Manga, comics, ebooks, and light novels get a streaming-service-style home in Kavita - a fast, cross-platform reading server for the DRM-free collection you share with family and friends. It natively serves CBZ, CBR, CB7, ZIP/RAR/7z archives, raw images, EPUB, and PDF, with hand-crafted web readers per format: webtoon scrolling, single and dual-page spreads with advanced caching for the comic reader, and a book reader with adjustable fonts, spacing, margins, color themes, and column modes. Reading progress tracks per user, so everyone resumes exactly where they stopped on any device. Metadata parses from filenames, ComicInfo.xml, and EPUB fields, feeding index-backed search, smart filters, collections, reading lists with CBL import, and Want to Read queues. Role-based user management covers age restrictions, per-library access, and OIDC authentication. An OPDS feed connects third-party clients - Panels on iOS, Librera on Android, KOReader on e-ink devices - and a comprehensive REST API supports custom integrations. EPUB annotation and highlight support, custom theming, and full localization round it out. Built with .NET and Angular, it handles 50,000+ file libraries without strain; optional Kavita+ adds AniList scrobbling, recommendations, and external metadata.

Seanime turns your server into a dedicated anime and manga command center, combining local library management, torrent streaming, an integrated manga reader, and AniList progress tracking in a single self-hosted web application. Point it at your media folders and the smart scanner automatically identifies and matches your anime files to AniList entries without requiring strict naming conventions or folder hierarchies. Stream episodes directly from torrents through qBittorrent, Transmission, Torbox, Real-Debrid, AllDebrid, or Premiumize; the built-in player starts playback before the download finishes, so there is no waiting for full transfers. The manga reader pulls chapters from community extension sources and tracks your reading progress across series automatically. An in-app extension marketplace lets you install third-party providers for streaming, manga, and torrent sources, all written in JavaScript and managed through a visual interface. Seanime Tenji, the companion mobile app for iOS and Android, connects to your server for on-the-go library browsing, content streaming, and offline downloads. Auto-download rules grab new episodes of airing series the moment torrents appear. The transcoding engine handles on-the-fly conversion for browser playback on any device, while direct play passes through compatible formats at full quality. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

Manga collections tend to get trapped on a single phone; Suwayomi moves the library, downloads, and reading progress onto a server you run, so every browser and device sees the same shelf. In the browser, a built-in reader handles single page, double page, continuous vertical, continuous horizontal, and webtoon layouts, adding image filters, custom keybinds, auto scrolling, and separate desktop and mobile views. Content comes from Mihon (Tachiyomi) extensions, which can be searched, browsed, and sorted into categories, with custom extension stores loaded from JSON or Protobuf indexes. Downloads save chapters as CBZ archives for offline reading, and the server checks the library for new chapters every 12 hours by default, fetching them automatically if you allow it. Progress follows you through MyAnimeList, AniList, and MangaUpdates, a Suwayomi extension and tracker for Mihon, SyncYomi servers, and KOReader. E-reader apps connect over OPDS feeds, scheduled Mihon-compatible backups protect the library, and FlareSolverr or Byparr support handles Cloudflare-protected sources. Public instances can be locked down with basic authentication, a simple login page, or JWT-based UI login, and a PostgreSQL backend, still in beta, can replace the default file store. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MPL-2.0 licensed.

Tonkatsu Box is a collection manager for games, movies, TV shows, anime, visual novels, manga, books, music, and podcasts that tracks progress, ratings, and shelves for all of them in one place. One search field queries fifteen catalogues, from IGDB, TMDB, and TVmaze to AniList, MangaDex, OpenLibrary, ComicVine, and Podcast Index, and a result can land in several collections at once. Collections organize by platform, genre, or anything else, with grid, list, table, and board views, drag and drop ordering, global tags, and bulk actions across a selection. Progress speaks each medium's grammar: episodes for series, pages for books, chapters for manga, listened track checklists for albums, plus statuses, ratings, dates, and replays. The episode tracker unfolds seasons with posters, stills, air dates, and synopses, and marks one episode, a whole season, or the next unwatched one in a tap. Statistics turn the library into numbers with per type breakdowns, a month by month ribbon, platforms, formats, tags, best against worst, and a shareable summary card. Visual boards arrange posters, notes, and connections on a free canvas, and tier lists and mood grids rank and lay out items for export as PNG. Importers read Steam, Trakt, Simkl, MyAnimeList, AniList, Hardcover, and RetroAchievements libraries, plus JSON and CSV, and collections travel as offline .xcollx packages. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

