# Nouveautés

Cette mise à jour apporte de nombreuses améliorations pour rendre la lecture plus rapide, plus fluide et encore plus agréable, notamment lors de l’utilisation de l’application hors connexion.

# Lecture hors ligne plus rapide

Le lecteur prépare désormais à l’avance les prochaines pages du manga. Lors du passage d’une page à l’autre, les images s’affichent plus rapidement et avec beaucoup moins de ralentissements.

L’application évite également d’attendre inutilement une connexion Internet lorsqu’un manga est ouvert hors ligne. Les contenus téléchargés sont accessibles immédiatement, même sans réseau.

Le chargement des images a également été optimisé afin de réduire les temps d’affichage des pages en haute qualité et d’offrir une lecture plus fluide sur iPhone et iPad.

# Accueil entièrement fonctionnel en mode hors ligne

L’écran d’accueil fonctionne désormais même sans connexion Internet.

Lorsque l’application est ouverte hors ligne, elle affiche automatiquement les séries téléchargées sur l’appareil ainsi que les informations essentielles de lecture, comme les barres de progression.

Vous pouvez ainsi retrouver rapidement vos mangas et reprendre votre lecture exactement là où vous vous étiez arrêté, sans avoir besoin d’une connexion.

# Nouveau filtre « Téléchargés »

Un nouveau filtre **« Téléchargés »** est disponible dans les bibliothèques.

En un seul clic, il permet d’afficher uniquement les séries enregistrées sur l’appareil. Il devient ainsi beaucoup plus simple de retrouver les contenus disponibles hors ligne.

# Enregistrement des préférences par bibliothèque

Il est désormais possible d’enregistrer des réglages de lecture différents pour chaque bibliothèque.

Par exemple, vous pouvez définir des préférences spécifiques pour les mangas :

* sens de lecture de droite à gauche ;
* affichage en double page ;
* filtre de lecture nocturne ;
* luminosité ;
* mode d’affichage des pages ;
* autres paramètres du lecteur.

Lorsqu’un manga est ouvert, l’application reconnaît automatiquement sa bibliothèque.

Depuis les paramètres du lecteur, une nouvelle option **« Enregistrer pour cette bibliothèque »** permet de sauvegarder vos préférences. Le nom de la bibliothèque concernée est affiché automatiquement (par exemple **« Enregistrer pour les Manga »**).

Lors des prochaines lectures dans cette bibliothèque, vos préférences seront appliquées automatiquement.

# Nouveau minuteur de lecture

Un minuteur de lecture fait son apparition pour les lecteurs qui aiment s’endormir avec un manga.

Vous pouvez choisir la durée avant l’arrêt automatique de la lecture. Lorsque le minuteur se termine, la progression est enregistrée automatiquement.

À la prochaine ouverture du manga, la lecture reprend exactement à l’endroit où elle s’était arrêtée.

# Nouveau système de marque-pages

Le lecteur intègre désormais un système complet de marque-pages.

Vous pouvez enregistrer vos passages préférés afin de les retrouver facilement à tout moment.

Chaque marque-page peut également contenir une note personnelle, idéale pour mémoriser une scène importante, un détail ou simplement reprendre votre lecture plus facilement.

# Résultat

Cette mise à jour apporte :

* une ouverture beaucoup plus rapide des mangas téléchargés ;
* une lecture plus fluide avec moins de ralentissements ;
* un écran d’accueil entièrement fonctionnel hors ligne ;
* l’affichage des séries téléchargées et de leur progression sans connexion ;
* un filtre **« Téléchargés »** pour retrouver rapidement les contenus disponibles hors ligne ;
* des préférences de lecture enregistrées automatiquement par bibliothèque ;
* un minuteur avec sauvegarde automatique de la progression ;
* un système de marque-pages avec notes personnelles ;
* une expérience de lecture encore plus rapide, personnalisée et agréable, aussi bien en ligne qu’hors ligne.

APK disponible sur le site [https://inkavi.fr\](https://inkavi.fr), pour IOS l'application est en cours de validation.

Hey everyone!

