
ACBR Comic Book Reader
A downloadable comic book reader for Windows and Linux
A free comic book reader and converter for Windows and Linux.
Features:
- Windows & Linux versions.
- Compatible file formats:
- Comic books:
- CBZ, CBR, CB7, PDF & EPUB.
- Image files:
- JPG, PNG, WebP & AVIF.
- Ebooks:
- PDF & EPUB.
- Comic books:
- Windowed (simple UI) and full-screen (no UI) modes.
- 'Fit to width', 'fit to height' and a customizable 'scale to height' page views.
- Page rotation.
- UI available in:
- English, Spanish, Russian & German.
- Automatically restores the previous session's last opened book and page, and remembers the last books' page positions.
- Portable mode (by creating a file named portable.txt in the same folder as the executable).
- ComicInfo.xml editor:
- view the metadata stored in ComicInfo.xml files inside CBR, CBZ and CB7 comic books.
- create and/or modify the metadata stored in ComicInfo.xml files inside unencrypted CBR*, CBZ and CB7 comic books.
- search for and import comic book metadata from Comic Vine (a Comic Vine API key is required).
- Integrated audio player:
- supports MP3, Ogg, WAV, M3U and M3U8 files.
- can export playlists to M3U files.
- Tools:
- Convert/Resize:
- comic books (CBR, CBZ, CB7, PDF or EPUB to CBR*, CBZ, CB7, PDF or EPUB).
- images (JPG, PNG, AVIF or WebP).
- Create:
- a comic book (CBR*, CBZ, CB7, PDF or EPUB) from a list of image files 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.
- comic book pages (to jpg, png, avif or webp).
- Other:
- search and open books/comics from:
- Digital Comics Museum.
- Internet Archive Books.
- Project Gutenberg.
- xkcd Webcomics.
- search and open audiobooks from:
- Librivox AudioBooks.
- search dictionary terms from:
- Wiktionary Dictionary.
- search and open books/comics from:
(*) 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 from WinRAR) to be installed in the system. - Convert/Resize:
Basic Controls:
- Toolbar :
- buttons: 'open file', 'previous page', 'next page', 'fit to width', 'fit to height', 'rotate counterclockwise', 'rotate clockwise' and 'toggle fullscreen'.
- slider: use it to quickly go to any page in the book.
- Keys:
- 'right arrow' or 'page down' to go the next page.
- 'left arrow' or 'page up' to go to the previous one.
- 'up arrow' to scroll the page up, 'down arrow' to scroll the page down.
- 'wasd' to scroll the page vertically and horizontally.
- 'f11' to toggle full-screen mode.
- 'ctrl+O' to choose a file to open.
- 'ctrl++' and 'ctrl+-' to zoom in or zoom out the view. 'ctrl+0' to reset it.
- Mouse:
- 'scroll wheel' scrolls the page up and down.
- 'left-click' opens the next page if the right side of the view area is clicked and the previous page if the left side is clicked.
- 'right-click' opens a context menu with some basic navigation options.
- 'ctrl+scroll wheel' to zoom in or zoom out the view.
Open Source:
The source code for this program is open and available on GitHub, where you can also find betas and previous releases and contribute translations or feedback.
Updated | 7 days ago |
Status | Released |
Category | Tool |
Platforms | Windows, Linux |
Rating | Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars (7 total ratings) |
Author | binarynonsense |
Tags | cb7, cbr, cbz, Comics, converter, epub, pdf, reader, software |
Code license | BSD 2-clause 'Simplified' License |
Average session | A few seconds |
Languages | German, English, Spanish; Castilian, Russian |
Links | Source code |
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Development log
- Version 3.3.0 Now Available8 days ago
- Version 3.2.0 Now Available28 days ago
- Version 3.1.0 Now Available38 days ago
- Version 3.0.0 Now Available48 days ago
- Version 2.4.5 Now Available71 days ago
- Version 2.4.0 Now AvailableSep 02, 2022
- Version 2.3.0 Now AvailableAug 28, 2022
- Version 2.2.0 Now AvailableAug 19, 2022