Boosting the energy and power densities of electrochemical energy storage (EES) devices to broaden their practicality is of great significance and emergently desirable. Recently, the EES cells with an anode-free concept have been announced to realize those targets. Herein, 20 μm of a zincophilic layer prepared by blending ZIF-8 and sodium alginate (SA) is uniformly coated on Cu foil (Z8-SA@Cu) as an alternative anode for anode-less zinc-ion hybrid supercapacitors (ALZHSCs). Contributing by the distinctive features evidenced by electrochemical measurements and post-mortem analyses: (1) less nucleation barrier and overpotential, (2) limited zincate formation, (3) improved Zn