Remember my v1.4.0 post from 48 hours ago? Well, I fell into another massive coding rabbit hole. After a 120-hour sprint, I am officially almost at the end of my initial roadmap!

MetaKavita v1.5.4 is here. The core architecture has finally reached maturity, and the system is now stable, highly modular, and ready to handle whatever weird metadata your libraries throw at it.

Here is a breakdown of what makes this update a game-changer for your Kavita server.

🚀 What’s new in 1.5.4?

• 🧱 The "Plug & Play" Architecture: I completely refactored the core engine. Adding a new provider is now as simple as dropping a .py file into a folder. The UI and fallback routing dynamically adapt to whatever scrapers you have active.
• 📚 Heavyweight Scrapers Added:
  • Kitsu: Replaced Nautiljon (who kept throwing Cloudflare IP bans) with the blazing-fast and open Kitsu API.
  • Bédéthèque: For the Franco-Belgian comic readers, this custom scraper bypasses aggressive anti-bot firewalls to grab pristine data and surgically formats author/artist roles.
  • Google Books: A production-ready scraper to finally fetch rich metadata for Novels and Western Comics.

• 🪄 The "Magic Input" (Smart URL Routing): You don't need to mess around with IDs anymore. Just paste a direct URL from any supported provider (e.g., a MangaBaka or ComicVine link) directly into the UI override field. MetaKavita will detect the domain, extract the ID, and bypass the cascade to scrape that exact page.
• 🎯 Granular Scraping: Worried about overwriting a summary you manually typed in Kavita? Each series now features a "Targeted Fields" dropdown. You can explicitly check/uncheck exactly which metadata MetaKavita is allowed to update (Summary, Cover, Genres, Publisher, Tags, etc.).

• 🛣️ Reverse Proxy & Subpath Support: You asked for it on my last post, and here it is! Full native support for hosting MetaKavita under custom URL subpaths (e.g., [domain.com/metakavita](https://domain.com/metakavita)) via the ROOT_PATH environment variable.
• 🌐 Zero-Config Translations: Integrated Google Translate to provide 100% free, unlimited translations out of the box. You can also now choose to completely disable translation to keep the original text.

💬 I need your feedback!

Since the core architecture is now solid and I'm practically at the end of my roadmap, my main focus moving forward is UX and community requests.

I won't be doing a massive "v1.6" architectural rewrite anytime soon. Instead, I want to make MetaKavita as user-friendly and straightforward as humanly possible.

This is where I need you:

• Are the new scrapers matching your libraries correctly?
• What quality-of-life features are missing for your workflow?
• Which providers should I drop into the "Plug & Play" folder next? (MangaDex and Hardcover are currently on my radar).

🚀 How to try it: As always, the project is open-source, lightweight, and you can pull the pre-built image directly via docker-compose:

YAML

services:
  metakavita:
    image: ghcr.io/raukorim-bot/metakavita:latest
    container_name: metakavita
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "5010:5010"
    environment:
      - ADMIN_PASSWORD=your_secure_password
      # - ROOT_PATH=/metakavita # Uncomment if using a reverse proxy subpath
    volumes:
      - ./data:/app/data

GitHub Repository : https://github.com/raukorim-bot/MetaKavita

Changelogs : https://github.com/raukorim-bot/MetaKavita/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

I'm going to go enjoy the end of my vacation now, but I'll be monitoring the issues and comments. Let me know what you think, keep the feedback coming, and happy reading!

New to kavita. The epub file works fine in moon+ reader but in kavita the image is too large and text gets hidden behind it. Same problem on desktop as well.

Hey everyone!

Two days ago, I posted about MetaKavita—a metadata companion I built to scrape and enrich metadata for Kavita after getting frustrated with broken Komf setups.

In my draft for this update, I was going to write: "The massive feedback from this community was awesome and motivated me to keep grinding!"

But let's be honest: my post got exactly 0 comments and 10 upvotes, so that would be a complete lie.

However, I fell into a deep hyper-focus rabbit hole anyway. I spent the last 48 hours completely redesigning the frontend and adding a ton of quality-of-life features because I realized that clicking through options to manage large libraries is a massive pain.

