Local-first · No accounts · Your files

A bookcase that follows you everywhere.

Scalino turns the folder of PDFs, EPUBs and comics you already own into a fast, gorgeous bookcase — on your desk and in your pocket. No accounts, no forced uploads. Your books stay yours.

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Windows · macOS · Linux · Android

The Scalino bookcase: a dark grid of manga covers with generated artwork, library filters on the left

The shelf

Everything a home library needs.

Scalino was built for real collections — thousands of files, dozens of series, years of reading. These are the load-bearing shelves.

N°01Readers

Readers for every format

PDF pages rendered crisp by a native PDFium engine, EPUB in paged or scrolled mode, CBZ for your comics. Pinch to zoom, tap zones to turn pages, focus mode to disappear into the story.

N°02Sync

Google Drive sync

Your library lives in a real folder — “Library” — on your own Drive. Desktop pushes automatically; Android pulls a book on demand when you open it. Nothing sits on our servers, because we don’t have any.

N°03Companion

AI reading companion

Ask questions about the chapter you’re in. Bring your own OpenAI-compatible provider — your key lives in your OS keyring, never in the app, and only a snippet of the current chapter ever leaves your machine.

N°04Collections

Collections & series

Series view, volume/chapter hierarchy, and collections you define. A 249-chapter manga stays as browsable as a three-volume novel.

N°05Resume

Resume everywhere

Stop on the desktop, continue on your phone. Reading position, notes and metadata sync through your Drive — conflicts merge per field, so the newest note wins, not the last device.

N°06MCP

Built-in MCP server

Scalino speaks Model Context Protocol: your library’s metadata and reading state are available to AI assistants on your machine. “What was I reading?” has an API now.

A look inside

See the shelf.

Privacy, not a promise — an architecture

Your books stay yours.

Scalino has no accounts and no servers of its own. The default path for your data is: nowhere.

Local-first

Your library index, reading positions and notes live in a local database on your machine. Uninstall, move, back up — it’s all just yours.

Your Drive folder

Sync targets a visible Library folder on your Google Drive — open it at drive.google.com whenever you like. Your books never enter anyone else’s cloud.