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# Software

Apps and programs for your various devices to take your hobbies wherever you go. Covering (almost) all the operating systems.

# Android

  • Cloudstream Web
    • Minimalist Customizable UI
    • Offers other types of media too
    • Tracking & backup support
    • Local player support
    • Extensions often break
  • Aniyomi Web Manga
    • Unofficial Tachiyomi fork for anime
    • Clean and minimal design
    • Offers other types of media too
    • Has manga reader too
    • Tracking support with enhanced type
    • Good amount of extensions are broken
  • Tachiyomi Web Forks
    • Great Customizable UI
    • Ton of manga sources
    • Download and local reader support
    • Tracking & sync support
    • High cache consumption
  • Perfect Viewer Local
    • The reader itself is really good with a lot of filters
    • Has plugin support for the cloud services but not for manga websites
    • Support for all the comic formats.
    • The app is light but the UI looks old
    • A few features are behind paywall
  • Kotatsu Web
    • Minimalist UI with limited customization
    • Offers Manga Suggestions
    • Download and local reader support
    • Tracking & sync support
    • Lacks some basic features
  • Moon+ Reader Pro
    • Customizable UI
    • Online source support
    • In-app reading analytics
    • Backup & restore support
    • No tracker support
    • Many features are paywalled, free version displays banner ads
  • ReadEra
    • Nice UI with limited customization
    • Free version doesn't have ads.
    • No in-app reading analytics
    • Good amount of features are behind paywall
    • No online source & tracker support
  • Shosetsu Web
    • Minimal UI with a lot of customization
    • Has CSS support
    • Slow dowload and no epub conversion
    • No image, single page & tracking support
  • Quicknovel
    • Good UI with lots of customization including fonts
    • Fast dowload and epub conversion
    • Support images (only for supported sources)
    • Slow app update with broken sources
    • No single page & tracking support

# PC

# Manga

  • Houdoku win mac lin
    • Easy to setup
    • Good Customizable UI
    • Has good amount of extensions
    • Tracker integration
    • Can download manga
  • Tachidesk win mac lin
    • Uses the same extensions and backups as tachiyomi so good extension support
    • UI is same as tachiyomi
    • Can download manga
    • No tracker integration
  • Tachidesk base
    • lots of sources to pick from
    • basic settings for reading
    • lacks basic reader features
    • complicated requirements such as JAVA
  • Sorayomi
    • Needs Tachidesk server to work
    • Minimal and easy to use, outdated 2022
    • insufficient features
    • loads slowly (depends on your internet)
  • Tachidesk JUI
    • Needs Tachidesk server to work
    • Batch downloading manga
    • new tab window while stream reading
  • CDisplayEx win
    • Minimalist UI
    • Fast and simple reader with good amount of configuration
    • Has more resizing options
    • No vertical reading mode
  • YACReader win mac lin
    • Fast and customizable
    • Comes with YAClibrary, which is like calibre for comics
    • No vertical reading mode
  • OpenComic win mac lin
    • Decent UI
    • Initial load times is slightly slower than above two readers
    • Has vertical reading mode with limited amount of customization
    • Does not clear cache automatically. Have to do it manually
  • Komga
    • Media server for manga/comics (like plex for manga).
    • Integrates with tachiyomi, OPDS reader or anything else using komga rest api.
    • Community built tools can be added though it's rest api for extra features like dupe detection, media analysis for corrupt files, .cbl read lists and much more.
    • User authentication using Github, Google or any other OAuth provider. Can restrict sections of library for different users.
    • Supports ComicInfo.xml and info.json for metadata.
    • Supported as a source in MALSync, for AniList/MAL tracking
    • Follows the 1-folder-to-1-series paradigm (unless you designate a folder as a folder of oneshots) so you'll need to organize your files accordingly.
    • Only supports image-based formats. Can't be used to LNs
  • Kavita
    • Kavita is a media server for Manga and Light Novels (or eBooks).
    • Supports Tachiyomi, Paperback, OPDS readers, and REST API.
    • User management is done through email invites. By detault, it uses the Kavita mail server, but other mail servers can be used too.
    • The admin can specify permissions such as enabling downloads, SFW/NSFW filter, and library selection.
    • Reliant on filename parsing, requires strict adherence to expected filename formats and embedded metadata is near mandatory for edge-cases.
    • No MALSync support. Tracking support, alongside some other features, is paywalled behind Kavita+.

