Alternatives to Stump
A free and open-source self-hosted server for comics, manga and digital books with OPDS support. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Stump
A free and open-source self-hosted server for comics, manga and digital books with OPDS support.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Stump.
Kavita
A self-hosted reading server for ebooks, comics and manga, with readers built for each format and OPDS for everything else.
Kavita is open source under GPL-3.0 with purpose-built readers, OIDC logins and folder watching, but some metadata enrichment requires the paid Kavita+ add-on.
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 an integrated web reader, OPDS and a Mihon extension, though its license terms are not stated.
BookLore
A self-hosted, multi-user digital library for organizing and reading ebooks, PDFs and comics.
BookLore adds a multi-user library with smart shelves plus Kobo and KOReader sync, but is not open source, unlike Stump.
Ubooquity
A free, lightweight home server for sharing and reading your comics and ebooks from any device.
Ubooquity is closed source and needs a Java runtime, but reads Calibre and ComicRack metadata and offers per-folder user access rights and HTTPS.
Calibre-Web
A self-hosted web app for browsing, reading and downloading ebooks stored in a Calibre database.
Calibre-Web serves ebooks from an existing Calibre database for browser reading or download, but depends on a library created with Calibre.
Codex
A self-hosted comic archive server that lets you browse and read comics in a browser.
Codex focuses only on comic archives read in a web browser, dropping ebook handling, and is a smaller project with a limited contributor base.
LANraragi
A lightweight self-hosted web application for archiving and reading manga and comic archives.
LANraragi is a lightweight manga and comic archive server suited to NAS devices, but it is aimed at archives rather than ebooks and is not open source.
Calibre-Web Automated
A self-hosted fork of Calibre-Web that automates ebook ingest, conversion and metadata handling.
Calibre-Web Automated focuses on ebooks with automatic ingest and conversion, and is tied to the Calibre library format rather than handling comics and manga.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Stump as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Suwayomi-Server
A self-hosted manga reader server that rewrites Tachiyomi for the desktop and uses compatible extensions.
Stump is an open-source server for comics, manga and ebooks with OPDS support, serving your own files instead of extension-based sources.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Komelia
A client app for reading comics, manga and books from a Komga media server.
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.
KOReader
A reader you install on a Kindle, Kobo or PocketBook that opens the formats the stock software refuses.
Mihon
An open-source Android app for discovering and reading manga, webtoons and comics.
