# Kavita 5 Hacker News commenters recommended Kavita and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 13 months. **Verdict:** Recommended as a mature, free self-hosted server for ebooks and manga that syncs reading progress with KOReader and streams EPUB pages well. ## Why people recommend it - Mature and feature rich (2 comments): "It uses even less resources, it's mature (nearly 5 years old) and supports manga/comics/ebooks" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433525)) "extremely mature (5 years old) and feature rich" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49109397)) - Syncs reading progress with KoReader (3 comments): "Even have page sync back now with Kavita that supports opds sync." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49956695)) "with kavita there's now even progress sync with koreader" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46201199)) "It can even sync progress now with kavita." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46284250)) - Handles manga, comics and ebooks (2 comments): "It uses even less resources, it's mature (nearly 5 years old) and supports manga/comics/ebooks" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433525)) "since I wanted my eBooks treated as equals with my manga" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46198811)) - Good built-in EPUB reader (2 comments): "Kavita has a custom epub library that actually streams the epub pages" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49436123)) "the epub reader is quite good" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49109520)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Calibre](https://hackerapproved.com/p/calibre.md): 107 recommend - [Calibre-Web](https://hackerapproved.com/p/calibre-web.md): 19 recommend - [Grimmory](https://hackerapproved.com/p/grimmory.md): 9 recommend - [Send to Kindle](https://hackerapproved.com/p/send-to-kindle.md): 5 recommend - [Shelfmark](https://hackerapproved.com/p/shelfmark.md): 5 recommend ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Kavita", https://hackerapproved.com/p/kavita/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).