Windows · Linux alpha · version 1.1.8

Everything you watch and read, under one roof.

Manga, comics, books, films and series in one place, each with a reader or player built for it. Everything below is the app itself, recreated live. Click any frame to try it.

World

Theatre

Films, series and anime. Browse the shelves, then open a show to its seasons, episodes and what is next up.

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World

Tankoban

The manga and comics world. Browse the shelves, open a series, and pick up the chapter you stopped on.

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World

Biblio

The book world. Browse the shelves, then open a book to its editions and audiobooks.

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World

Feria

The streaming and reading apps you already use, side by side on one screen.

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World

Universes

A whole story in one place: its books, its films and its series, in the order they belong.

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Player

The video player

Chapters on the timeline, a thumbnail as you scrub, subtitles and audio one click away. It gets out of the way when you stop touching it.

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Reader

The comic reader

Page by page or one long strip, in either reading direction, picking up at the panel you left.

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Reader

The book reader

Set the type the way you like it and read. Your place is kept across every book.

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Home

Where you start. What you were watching and reading is waiting where you left it.

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Extensions

Add what you want Colosseum to reach, world by world, from a store inside the app.

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Downloads

Your downloads

Everything you have saved, from every world, on one page.

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Vault

The files you already own, sorted into the same shelves as everything else.

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Downloads

Get Colosseum

Free. Version 1.1.8 is the current release. Its download links are moving to a new home and will be here shortly.

Stable

Windows

The full release, with an installer that keeps itself up to date.

Version 1.1.8

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Alpha

Linux

An early build. Expect rough edges, and tell us what breaks.

Version 1.1.8 alpha 1

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In the works

Android

Tablets first, phones after.

Coming soon

About

Why Colosseum exists

Colosseum is a desktop media app: a Stremio for comics, manga, books, audiobooks, TV, movies and anime. It is split into sub-apps dedicated to each medium.

Tankoban: Manga and comics
Biblio: Books and audiobooks
Theatre: Movies, TV and anime
Vault: Local media

Each one has its own library, and its own reader or player built in.

How it started

When I started building Colosseum it was called Tankoban, and it was manga-only. I was creating the app for myself. I still am.

Along the way I built five video players, four comic readers and two book readers. The functionality I wanted, I had achieved many times over. What I did not have was the ecosystem: something that ties all of it together.

One app, not three

People love their media organised, and not just movies or TV but all kinds. One app is always better than three. I wanted it to look and feel like an OS, with a taskbar and multiple sessions that you can minimise and jump between.

A movie isn’t a player screen that takes over the app until I close it. It just becomes another open session.

It does a lot. The rule underneath is to hide that complexity within simplicity.

A bookshelf, not a bin

The place I get my comics from is a feed of around 72,000 uploads, with no series and barely any tags. It works as a source. As a catalogue it was unusable. So I matched those uploads to a proper comics database, series by series.

Nobody wants to browse that bin. They want a bookshelf. I want a bookshelf.

Manga gets the same treatment. Colosseum treats manga as actual books: volumes on a shelf, not a list of 287 chapters. Everywhere in the app, the work comes first and the source comes second.

Free, and yours

I always wanted free media catalogues and sources, like Stremio, for everything else I personally consume. Now I have it. Colosseum holds no films, books or comics of its own. What it reaches comes through sources, and every one of them can be removed.

If something feels incomplete, awkward or unnecessary, say so. You do not need to know how to code to contribute.

Made by one person and a very stubborn team of machines.

Coming next

Not in 1.1.8 yet

These are being built. None of them is in the version you can download today.

Feria

Apps with their own sidebar

Open an app inside Feria and it keeps its own spaces, history and downloads beside the page.

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In development

Vinyl

The music world.

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