Kavita

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Open source

manga

reader

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Lighting 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.

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thefirst

$1,125 USD since Jan 2022

Caleb Blankenbaker

$340 USD since Jan 2023

Ryan Gordon

$250 USD since Jun 2022

SLaSZT

$225 USD since Jul 2022

David Spitzer

$200 USD since Nov 2024

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$190 USD since Feb 2024

Joseph Milazzo

$188.06 USD since Jun 2021

Jonathan F

$150 USD since Jan 2022

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$150 USD since May 2022

kateyene

$100 USD since Dec 2021

Rabbit

$100 USD since May 2022

Max Puissance

$100 USD since Jul 2022

Lucifer

$100 USD since Jan 2023

Łukasz Liniewicz

$70 USD since Mar 2022

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$56 USD since Aug 2022

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$1,175 USD since Dec 2021

Peakford Ltd

$1,005.85 USD since Apr 2023

Kavita is all of us

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Joseph Milazzo

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$340 USD

Ryan Gordon

$250 USD

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$225 USD

David Spitzer

$200 USD

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$190 USD

Jonathan F

$150 USD

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$150 USD

kateyene

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Credit from Guest to Kavita • October 1, 2025

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Credit from Caleb Blankenbaker to Kavita • October 1, 2025

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Credit from Panels to Kavita • October 1, 2025

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Total raised

$6,079.36 USD

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Estimated annual budget

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News from Kavita

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v0.8.7 - Comic Metadata Downloading, Reading Profiles, Browse by Genre and More

This was supposed to be Scanner Improvements, but due to my 2 week holiday in the middle, then getting massively distracted when I got back, we ended up with some nice features instead. This release is feature packed with a ton of Feature R...

Published on July 5, 2025 by Joseph Milazzo

v0.8.6.2 - Hotfixes

A few things slipped through and I released 2 hotfixes. Below is the combined changelog. There will be no more hotfixes after this. Fixed · Fixed: Finally fixed a bug where when IP Address was empty (default), the General settings changes w...

Published on April 20, 2025 by Joseph Milazzo

v0.8.6 - Spring Cleaning

v0.8.6 is here and it's only fair to call this the Spring-Cleaning release as over the past 3 weeks, Amelia (@Fesaa) and I have closed out 65 issues from Github and polished a ton of the app. This release is packed with a lot of OLD issues...

Published on April 14, 2025 by Joseph Milazzo

About

Kavita was started to bring a feature rich, self-hosted, and free reading software to readers. Originally set to be built for Manga, it quickly evolved to supporting comics, books, and webtoons with the end goal of being the Plex of reading.

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Joseph Milazzo

Admin

Thank you for all the donations. They really he...