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Table of Content

• What is Suwayomi?
  • Features
• Suwayomi client projects
  • Actively Developed Clients
  • Inactive Clients (functional but outdated)
  • Abandoned Clients (functionality unknown)
• Downloading and Running the app
  • Using Operating System Specific Bundles
    • Windows
    • macOS
    • GNU/Linux
  • Other methods of getting Suwayomi
    • Docker
    • Arch Linux
    • Debian/Ubuntu
    • NixOS
  • Advanced Methods
    • Running the jar release directly
    • Using Suwayomi Remotely
  • Syncing With Mihon (Tachiyomi) and Neko
    • The Suwayomi extension and tracker
    • The Suwayomi merge source in Neko
    • Other methods
  • Troubleshooting and Support
  • Contributing and Technical info
  • Translation
  • Credit
  • License
  • Disclaimer

What is Suwayomi?

A free and open source manga reader server that runs extensions built for Mihon (Tachiyomi).

Suwayomi is an independent Mihon (Tachiyomi) compatible software and is not a Fork of Mihon (Tachiyomi).

Suwayomi-Server is as multi-platform as you can get. Any platform that runs java and/or has a modern browser can run it. This includes Windows, Linux, macOS, chrome OS, etc. Follow Downloading and Running the app for installation instructions.

You can use Mihon (Tachiyomi) to access your Suwayomi-Server. For more info look here.

Features

Note

These are capabilities of Suwayomi-Server, the actual working support is provided by each front-end app, checkout their respective readme for more info.

• Installing and executing Mihon (Tachiyomi)'s Extensions, So you'll get the same sources
• Searching and browsing installed sources
• A library to save your mangas and categories to put them into
• Automated library updates to check for new chapters
• Automated download of new chapters
• Viewing latest updated chapters
• Ability to download Manga for offline read
• Backup and restore support powered by Mihon (Tachiyomi)-compatible Backups
• Automated backup creations
• Tracking via MyAnimeList, AniList, MangaUpdates, etc.
• FlareSolverr support to bypass Cloudflare protection
• Automated WebUI updates (supports the default WebUI and VUI)
• OPDS and OPDS-PSE support (endpoint: /api/opds/v1.2)

Suwayomi client projects

You need a client/user interface app as a front-end for Suwayomi-Server, if you Directly Download Suwayomi-Server you'll get a bundled version of Suwayomi-WebUI with it.

Here's a list of known clients/user interfaces for Suwayomi-Server (checkout the respective GitHub repository for their features):

Actively Developed Clients

• Suwayomi-WebUI: The web front-end that Suwayomi-Server ships with by default.
• Suwayomi-VUI: A Suwayomi-Server preview focused web frontend built with svelte
• Tachidesk-VaadinUI: A Web front-end for Suwayomi-Server built with Vaadin.

Inactive Clients (functional but outdated)

• Tachidesk-JUI: The native desktop front-end for Suwayomi-Server.
• Tachidesk-Sorayomi: A Flutter front-end for Desktop(Linux, windows, etc.), Web and Android with a User Interface inspired by Mihon (Tachiyomi).

Abandoned Clients (functionality unknown)

• Tachidesk-qtui: A C++/Qt front-end for mobile devices(Android/linux), feature support is basic.
• Tachidesk-GTK: A native Rust/GTK desktop client.
• Equinox: A web user interface made with Vue.js.

Downloading and Running the app

Using Operating System Specific Bundles

To facilitate the use of Suwayomi we provide bundle releases that include The Java Runtime Environment, ElectronJS and the Suwayomi-Launcher.

If a bundle for your operating system or cpu architecture is not provided then refer to Advanced Methods

Windows

Download the latest win64(Windows 64-bit) release from the releases section or a preview one from the preview repository.

Unzip the downloaded file and double-click on one of the launcher scripts.

macOS

Download the latest macOS-x64(older macOS systems) or macOS-arm64(Apple M1 and newer) release from the releases section or a preview one from the preview repository.

Unzip the downloaded file and double-click on one of the launcher scripts.

GNU/Linux

Download the latest linux-x64(x86_64) release from the releases section or a preview one from the preview repository.

tar xvf the downloaded file and double-click on one of the launcher scripts or run them using the terminal.

WebView support (GNU/Linux)

WebView support is implemented via KCEF. This is optional, and is only necessary to support some extensions.

To have a functional WebView, several dependencies are required; aside from X11 libraries necessary for rendering Chromium, some JNI bindings are necessary: gluegen and jogl (found in Ubuntu as libgluegen2-jni and libjogl2-jni). Note that on some systems (e.g. Ubuntu), the JNI libraries are not automatically found, see below.

