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CLUSTER COMIC-CBR-CBZ · 8 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2024-07-12

Comic archive readers and packagers

This cluster consists of desktop and mobile applications for reading and packaging comic and manga scans, primarily handling CBZ, CBR, and PDF files with features like progress tracking, collections, and fullscreen reading. Only three dated entries exist before the index start, so the cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from — it predates the index or its members are undated. Traction leaders by activity signal are comic-packager (1 star), followed by Comic Reader CBR, CBZ & PDF (0 stars) and comicreader (0 stars).

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JUL 2017: 1NOV 2017: 1MAR 2022: 1JUL 2024: 1AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 3
JUL 2017SEP 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 7 unlabelled

Operator · 3 hobby · 1 commercial · 2 open source · 2 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 8 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01Chunky7★1 mo—A comic book reader for Apple platforms that supports CBZ, CBR, and PDF, with iCloud sync and remote libraries.
  2. 02Comic Reader CBR, CBZ & PDF0★1 moliveMobile comic reader that imports CBR, CBZ, and PDF files, tracks progress, organizes collections, and offers an ad-free reading experience.
  3. 03Manga Viewer - CBZ(CBR) Reader0★27 dayslivecommercialView and read comic book archives in CBZ, CBR, and other formats on iOS devices with file transfer and image adjustments.
  4. 04comic-packager1★1 mo—hobbyDesktop app that packages comic and manga scans into CBZ/CBR files, with visual page ordering, cover selection, and metadata editing.
  5. 05Paneleo0★1 mo—hobbyWindows desktop comic reader that opens local CBZ, CBR, and PDF files and integrated comic libraries.
  6. 06comicreader0★1 mo—hobbyLocal comic reader app that imports CBZ, CBR, and PDF files and provides an offline library with reading progress, favorites, and collections.
  7. 07qcomicbook0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceReads comic book archive files such as CBR and CBZ in Python.
  8. 08ComicReaderUltimate0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceComic book reader application that displays CBR, CBZ, and JPEG files with a configurable, opinionated fullscreen interface.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.