Manga Tracker - Google Sheets

Ever scroll through your phone trying to remember which volume of Vinland Saga you stopped at, or whether you already rated Vagabond on Goodreads, or which chapter of Kingdom you read last Tuesday? That scattered feeling, where your manga life exists in a dozen browser tabs and half-forgotten notes, is exactly what this Google Sheets manga tracker spreadsheet was built to replace. Eight tabs, one workbook, and suddenly every series, volume, and reading session has a home.

You open the Series tab and the structure clicks right away. Each row holds a manga series with its cover photo, country, genre, sub-genre, year, volume count, chapter count, platform, and reading status. You can log up to 500 series here, and rate each one across five categories: Overall, Story, Characters, Art, and Style. It is the kind of bird’s-eye view that makes you realize just how much manga you have actually consumed.

The Volumes tab takes that further. Up to 500 individual volumes, each with its own number, title, chapter count, page count, cover photo, rating, and notes. If you are reading through a long-running series like Fullmetal Alchemist or Naruto, this is where the detail lives. The Characters tab sits alongside it, letting you catalog favorites with photos, interest level, gender, series association, and personal notes. Looking back at a roster of characters across different series turns out to be a surprisingly good way to remember why you loved a story.

But here is where it gets interesting. The Critic Ratings tab lets you pull in reviews from sites like Goodreads, Comic Watch, or Anilist, logging the rating, max rating, percentage score, and a direct URL back to the source. And the Journal tab turns your daily reading into something measurable. Each entry records the date, series, platform, and minutes spent reading. You set a weekly goal in minutes and a monthly goal in hours, and the tab tracks your activity against those targets.

The Dashboard tab ties it all together visually. You see total series tracked, series read, volumes tracked, chapters read, characters tracked, series currently reading, and total critic ratings at a glance. Charts break down your series status, your top-rated series, critic top-rated series, and which series have critic ratings attached. Drop-down fields throughout the spreadsheet keep data entry quick and consistent, and you can customize the genre list to match how you actually categorize manga.

There are no accounts, no subscriptions, and no internet connection required after you make your copy. The spreadsheet is yours to keep and modify. This purchase includes Excel and Notion versions alongside the Google Sheets tracker, so you can use whichever platform fits.