Kavita

Kavita

Kavita is a fast, feature rich, cross platform reading server. Built with a focus for being a full solution for all your reading needs. Setup your own server and share your reading collection with your friends and family!

What Kavita Provides

• Serve up Manga/Webtoons/Comics (cbr, cbz, zip/rar/rar5, 7zip, raw images) and Books (epub, pdf)
• First class responsive readers that work great on any device (phone, tablet, desktop)
• Dark mode and customizable theming support
• External metadata integration and scrobbling for read status, ratings, and reviews (available via Kavita+)
• Rich Metadata support with filtering and searching
• Ways to group reading material: Collections, Reading Lists (CBL Import), Want to Read
• Ability to manage users with rich Role-based management for age restrictions, abilities within the app, etc
• Rich web readers supporting webtoon, continuous reading mode (continue without leaving the reader), virtual pages (epub), etc
• Full Localization Support
• Ability to customize your dashboard and side nav with smart filters, custom order and visibility toggles.

Support

Demo

If you want to try out Kavita, we have a demo up: https://demo.kavitareader.com/

Username: demouser
Password: Demouser64

The easiest way to get started is to visit our Wiki which has up-to-date information on a variety of install methods and platforms. https://wiki.kavitareader.com/en/install

Note: Kavita is under heavy development and is being updated all the time, so the tag for bleeding edge builds is :nightly. The :latest tag will be the latest stable release.

Feature Requests

Got a great idea? Throw it up on our Feature Request site or vote on another idea. Please check the Project Board first for a list of planned features before you submit an idea.

Notice

Kavita is being actively developed and should be considered beta software until the 1.0 release. Kavita may be subject to changes in how the platform functions as it is being built out toward the vision. You may lose data and have to restart. The Kavita team strives to avoid any data loss.

Donate

If you like Kavita, have gotten good use out of it, or feel like you want to say thanks with a few bucks, feel free to donate. Money will go towards expenses related to Kavita. Back us through OpenCollective. You can also use Paypal, however your name will not show below.

Kavita+

Kavita+ is a paid subscription that offers premium features that otherwise wouldn't be feasible to include in Kavita. It is ran and operated by majora2007, the creator and developer of Kavita.

If you are interested, you can use the promo code FIRSTTIME for your initial signup for a 50% discount on the first month (2$). This can be thought of as donating to Kavita's development and getting some sweet features out of it.

If you already contribute via OpenCollective, please reach out to me for a provisioned license.

Contributors

This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute and downstream library maintainers. Contribute.

Backers

Thank you to all our backers! 🙏 Become a backer

Sponsors

Support this project by becoming a sponsor. Your logo will show up here with a link to your website. Become a sponsor

Mega Sponsors

JetBrains

Thank you to JetBrains for providing us with free licenses to their great tools.

• Rider
• dotTrace

Localization

Thank you to Weblate who hosts our localization infrastructure pro-bono. If you want to see Kavita in your language, please help us localize.

PikaPods

If you are looking to try your hand at self-hosting but lack the machine, PikaPods is a great service that allows you to easily spin up a server. 20% of app revenues are contributed back to Kavita via OpenCollective.

License

• GNU GPL v3
• Copyright 2020-2023