Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Citadel – a Calibre-compatible eBook management app
Hey folks! This winter I've been building Citadel to scratch my itch of managing ebooks without using Calibre. Calibre is incredibly powerful, but it's slow and awkward to use. I dreamed of writing a native app (and originally tried this in Swift), but ran into issues building the UI. Plus, whatever I built would only work on macOS. I started writing Citadel using Tauri (Svelte on the frontend + Rust on the backend) to have a cross-platform desktop app. Plus, Citadel supports running in a headless / webbrowser mode. You can self-host a Citadel server that manages your library, and…
Citadel is a cross-platform eBook management application designed as a faster, simpler alternative to Calibre. Built with Tauri for desktop use and compatible with Calibre libraries, it offers both a native interface… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Citadel – a Calibre-compatible eBook management app launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A year ago, my co-founder launched Desktop Docs here on HN. It's a Mac app we built with Electron that uses CLIP embeddings to search photos and videos locally with natural language. We got positive feedback from HN and our first paying customers, but the app was almost 1GB and clunky to use. TLDR; rebuilding in Rust was the right move. So we rewrote the app with Rust and Tauri and here are the results: - App size is 83% smaller: 1GB → 172MB - DMG Installer is 70% smaller: 232MB → 69.5MB - Indexing files is faster: A 38-minute video now indexes in ~3 minutes instead of 10-14 minutes -…
2025 · desktopdocs.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN community, I’m Zach, founder and CEO of Warp, and am excited to show you Warp, a fast Rust-based terminal that’s easy to use and built for teams. As of today, Warp is in public beta and any Mac user can download it. It works with bash, zsh, and fish. The terminal’s teletype-like interface has made it hard for the CLI to thrive. After 20 years of programming, I still find it hard to copy a command’s output; I always forget how to use `tar`; and I always have to relearn how to move my cursor. To fix fundamental accessibility issues, I believe we need to start innovating on the terminal,…
2022 · warp.dev · its alternatives →
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Convert any eBook to any format (free and open source)
2014 · calibre-ebook.com · its alternatives →
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Marble▲280Manage your CMS content from Claude, Cursor, and Codex
Dec 2025 · marblecms.com · its alternatives →
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I've been working on librari.io for the past several months and just launched the beta version. The Problem: I have 500+ books across multiple rooms in my house and was desperately looking for an app to manage them properly. Most library management apps are either too basic or designed for institutional libraries with rigid workflows that don't fit personal use. What I Built: - Multiple libraries: manage collections in different locations - Location tracking - remember exactly which shelf each book is on - Loan management - track books you've lent to friends - Custom fields & tags - store…
2025 · librari.io · its alternatives →
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Codex now runs natively on Windows with secure sandbox
Mar 2026 · learn.chatgpt.com · its alternatives →
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Modern, fast, and easy to use SQL GUI. Loads of supported databases & full feature parity across all OSes.
2020 · beekeeperstudio.io · its alternatives →
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Build frontend browser apps with Rust + WebAssembly. Supports server side rendering. - chinedufn/percy
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · libreread.org · its alternatives →
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https://shelf-bookmarks.stupidlabs.lol I have been using raindrop.io for years now, and it has worked perfectly for me. Seriously, no issues. But, bookmarks are something that are a bit too personal... they allow profiling you. And I don't want anyone doing that to me, Hence, this app. It's 100% offline and free. It's built in Rust using Tauri, is roughly 6MB only, is beautiful to look at, and packs more features than commercial ones. Make sure to checkout the "All features" page as well from the homepage. Also, it has an inbuilt api server (configurable) so you can automate as…
Aug 2026 · its alternatives →
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I'm a software engineer who keeps getting pulled into DevOps no matter how hard I try to escape it. I recently moved into a Lead DevOps Engineer role writing tooling to automate a lot of the pain away. On my own time outside of work, I built Artifact Keeper — a self-hosted artifact registry that supports 45+ package formats. Security scanning, SSO, replication, WASM plugins — it's all in the MIT-licensed release. No enterprise tier. No feature gates. No surprise invoices. Your package managers — pip, npm, docker, cargo, helm, go, all of them — talk directly to it using their native…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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fast, rust based epub library for python. Contribute to arc53/fast-ebook development by creating an account on GitHub.
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I built nblm, a Rust-based toolset to automate Google’s NotebookLM Enterprise API reliably. It aims to replace brittle curl snippets with a stable interface you can use in cron/CI or agentic systems. * Python SDK (type-safe): IDE auto-complete, fewer JSON key typos, fits complex workflows. * Standalone CLI: single fast binary for scripts and pipelines. * Handles auth, batching, retries; you focus on logic. Rust core is fast and memory-safe. * Enterprise API only (consumer NotebookLM isn’t supported). Repo: https://github.com/K-dash/nblm-rs Feedback is welcome—I'm…
Oct 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN. I built Payload to make file transfers easy for less-technical users who need large/fast transfers, so I have focused on auto-discovery, drag-and-drop, visually distinct device icons. It's using Tauri (an "Electron alternative" built on Rust) which keeps my binaries small and bundles to .msi, .dmg, .deb and .appimage. No CLI, iOS or Android support (yet). The network stack is a separate binary written in Go. It uses mDNS for local network discovery and TLS over TCP or Quic, with a public Ed25519 keypair for each device. The protocol is ad-hoc and symmetrical control stream using…
2022 · payload.app · its alternatives →
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I’m building Nautilus, a cross-platform desktop manager for Linux servers. While there are many SSH clients out there, I wanted something that combined a high-level dashboard, a full SFTP explorer with an integrated editor, and specialized tools like a Cron job manager and Process monitor—all in a modern, lightweight desktop package. Key Technical Highlights: Tauri + Node.JS Sidecar: We use Tauri for the native windowing and Rust security, but the heavy SSH/SFTP lifting is done via a Node.js sidecar (using ssh2). This allowed us to leverage a very mature ecosystem while keeping the…
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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About a year ago I was working on a project with mirrored Kubernetes clusters deployed across various regions. Constantly switching contexts was a big pain for me and I badly needed something more practical to work with multiple clusters, ideally simultaneously. At that time everyone was talking about Rust and I really wanted to try it out. I then found Tauri, a framework to build GUI apps with Rust + JavaScript. I was sold. I learned Rust and built the app I always wanted to use. Fast, lightweight and with the ability to connect to multiple clusters simultaneously. Fast forward to today,…
2023 · aptakube.com · its alternatives →
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Introducing Sphere - A lightweight, sandboxed compute runtime written in Rust. - introducing-sphere.md
2025 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →
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Rulibre▲3I got tired of Calibre's heavy interface when all I needed was browsing my library and sending books to my e-reader. So I built Rulibre, a terminal UI that works directly with your existing Calibre library structure, no migration needed. Features: - Browse books sorted by author/title with a detail panel (metadata parsed from Calibre's .opf files) - Instant search/filter across author, title, and format - Send books to Kindle/Kobo with automatic EPUB→KEPUB conversion for Kobo - Convert between formats using kepubify or Calibre's ebook-convert - Mouse and keyboard support It's…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Torrent style desktop app powered with decentralised storage
2025 · codexdesktop.hackyguru.com · its alternatives →
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Share and search eBooks on the Permaweb. Contribute to marcojrfurtado/bookweave development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects
Jul 2026 · crates.io · its alternatives →
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⚡ A cross-platform multi-target dotfiles manager. Contribute to Shemnei/punktf development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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