# Anime

  • Miru
    • Torrent based
    • Pretty good UI with schedule and advanced search
    • Has AL tracking and RSS feed
    • Can stream external magnet link and it'll auto detect the anime.

# Light Novel

# iOS

  • Anime Now
    • Great UI with extension support
    • Downloading episode is supported support
    • Casting support
    • Tracking support
    • Only available trough sideloading
  • 9Animator
    • Decent UI with extension integration
    • Casting & notification support
    • Tracking support
    • Downloading episode available
    • Small number of extensions
    • Only available trough sideloading
  • Paperback Web
    • Very clean UI with changeable theme
    • Tracker & sync support
    • Many different download options
    • AppStore Release only for selected countries
  • Aidoku Web
    • Available on Tesflight (no Sideloading needed)
    • Many sources
    • Tracker support
    • Chapter download possible
    • Still in active Development
  • YACReader Local Paid
    • Multiple transfer options and local reader support
    • Support for cbz, cbr, zip, tar, arj, pdf, and rar formats as well as image formats
    • Ability to backup comics
  • Tachimanga
    • Based on tachiyomi (tachidesk server and sorayomi) (but not developed by tachiyomi team)
    • Supports tachiyomi extensions
    • Has all the basic features and more in developement
    • Has ad on opening or as banner (probably blockable using adblocking dns)
    • Lifetime premium is 18€ (with ad-removal and more upcoming features)
  • Hanami
    • Available on Testflight (no Sideloading required)
    • OK-ish UI with some lags
    • only MangaDex as a source. So, therefore no official releases
  • SideBooks Cloud
    • Supports PDF,ZIP,CBZ,RAR and CBR
    • Has all the necessary features
    • Old looking UI but very functional and customizable.
    • Good amount of features paywalled

# Downloader

  • Hakuneko
    • No Crunchyroll implementation
    • You have to index each site first, which takes quite a long time, after that the search is almost instant, but loading episodes for anime again takes some time depending on the source.
    • Not a great interface, but it does the job, and you can tell it is more thought out for manga.
    • Not too many anime sources, some of them do not work.
    • Hakuneko 7 working sources, 1 is nsfw
  • animdl
    • No UI, terminal based
    • Easy to use once installed
    • Not too many anime sources, some of them do not work.
    • AnimDL 7 working sources, 1 is nsfw
  • ADL
    • No UI, terminal based
    • "Complicated" installation, especially on Windows
    • Uses many different scripts, including animedl, so lots of functionality
    • Tracking capability & many more
    • Same amount of sources as AnimDL
  • Crunchy-cli
    • No UI, terminal based
    • "Simple" installation
    • Crunchyroll account required, Premium if you want all the anime available
    • No streaming, only download
  • Crunchyroll Downloader v3.0
    • Straightforward UI
    • Easy to use
    • Crunchyroll account required if you want premium content
    • About the same functionality as Crunchy-cli
    • No streaming, only download
  • Nyaa Downloader
    • Runs via terminal, has a pretty simple UI
    • Used for torrent downloads that can be redirected/downloaded directly into a BitTorrent client - no DDL functionality
    • for nyaa.si only
  • Hakuneko
    • Currently the best downloader
    • Huge number of sites supported
    • Customizable UI
    • Can dowload anime too
  • Free Manga Downloader 2
    • Supports almost every major site
  • MangaL
    • TUI based
    • Very Fast
    • You can add your own lua scrapers for non-supported sites (mangadex and mangasee already supported)
  • Mangadex Downloader
    • CLI based
    • Mangadex downloader
    • Easy to use and fast
  • HDoujin Downloader
    • Huge list of supported nsfw sites
    • Good UI, many settings and amazing speed
    • But has a 25 chapter daily limit
  • Hitomi Downloader
    • Supports mostly nsfw sites but works great for the supported ones
  • WebtoEpub
    • Rich with epub settings and customization
    • Include authors and precise detailed information
    • Works with 3k chap of novels (pretty slow conversion time)
    • Advance option with additional settings and customization
    • Ability to generate epub 3 version
    • Conversion time is slow (depends on the novel you're converting for)
  • Epublifier
    • Decent ui and unique pop-up tabs
    • Fast conversion (Novelupdate tested)
    • Faster parser compared to WebtoEpub extension
    • Don't have a way to add table of contents
    • Chapter name is reverted back to title instead so no precise info
    • No detailed epub info like authors and metadata
  • Novel Crawler
    • Command Line base
    • Easy fetch for chapters
    • Fast expertience
    • needs a basic knowlege for Command prompt

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