available today
Everything below is live and free. Nothing here is a promise — the promises are further down, in the roadmap.
Games, anime, manga, movies, TV and books share a single backlog, a single history and one set of statuses. Each keeps the progress fields that actually make sense for it — hours played, episodes watched, chapters, pages.
Connect Steam and your games arrive with playtime. Connect MyAnimeList and your anime and manga arrive with progress and scores. You are not starting from an empty page.
Our philosophy
Hobbistas was built because every other tracker felt like it wanted something from me — engagement, daily logins, content to feed an algorithm. I just wanted to remember which anime I dropped and why.
So the defaults are the opposite of what the category usually assumes. Nothing is public until you say so, nothing is suggested by strangers, and nothing is designed to pull you back in. These are not features we have not built yet — they are the ones we decided against.
No daily reminders, no streaks to protect, no "you have not logged in" emails. The only thing that will ever notify you is a reply to a support ticket you opened yourself.
No leaderboards, no badges, no completion percentage shown to anyone else. Dropping something after two episodes costs you nothing here.
FAQ
Answers to the most common questions about Hobbistas.
Roadmap
We're building in public. Here's what is done, what is underway, and what is still only a plan.
Unified personal library for tracking hobbies across media.
Track progress, statuses, favorites, and completion per entry.
Who's behind this
Hobbistas is made by a very small group of hobbyists, scratching our own itch first. There is no company behind it and no investors to answer to.
Creator of Hobbistas Hub. I built it because I wanted a simple place to organize all my hobbies games, anime, manga, movies, TV shows, and books without jumping between different apps. And since I often talk about the things I love anyway, I decided to include a space for short writing and personal reflections around my hobbies.
If this sounds like the kind of tool you've been looking for, create an account and see if it fits.
No credit card. No spam. Just hobbies.
Opt-in — coming soon
The social layer is a single switch in your settings, off by default. Turn it off again and the public side disappears with it — your library goes back to being yours alone.
Suggestions are computed from the genres, themes and ratings already in your account — across every category at once, so what you love in games can surface something in books.
The optional diary is encrypted in your browser with AES-256 before anything is sent. The server stores ciphertext it has no key for. Losing your passphrase means losing the entries — that is the trade-off of it being real encryption.
Generate a link to your backlog or dashboard and send it to whoever you want. It is read-only, it can expire, and it needs no account on the other end. No profile, no follows.
The articles and reviews sections are public and readable without an account — no login wall, no newsletter gate. Members can comment and like.
Hobbistas is a Progressive Web App. Install it from the browser on phone or desktop, keep browsing your library with no connection, and additions you make offline sync when you are back.
Recommendations read your library and nothing else — your genres, your ratings, your history. Nothing is tuned to keep you on the page longer, and no other person’s behaviour feeds into what you are shown.
We do not sell personal data and there is no advertising to target. The diary goes further: it is encrypted on your device, so there is nothing on the server to hand over or leak.
Personal stats for time invested, completions, and activity.
Enrich entries with metadata and covers from external APIs when added.
Optional, context-based suggestions inside library and import flows.
Light/dark theme switch across the entire app.
Import your Steam library with playtime, and your anime and manga from MyAnimeList.
Editorial and interaction features available only when the Community module is enabled.
Activity notifications for community interactions when enabled.
Private personal journal for notes and reflection. Optional and disabled by default.
Export your personal library and history to common, portable formats.
Public profiles and follow relationships, available only with Community enabled.
Private messaging between users when Community features are enabled.
* The roadmap can change based on community feedback