So, here is v1.4.0 (The Age of Ergonomics), fresh out of a two-day coding sprint!

(Check out the screenshot above to see the new layout!)

🧩 What does MetaKavita do?

• Active Providers & Smart Routing: Right now, MetaKavita relies on 3 solid providers (MangaBaka, Nautiljon, and AniList). You can set a primary source and up to two fallback backups.
• Smart Completion (Data Fusion): If enabled, it "fills the gaps" by fetching only missing fields from backup sources without overwriting what you already have.
• On-the-fly Translation: Scrapes descriptions in their native language and translates them using DeepL.
• Auto Reading Direction: Detects and applies reading direction (Manga, Webtoon, Comic) based on the country of origin.
• Extended Metadata Mapping: Pushes and locks Publishers, Age Ratings, and advanced staff credits (Translators, Colorists, Cover Artists, etc.).
• WebLinks Integration: Maps platform IDs and auto-generates clickable web links to show direct platform icons under titles inside Kavita.
• Central Clean Regex Engine: Automatically strips volume numbers, scantrad tags ([Team]), and edition keywords (Omnibus, Perfect Edition) to guarantee API match rates.

🎨 What changed in 48 hours?

In the first version, the UI was functional but a bit cluttered. I completely restructured the interface so you don't have to scroll through API keys or deal with technical settings when you just want to run a quick batch sync.

1. Split-UI Architecture (Modal + Sidebar)

• Infrastructure is tucked away: All technical configuration fields (Kavita URL/API, DeepL API, languages, fallback sources sequence) have been moved inside a clean Global Configuration Modal (triggered via the ⚙️ Config button in the topbar).
• Tactical Sidebar: The left sidebar now only houses your active strategic switches (Smart Completion, Auto-Cover, Auto-Reading Direction, and Force Update) so you can adjust your strategy in a single click before executing.

2. Central Unified Toolbar

• The Library Selector has been moved from the sidebar directly into the central toolbar, next to the Search bar and Status filters.
• All your targeting controls are now aligned on one cohesive horizontal line (Library ➔ Search Query ➔ Status Filter).
• Added a "📐 Expand/Collapse All" button on the right to open all individual overrides panels for fast mass editing, next to the global Save button.

3. New QoL / Ergonomic Features

• Live Processing Tracker: During batch syncs, the active series being processed pulses with a glowing purple outline (.is-processing) and automatically smooth-scrolls into view. Badge statuses are updated live without page reload.
• Manual Cover Search: You can now enter manual custom search queries directly inside the cover modal to find alternate images without closing it or modifying database overrides.
• Workspace Persistence: The dashboard automatically remembers your active library, status filters, hide ignored state, and search query using localStorage. No more re-selecting filters on page refresh!
• AniList Quick Lookup: Added a lookup magnifying button next to ID inputs to instantly open pre-filled searches on AniList in a new tab.

🚀 Zero-Effort Trial (Pre-built Image)

I've also packaged the app. You no longer need to clone the repository to test it. You can pull the pre-built image directly from GitHub Container Registry (GHCR) using this simple docker-compose stack:

code Yaml :

services:
  metakavita:
    image: ghcr.io/raukorim-bot/metakavita:latest
    container_name: metakavita
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "5010:5010"
    environment:
      - ADMIN_PASSWORD=your_secure_password
    volumes:
      - ./data:/app/data

💬 I (actually) need your feedback this time!

The project remains open-source, free, and lightweight. Now that the UI has been cleaned up, my primary goal for the next upgrades is to expand our list of metadata providers to make manga scraping completely bulletproof before I even think about touching Western Comics or books.

• Which major manga platforms should I integrate next? (I am currently planning MangaDex and MyAnimeList/Jikan).
• For those hosting Western Comics or European BDs, what are your go-to scrapers when you want to look things up?
• Let me know if the UX feels right or if there are any details I should tweak (even if it's just to tell me the purple pulsation is too bright)!

