Librera Reader vs Seeneva: smart comic reader
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
Librera Reader
Librera Reader is a highly customizable and feature-rich application for reading e-books in PDF, EPUB, MOBI, DjVu, FB2, TXT, RTF, AZW, AZW3, HTML, CBZ, CBR, DOC, DOCX, formats. With its intuitive, yet powerful, interface, Librera makes ebook reading a veritable pleasure. It even features a unique auto-scrolling, hands-free Musician's mode, with controllable speed. F-Droid version is based on the latest MuPDF and support Android 4.1+. The only difference between Librera FD (F-Droid) and Librera PRO is the absence of Google Play services and Google Drive book synchronization in Librera FD. # Just a few Librera main features: * Easy document discovery by configurable criteria: * Auto-Scan (user-specified folders) * Browse folders (using an in-app file explorer) * Recent (featuring a reading-progress indicator) * Support for bookmarks, annotations, and EPUB3 tables of contents * Configurable Day and Night modes * Configurable link color (hence, footnotes and endnotes color) * Support for many popular offline dictionaries * Vertical-scroll lock * Auto- and manual centering of documents * Custom ad-hoc CSS coding * Single-page view of two-page documents * Musician's mode with configurable scroll speed * Customizable TTS reading and built-in media player * Page-wise TTS recording to MP3 or WAV * Multi-word text search * Support for archived (.zip) documents * Support for RTL languages (Thai, Hebrew, Arabic, etc.) * Import and export of settings, auto-backup of current session * Leading initials in FB2 documents * RSVP reading (à la Spritz) * Movable bookmarks, w/ a floating indicator * And a whole bunch of other features for you to check out. You can read books in your web browser with the Librera Book Reader https://librera.mobi/online-book-reader/ The best way to fully appreciate Librera Reader, however, is to use our restriction-free Librera PRO version from Google Play. If you enjoy Librera, please consider making a donation: https://www.patreon.com/librera
Seeneva: smart comic reader
A libre smart powered comic book reader. Features: • Smart speech balloons zooming. 💬 • Speech balloons OCR and TTS. 👀 • Supports CBZ (.zip), limited CBR (.rar), CB7 (.7z), CBT (.tar) and PDF comic book archives. • Supports different image formats on any Android device. • View ComicRack metadata. • Supports Left-to-Right (LTR) and Right-to-Left (RTL) read directions. • Supports Android 4.1+ and all available Android ABIs arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86_64 and x86. • Smart functionality performs locally on the device. • Libre application under GPLv3 or later license. • No ads, no personal data collection. 💬 Speech balloons zooming Read digital comic books on mobile devices can be difficult especially if they have small screen. Seeneva to the rescue! Built-in Machine Learning model trained to detect speech balloons on pages allows you easily zooming and navigate through them with a touch of a finger. 👀 OCR and TTS Have you ever wanted to copy text from speech balloons? Seeneva make it possible to use Optical Character Recognition on all founded speech balloons to extract text from them. And the built-in Android Text-To-Speech allows you to use Seeneva like audio comic book reader. ❗Note: • No comic book included. • OCR and TTS features are only available for English language right now. Please read app repository https://github.com/Seeneva/seeneva-reader-android for more information about the app and known issues.
| Feature | Librera Reader | Seeneva: smart comic reader |
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| License | GPL-3.0-or-later | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHub | F-DroidGitHub |
| Categories | NotesEbook Reader | NotesEbook Reader |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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