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Kavita

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Open source
manga
reader
self-hosted
comics
ebook
webtoon
pdf
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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

$1,025 USD since Jan 2022

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Caleb Blankenbaker

$300 USD since Jan 2023

3
Ryan Gordon

$250 USD since Jun 2022

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SLaSZT

$225 USD since Jul 2022

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David Spitzer

$200 USD since Nov 2024

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Joseph Milazzo

$188.06 USD since Jun 2021

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Guest

$160 USD since Feb 2024

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Jonathan F

$150 USD since Jan 2022

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pkmndan

$150 USD since May 2022

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kateyene

$100 USD since Dec 2021

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Rabbit

$100 USD since May 2022

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Max Puissance

$100 USD since Jul 2022

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Lucifer

$100 USD since Jan 2023

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Łukasz Liniewicz

$70 USD since Mar 2022

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Incognito

$56 USD since Aug 2022

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Panels

$1,075 USD since Dec 2021

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Peakford Ltd

$723.6 USD since Apr 2023

Kavita is all of us

Our contributors 96

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Joseph Milazzo

Admin

$188 USD

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

Panels

Mega sponsor

$1,075 USD

Keep up the fantastic work! 🙌

thefirst

Mega sponsor

$1,025 USD

Peakford Ltd

$724 USD

Caleb Blanken...

sponsor

$300 USD

Ryan Gordon

$250 USD

SLaSZT

sponsor

$225 USD

David Spitzer

$200 USD

Guest

sponsor

$160 USD

Jonathan F

$150 USD

pkmndan

$150 USD

kateyene

$100 USD

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Metron Comic Book Database

Active contribution

Amount contributed

$2.00 USD / month

($2 + $0)

Contributed to date

$14.00 USD

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Domain Renewal

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-$17.16 USD
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+$2.00USD
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Today’s balance

$4,240.76 USD

Total raised

$5,553.45 USD

Total disbursed

$1,312.69 USD

Estimated annual budget

$1,816.00 USD

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News from Kavita

Updates on our activities and progress.

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...
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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...
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Published on April 14, 2025 by Joseph Milazzo

v0.8.5.11 - Hotfix 2

I decided to do one more hotfix as there was an annoying bug for multi-root libraries that causes flip-flopping (the same issue as covers disappearing). This also contains some fixes around scrobbling and misc other bugs reported that are a...
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Published on March 17, 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...