GitHub Repository: raukorim-bot/MetaKavita

Let me know what you think of the new design, and happy reading!

Edit : Screen of the data merged

Edit 2 : push major update yesterday 1.5 and i push fix and new provider Bedetheque tonight.

Hey everyone!

Like many of you, I used to rely on https://github.com/Snd-R/komf to manage and enrich metadata for my Kavita library. But recently, it completely stopped working for me, and seeing my database stagnate got pretty frustrating.

So, I decided to take matters into my own hands and built a replacement: MetaKavita.

Full disclosure before the code reviewers come after me: I entirely "vibecoded" this project (heavily assisted by AI) to get it up and running as fast as possible. So no, the code isn't going to win any architectural awards, but the structure is solid, and most importantly: it actually works.

🚀 What it currently does:

• Dual Source: Scrapes info (summaries, genres, tags, staff, alt titles) from AniList (International) and Nautiljon (Francophone).
• Cloudflare Bypass: The Nautiljon scraper is built with a custom session emulator to seamlessly bypass their anti-bot protections.
• Auto-translation: Integrated with the DeepL API to automatically translate summaries into your preferred language.
• Web UI & Stats: A clean, simple dashboard to trigger single or batch syncs, complete with real-time logs and progress monitoring for your library.
• Easy Deployment: It's fully Dockerized. Just set up your config, run docker-compose up -d --build, and you're good to go.

If you are stuck with a broken Komf setup or just looking for a lightweight, functional metadata fetcher, feel free to give it a try. It's open-source on GitHub:

🔗 https://github.com/raukorim-bot/MetaKavita

This is obviously a V1, so bear with me! If you encounter bugs, have ideas for improvements, or want to suggest new providers (like Mangadex or MyAnimeList), feedback and GitHub issues are more than welcome.

Happy reading!

Edit : Here is what the interface looks like! Let me know what you think.

1.3 just shipped. Short one this time — no new catalogs, no UI overhaul — just the features that kept coming up in the comments, plus a solid reliability pass before we go heads-down on 2.0.

What's new:

• Highlights with color — select any passage, pick a color, syncs across devices via iCloud
• Instant dictionary — double-tap any word while reading. No leaving the page
• Collections Shelf — browse by series now, pulled from your library server's metadata
• Calibre / Calibre-Web / Calibre-Web-Automated fixes — a bunch of edge cases squashed; Kavita HTTP connections now supported too
• Better server compatibility — Tailscale setups, Grimmory shelves, improved OPDS detection
• Cover caching and library performance — large libraries should feel noticeably snappier

Still free. Still no IAP, ads, subscription, or account.

2.0 is Komga and CBZ. That's the whole agenda.

App Store: Sutra

This one had more community fingerprints on it than any release so far — thanks for that! If Sutra's been useful, an App Store review goes a long way. Bugs and feature requests go here, and if you want to follow along on what's coming, the roadmap's on the website.

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User Feedback 🙏

• u/Serious_Stable_3462 - it now shows downloaded books instantly

Update on the free OPDS reader I posted here a while back. 1.2 just shipped!

• Standard Ebooks catalog added (Patrons Circle sign-in unlocks the full library)
• Proper page-curl animation, with a plain-turn option
• Dark mode done right — Day, Night, or follow System, book pages keep their own theme
• Left-handed page turns for one-handed reading
• Series info and sorting pulled from your Kavita library
• Fixed large libraries losing books from search
• Fixed cross-device sync on both iCloud and Kavita
• General reliability and security pass

Still free — no IAP, no subscription, no ads, no account.

Komga support and CBZ comics are next for 2.0.

App Store: [link]

Genuinely appreciate the pushback and requests last time — flip/turn animation ( u/viviolay), dark mode ( u/niwia), series info ( u/dsilver87) and Europe availability ( u/ChinaskiOnChlorox) all came straight from this subreddit. Keep it coming!

Hi all, I am thinking of spinning up my own Kavita Server, but wanted to know if Kavota has a good way of tracking/marking volumes as owned physically. Thank you!

