What is Kavita?
Kavita is an open-source, self-hosted digital library management system primarily designed for managing and reading comics, manga, and ebooks. It is built to provide a streamlined and user-friendly experience for organizing and accessing a personal collection of digital reading materials.
Core Features
- Library Management: Organize your digital reading materials into a library with custom tags and filters.
- Synchronized Reading: Read your digital materials directly in your browser with a customizable reading experience.
- Custom Filters: Create custom filters to organize your library based on your own criteria.
- User Management: Create multiple users with different permissions to access your library, each with their own progress tracking.
System Requirements
Kavita is built with Microsoft .NET 8.0 and Angular 18. Each of these technologies have their own requirements, but most modern systems should be fine.
All Kavita builds are fully self-contained. This means there is no prerequisite software needed.
Users have reported running the app on as little as a single-core 1Ghz CPU and 256MB RAM.
The only requirement Kavita has is the need for a CPU that supports SSE4.2 extensions. This is because of the upstream library NetVIPS. See the FAQ for how to work around it.
Demo
If you want to try out a demo of Kavita first before installing, you can find it at https://demo.kavitareader.com/.
Installation methods
There are a few ways to get setup running Kavita depending on what environment you have: