A Kavita reader for iPhone, Android and any browser
To read your Kavita comics and manga on an iPhone or Android phone without installing an app, paste your Kavita OPDS URL into LiveComics and pick the issues you want. We download them on our side, and they open in any browser, page by page, one panel at a time, or read aloud with sound. Your Kavita server has to be reachable from the internet at an https address.
How do I connect Kavita?
- In Kavita, open Settings, then Account, and copy the OPDS URL. It already holds your key.
- In LiveComics, open your library, tap From a link next to Add, then choose Your library server.
- Choose Kavita, paste the OPDS URL and press Connect.
- Browse your libraries or search, tick the issues you want and press Add. When they have downloaded, choose how to import them and press Add.
The OPDS URL works like a password, so keep it to yourself. Tick Remember this server on this device and you won't have to paste it again. You need a free account with a confirmed email.
Can I use Kavita outside my home network?
Yes, once Kavita has a public https address. We fetch your comics from our servers, not from your phone, so an address that only works at home, like http://192.168.1.20:5000 or localhost, can't be reached from our side, and neither can a Tailscale address that only your own devices can see. If the OPDS URL Kavita shows starts with a home address, keep the part from /api/opds/ on and put your public https address in front of it.
How do I make a home server reachable?
There are three common ways. Run a reverse proxy with your own domain name and a free Let's Encrypt certificate. Use a Cloudflare Tunnel, which gives the server a public https name without opening a port on your router. Or turn on Tailscale Funnel, which shares one service from your tailnet at a public https address. Then open that address on your phone with Wi-Fi off: if it loads there, it is reachable from the internet.
Can Kavita comics and manga be read aloud?
Yes, once you import them here. Choose Voiced when you import an issue and every speech balloon is read in order by two synthetic narrators matched to each speaker, with sound effects and a score, and subtitles show each line as it is spoken. Choose Manga as the reading type and the panels run right to left. Panel descriptions for blind and low-vision readers can be added too.
What happens when I pick comics?
Our servers download each issue from yours, two at a time, so it won't use your data plan. Issues you already have are marked In your library, so you can see what is new before you pick. When the downloads finish, the usual import choices open, and if you use the same choices for every issue, any that are already in your library are skipped rather than added twice.
What does it cost?
Connecting your server and browsing it are free. Pages only and Panel view, which shows one panel at a time framed to fill the screen, are free on every issue. Voiced adds two synthetic narrators matched to each speaker, sound effects and a score, priced per issue in credits, and you see the price before you press Add. A free account imports 30 comics a month and holds 1 GB, about 20 issues, with no card. Collector lifts the import limit.
What do you keep from my server?
Only the comics you import, and your server's address so you can open it again. Your password is used while you browse and import, and it is never saved. A Komga API key or a Kavita OPDS URL can be remembered on your own device if you tick Remember this server on this device, and it is never stored on our servers. We only talk to the exact address you connected, so a link in your feed can't send us anywhere else.
Straight answers
Is there a Kavita app for iPhone?
Not from Kavita itself: Kavita runs in a web browser, and other reader apps connect to it over OPDS. LiveComics works in Safari with nothing to install: paste your OPDS URL, import the issues you want, and read them panel by panel or read aloud.
Is there a Kavita app for Android?
You don't need one here. LiveComics runs in Chrome or any other browser on Android, and on tablets and computers too, with your place kept on every device.
Where is my Kavita OPDS URL?
In Kavita, open Settings, then Account. The OPDS URL is there with your key already in it, ready to copy.
Can I connect a Kavita server on my home network?
Not directly. Kavita needs a public https address that we can reach from the internet. A reverse proxy, a Cloudflare Tunnel or Tailscale Funnel gives it one.
Komga and Kavita remote access
Does it read manga too?
Yes. Manga in CBZ, CBR or PDF imports like any comic: choose Manga as the reading type and the panels run right to left.
Which files can I import?
CBZ, CBR and PDF comics, up to 2.6 GB each. EPUB books show on your server's shelves but can't be imported from it yet.
Is it free?
Yes, to connect, browse and read. A free account imports 30 comics a month with 1 GB of storage, and voices are paid per issue in credits.