Adibags Anima Filter
If your bags look like a landfill after a few hours in the Shadowlands, you already know the pain: anima items, conduits, cosmetics, and quest junk all fighting for the same precious slots. Adibags Anima Filter is a small but mighty plugin that solves one very specific problem, and it solves it well. It adds a dedicated filter to the AdiBags bag addon that automatically groups all of your anima items into their own category, so your inventory finally makes sense at a glance.
This is not a standalone addon. It is a plugin, which means you need the base AdiBags addon installed and running first. Once both are in place, the filter appears inside AdiBags automatically. No slash commands, no configuration wizard, no reading a 40-page wiki at two in the morning. You install it, and your anima items simply land in the right place.
What the Adibags Anima Filter Actually Does
Anima is the core currency of the Shadowlands expansion, used for Covenant sanctum upgrades, cosmetics, mounts, and a long list of other rewards. Over the course of a play session you can accumulate a surprising amount of it, plus dozens of related items that clutter your inventory. The Adibags Anima Filter creates a new section in your AdiBags window specifically for these items, keeping them separated from gear, consumables, and reagents.
The result is a cleaner bag layout and faster decision-making. Instead of scanning every slot for that one anima token you need to deposit, you open your bags and see the whole pile sitting in one labeled category. For players who run multiple characters and multiple Covenants, that consistency is a genuine quality-of-life upgrade.
Why AdiBags Users Love It
- Automatic sorting: anima items are detected and grouped without any manual setup.
- Zero performance cost: the filter is lightweight and will not affect your frame rate.
- Clean integration: it appears as a native AdiBags category, not a separate window.
- Simple maintenance: updates are rare because the plugin does one job and does it correctly.
- Works alongside your existing filters, including gear, reagents, and quest items.
Supported Game Versions and Compatibility
AdiBags itself has a long history across multiple eras of the game, and plugin support varies by client. The Adibags Anima Filter is built around Shadowlands-era anima items, which means it is most relevant on Retail, where that content exists. On Retail, the plugin slots directly into the current AdiBags release and behaves exactly as expected.
For players on Classic, TBC, WotLK, Cataclysm, and MoP, the situation is different. Those clients do not contain anima items at all, so the filter has nothing to sort. That said, AdiBags maintains separate builds for Classic Era, The Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm, and Mists of Pandaria, and the base addon remains one of the most popular bag replacements on every one of those versions. If you play across several clients, keep your AdiBags installs matched to the correct game version and only enable the anima filter where it applies.
How to Install
Installation is straightforward and takes under a minute. Here is the standard process for World of Warcraft addons:
- Close World of Warcraft completely before touching your AddOns folder.
- Locate your AddOns directory inside the World of Warcraft installation folder, under Interface.
- Extract the Adibags Anima Filter folder into AddOns so that the folder name matches the addon name exactly.
- Confirm that AdiBags itself is also present in the same AddOns folder.
- Launch the game, open the AddOns list at character select, and make sure both addons are enabled.
If you prefer a faster route, the foxygame.net launcher handles the whole process in a single click, dropping Adibags Anima Filter straight into the correct folder for your client and keeping it current with automatic updates, which removes any worry about mismatched versions between Retail and the classic-era builds.
Once you are in game, open your bags and check the AdiBags category list. The anima section should appear on its own. If it does not, verify that the plugin folder is not nested inside another folder, which is the single most common installation mistake. When you download Adibags Anima Filter, always confirm you are grabbing the version that matches your game client.
A Small Addon With a Big Payoff
Adibags Anima Filter for World of Warcraft is not trying to be a complete inventory overhaul. It is a focused, single-purpose plugin that removes one recurring annoyance from your play sessions. If you already use AdiBags and you spend any meaningful time in the Shadowlands, adding this filter costs you almost nothing and returns a noticeably tidier bag every time you log in. Install it once, forget about it, and let your anima items sort themselves.