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Open-Source Scanlation Software, Licensed MIT

No credits, no seats, no paywalled features. KOMA Studio hands you the whole chapter pipeline as source code you can read, build, fork, and ship.

The repository, the issue tracker, the milestones, and every release are public. The license lets you use the code commercially, change it, and redistribute it.

In Short

Is KOMA Studio really open source?

Yes — MIT-licensed and developed in public. You can build the application from the repository, fork it for your own group, self-host it, and contribute changes back through pull requests.

  • MIT license — commercial use allowed
  • Public issues, milestones and roadmap
  • Build from source or download a binary

Why open source matters for a scanlation workflow

Scanlation is long-term work. Chapters, glossaries, and typesetting conventions outlive any single tool vendor. When the software is MIT-licensed and self-hosted, a discontinued roadmap or a pricing change cannot take your pipeline away — you keep the code, the files, and the ability to build it again in ten years.

  • No shutdown risk — fork the repository and keep going
  • Projects stay on your disk in inspectable formats
  • Model calls go to the provider you choose, not a middleman

What you can do with the code

The MIT license is permissive: use it commercially, modify it, redistribute it, or embed it in your own product. The only obligation is keeping the license notice.

  • Fork it and publish a build tuned for your group
  • Add new OCR, translation, or inpainting backends
  • Script or extend the chapter pipeline
  • Audit exactly what happens to every page

How the project is run

Development happens on GitHub: issues for bugs and features, milestones for what is shipping next, and pull requests for the work itself. Larger design questions are argued out in discussions and in the community Discord before code is written.

  • Issues and milestones are public
  • Feature requests come from people shipping chapters
  • Releases and changelogs are published on GitHub

Free does not mean unmaintained

The project is free to use and free to modify, and it is built by people who need it for their own releases. Contributions are reviewed in public, and bug reports with reproducible sample pages are treated as first-class contributions.