r/fossdroid • u/Medr1d • 10h ago
Application Release SCANCORE: an app for anime, novels and comics.
I wanted one app for the things I read and watch, without a browser tab per site and without an account. So I built SCANCORE: a native app for reading manhwa, manga, webtoons and web novels and watching anime, with your library, history and downloads kept on your own device.
Works the moment you open it. The sources are built in, so there are no extension repositories to find or add. Comics, novels and anime share one library, one history and one search. Everything lives in a single SQLite file you can back up.
And the rest:
- Comics: search Asura Scans, Webtoon, MangaDex, Flame Comics and more at once. Vertical strip for webtoons, or page by page for manga (left-to-right or right-to-left).
- Novels: Royal Road discovery shelves plus the NovelFull family, with a tunable reader (serif, sans or grotesk type, line spacing, paper, sepia, dark and black themes). An optional extended pack on desktop adds about 130 more sites.
- Anime: AniList-powered trending, seasonal and top lists, a 7-day airing schedule, resume, auto-next and AniSkip for intros and endings.
- Library: background new-chapter checks with notifications, offline downloads for comic and novel chapters, history grouped by day, and a Ctrl+K command palette.
- Android: phone layout with bottom tabs, stacked details pages and touch controls.
- No account needed. An optional scancore.onl account only adds syncing with the website.
- Updates itself in the background on every platform (Android opens the system installer).
- MIT licensed. Light, dark and black themes, five accent colours, and a "Reduce motion" switch.
- Known limits: the macOS build is not notarised yet (right-click, then Open, the first time). Android is a sideloaded APK. Some brand-new or obscure anime episodes may not play yet, and the player says so instead of showing a broken video.
- SCANCORE only reads what sites show publicly. It doesn't bypass paywalls, logins or locked chapters, and it doesn't host any content. Not affiliated with any of the sites. Please support the creators of the series you enjoy.
Download: https://github.com/medium-gh/scancore/releases/latest
Source: https://github.com/medium-gh/scancore
Website: https://scancore.onl
I'm the sole developer and I'll keep maintaining it. Bug reports and feature requests are very welcome on GitHub Issues, and there's a Discord for questions and feedback: https://scancore.onl/discord