



Kavita is described as 'Lightning fast with a slick design, Kavita is a rocket-fueled self-hosted digital library which supports a vast array of file formats. Install to start reading and share your server with your friends. book reader, self hosted, manga, comics, free, manhwa, e readers, electronic' and is a Ebook Reader in the news & books category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Kavita for a variety of platforms, including Android, Windows, iPhone, iPad and Linux apps. The best Kavita alternative is calibre, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Kavita are Okular, Foxit PDF Reader, MuPDF and Librera Reader.




Xreader is a document viewer capable of displaying multiple and single page document formats like PDF and Postscript.
Load the online comic content supported by any plug-in project to provide a convenient online comic viewing experience.




Jutoh is an e-book creation and conversion tool available on Windows, Mac, and Linux. It supports the creation of various e-book types and can convert these into formats such as ePub for Kindle, iBookstore, iBooks, iPhone, and Mobipocket.

Shelf is a convergent document viewer that supports PDF and EPUB files. With Shelf, you can organize your document collection by creating tags, like other Maui applications.



Ubooquity is a free, lightweight and easy-to-use home server for your comics and ebooks. Use it to access your files from anywhere, with a tablet, an e-reader, a phone or a computer.





Bookworm is a document reader that allows you to read more than 15 document formats including PDF, EPUB, and MOBI using a versatile, yet simple, and highly accessible interface.

Desktop app to read manga, manhua, webtoon, epub offline (Not a downloader).
Previously known as react ts offline manga reader.

Paperback allows you to read manga, download, and track it automatically on tracking services such as Anilist or MyAnimeList.


Open source server for archival of comics/manga/doujinshi, running on Mojolicious + Redis.




PrivatePDF is a free web tool that lets you make quick PDF edits from within your web browser, without uploading anything anywhere.




pimReader is Book Reader, Video Player and learning assistant. pimReader helps everyone who learns foreign languages, reads foreign literature, who watches foreign movies. If you learn use pimReader to do it more efficiently.




Looks great but no updates since 2018 and not willing to open source...