Open Source C.B.R. - Comic Book Reader AlternativesEbook & Comic and Manga Readers like C.B.R. - Comic Book Reader

The best open source alternative to C.B.R. - Comic Book Reader is calibre. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to C.B.R. - Comic Book Reader and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to C.B.R. - Comic Book Reader are SumatraPDF, Okular, Evince and Calibre-Web.

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  1. calibre icon
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    Free e-book manager with features including library management, format conversion, syncing to devices, internet-independent operation, built-in viewer, news download as e-books, text-to-speech, privacy focus, extensible plugins, and no registration or tracking.

    146 calibre alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • Homebrew
    • Haiku
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  2. SumatraPDF icon
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    This free, open-source viewer for Windows supports multiple formats like PDF, eBooks (ePub, Mobi), CHM, and Comic Books (CBZ, CBR). Prioritizing simplicity and speed, it offers a lightweight, portable design with a minimalist interface, catering to users seeking fast and efficient document viewing.

    141 SumatraPDF alternatives

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    • Windows
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  3. Okular icon
     513 likes

    Multi-platform document viewer supporting PDF, ePub, comics, images, and Markdown with annotation, digital signature verification, tabbed interface, sidebar navigation, text selection, text-to-speech, magnifier, search, dark mode, and plugin support.

    142 Okular alternatives

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    • Windows
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    • BSD
    • KDE Plasma
    • Snapcraft
    • Linux Mobile
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
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  4. Evince icon
     466 likes

    Supports viewing and editing PDF annotations, displays multiple formats such as PDF, Postscript, DjVu, comic books, TIFF, DVI, XPS, remembers per-document zoom and position, features search, table-of-contents navigation, SyncTeX integration, and printing.

    140 Evince alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • GNOME
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  5. Kavita icon
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    Lightning fast with a slick design, Kavita is a rocket-fueled self-hosted digital library which supports a vast array of file formats. Install to start reading and share your server with your friends. book reader, self hosted, manga, comics, free, manhwa, e readers, electronic...

    199 Kavita alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
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  6. Mcomix icon
     36 likes

    MComix is an user-friendly, customizable image viewer. It is specifically designed to handle comic books, but also serves as a generic viewer. It reads images in ZIP, RAR, 7Zip or tar archives as well as plain image files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Xfce
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  7. Document Viewer icon
     50 likes

    Document Viewer is a highly customizable document viewer for Android, fork of the last GPL version of EBookDroid .

    181 Document Viewer alternatives

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    • Discontinued

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    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
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  8. Papers icon
     14 likes

    A document viewer for the GNOME desktop. You can view, search or annotate documents in many different formats.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
    • Flatpak
    • Linux Mobile
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  9. Cool Reader  icon
     67 likes

    Cool Reader is fast and small cross-platform XML/CSS based eBook reader for desktops and handheld devices. Understands a number of text document formats, suppurt OPDS (in new ui-opengl version). Fully customizable palette, text reformatting with any font size, font...

    108 Cool Reader alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Haiku
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  10. Comix icon
     60 likes

    Comix is an image viewer specifically designed to handle comic books. It reads ZIP, RAR and tar archives (also gzip or bzip2 compressed), as well as plain image files. It has a simple and user-friendly GUI using PyGTK.

    75 Comix alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
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  11. OpenComic icon
     13 likes

    OpenComic is a free and open-source comic and manga reader for Windows, Mac and Linux, written with Node.js and using Electron.

    72 OpenComic alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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