ACBR Comic Book Reader

A free comic book reader and converter for Windows and Linux.

Features:

• Windows & Linux versions
• Compatible file formats^[1]:
  • Comic books:
    • CBZ, CBR, CB7, PDF^[5] and EPUB^[2]
  • Image files:
    • JPG, PNG, WebP and AVIF
  • Ebooks:
    • PDF^[5] and EPUB^[3]
• 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, Arabic and Filipino
• 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)
• Metadata editor:
  • 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^[4], 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:
  • Files:
    • Convert/Resize:
      • Comic books (CBR, CBZ, CB7, PDF^[5] or EPUB^[2] to CBR^[4], CBZ, CB7, PDF or EPUB)
      • Images (JPG, PNG, AVIF or WebP)
    • Create:
      • A comic book (CBR^[4], 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.
  • Search:
    • Search and open books/comics from:
      • Digital Comics Museum
      • Internet Archive Books
      • Project Gutenberg
      • xkcd Webcomics
      • Comic Book Plus
    • Search and open audiobooks from:
      • Librivox AudioBooks
    • Search dictionary terms from:
      • Wiktionary Dictionary
    • Search and open radio station streams from:
      • radio-browser
  • Art:
    • Comic book page and thumbnails template maker
    • Color palette extractor
  • Other:
    • RSS reader

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.

Linux Version Note:

For Linux distributions that require setting an AppArmor profile for Electron apps to run, like Ubuntu 24.04, choose the deb package download, "ACBR Linux (deb)", as the regular and AppImage versions don't currently work on them due to that restriction.