EPUBShelf 2.0.0 [A light novel library manager]

Organise your EPUB library by series.

A desktop application for managing a large EPUB collection — automatic metadata extraction, cover art pulled from inside each book, reading progress tracking, and search. Built for people with more books than shelf space.

What's new in 2.0.0

Volume cover preview. Hover a volume thumbnail — or tab to it — and the full-size cover floats above the list. The thumbnails are 42×63 px, too small to tell one volume from another; this shows the real artwork without leaving the page. Each cover keeps its own proportions, and Esc dismisses it.

Bandua Studio branding. New loading screen, and the About dialog was rebuilt with the studio identity, social profiles, and support links with copy-to-clipboard.

Downloads

Linux (AppImage): chmod +x EPUBShelf-2.0.0.AppImage then run it.

Note on architecture: every build is 64-bit. The Linux builds are x86-64, the Windows builds are x64, and the macOS build is arm64 only — it will not run on an Intel Mac, and there is no Intel build.

⚠️ These builds are not code-signed

No code signing certificates are used — they cost more per year than this project will ever earn. The applications are safe, but your OS cannot verify that on its own, so both Windows and macOS will warn you on first launch.

This is normal for unsigned open-source software, and the warnings are one-time.

Windows — SmartScreen

On first launch Windows may show "Windows protected your PC" with an unknown publisher.

1. Click "More info"
2. Click "Run anyway"

Antivirus false positives are also more common with unsigned executables. The portable EPUBShelf-2.0.0.exe is the simplest route — it needs no installer and raises no installer-level warnings.

macOS — Gatekeeper

The .dmg is arm64 only and will not run on Intel Macs. The app is unsigned and not notarized, so macOS blocks it with one of:

• "EPUBShelf cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified."
• "EPUBShelf is damaged and can't be opened." — misleading; the download is fine, Gatekeeper simply cannot verify it.

Fix, no Terminal:

1. Drag the app to /Applications
2. Right-click (or Control-click) the app → Open → Open again

On macOS 15 Sequoia and later: double-click once, then go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click "Open Anyway".

Fix, with Terminal — clears the quarantine flag:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/EPUBShelf.app"

Either way it is a one-time confirmation per install; afterwards it launches by double-click.

✅ Scanned by 60+ antivirus engines — nothing found

Every build in this torrent was submitted to VirusTotal and scanned by more than 60 engines. None of them flagged anything — zero malicious, zero suspicious:

The reports are public — check them yourself:

• AppImage
• .deb
• Windows installer
• Windows portable
• macOS

Verify the files yourself

A scan is a snapshot; a checksum proves the file you downloaded is the one that was scanned. Compare what you get against these:

# Linux / macOS
sha256sum EPUBShelf-2.0.0.AppImage

# Windows (PowerShell)
Get-FileHash .\EPUBShelf-Setup-2.0.0.exe -Algorithm SHA256

Features

• Recursive EPUB scanner — index an entire folder tree, cached so the second scan is instant
• Series detection — volumes grouped automatically, with covers and metadata read from inside each EPUB
• Reading progress — per-volume read / unread / pending, persisted locally
• Search — Ctrl+K across titles and authors
• Sorting — by name, reading progress, or last updated
• Dark & light themes
• Statistics — library overview, state breakdown, and 30-day activity

Everything runs on your machine. No account, no cloud, no telemetry.

Screenshots

Links

• Source & releases: https://github.com/ribaudequin/epub-library-manager
• Issues: https://github.com/ribaudequin/epub-library-manager/issues
• Licence: MIT

Support

EPUBShelf is free and open source. If it is useful to you, you can support the work:

• Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/A0383T5
• Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/banduastudio

Cryptocurrency — the ETH address accepts any EVM-compatible chain:

Built by Bandua Studio.