MComix
An open-source GTK image viewer designed for reading comic books and manga from archives.
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Package managers
- Chocolatey
choco install mcomix
About MComix
MComix is a customizable image viewer built for comic books, both Western comics and manga. It opens common image formats directly from PDF, ZIP, RAR, 7Z and LHA archives, including CBR, CBZ, CB7 and CBT files.
It has fullscreen and double-page modes, fitting to window width or height, smart scrolling with the space bar, and a right-to-left manga mode. You can bookmark pages and add books to a library. It is a fork of Comix and runs on Linux, BSD and Windows.
Strengths
- Reads comics straight from CBR, CBZ, CB7 and PDF
- Manga mode for right-to-left reading
- Double-page view and smart scrolling
- Bookmarks and a simple library
Limitations
- No macOS build listed
- GTK interface looks out of place on Windows
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source under the GPL 2.0 licence.
- License
- GPL-2.0
- Developer
- The MComix contributors
- Platforms
- Windows, Linux
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Reading comic and manga archives on a Linux or Windows desktop
- Categories
- Ebook tools, Photo tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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CDisplayEx
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ComicRack Community Edition
A community-maintained continuation of the ComicRack comic book reader and library manager for Windows.
ComicRack Community Edition combines a comic reader and library manager with plugin support, but it is Windows only, closed source and maintained by a small team.
Houdoku
A free, open-source desktop manga reader with a library, tracking and extension-based content sources.
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Xreader
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Xreader is a Linux document viewer that opens comic archives alongside PDF, DjVu and XPS, but lacks manga mode and runs on Linux only.
Panels
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