CLUSTER MANGA-WEB-READING · 47 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2022-05-11
Manga reading and tracking apps
This cluster comprises web, mobile, and desktop applications for reading, browsing, tracking, and organizing manga and related anime content, often pulling from online sources or scanlation sites. The dated history shows a sparse early period (one entry in 2014, one in 2021, one in 2022), then a concentration of entries from mid-2025 through mid-2026, with the largest single-month counts in August 2025 and January 2026. Traction leadership is thin, with xianscan leading at 2 stars while nhv and my-reading-corner have 0 stars.
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 · 2 ai-built · 1 hand-coded · 17 unlabelled
Operator · 10 hobby · 2 indie · 1 enterprise · 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 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01manga-colorizer6★11 days—Self-hosted web app that colorizes black-and-white manga books in PDF, EPUB, or CBZ format using AI.
- 02nhv1★13 days—hobbyiOS app for browsing, searching, and reading manga galleries with favorites, history, and language filtering.
- 03komga-bangumi-llm-scraper1★12 days—hobbyManga metadata tool that searches an online database and uses an AI model to verify titles and covers before updating a self-hosted comic library.
- 04manga-website-v1.010★8 days—hobbyWeb app for reading manga by scraping and organizing chapters and images from external sources.
- 05dlm-desktop0★19 days—indieWindows app for organizing, finding, and viewing local doujin and digital works, preserving reading positions and restoring user data.
- 06local-manga-reader0★6 days—Web app that reads a local manga library with vertical scrolling, reading progress, bookmarks, and persistent series management.
- 07Komikku0★22 daysliveopen sourceApp for discovering, downloading and reading manga and comics from online sources or local files, with library organization and progress tracking.
- 08bl-tracker0★13 dayslivehobbyPersonal library tracker for BL manga, manhwa, and webtoons, allowing users to manage their collection.
- 09manga-stack-showcase0★1 moliveA web application for showcasing and browsing manga content.
- 10story-weaver-fix0★1 moliveai-builthobbyWeb app that turns an English story summary into a long-form Hindi manga story.
- 11WEBTOON: Manga, Comics, Manhwa0★13 daysliveenterpriseApp for reading, sharing, and publishing webcomics and manga, offering free episodes and a creator platform.
- 12Bgm2NeoDB1★26 days—hobbyLocal web app that migrates Bangumi anime and manga collections to NeoDB with preview, batch migration, and retry.
- 13frank-scanlation-bin0★1 moliveopen sourceDesktop manga reader that fetches chapters from scanlation websites and alerts users to new releases.
- 14smart-manga-reader0★1 mo—hobbyMobile or web app that lets readers browse and view manga chapters with AI-assisted features like translation or recommendations.
- 15mangaku_mangamu0★1 mo—Web app for reading manga online with offline support, reading progress, and admin management.
- 16hitomanga0★1 mo—hobbyAd-free manga reading web app that lets users browse and read manga from the MangaDex API.
- 17my-reading-corner0★1 mo—hand-codedhobbyMobile app for tracking books and manga reading progress, browsing a catalog, and managing a personal reading list.
- 18manga-tracker0★1 mo—Web app for manga readers to track reading progress and manage their collections.
- 19versel0★1 moliveai-builthobbyWeb app that lets users read manga in Brazilian Portuguese for free and ad-free, pulling titles from free online sources.
- 20MangaDB0★1 mo—indieWebsite that tracks English manga volume releases and editions, letting readers mark volumes as owned, wanted, or read.
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.