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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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
Home
Where you start. What you were watching and reading is waiting where you left it.
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Extensions
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
Vault
The files you already own, sorted into the same shelves as everything else.
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Downloads
Get Colosseum
Colosseum 1.1.9 is available for Windows. Install it manually once to upgrade from 1.1.8. The Linux installer is temporarily unavailable.
Stable
Windows
Windows release. Install 1.1.9 manually once to upgrade from 1.1.8.
You land on Home. Whatever you were watching or reading waits there, where you left it.
Pick a world
Theatre for films, series and anime. Tankoban for manga and comics. Biblio for books and audiobooks.
Add extensions
The store inside the app adds what you want Colosseum to reach, world by world.
Bring your own files
Vault sorts the files you already own into the same shelves as everything else.
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.
Colosseum 1.1.9 NEW
Colosseum 1.1.9
Universes, community catalogues and tributes.
Available in 1.1.9
Universes
Explore a franchise's books, manga, films and shows in one place. Universe pages bring related stories together, with reading and viewing options connected to Colosseum's worlds.
Available in 1.1.9
Universes + Workers
Universe catalogues are now delivered through Cloudflare Workers, allowing additions and corrections without an app update. Future community contributions will let users suggest franchises and submit their own Universe pages.
Community-built Universe page submissions are planned for a future update.
Available in 1.1.9
Tributes
Explore dedicated experiences for Star Wars, Cosmere and One Piece, each designed around its franchise. Try the interactive demos on the website, or explore the full tributes in Colosseum.
The Windows 1.1.9 installer is available. The Linux installer is temporarily unavailable.
Available now
Windows
Install 1.1.9 manually once when upgrading from 1.1.8.
Version 1.1.9 · .exe
Temporarily unavailable
Linux
The single DEB installer is being prepared.
Linux · amd64
Unavailable
In development
Coming Up
Next
Vinyl · 2.0.0
In development
Colosseum's upcoming music world brings together listening, artist catalogues, album pages, lyrics and annotations. Currently in development.
Next
Feria · 2.0.1
In development
Discover and browse video, music and reading services within Colosseum. Feria combines a discovery page with an integrated browser and a planned sidebar for watchspaces, history and downloads.
Beyond 2.0.1
Android
In development
Colosseum is coming to Android. The tablet preview offers an early look at Tankoban on a smaller screen. Development is ongoing; a release date has not been announced.