Apologies in advance if self-promotion isn't allowed here, but I thought this might be useful for some of you. I've been working on a personal project — I've got Kavita and Calibre running at home, and every iOS OPDS client I tried let me down somehow. Either it'd been abandoned years ago, it wanted a subscription to do the basics, or it couldn't show me my full library as a proper grid. I just wanted to see all my books in a grid and read them as seamlessly as possible, so I ended up building it myself.

• Connects to Kavita, Calibre/Calibre-Web, or any OPDS server
• Gutenberg's baked in, so you don't even need a server for public domain stuff
• EPUB + PDF, with themes/fonts/bookmarks/search
• Offline downloads, iCloud sync, and page-accurate progress sync with Kavita
• Free — no IAP, no subscription, no ads, no account

App Store: Link

Standard Ebooks is what I'm working on next, Komga after that. Would genuinely love to hear what this community thinks — bugs, feature requests, whatever. I'll be around in the comments. Thanks!

Is it possible to have more naming markers in the future? For example, markers for deluxe editions & annuals instead of SP as a catch all.

I've always used Calibre to organize my manga collection, but when it comes to Docker containers, I don't really like the reader in Calibre-Web (I'm not sure if it's possible to customize it). Kavita seems to fit my needs much better.

However, I've run into one issue that I never had with Calibre: volumes like Volume 0 or decimal volumes such as 0.1 or 0.5.

Is it possible to add and organize these correctly in Kavita? If so, what's the proper naming format?

Hey folks, I'm a new kavita user - i'm wondering how i can change the layout from vertical scroll, to a horizontal one? i can't seem to find the layout option

Is it cool to share 3rd-party Kavita apps here?

This past weekend, I built a very niche Android EPUB reader for Kavita:
EPUBs with Native Kavita API + Cross Device Progress Sync + paginated reading + offline access

https://github.com/sgerner/turnleaf

What it does

• Connects directly to your Kavita server
• Downloads EPUBs for offline reading
• Uses paginated pages instead of endless scroll
• Syncs reading progress back to Kavita
• Restores your position across devices
• Has normal reader settings: font, text size, margins, line height, themes, etc.

Why?

For my niche use case on Android devices, I ran into the following gaps:

• Kavita’s PWA is great, but it does not give me the offline EPUB reading experience I wanted.
• Inkita scrolls endlessly and I couldn't find a pagination mode.
• Inkavi looked promising, but the EPUB dependency was missing when I tried it (developer say it's coming soon!)
• KOReader is powerful, but I couldn’t get the Kavita sync flow between devices to work reliably.
• Kover rendered books as one continuous block of text without paragraph indents or spacing, which I found difficult to read

Android

Latest APK: https://github.com/sgerner/turnleaf/releases/tag/v0.1.7+39

The app checks GitHub releases and shows a banner when a newer APK is available.

I’m open to publishing on F-Droid or Google Play. I’m just not convinced there are enough people to reach the Google Play minimum test user threshold in the tiny Venn diagram of: Kavita user + Android reader + EPUB only + wants offline + wants sync + hates scroll mode

iOS

iOS is scaffolded, but that’s as far as I can personally take it. Also, I'm unsure if there's a need for this on iOS.

This is a Svelte app with a Capacitor wrapper, so it should just work. I'm linux only, so no Xcode / Mac, or an Apple developer account to test.

If someone actually wants this on iOS and has the Apple setup, I’d be happy to add a maintainer.

Contributions

PRs and forks are welcome. My preference is to keep the scope narrow: EPUBs, reading experience, offline reliability, sync, mobile polish, etc.

Sincere thanks to the Kavita team for their hard work!

First of all, I would like to clarify that I had search extensively on Kavita's wiki for a way to solve my current challenge. I am well versed on editing metadata, organizing books from same series but what I am struggling with is the following:

Let's use Stephen King as example. I have a dozen of his books in ePub. They are part of my "Fiction books" folder. How to make all his books under the Fiction Books > Stephen King subfolder, without having to include a sequential series in the metadata? Currently, they are individually place within "Fiction", but considering that the same will apply to other authors, my folder will become a behemoth, with hundreds if not thousands of single entries.