A KCEF server is launched on startup, which loads the X11 libraries. If those are missing, you should see "Could not load 'jcef' library". If so, use ldd ~/.local/share/Tachidesk/bin/kcef/libjcef.so | grep not to figure out which libraries are not found on your system.

The JNI bindings are only loaded when a browser is actually launched. This is done by extensions that rely on WebView, not by Suwayomi itself. If there is a problem loading the JNI libraries, you should see a message indicating the library and the search path. This search path includes the current working directory, if you do not want to modify system directories.

Refer to the Dockerfile for more details.

Other methods of getting Suwayomi

Docker

Check our Official Docker release Suwayomi Container for running Suwayomi Server in a docker container. Source code for our container is available at docker-tachidesk, an example compose file can also be found there. By default, the server will be running on http://localhost:4567 open this url in your browser.

Arch Linux

You can install Suwayomi from the AUR:

yay -S tachidesk

Debian/Ubuntu

Download the latest deb package from the release section.

Caution

These options are outdated and unmaintained (relevant issue)

MPR

git clone https://mpr.makedeb.org/tachidesk-server.git
cd tachidesk-server
makedeb -si

Ubuntu

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:suwayomi/tachidesk-server
sudo apt update
sudo apt install tachidesk-server

NixOS

You can deploy Suwayomi on NixOS using the module services.suwayomi-server in your configuration:

{
  services.suwayomi-server = {
    enable = true;
  };
}

For more information, see the NixOS manual.

You can also directly use the package from nixpkgs.

Advanced Methods

Running the jar release directly

In order to run the app you need the following:

• The jar release of Suwayomi-Server
• The Java Runtime Environment(JRE) 21 or newer
• A Browser like Google Chrome, Firefox, Edge, etc.
• ElectronJS (optional)

Download the latest .jar release from the releases section or a preview jar build from the preview repository.

Make sure you have The Java Runtime Environment installed on your system, Double-click on the jar file or run java -jar Suwayomi-Server-vX.Y.Z-rxxxx.jar from a Terminal/Command Prompt window to run the app which will open a new browser window automatically.

Using Suwayomi Remotely

You can run Suwayomi on your computer or a server and connect to it remotely through one of our clients or the bundled web interface with a web browser. This method of using Suwayomi is requiring a bit of networking/firewall/port forwarding/server configuration/etc. knowledge on your side, if you can run a Minecraft server and configure it, then you are good to go.

Check out this wiki page for a guide on configuring Suwayomi-Server.

If you face issues with your setup then we are happy to provide help, just join our discord server(a discord badge is on the top of the page, you are just a click-clack away!).

Syncing With Mihon (Tachiyomi) and Neko

The Suwayomi extension and tracker

• You can install and configure the Suwayomi extension inside Mihon (Tachiyomi) and forks.
• The extension will load your Suwayomi library.
• By manipulating extension search filters you can browse your categories.
• You can enable the Suwayomi tracker to track reading progress with your Suwayomi server.
  • Note: to sync from
    • Mihon (Tachiyomi) to Suwayomi: Mihon (Tachiyomi) automatically updates the chapters read status when it's updating the tracker (e.g. while reading)
    • Suwayomi to Mihon (Tachiyomi): To sync Mihon (Tachiyomi) with Suwayomi, you have to open the manga's track information, then, Mihon (Tachiyomi) will automatically update its chapter list with the state from Suwayomi

The Suwayomi merge source in Neko

• You can enable the Suwayomi source in the Merge Source settings
• You can merge titles in Neko with titles from your Suwayomi library.
• You can enable 2-way automatic sync to track reading progress with your Suwayomi server.
  • Note: only applies to merged titles
    • Neko automatically updates the chapters read status in Suwayomi
    • During updates, Neko will automatically update its chapter list with the read state from Suwayomi
    • This only pulls if the status is read, to prevent marking read chapters as unread in Neko

Other methods

Checkout this issue for tracking progress.

Troubleshooting and Support

See this troubleshooting wiki page.

Contributing and Technical info

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Translation

Feel free to translate the project on Weblate

Translation Progress

Credit

This project is a spiritual successor of TachiWeb-Server, Many of the ideas and the groundwork adopted in this project comes from TachiWeb.

The AndroidCompat module was originally developed by @null-dev for TachiWeb-Server and is licensed under Apache License Version 2.0 and Copyright 2019 Andy Bao and contributors.

Parts of Mihon (Tachiyomi) is adopted into this codebase, also licensed under Apache License Version 2.0 and Copyright 2015 Javier Tomás.

You can obtain a copy of Apache License Version 2.0 from http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Changes to both codebases is licensed under MPL v. 2.0 as the rest of this project.

License

Copyright (C) Contributors to the Suwayomi project

This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.

Disclaimer

The developer of this application does not have any affiliation with the content providers available.