OpenDocument.droid VS koreader

Compare OpenDocument.droid vs koreader and see what are their differences.

OpenDocument.droid

It's Android's first OpenOffice Document Reader! (by opendocument-app)

koreader

An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices (by koreader)
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OpenDocument.droid koreader
4 390
234 15,187
4.3% 2.8%
7.4 9.7
9 days ago 6 days ago
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OpenDocument.droid

Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenDocument.droid. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-07.
  • Signal Introduces Story Time
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Nov 2022
    That appears to be because Session uses Firebase as a dependency.

    https://github.com/opendocument-app/OpenDocument.droid/issue...

    Per F-Droid's definition of "the upstream source code is not entirely free":

    https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Anti-Features/#UpstreamNonFree

    This seems to be a case of "damned if you do; damned if you don't". Session relies on Firebase to get faster notifications from Google servers. This can be disabled in the applications preferences but changes the behavior from push-notifications to polling Session's decentralized messaging network, which makes messages notifications slower.

    https://getsession.org/faq#push-notifications

    For the sake of clarity it would be nice if instead of making such a vague pronouncement, F-Droid would specify precisely what about the upstream source code is not entirely free.

    https://forum.f-droid.org/t/the-upstream-source-code-is-not-...

  • Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2022)
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Sep 2022
    Seeking Freelancer | Austria | Remote

    Looking for someone to port an existing Android / iOS native app to Flutter first, then add more features and maintain the app.

    https://opendocument.app/

  • ⟳ 2 apps added, 58 updated at f-droid.org
    19 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 29 Dec 2021
    LibreOffice & OpenOffice document reader | ODF (version 3.12): Document reader & file editor for Libreoffice & OpenOffice | ODF: ODT, ODS +more
  • Why is libre office document viewer marked as having anti-features?
    1 project | /r/fdroid | 19 Oct 2021
    Searching on the project's Github project, there's an issue about this "The upstream source code is not entirely Free" on F-Droid meaning ?. I doubt you'll find a better answer than that.

koreader

Posts with mentions or reviews of koreader. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-20.
  • Ask HN: Best Open E-Reader?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Apr 2024
    Kobos[1] and Pocketbooks[2] are a lot more open than Kindles. AFAIK you can transfer .epub files into both devices and these epubs are perfectly readable via the stock OS. If for some reason you find the stock proprietary OS lacking, you can install an open source one like KOreader [3] or Plato[4]

    Of course you want a good way of organizing epubs pdfs mobi, and like has already been mentioned Calibre[5] is a great option.

    [1]https://www.kobo.com/

    [2]https://pocketbookstore.com/en-ca

    [3]https://github.com/koreader/koreader

    [4]https://github.com/baskerville/plato

    [5]https://calibre-ebook.com/

  • KOReader Document Viewer for E Ink devices
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Apr 2024
    [2]: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/Dictionary-support...
  • Majority of web apps could just run on a single server
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Mar 2024
    Oh man I absolutely love the work that you guys do. I'm actually in the process of learning Ebook production using the 'Step by Step' guide on your website. I'm essentially learning it all from scratch as I have little to no programming/SWE experience (I learned a bit of Lua because of KOReader[1]) but the technical side of ebook production has always fascinated me enough to keep learning.

    [1] https://github.com/koreader/koreader

  • Wear OS "Hybrid" design has two OSes, two CPUs, "100 hour" battery life
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Feb 2024
    Ha! I feel similarly, if not as eloquently.

    Installed https://github.com/koreader/koreader on mine + enabled SSH server.

  • E-books are fast becoming tools of corporate surveillance
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Dec 2023
    I read that KOreader is unstable on the Libra 2[0], so I haven’t installed it yet even though I would like to. What has been your experience running it?

    [0] https://github.com/koreader/koreader/issues/8414

  • First E-reader. I am thinking of buying Kobo Libra 2?
    1 project | /r/ereader | 6 Dec 2023
    You can easily modify it (like adding KOReader).
  • Conversion from epub to kepub, and related Calibre use
    5 projects | /r/kobo | 5 Dec 2023
    I'm using Kobo Clara 2E (6" screen size), and it is unpleasant to read PDF and CBZ files (comic/manga) since Kobo only provides zoom and orientation mode. I installed KOReader on my Kobo. It has more setup to display those files way better. The views of PDF in KOReader and Comic in Koreader. I read Epub files in Koreader to maintain its original format.
  • Should I buy a kobo libra 2 or carla 2e for manga
    1 project | /r/kobo | 29 Nov 2023
    I installed KOReader on my Kobo Clara 2E. KOReader is a document viewer to read PDFs and manga/comics. KOReader has more setup to display fixed-layout format in a way that is better than the native Kobo display (Kobo stock).
  • Calibre – New in Calibre 7.0
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Nov 2023
    It doesn't try to solve the same use cases that Calibre does, but I built an open source (EPUB only) manager / reader / statistics tracker called AnthoLume [0]. It mostly stemmed from me reading in KOReader [1] on my Kindle, and not having the ability to sync the progress to my iPhone / iPad.

    It's got metadata matching, support for multiple users, and statistics tracking which allows me to have a "Leaderboard" that shows how fast you read (words per minute). Fun competition between my wife and I (that I'm 100% losing). It's a Progressive Web App and utilizes a Service Worker to support 100% offline reading as well.

    There's a demo server [2] (creds are "demo" for both user & pass).

    [0] https://gitea.va.reichard.io/evan/AnthoLume

    [1] http://koreader.rocks/

    [2] https://antholume-demo.cloud.reichard.io/

  • I wanted to get the Libra 2 but is it good for reading manga without much hassle?
    2 projects | /r/kobo | 4 Nov 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing OpenDocument.droid and koreader you can also consider the following projects:

LibreraReader - Book Reader for Android

plato - Document reader

Wasted - Lock and wipe on emergency.

Tachiyomi - Free and open source manga reader for Android. [Moved to: https://github.com/tachiyomiorg/tachiyomi]

meteroid - Meteroid is a small Android application to manage your account in https://github.com/chaosdorf/mete

Kavita - Kavita is a fast, feature rich, cross platform reading server. Built with the goal of being a full solution for all your reading needs. Setup your own server and share your reading collection with your friends and family.

lukelauncher

koodo-reader - A modern ebook manager and reader with sync and backup capacities for Windows, macOS, Linux and Web

Etar Calendar - Android open source calendar

Calibre Web - :books: Web app for browsing, reading and downloading eBooks stored in a Calibre database

OpenDocument.droid - It's Android's first OpenOffice Document Reader! [Moved to: https://github.com/opendocument-app/OpenDocument.droid]

calibre - The official source code repository for the calibre ebook manager