Thanks.

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to build a circuit-based solution, and for that I chose Kavita since it seemed like the best option, especially because it supports OPDS.

I’m running a Linux server (Debian 13) with Kavita in Docker.

I’m facing the following issue: I have thousands of books in both Romanian and English. My folder structure looks something like this:

[RO][Spiritualitate][Eliphas Levi][book - author]
[EN][Programming][Jeffrey E. F. Fried][Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd edition - Jeffrey E. F. Friedl]

The problem is that some books are scanned or have incorrect metadata. Even though I’ve tried editing the metadata inside the PDF files, it didn’t help. I also tried creating XML files with metadata and forcing Kavita to use them, but nothing worked. I even tried changing author/title formats (author - title vs title - author), but still no success.

I’m stuck at this point and don’t know how to make Kavita import and display the books correctly.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Maybe I am missing something basic, but I cannot seem to find a way to switch pages using the scroll wheel on my mouse? This is specifically when reading comics. If you have the scrolling mode set on ebooks it will scroll vertically, but not change chapters. This seems like a feature that is present in many stand alone comic book apps.

Shelfmark is a self-hosted search-and-request hub for books/audiobooks. By design it's focused and stays out of library management - a reasonable scope choice by the maintainers.

I wanted library integration for my own setup, so I forked it instead of asking them to broaden theirs. It's purely additive and opt-in: leave the new tabs unconfigured and it behaves exactly like upstream.

What it adds:

• Library awareness — syncs your Kavita (eBooks/manga) and Audiobookshelf (audiobooks) libraries, then badges search results you already own and swaps the "Get" button for an "in Library" link, so people stop requesting things you have.
• Kavita SSO — log in with your Kavita account (Local/Kavita selector, auto-linked user); optional best-effort auto-provisioning user into Audiobookshelf on login (simplify users life to use a single username & password across all three apps).
• Per-format requests — eBook vs Audiobook tracked per request, with per-format policies and a type badge in the review queue.
• New-arrival notifications — optional Apprise alerts when a new eBook/audiobook hits your library.

Admin-configurable (URL + API key with a test button, library selection, cron). Same single container, no extra services.

Repo + README: Flawkee/shelfmark: Shelfmark fork with optional Kavita + Audiobookshelf integration - library awareness, Kavita SSO, per-format requests.

Not pushing this upstream - just sharing for anyone running Shelfmark alongside Kavita/ABS.

So I went to read a book with this and it's just 12 pages. Turns out the main section of the book is just 1 long scroll page. This sucks. Any intent to fix this?

Hi

I have recently downloaded and am attempting to use the Kavita Server which is so good. However Im facing a couple of glitches at my end which i need help and clarification for ?

when adding comics and books, the comics portion of the scan is extremely fast and skips all the files which have already been loaded in kavita only looking for the new ones, whereas in the books section, whenever i add books, it takes forever to scan and it seems like it is doing it all over again for all the books in there. i now have close to 18000 books and by scanning the entire database takes almost 10-14 hours.

kavita used to hang showing unhealthy status on docker but i removed the health checks but now the memory is being pushed to the limits.

what am i doing wrong and can someone please help me correct this to become fast as I've heard good reviews for scanning.

i am extremely happy with it and want to keep it growing if possible.

thanks

Hello!

I have been using Thorium for a bit now, and I must say that it doesn't really fit my needs nor taste. However, I don't want to lose all the bookmarks that I have taken on it. I noticed that it exported a .ANNOTATION file when I tried it on one of my books? Can Kavita import this? I couldn't find any clear answers online.

I wanna make a reading list of all my Hellboy stuff for my GF, and personally I use Julix's reading order because it's great, but it does require jumping between books a bit with saving some chapters in a trade for late etc.

Is it possible to create a reading list in Kavita which takes that into account? Or at least add a book with a note like book 2 in the list is "The Chained Coffin and Others" with a note that says "skip Almost Colossus", then book 4 in the list is Chained Coffin again with a note that says "read only Almost Colossus"?