Alternatives to LANraragi
A lightweight self-hosted web application for archiving and reading manga and comic archives. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
LANraragi
A lightweight self-hosted web application for archiving and reading manga and comic archives.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as LANraragi.
Komga
A self-hosted media server for comics, manga, BDs, magazines and ebooks with a built-in web reader.
Komga is a self-hosted server for comics, manga, magazines and ebooks with a web reader, OPDS, a Mihon extension, collections and metadata editing.
Kavita
A self-hosted reading server for ebooks, comics and manga, with readers built for each format and OPDS for everything else.
Kavita is a GPL-3.0 reading server with multi-user logins, OPDS and folder watching for comics, manga and ebooks, with some metadata enrichment in the paid Kavita+ add-on.
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 for third-party readers and Docker deployment.
Codex
A self-hosted comic archive server that lets you browse and read comics in a browser.
Codex is open source and focused on reading comic archives in any browser, though it is a small project with a limited contributor base.
Ubooquity
A free, lightweight home server for sharing and reading your comics and ebooks from any device.
Ubooquity is a closed-source Java home server for comics and ebooks with per-folder user access rights and HTTPS, reading Calibre and ComicRack metadata.
Suwayomi-Server
A self-hosted manga reader server that rewrites Tachiyomi for the desktop and uses compatible extensions.
Suwayomi-Server keeps a manga library using Tachiyomi-compatible extensions, but needs a separate client for the reading interface instead of reading in the browser.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Mihon
An open-source Android app for discovering and reading manga, webtoons and comics.
ComicTagger
A desktop and command-line app that writes metadata into digital comic archives.
Mylar3
An automated comic book downloader and library manager for CBR and CBZ files via NZB and torrents.
Kapowarr
A self-hosted application for building and managing a comic book library, in the style of the *arr apps.
Komelia
A client app for reading comics, manga and books from a Komga media server.
Houdoku
A free, open-source desktop manga reader with a library, tracking and extension-based content sources.
