Myne: Download & Read eBooks vs Seeneva: smart comic reader
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
Myne: Download & Read eBooks
Myne is a FOSS Android application for downloading and reading ebooks from Project Gutenberg. It uses the GutenDex API to fetch metadata for ebooks in the backend. Additionally, it functions as an EPUB reader, allowing you to easily import and immerse yourself in your favorite EPUB books! Highlights: - Clean & beautiful UI based on Google's material design three guidelines. - Browse and download over 70k free ebooks available in multiple languages and updated daily. - Comes with inbuilt ebook reader while also having an option to use third-party ebook readers - Compatible with Android 7.0 and above (API 24+) - Supports Material You theming in devices running on Android 12+ - Comes in both light and dark mode. - MAD: UI and logic written with pure Kotlin. Single activity, no fragments, only composable destinations. PS: *The name of the app is inspired from the main character of an anime called Ascendance of a Bookworm.* Note: The app also uses the Google Books API to fetch some extra data like book summary and pages count etc, as the GutenBerg project don't include those values in their metadata. It tries it's best to map the data received from Google books with Gutenberg's metadata but the mapping is not 100% accurate and not all books available on GutenBerg is also available on Google books or is available but with different title, so you may find some books without summary or page count etc.
Seeneva: smart comic reader
A libre smart powered comic book reader. Features: • Smart speech balloons zooming. 💬 • Speech balloons OCR and TTS. 👀 • Supports CBZ (.zip), limited CBR (.rar), CB7 (.7z), CBT (.tar) and PDF comic book archives. • Supports different image formats on any Android device. • View ComicRack metadata. • Supports Left-to-Right (LTR) and Right-to-Left (RTL) read directions. • Supports Android 4.1+ and all available Android ABIs arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86_64 and x86. • Smart functionality performs locally on the device. • Libre application under GPLv3 or later license. • No ads, no personal data collection. 💬 Speech balloons zooming Read digital comic books on mobile devices can be difficult especially if they have small screen. Seeneva to the rescue! Built-in Machine Learning model trained to detect speech balloons on pages allows you easily zooming and navigate through them with a touch of a finger. 👀 OCR and TTS Have you ever wanted to copy text from speech balloons? Seeneva make it possible to use Optical Character Recognition on all founded speech balloons to extract text from them. And the built-in Android Text-To-Speech allows you to use Seeneva like audio comic book reader. ❗Note: • No comic book included. • OCR and TTS features are only available for English language right now. Please read app repository https://github.com/Seeneva/seeneva-reader-android for more information about the app and known issues.
| Feature | Myne: Download & Read eBooks | Seeneva: smart comic reader |
|---|---|---|
| License | Apache-2.0 | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHubIzzyOnDroid | F-DroidGitHub |
| Categories | NotesEbook Reader | NotesEbook Reader |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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