ACBR - Comic Book Reader
A comic book reader and converter for CBZ, CBR, CB7, EPUB, FB2, MOBI 7 and PDF files.
Contents:
Features:
- Windows & Linux versions
- Windowed and full-screen modes
- UI available in English, Spanish, Russian, German, Arabic, Filipino, Japanese and French.
- Partial controller support
- Portable mode
- Reader:
- Compatible file formats[[1]](#note_1):
- Comic books: CBZ, CBR, CB7, PDF and EPUB
- Image files: JPG, PNG, WebP and AVIF
- Ebooks: PDF, FB2, MOBI 7[[4]](#note_4) and EPUB
- 'Single page', 'double page' and 'double page (center first page)' page modes
- 'Fit to width', 'fit to height', 'fit to both' and a customizable 'scale to height' page views
- Page rotation
- Automatically restores the previous session's last opened book and page, and remembers the last books' page positions.
- Display, organize and quickly open comic book files and folders using the default 'favorites' and 'recent' lists, allowing the creation of custom additional ones.
- View the metadata in PDF and EPUB files or stored in ComicInfo.xml files inside CBR, CBZ and CB7 comic books.
- Create and/or modify the metadata in PDF and EPUB files or stored in ComicInfo.xml files inside unencrypted CBR[[3]](#note_3), CBZ and CB7 comic books.
- Search for and import comic book metadata from Comic Vine (a Comic Vine API key is required).
- Audio: MP3, Ogg, WAV, M3U and M3U8 files
- Video: web-compatible codecs and formats (MP4, WebM...) and SRT subtitle files
- Can export playlists to M3U files.
- More formats, codecs and features are supported if FFmpeg is available>).
- Can be launched in stand-alone mode.
- Convert/Resize:
- Comic books and ebooks (CBR, CBZ, CB7, FB2, MOBI 7[[4]](#note_4), PDF or EPUB) to comic books (CBR[[3]](#note_3), CBZ, CB7, PDF or EPUB[[2]](#note_2)).
- Images (JPG, PNG, AVIF or WebP).
- Create:
- A comic book (CBR[[3]](#note_3), CBZ, CB7, PDF or EPUB[[2]](#note_2)) from a list of image files, ebooks and/or comic books.
- A QR code image from text.
- Extract:
- Comic book pages (to JPG, PNG, AVIF or WebP).
- Text (OCR) from a comic book page or image file.
- A QR code's text from a comic book page or image file.
- A color palette from a comic book page or image file (can be exported to a GPL or ACO palette file).
- Search and/or open:
- Books/comics from Internet Archive Books, Project Gutenberg and xkcd Webcomics.
- Audiobooks from Librivox AudioBooks.
- Dictionary terms from Wiktionary Dictionary.
- Radio station streams from radio-browser.
- RSS feeds from podcasts and websites.
- Art:
- Comic book page and thumbnails template maker
- Color palette extractor
- Other:
- RSS reader
- Internet Radio
Notes:
> [1]: Including password protected PDF, CBZ, CB7 and CBR files.
> [2]: Images only.
> [3]: Creating and modifying CBR files are disabled by default. They can be enabled in the preferences but require a third-party command-line tool (rar>)) to be installed in the system.
> [4]: Only legacy MOBI (MOBI 7) files are supported. Newer formats like KF8 (AZW3) are not compatible.
> [5]: Some of the tools can also run directly through the command line rather than the graphical user interface.
Downloads:
Stable version:
Note: The 'Linux' and 'Linux (AppImage)' builds may require setting an AppArmor profile to run on certain distributions, like Ubuntu 24.04 or newer.
All versions (stable and beta):
Also available on:
Contributions:
Design and Programming:
Localizations:
There's info about how to contribute to the project in the CONTRIBUTING.md file.
Other:
Screenshots and more details can be found on the project's Wiki.
