Installation
Downloading and Installing
Download the latest stable release of Tachiyomi from GitHub.
tachiyomi-vX.Y.Z.apk
Open and install the .apk file you just downloaded from GitHub.
Your first extension
Now that Tachiyomi is installed, open the app and navigate to the Extensions tab.
In this guide we will use MangaDex, our most popular extension. Press the Install button and it will bring up the extension installer. If your phone does not allow third-party installations, follow this guide.
Exploring the catalogue
If you successfully installed MangaDex then it should now show up in the Catalogues tab. The items appearing here are called Sources, an extension can contain multiple sources.
Adding manga to your library
To find and add manga, you can now either use the Latest button on your source, or you can use Browse and search for it.
Now that you've found manga that you want to add to your library, click on it and then press the blue bookmark button.
It should now appear in your My library tab, ready to be read!
Frequently Asked Questions
The most popular is MangaDex, MangaRock and MangaSee, these are large sites which host content from scanlators, there's also extensions like Genkan, Madara, FoolSlide and ComiCake which contains sources which hosts directly from the scanlators own websites.
Here's a good spreadsheet showing the different extensions and their sources.
When installing your first extension and are promted that your phone isn't allowed to install unknown apps from that source, simply press the Settings button and then allow it.
Two example videos, left one is for newer Androids.
Go to Browse/Latest for MangaDex under Catalogues, enter a random manga and then press overflow menu (3 dot menu) in the top-right corner and then the Open in web view button.
Now go to the hamburger menu, press the Manga drop-down and then choose either Sign up or Log in.
Go to Browse/Latest for MangaDex under Catalogues, enter a random manga and then press the overflow menu (3 dot menu) in the top-right corner and then the Open in web view button.
Now go to the hamburger menu, press the Manga drop-down and then Titles. The last step is to go to the icon in the upper right that looks like four-boxes and select Detailed.
Advanced Features
Customization
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Creating Categories
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Moving Categories
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Adding Trackers
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Duplicate Chapters
Every now and then you find a manga that is translated by more than one group, because of this you get two releases for every chapter in the manga. This is very irritating because every time you finish a chapter, there is a second copy of the same chapter that pops up after it.
To automatically skip a translation group while reading, go to the manga's chapter list and click on the three dots in the upper right hand corner. From there, click on Sorting mode and select By chapter number. You won't see any changes but, when you start reading you'll automatically skip the duplicate releasescitation.
Source Migration
This is used when the source you are using is taken down or there are no plans to fix it, but it exists on other sources. It transfers all the data from that manga entry over to the other source with only needing for you to edit the title if the title on the source you're transferring from and the source you're transferring to do not have the same title.
To do this, you'll have to go to the top right corner of the library and press the overflow menu (3 dot menu), and tap Source Migration
Then, you scroll down to the source you're transferring from and tap select. Then scroll down to the title you're transferring and tap that.
After that, Tachiyomi will do a global search of all the sources you have installed and enabled. Change the search query if you're not able to find the manga you want.
Once you find the manga you want, you just tap it, check the parts of the manga data you want to transfer over, and you're done.
Downloading Manga
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Local Manga
To begin, you have to place your manga inside the folder Tachiyomi/local located in the root of your internal storage or external SD card, usually /sdcard and /storage/18F5-2C11 (with different values).
After that, they will be shown in the catalogue as a new source. Remember to give the app disk permissions on Android 6.0 and higher. If you add more chapters later you'll have to manually refresh the chapter list (by pulling down the list).
Supported chapter formats are directories with pictures inside, ZIP/CBZ, RAR/CBR and EPUB. But expect better performance with directories and ZIP/CBZ.
You can also place your chapters or manga in both storages and Tachiyomi will merge them. For example, with
/sdcard/Tachiyomi/local/my manga/ch1
and
/storage/18F5-2C11/Tachiyomi/local/my manga/ch2
the app will see two chapters in a single manga.
The path to the folder (or archive) with images must contain both the manga title and the chapter name (as seen above).
You can then access the manga in Catalogues > Local manga.