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Katari · telling stories

Every kind of story.
One library.

Katari is an app for comics, books, and video. Keep them all in one library, translate comics, and see where your reading time goes.

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Android · Linux

A library holding comics, books, and films in Katari for Linux
A comic page translated into English
A book in the paper theme
Sintel playing in the video player

What's new

Katari for Android 3.1.3

Nov 10, 2026

Fixed

  • The app no longer crashes when you open a chapter or episode from a title, or switch to another app while a title is open.
Release notes for 3.1.3 →

Collect

Everything you read and watch, in one place.

Comics, books, and films on one shelf

Everything you follow shares one library, one updates feed, and one history.

  • Merge a title published in several places or languages into one entry with every version inside
  • New chapters, episodes, and books arrive in one feed

How it works: Merged entries →

Two editions, one entry
The updates feed

Find the next story

Search every source at once, or follow a source's popular and latest titles as a feed.

  • One search across comics, books, and films
  • Feeds of what's popular and what's new

How it works: First steps →

Popular books as a feed
Search every source

Everyone gets their own library

Profiles keep separate libraries, history, statistics, and reader and library settings.

  • For a shared tablet, or for keeping collections apart

How it works: Profiles →

Pick a profile
Personal
Family

Read & watch

A reader made for each format, in any language.

A reader made for each format

Books get a reader with themes and read-aloud, comics turn page by page, and films play in a full video player.

  • Book themes for day and night
  • Hear any passage of a book read aloud
  • Switch episodes without leaving the player

How it works: Comic reader · Book reader · Watching video →

A comic in the reader
The paper theme
The dusk theme
Sintel in the player

Read the original, understand every line

Katari finds the text on a comic page and translates it in place. With an on-device engine, nothing leaves your phone.

How it works: Translation →

  • Tap a speech bubble to see it beside the original and hear either read aloud
  • Translate anything you type in the Translator
A Japanese comic page with its speech bubbles translated into English
One bubble, read aloud
The Translator

Look back

Where your time went, and what it added up to.

See where your time goes

Katari keeps track of how long you read and watch.

  • A daily goal and a streak
  • Every month and year at a glance
  • How long a title took, and how long the rest should take

How it works: Statistics and recaps →

The last 30 days
A year, month by month
Time spent on one book

Your year, as a story

Every month and every year gets a recap that plays like a story.

How it works: Statistics and recaps →

  • The titles you spent the most time with, your longest streak, and the hour you read most
  • Share it as a picture
The recap plays as a story
Shared as a picture

Everywhere

One library on all your devices.

Katari on your computer

The Linux app has the same library, readers and player, laid out for a wide window and at home with a mouse and keys.

  • More columns and bigger covers as the window grows
  • Every reader and the player list their keys with ?
  • Keep an episode playing in a small window while you work
  • The desktop's media controls pause it and change episodes

How it works: Install and updates · Comic reader · Book reader · Watching video →

A book two pages at a time
An episode in a small window
Every key, one ? away

Your library on every device

Your library, progress and history stay the same across your devices, through a server you run yourself.

  • Every device keeps its whole library and works offline
  • Pick up on one device where you stopped on another
  • Link a new device by scanning a code
  • Choose what each device syncs, down to single settings and profiles

How it works: Sync · Running a sync server →

The same library on Linux
The Sync page
Link a device
Pick up where you stopped