Best Open Source Ebook & Comic Readers in 2026
Applications for reading, organizing, and streaming digital books, comics, and manga.
The most popular pick this year is Kumiho with 81 GitHub stars, but all 2 options below are worth considering depending on your needs.
2 open source ebook & comic readers — ranked by GitHub stars. Browse all
Kumiho
A self-hosted, lightweight web media server for streaming your personal comics, manga, ebooks, and audiobooks.
Tome
A self-hosted book tracker powered by your Calibre library — Goodreads for your own collection.
GoodreadsHow we rank these tools
Tools are ranked by GitHub stars as a proxy for community adoption and trust. Stars reflect how many developers found a project valuable enough to bookmark — a reasonable signal for quality in the open source world. We only list tools that are actively maintained and open source.
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