This guide walks through everything you do inside Nyora once it's installed — finding manga, organising a library, reading, translating pages, syncing across devices and staying private. New here? Install first via getting started, then come back. Wiring it into your own scripts instead? See the developer hub.

Sources & extensions

A source is a website Nyora reads from. Every platform ships a curated, ready-to-use catalogue of 960+ built-in sources — the same catalogue across Website, macOS, Windows, Linux and iOS/iPadOS — covering manga, manhwa and manhua. There's nothing to configure to start reading: open Browse (or Explore), pick a source, and you're in.

Filter the catalogue by content language so the source list shows only what you can read.
Popular and Latest feeds per source surface what's trending and what just updated.
Search within a source to jump straight to a title.
Sources are kept current on the Nyora cloud helper — parser fixes and new sites land centrally, so they arrive without a full app update.

Android: installable extensions

Android goes further than the built-in catalogue. It is compatible with native Tachiyomi, Mihon and Keiyoushi extensions, so you can install extra sources the same way you would in those apps — which is where the larger 1100+ source figure comes from. On every other platform (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS/iPadOS and Web) the built-in catalogue is the whole story: there are no installable extensions, just the curated 960+ sources kept current on the Nyora cloud helper.

Nyora never bypasses a source's own access controls. If a site is down, rate-limits you, or puts a title behind a wall, Nyora respects that.

Library & categories

Tap the heart / Add to library on any title to save it. Your Library is your shelf: everything you've favourited, with unread-chapter badges and quick access to continue reading.

Custom categories — group titles into shelves you name yourself (for example Reading, Backlog, Webtoons). A title can live in more than one.
Reading history — a chronological list of what you've opened, so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
Bookmarks — flag individual chapters or pages to return to.
CBZ archives — open local .cbz (Comic Book Zip) files from device storage right alongside your online library.

When you sign in, your library, custom categories, reading history, bookmarks and per-chapter / per-page progress all sync — see cloud sync below.

The reader

The reader adapts to how each title is drawn. You can set the mode once per title and Nyora remembers it across sessions.

Reading modes

Standard / paged — Left-to-Right (LTR): turn pages like a Western comic.
Standard / paged — Right-to-Left (RTL): the natural direction for Japanese manga.
Webtoon: continuous vertical scrolling for long-strip manhwa / manhua.
Double-page spreads: show two facing pages side by side on wide screens.

These are per-title settings — set RTL on a manga and Webtoon on a manhwa, and each opens the right way every time.

Gestures & controls

Pinch to zoom and pan into detailed panels.
Tap zones — tap the edges of the screen to page forward / back, tap the centre to reveal the reader toolbar.
Volume-key paging on supported devices.

Colour & themes

Adjust brightness, contrast and colour filters live while reading — handy for scans that are too dark, too washed out, or tinted. App-wide themes include Light, Dark, System and a true-black AMOLED theme that saves battery on OLED screens. On Android and Linux, Nyora can use Material You to tint itself from your wallpaper on supported versions.

AI page translation

Nyora can translate a page in place: it runs OCR over the whole page, translates the recognised text, then typesets the result back over the original art — so you read the actual artwork, not a subtitle track. It's automatic machine translation: fast and convenient, but not flawless — expect the occasional awkward line, especially on stylised or hand-lettered text.

The OCR engine is chosen per platform to fit the device:

Platform	How translation runs
Android	On-device ML model, with an offline fallback
Windows	Built-in `Windows.Media.Ocr` (needs the Language OCR packs below)
macOS	Apple Vision OCR + a bundled MangaOCR CoreML model (on-device)
Linux	Tesseract OCR (on-device)
iOS / iPadOS	On-device OCR, with Apple Intelligence refinement on supported devices

For offline use, translation ML models can be downloaded from Settings so the fallback works without a connection. The Web app focuses on reading, browsing, library and sync — translation lives in the consumer apps.

Windows: enable the OCR language packs

On Windows, page recognition uses the system Windows.Media.Ocr engine, which needs the matching Language OCR Features on Demand installed. Run this once in an elevated (Administrator) PowerShell to add Japanese, Korean and Chinese (Simplified + Traditional):

'ja-JP','ko-KR','zh-CN','zh-TW' | ForEach-Object {
  Add-WindowsCapability -Online -Name ('Language.OCR~~~' + $_ + '~0.0.1.0')
}

This installs the OCR Features on Demand used for page recognition and text clustering.

Nyora Sync & sign-in

Sign in with your Nyora account to sync one library across all your devices. It's opt-in: you can read fully offline and locally without ever signing in. Sync is completely free — there's no premium tier and no subscription.

What syncs:

Your library (favourited titles)
Custom categories
Reading history
Bookmarks
Reading progress — the exact chapter and page

Sync covers Android, iOS/iPadOS, macOS, Windows, Linux and Web — sign in with the same Nyora Sync account on each and they share one library. Downloaded files are not synced: only reading state travels between devices, while the actual chapter images stay on each device's local storage.

Trackers

Connect a list-tracking service to keep your public reading lists in step with what you read in Nyora. Supported trackers:

AniList
MyAnimeList (MAL)
Shikimori
Kitsu

Trackers push and pull reading progress, so your list stays consistent without manual edits. They work side by side with Nyora's own cloud sync: the trackers own your public reading lists, while Nyora's sync handles your full private library state. Exactly which trackers are available varies slightly by platform — AniList is the most broadly supported, with the full set on Android.

Downloads & offline

Download any chapter to local storage and read it later at full quality, with no connection. Downloads are a first-class feature on every platform — nothing here is premium-gated.

Download manager with batch / queue support — line up many chapters at once.
On-device storage — downloaded chapters live on the device and are not cloud-synced (only your reading state syncs).
Local CBZ — open .cbz archives you already have on the device, no source required.

Privacy

Nyora is built to leave no trail. There are zero ads, zero tracking, zero analytics and zero telemetry, and no account is required to read — sign-in only exists for optional sync.

App lock — protect the app with a PIN or biometric (fingerprint) unlock on mobile.
Incognito mode — read without saving to history or progress, with an optional auto-incognito for NSFW titles.
Screenshot block — optionally block screenshots while incognito on iOS and Android.
Open source — the code is auditable: GPLv3 for the Android fork of Kotatsu, Apache-2.0 for the other platforms.

Stuck on something specific? The FAQ covers installs, sources, sync and troubleshooting. Building it yourself? See build from source.

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