CLUSTER HOSTED-SELF-COMIC · 11 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2022-05-26
Self-hosted comic and ebook managers
This cluster comprises self-hosted managers for comics, manga, and ebooks, offering library organization, metadata, reading progress, and automated downloads. The dated entry history is sparse at first—one in 2014 and one in 2022—then becomes denser from mid-2025 through mid-2026. Traction is led by readarr-rresurrected with 5 stars, followed by foldout with 1 and Sutra with 0.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
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 · 10 unlabelled
Operator · 3 hobby · 1 commercial · 2 open source · 5 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 11 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01readarr-rresurrected5★29 daysliveSelf-hosted manager for ebook and audiobook libraries that tracks wanted titles, automates downloads, and organizes metadata without external cloud services.
- 02tankarr1★16 dayslivehobbySelf-hosted manga and comic manager that follows series, automatically downloads new chapters and volumes, and organizes them into a reader-ready library.
- 03foldout1★16 days—Self-hosted library manager for comics, manga, and magazines with a built-in reader and automated downloads from online sources.
- 04Sutra - eBook & Comic Reader0★13 daysliveEbook and comic reader that connects to self-hosted servers and OPDS catalogs, supports manga layouts, highlights, and syncs progress.
- 05efiction1★1 daylivecommercialSelf-hosted web application for operating a fanfiction archive where authors publish stories and readers browse them.
- 06Bindery0★29 days—Self-hosted catalog server that organizes an e-book collection and fetches new content through plugin-based downloaders.
- 07synology-comics-opds1★1 mo—hand-codedhobbySelf-hosted OPDS server for comic libraries, offering tree navigation and cover previews for comic readers.
- 08Comic-Man0★1 mo—hobbySelf-hosted media server that turns folders of comic and ebook files into a browsable library with reading progress, metadata, and mobile web access.
- 09BiblioFuse Reader & Compress0★1 moliveEbook and comic reader that manages personal libraries, imports from local and cloud sources, and streams content between devices.
- 10kavita-bin0★1 moliveopen sourceSelf-hosted ebook and comic reader that lets users manage and read their digital collections.
- 11Tachidesk-VaadinUI0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop manga client that connects to a self-hosted library and offers a browsing interface for reading and managing manga.
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