Stump

A free and open-source self-hosted server for comics, manga and digital books with OPDS support.

FreeOpen sourceWebSelf-hosted
Official websitegithub.com

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About Stump

Stump is a server for a personal collection of comics, manga and ebooks. You run it yourself, point it at your files and read them through its web interface or any reader app that supports OPDS catalogs.

It is written in Rust with a TypeScript front end and can be deployed with Docker. It suits people who want a self-hosted reading library as an alternative to hosted services.

Strengths

  • Handles comics, manga and ebooks
  • OPDS support for third-party reader apps
  • Docker deployment

Limitations

  • Requires running your own server

Details

Pricing
FreeFree and open source.
License
Open source, license not stated
Developer
The Stump contributors
Platforms
Web, Self-hosted
How it runs
Self-hosted
Account
Not required
Best suited for
Self-hosters with a comic, manga or ebook collection to serve
Last verified
Added
Provenance
Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.

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Software that can replace Stump for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.

  • Kavita

    A self-hosted reading server for ebooks, comics and manga, with readers built for each format and OPDS for everything else.

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    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

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    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

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    BookLore adds a multi-user library with smart shelves plus Kobo and KOReader sync, but is not open source, unlike Stump.

  • Ubooquity

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    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.

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    Calibre-Web serves ebooks from an existing Calibre database for browser reading or download, but depends on a library created with Calibre.

  • Codex

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

Stump as an alternative

Listings that name Stump as an alternative.

  • Suwayomi-Server

    A self-hosted manga reader server that rewrites Tachiyomi for the desktop and uses compatible extensions.

    FreeProprietarySelf-hosted

    Stump is an open-source server for comics, manga and ebooks with OPDS support, serving your own files instead of extension-based sources.

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