Kavita
Kavita is an open-source, self-hosted app in the E-books category, licensed GPL-3.0 and written mainly in C#. It is a self-hosted alternative to Kindle, Audible and Calibre Cloud and ships a Docker image. It has 11,939 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 25, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 11,939
- Forks
- 684
- Open issues
- 146
- Commits, last 12 months
- 384
- Last commit
- Oct 25, 2026
- Latest release
- v0.9.1.4Sep 2, 2026
- Created
- Dec 12, 2020
- License
- GPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 25, 2026, 384 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases6 releases in 12 months
- Welcomes contributors7 open good-first-issue or help-wanted issues and a contributing guide
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 25, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 384 |
| Latest release | v0.9.1.4 (Sep 2, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 6 |
| Releases, all time | 78 |
| Open issues | 146 |
| Open pull requests | 22 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Dec 12, 2020 |
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About Kavita
Cross-platform e-book/manga/comic/pdf server and web reader with user management, ratings and reviews, and metadata support.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/Kareadita/Kavita.
Topics
- manga
- self-hosted
- metadata
- media-server
- free
- cross-platform
- csharp
- ubooquity
- epub
- epub-reader
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Is Kavita free and open source?
Yes. Kavita is open-source software released under the GPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Kavita with Docker?
Yes. Kavita provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Kavita?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Kavita include Calibre, Calibre Web and Audiobookshelf. Kavita itself is a self-hosted alternative to Kindle, Audible and Calibre Cloud.
Is Kavita actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Kavita was on Oct 25, 2026 with 384 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v0.9.1.4, published Sep 2, 2026. It had 146 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.