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Kavita overhauls its Kavita+ premium tier and integrates Hardcover for book recommendations, its most significant monetization move in three years.

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◆Current state
Kavita v0.9.1 delivers a complete redesign of Kavita+, the platform's premium subscription layer. The Hardcover integration — adding OAuth login and recommendation support — arrived alongside Hardcover's own launch of OAuth and Vibes recommendations, with v0.9.1.4 required to enable recommendations. The 50x scanner performance improvement from v0.8.9 continues to pay dividends for large libraries.
◆Where it's heading
The Kavita+ overhaul repositions the premium tier from a metadata downloader into a connected reading ecosystem. Hardcover integration is the first external service partnership for Kavita+, suggesting the project is moving beyond a standalone reader toward a recommendation and discovery layer. The recurring pattern of epub reader and reading experience improvements reflects a platform that has matured past basic library management.
◆Prediction
Kavita will deepen the Hardcover integration with additional recommendation signals and expand Kavita+ to include connections to other reading platforms — likely Anilist or similar — as the subscription layer evolves from metadata tools to a reading discovery platform.

◆Recent moves

  1. 13d ago

    v0.9.1.4 - Hardcover Recommendations + Hotfix

    v0.9.1.4 enables Hardcover's newly launched recommendations (Vibes) feature — v0.9.1 cannot serve these recommendations. Hardcover PAT authentication continues working alongside the new OAuth path. Several bugs and regressions from v0.9.1 are also resolved.

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  2. 18d ago

    v0.9.1 - Kavita+ Overhaul and 100K Installs!

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    v0.9.1 is a ground-up redesign of Kavita+, the platform's premium tier, three years after its initial launch. Epub variable font support and a new Cover Chooser UX ship for all users, while Kavita+ gains the Hardcover integration and deeper metadata capabilities.

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  3. 4mo ago

    v0.9.0.2 - Security Hotfix

    A critical security vulnerability affecting all versions prior to v0.9.0.2 receives an emergency patch. All users are advised to update immediately; CVE details will be disclosed after the update window.

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  4. 4mo ago

    v0.9.0 - Reading List Overhaul and Spring Cleaning

    v0.9.0 overhauls reading lists and delivers a spring cleaning cycle across Kavita's core systems, rebuilding internal foundations and delivering improvements that set the stage for the v0.9.1 Kavita+ redesign.

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  5. 8mo ago

    v0.8.9.1 Hotfix

    A minor hotfix adjusts the image reader to always emit progress events for single-page chapters, and refines the new auth key endpoint behavior for external app integration.

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  6. 8mo ago

    v0.8.9 - New Stats pages, Journal Style reading, 50x Faster Scanner, and so much more!

    v0.8.9 ships a 50x scanner performance improvement, journal-style reading mode, new statistics pages, and a broad set of feature requests — one of Kavita's most expansive feature releases.

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