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Open Source Publishing Tools
Open source publishing tools
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Lerna is a fast, modern build system for managing and publishing multiple JavaScript/TypeScript packages from the same repository.
An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices
A modern ebook manager and reader with sync and backup capacities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS and Web
The official source code repository for the calibre ebook manager
Readest is a modern, feature-rich ebook reader designed for avid readers offering seamless cross-platform access, powerful tools, and an intuitive interface to
Generate audiobooks from e-books, voice cloning & 1158+ languages!
:books: Web app for browsing, reading and downloading eBooks stored in a Calibre database
Free offline machine translation API you can host yourself
PyMuPDF is a high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents.
小说下载|网文下载 | 网络小说
Calibre-Web but Automated and with tons of New Features! Fully automate and simplify your eBook set up!
📚 Parameterize, execute, and analyze notebooks
Continuous web-based localization for global reach
Automated translations that scale with your code and commits
A self-hosted library for your ebooks, comics, and audiobooks
GPP is Android's unofficial release automation Gradle Plugin. It can do anything from building, uploading, and then promoting your App Bundle or APK to publishi
A cross platform desktop reading app, based on the Readium Desktop toolkit
AI生成の日本語を自然な日本語へ推敲するAgent Skill / Agent Skill for Refining AI-Generated Japanese into Natural Japanese
A JavaScript library for web-based content editing.
Translate full-length books and documents with Ollama, OpenAI-compatible, Gemini, Mistral, DeepSeek, Poe or OpenRouter. Preserves formatting. Resumes where you
An Open source app to download and read books from shadow library (Anna’s Archive)
The world's smartest system-wide grammar assistant; a better version of the Apple Intelligence Writing Tools. Works on Windows, Linux, & macOS, with the free Ge
Automated localization for modern development teams
Text Generator is a versatile plugin for Obsidian that allows you to generate text content using various AI providers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and l
A CLI text-to-speech tool using the Kokoro model, supporting multiple languages, voices (with blending), and various input formats including EPUB books and PDF
A versatile Python library for EPUB2/EPUB3 manipulation and processing.
The SILE Typesetter — Simon’s Improved Layout Engine
A Gradle plugin that publishes your Android and Kotlin libraries, including sources and javadoc, to Maven Central or any other Nexus instance.
Qt based ebook reader
Full-stack AI agent for coding, files, terminals, tools, research, content, multimodal work, and multi-agent workflows.
A self-hosted, respource aware file conversion server supporting 488 formats in 26 languages.
(eBook,PDFs Translation) A multilingual eBook processing tool supporting all eBook formats. Features online and offline translation while preserving original la
Manage your ebook library without frustrations. Calibre compatible.
A command-line tool for Z-Library. Search, download, send to Kindle, and integrate with AI agents.
101 Linux commands Open-source eBook and CLI tool
Render e-books in the browser
Any file → clean Markdown for AI agents: PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, EPUB, HTML and web pages, images (OCR), audio and video (metadata, subtitles, transcripts
Booktype is a free, open source platform that produces beautiful, engaging books formatted for print, Amazon, iBooks and almost any ereader within minutes.
Fast, standalone EPUB to Kobo EPUB conversion tool.
Neovim plugin for zk
A simple tool for building stories.
A Github Action used to build and publish Docker images
This layout engine can solve the hardest layout problems imaginable. Its output is DTP grade and deterministic. It's faster than engines written in C++ because
A Next.js-based AI writing assistant supporting multiple LLM APIs (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, etc.) with rich style customization features to help content creators
📦 Clients for building books with EpubPress.
Feather is a modern Swift-based Content Management System.
Markdown pastebin from command line
The Tangent monorepo.
A toolkit for ebooks, audiobooks and comics written in Swift
An open-source read-along document reader server with high-quality TTS options, synchronized highlighting, and audiobook export for EPUB, PDF, DOCX, TXT, and MD
.NET library for reading EPUB files
Parsifal is a tool to assist researchers to perform Systematic Literature Reviews
Open-source changelog & roadmap platform for teams
Effortless changelog creation for open-source projects
Frequently asked questions
How many open source Publishing tools are there?
This registry tracks 54 open source Publishing projects, with 307,502 combined GitHub stars. The list is ranked by stars and refreshed nightly.
What is the most popular open source Publishing project?
lerna leads this category with 36,041 GitHub stars, followed by koreader.
Are these Publishing tools free?
Yes — every project listed here is open source. Some also offer paid hosted versions alongside the free self-hosted option; the licence for each project is shown on its card.