johnfactotum/foliate
Read e-books in style
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
No releases in the last 90 days; the most recent was 580 days ago, with 96 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #47 in the weekly ranking the week of Jul 12, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- A GTK-based e-book reader that supports multiple formats including EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, and PDF for styled reading experiences.
- Offers a clean, modern interface with features like dark mode, annotations, and integrated dictionary lookup for enhanced reading comfort.
- Use for reading and managing diverse e-book collections on Linux desktops with native GTK4 integration.
- Use for developers or testers who want to run or modify an open-source e-book reader directly from source without installation.
- Use for users needing accessibility features like text-to-speech and auto-hyphenation in multiple languages for improved readability.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
GPL 3.0
Copyleft: distributing software that includes it generally requires releasing your source under the same license.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
- GPL-style copyleft: including it in distributed software generally requires releasing your source under the same license.
- No commits in the last six months (last push Apr 2026).
General guidance from repository metadata, not legal advice. How we score
From the README
Read books in style.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
434+28
Open issues
340+34
Compared with peers in Web
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 8, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pingdotgg/t3code | 55.7K | +12.2K | 75 | today |
| pbakaus/impeccable | 107.6K | +6.1K | 75 | 1 day ago |
| meta/astryx | 22.8K | +4.8K | 75 | today |
| Renhuai123/ziwei-doushu | 17.5K | +3.7K | 75 | 26 days ago |
| ranxianglei/billion-context | 6.3K | +2.4K | 75 | 3 days ago |
| johnfactotum/foliate | 8.9K | — | 40 | 580 days ago |
| Category median | 22.8K | +4.8K | 75 | — |
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