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Kavita

Lighting 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.

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Top financial contributors

Individuals

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thefirst

$950 USD since Jan 2022

2
Caleb Blankenbaker

$270 USD since Jan 2023

3
Ryan Gordon

$250 USD since Jun 2022

4
SLaSZT

$225 USD since Jul 2022

5
David Spitzer

$200 USD since Nov 2024

6
Joseph Milazzo

$188.06 USD since Jun 2021

7
Jonathan F

$150 USD since Jan 2022

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pkmndan

$150 USD since May 2022

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Guest

$130 USD since Feb 2024

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kateyene

$100 USD since Dec 2021

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Rabbit

$100 USD since May 2022

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Max Puissance

$100 USD since Jul 2022

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Lucifer

$100 USD since Jan 2023

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Łukasz Liniewicz

$70 USD since Mar 2022

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Incognito

$56 USD since Aug 2022

Organizations

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Panels

$1,000 USD since Dec 2021

2
Peakford Ltd

$723.6 USD since Apr 2023

Kavita is all of us

Our contributors 93

Thank you for supporting Kavita.

Joseph Milazzo

Admin

$188 USD

Thank you for all the donations. They really he...

Panels

Mega sponsor

$1,000 USD

Keep up the fantastic work! 🙌

thefirst

Mega sponsor

$950 USD

Peakford Ltd

$724 USD

Caleb Blanken...

sponsor

$270 USD

Ryan Gordon

$250 USD

SLaSZT

sponsor

$225 USD

David Spitzer

$200 USD

Jonathan F

$150 USD

pkmndan

$150 USD

Guest

sponsor

$130 USD

kateyene

$100 USD

Contributions


Recurring Contributions

Metron Comic Book Database

Active contribution

Amount contributed

$2.00 USD / month

($2 + $0)

Contributed to date

$8.00 USD

Budget


Transparent and open finances.

Credit from Jason Kelley to Kavita

+$2.00USD
Completed
Contribution #681751

Credit from Isaac Lyman to Kavita

+$50.00USD
Completed
Contribution #837732
+$25.00USD
Completed
Contribution #517103
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Today’s balance

$4,269.01 USD

Total raised

$5,323.08 USD

Total disbursed

$1,054.07 USD

Estimated annual budget

$1,973.00 USD

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News from Kavita

Updates on our activities and progress.

v0.8.5.3 - Hotfix

A small hotfix is needed due to the Don't fall behind modal showing incorrectly. The known issue of covers disappearing seems to be related to multi-root libraries and thus is likely to require a full release cycle to tackle. The release ca...
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Published on March 9, 2025 by Joseph Milazzo

v0.8.5 - Metadata Downloading & PDF Metadata!

It's been some time since the last release and this one is hefty! The goal of this release is to overhaul Kavita+ experience within Kavita, but I sneaked in metadata downloading, something I originally envisioned for Kavita, as well. This r...
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Published on March 7, 2025 by Joseph Milazzo

v0.8.4.2 - Hotfix + Migration Script

A few small things slipped past. I want to take this space to first apologize to our users that manually tag their metadata in Kavita. Post release has been an eye opener to the different ways uses of Kavita and a lesson learned to work har...
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Published on November 27, 2024 by Joseph Milazzo

About


Kavita was started to bring a feature rich, self-hosted, and free reading software to readers. Originally set to be built for Manga, it quickly evolved to supporting comics, books, and webtoons with the end goal of being the Plex of reading. 

Our team

Joseph Milazzo

Admin
Thank you for all the donations. They really he...