I Built a Manga Reader That Works on Every Platform --Here's How

I Built a Manga Reader That Works on Every Platform — Here's How Nyora is a free, open-source manga/manhwa/manhua reader for Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, Linux, Web, and even Docker — with AI-powered on-device translation and cross-platform sync. The Problem Every manga reader makes you choose: Free but ad-riddled (most Android readers) Polished but paywalled (commercial apps) Powerful but single-platform (Tachiyomi, Aidoku) I wanted one library — same titles, same progress, same bookmarks — on my phone, laptop, and browser. No ads. No account required. So I built it. What Nyora Does Every Platform, One App Platform Distribution Android APK (sideload) iOS/iPadOS IPA via AltStore/SideStore macOS .dmg or brew install --cask nyora Windows .exe (x64 + ARM64) Linux .deb , .rpm , or curl installer Web web.nyora.xyz — zero install Docker Single container, self-hosted No account needed to read. Cloud sync is opt-in. AI Translation That Understands Manga This is the flagship feature. Instead of dumping translated text over the artwork: Detects text baked into speech bubbles and captions Translates using on-device ML Typesets the result back over the original artwork Each platform uses the best local engine: Android : Google ML Kit + ONNX Runtime iOS : Apple Intelligence + Google Translate macOS : Apple Vision + MangaOCR CoreML Windows : Windows OCR Linux : Tesseract There's also an Ensemble AI Narrative Engine that tracks character names and speaking styles across chapters so translations stay consistent. 1,100+ Sources The Android app pulls from 1,100+ manga sources via 35 generic engine templates (Madara, FoolSlide, MMRCMS, etc.). Web has ~390 live, health-checked sources. Desktop ports are growing toward parity. Free Cloud Sync Sync library, categories, reading history, bookmarks, and exact page progress across all six platforms. Two sign-in methods: Google OAuth Nyora Cloud (email + password, free) Self-hostable — the backend is just Supabase/PostgreSQL with row-level s