Alternatives to Calibre-Web
A self-hosted web app for browsing, reading and downloading ebooks stored in a Calibre database. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Calibre-Web
A self-hosted web app for browsing, reading and downloading ebooks stored in a Calibre database.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Calibre-Web.
Calibre-Web Automated
A self-hosted fork of Calibre-Web that automates ebook ingest, conversion and metadata handling.
Calibre-Web Automated is a fork of Calibre-Web that adds automatic ingest, conversion, metadata handling and KOReader plugins, still tied to the Calibre library format.
BookLore
A self-hosted, multi-user digital library for organizing and reading ebooks, PDFs and comics.
BookLore is a self-hosted multi-user library with its own shelves, a built-in reader and Kobo and KOReader sync, without depending on Calibre.
Kavita
A self-hosted reading server for ebooks, comics and manga, with readers built for each format and OPDS for everything else.
Kavita does not need a Calibre database, offers readers for EPUB, PDF and comics, multi-user logins and OPDS, and is GPL-3.0 open source.
Komga
A self-hosted media server for comics, manga, BDs, magazines and ebooks with a built-in web reader.
Komga serves comics, manga, magazines and ebooks with a web reader and OPDS, focusing more on comics than a Calibre ebook library.
Stump
A free and open-source self-hosted server for comics, manga and digital books with OPDS support.
Stump is an open source self-hosted server for comics, manga and ebooks with OPDS support, and it does not require a Calibre library.
Ubooquity
A free, lightweight home server for sharing and reading your comics and ebooks from any device.
Ubooquity is a Java home server for comics and ebooks that can read Calibre metadata and adds per-folder access rights, but it is closed source.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Calibre-Web as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
BookFusion
An ebook reader and cloud library that syncs your own EPUB and PDF collection across devices.
Calibre-Web serves a Calibre library to any browser from your own server for reading or download, but depends on a library created with Calibre.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Calibre
The ebook library manager: view, convert, edit and catalogue books in every major format, and talk to e-readers.
KOReader
A reader you install on a Kindle, Kobo or PocketBook that opens the formats the stock software refuses.
LazyLibrarian
A self-hosted manager that tracks authors and fetches ebooks, audiobooks and magazines automatically.
kepubify
A fast standalone tool that converts EPUB files into Kobo's enhanced KEPUB format.
