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Anas Bassoumi

Kurobayomi - anime and manga on Linux and Windows

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Anas Bassoumi
IT Consultant | Site Reliability Engineer | DevOps | Kubernetes

A desktop app in the spirit of Aniyomi: one library for your anime and manga, a reader and a video player built in, and progress that syncs to AniList or MyAnimeList.

Kurobayomi welcome screen
Download for Windows Download for Linux

What it does
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  • Your own files: drop manga (CBZ, EPUB, image folders) and anime (MKV, MP4) into a folder and they join the library.
  • Sources you add: paste a repository link and its sources appear. The app ships with none.
  • One search across every source.
  • Built-in player on mpv, with quality, subtitles, audio and a Skip button for openings.
  • Built-in reader: left to right, right to left or long strip, per title.
  • Tracking with AniList and MyAnimeList, updated as you read and watch.
  • Imports Aniyomi and Tachiyomi backups.
  • Updates itself in the background.

Get it
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  • Windows 10 and 11: run the installer. No administrator prompt needed.
  • Linux: make the AppImage executable and run it. Needs glibc 2.39 or newer (Ubuntu 24.04, Fedora 40, Arch).
chmod +x Kurobayomi-x86_64.AppImage
./Kurobayomi-x86_64.AppImage
kurobayomi/kurobayomi

Watch anime and read manga on Linux and Windows. A native Rust and GTK4 app that follows the model of Aniyomi: a library, a reader, a video player, sources you add yourself, and progress tracking.

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