Ask anyone with a growing manga shelf what the hard part is. It is rarely the reading. Remembering which One Piece arc you paused on, whether you finished that Vinland Saga volume, and where you stand on your Kingdom reread is where the wheels come off. This excel manga tracker exists for manga readers and manhwa/manhua collectors who want one place that knows the answer before they do.
Your problem: you keep a running list in your head and the list keeps losing entries. The fix is the Series tab, a proper catalog where each row carries a cover photo, country, genre, sub-genre, year, volume count, chapter count, platform, and reading status. You rate every title across Overall, Story, Characters, Art, and Style, and the sheet handles up to 500 series, so this manga collection spreadsheet absorbs the entire backlog without complaint.
You buy volumes, you read volumes, and three months later you cannot tell which ones you actually finished. The Volumes tab pins it down: log each volume with its number, title, cover photo, rating, chapter count, page count, and a notes field for the moments you want to remember. Pair that with the Characters tab and you stop forgetting names like Luffy, Nami, or Thorfinn — each entry records the character name, photo, interest level, gender, series, and notes.
You wonder whether your taste is in line with anyone else’s, and you have no way to check. The Critic Ratings tab lets you log scores from review sites like Goodreads, Comic Watch, or Anilist, with the site URL and the max rating scale, then averages those ratings across sources. That is also how this excel manga tracker quietly doubles as a recommendation engine — the consensus picks float to the top.
You read a lot but you cannot tell how much, so reading goals never stick. The Journal tab logs each session with the date, series, photo, platform, and minutes, then plots a Progress Over the Past Week line chart at the top of the sheet and measures activity against weekly and monthly goals. The Dashboard consolidates the whole manga collection spreadsheet into one view: totals for series tracked, series read, volumes tracked, chapters read, characters tracked, series currently reading, and critic ratings, plus bar charts of your top rated series and critic top rated series, and a pie chart for series with critic ratings.
What sets this one apart is reach: one purchase ships the Excel file, the Google Sheets version, and the Notion version, all 8 tabs intact, so you pick the tool you already live in. No accounts, no subscriptions, no cloud dependency — the file sits on your machine and works offline. Drop your library into it tonight and stop guessing where you left off.
