Alternatives to Ubooquity
A free, lightweight home server for sharing and reading your comics and ebooks from any device. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Ubooquity
A free, lightweight home server for sharing and reading your comics and ebooks from any device.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Ubooquity.
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 and adds dedicated readers, OIDC logins, folder watching and send-to-Kindle, with some metadata features behind 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 is a self-hosted server for comics, manga and ebooks with a web reader, OPDS and reading lists, and does not require a Java runtime install.
Calibre-Web
A self-hosted web app for browsing, reading and downloading ebooks stored in a Calibre database.
Calibre-Web serves ebooks directly from a Calibre database for browser reading or download, but does not cover ComicRack comic libraries.
Stump
A free and open-source self-hosted server for comics, manga and digital books with OPDS support.
Stump is an open-source server for comics, manga and ebooks with OPDS and Docker deployment, replacing closed-source Ubooquity.
BookLore
A self-hosted, multi-user digital library for organizing and reading ebooks, PDFs and comics.
BookLore offers a multi-user self-hosted library with smart shelves, OPDS and Kobo and KOReader sync, deployed through Docker, Podman or Helm.
Calibre-Web Automated
A self-hosted fork of Calibre-Web that automates ebook ingest, conversion and metadata handling.
Calibre-Web Automated adds automatic ingest, conversion and metadata handling with Docker files, but is focused on the Calibre ebook library format.
Codex
A self-hosted comic archive server that lets you browse and read comics in a browser.
Codex is an open-source server focused only on reading comic archives in a browser, dropping ebook support, from a smaller project.
LANraragi
A lightweight self-hosted web application for archiving and reading manga and comic archives.
LANraragi is a lightweight manga and comic archive server with a documented API, but it does not target ebooks the way Ubooquity does.
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.
ComicRack Community Edition
A community-maintained continuation of the ComicRack comic book reader and library manager for Windows.
Komelia
A client app for reading comics, manga and books from a Komga media server.
KOReader
A reader you install on a Kindle, Kobo or PocketBook that opens the formats the stock software refuses.
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.
