Kavita

Kavita is a self-hosted reading server for comics, manga, webtoons, EPUB, and PDF. You run it on your own machine and read in the browser, then share the collection with friends and family.

It serves cbr, cbz, zip, rar, rar5, 7zip, raw images, epub, and pdf, with hand-crafted readers that adapt to phone, tablet, and desktop. Reading modes include single page, double page, and webtoon, with continuous reading and virtual pages for EPUB. Libraries get rich metadata, full-text search, smart filters, collections, reading lists, a want-to-read shelf, and EPUB annotations and highlights.

Users are managed with role-based permissions, age restrictions, and OIDC or built-in logins, and an OPDS feed exposes the library to third-party readers. Kavita is open source under GPL v3 and runs in Docker, with an optional Kavita+ subscription for external metadata and progress sync. It is beta software until the 1.0.0 release.