What Jellyfin is for video, Komga is for comics, manga, BDs, magazines, and eBooks: point it at folders of CBZ, CBR, CBT, PDF, and EPUB files and it becomes a proper library with cover art, embedded metadata import, and per-user reading progress. The responsive web reader handles multiple reading modes - left-to-right for western comics, right-to-left for manga, webtoon scrolling - while collections and read lists organize crossovers and story arcs, with ComicRack .cbl read list import for existing curation. Its openness is the real differentiator: OPDS v1.2 and v2.0 feeds serve virtually every reader app (Panels, Moon+ Reader, Mihon/Tachiyomi, KyBook), with OpenSearch and page-streaming extensions so mobile apps fetch pages on demand instead of whole archives. E-ink support is built in, not bolted on - Kobo devices sync directly against Komga instead of Kobo's servers, with two-way read progress, on-the-fly KEPUB conversion via Kepubify, and optional proxying so official Kobo purchases still work; KOReader sync covers everything else. Multi-user management brings per-library access control, age restrictions, and label restrictions for family setups. Housekeeping tools detect duplicate files and duplicate pages, and a REST API feeds a healthy ecosystem of community scripts. Runs from a single Docker container with embedded SQLite.

Curating digital comic archives, serialized manga, and electronic book libraries becomes effortless with Stump, a high-performance reading server that streams media collections over OPDS protocols directly to web browsers and e-reader hardware. Readers can organize extensive collections across CBZ, CBR, PDF, and EPUB formats, utilizing automated scanners that extract embedded ComicInfo XML and Calibre metadata tags. The built-in web reader renders high-resolution comic spreads, continuous vertical webtoon scrolls, and reflowable text with customizable color themes, font scaling, and reading direction toggles. Users can highlight passages, create persistent notes inside EPUB editions, and organize complex franchises into custom reading lists, oneshots, and smart filter collections. Bi-directional synchronization integrates with Kobo and KOReader hardware devices, maintaining page progression and bookmark states across handhelds and desktop sessions. Server administrators can configure multi-user access rules, enforce age restriction thresholds, and provision user-scoped API tokens for automated script pipelines and third-party companion tools. GraphQL and REST endpoints expose the entire catalog structure, allowing media collectors to integrate external metadata scrapers and trigger background library indexing tasks. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Manga readers use KamiYomu to build a private, self-hosted library: it fetches chapters from the websites they already follow, archives them locally, and serves everything back through a clean web reader on any device. The discovery flow runs on Crawler Agents, small plugins that teach KamiYomu how a particular source site lists series, chapters, and pages, so searching and fetching metadata happens inside the same interface as reading. Downloads land in a structured local archive, and reading picks up where you left off with history, filters for your library, and weekly views that surface new chapters and fresh releases. When a series is complete, export it as CBZ, PDF, or ZIP and take the files anywhere, no account or cloud library involved. Your e-reader and phone apps join through the built-in OPDS catalog, the same standard used by Moon+ Reader and KyBook, while a Swagger-documented API exposes the collection to your own scripts. Scheduled jobs keep watched series current in the background, checking sources and pulling new chapters without you babysitting tabs. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Drop a hard drive's worth of comics, e-books, and audiobooks into folders, point Kumiho at them, and the whole collection becomes a library you can browse and read from any browser. The scanner walks nested folders recursively and treats the folders that actually hold pages or files as series, so an existing collection works as it is, with no metadata matching ritual before the first read. Comics and manga open in a responsive viewer built for the format: page turning on a desktop, continuous webtoon scrolling on a phone or tablet. E-books in EPUB, PDF, and TXT open in the same library, while archives in ZIP and CBZ are read directly without unpacking. Audiobooks get a real player, with a chapter list, resume playback that remembers where you stopped, progress tracking, bookmarks, and a sleep timer for listening at night. A series folder can even carry its own soundtrack: an MP3 whose filename matches starts playing as background music while you read. Everything runs from one lightweight Go server in a single Docker container, storing its database and configuration in mounted volumes, so the library sits comfortably on a small VPS next to the files it serves. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.