# Software

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

# Android

Saikou TV Web
- Decent UI but limited customization
- Can be used offline
- Also offers manga reader & ln
- Anime streaming/reading only
- Anilist and MAL sync
Cloudstream
- 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

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+.

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.

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
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

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

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