Fire Anime is a free-to-use multimedia app for your mobile device. This video streaming tool from the Activa Games Utils team lets you watch the latest anime episodes. Aside from streaming, it also contains updates about the Japanese animation industry, keeping you in the loop about new developments on your favorite shows, studios, and actors.

Sporting a simple and straightforward app layout with responsive and accessible buttons, Fire Anime is a good platform for anime fans everywhere. Its features make it a more streamlined alternative to other apps such as the KissAnime GogoAnime Anime TV app or Anime Online.

Your one-stop anime portal

As mentioned, Fire Anime offers streaming and news aggregation capabilities. For the former, it taps into other anime streaming platforms such as GogoAnime or KissAnime to provide the content it has. As such, it allows you to choose which server to watch the episode from. On the other hand, the app and its administrators have no control over the availability of content.

About its interface, the app keeps it simple and direct. It has the basic features of a video streaming platform and the newsfeed-style interface for the articles. However, it doesn’t have other conveniences offered to users of either service. For one, there’s no recommendation or progress-saving capability to let you pick up where you left off. The articles, however, allow social media sharing depending on the source.

Additionally, users have reported the app crashing. In some instances, it freezes when users try to watch an episode. This prompts them to restart the app. Also, there are cases where switching the window from the app to another, and returning to this one causes the currently-playing episode to show nothing but a black screen. This happens even on split-second screen switches.

Dragged by unresolved issues

While Fire Anime has the makings of a good anime app, it is unfortunately derailed by the issues and restrictions it faces. It relies on third-party content for the episodes it offers and has no features for a personalized watching experience. You can get better services by using dedicated apps either for watching or for reading news. Unless its persisting issues are resolved, you’d prefer to go with other apps.