Kitab: a fast reader for PDF, EPUB, Markdown and comics
A developer built Kitab, a free open-source desktop reader in Rust and GPUI, with Claude, aiming for speed and a modern design.
Credits
- Reddit poster TriptoAfsin Source ↗
- Repository account t21dev Source ↗
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The full story
Kitab is a free, open-source desktop reader for PDF, EPUB, MOBI, FB2, comics and Markdown, built with Claude. It is written in Rust, with the interface drawn on the GPU through GPUI and pages rendered by MuPDF, and has no browser engine inside.
It has tabs, a library with full-text search, reflowed e-books with typography settings, GitHub-flavoured Markdown with diagrams and maths, and PDF highlights, notes, form filling, signing and page tools. There is no account or telemetry.
It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: I made a free, fast and open-source reader for PDF, EPUB, Markdown and comics, built with Rust and GReddit poster: TriptoAfsinPosted
The maker's post in r/ClaudeAI.
- The code: github.comRepository account: t21dev
The reader's source code and downloads.