maki macOS 15+
Drop a chapter.
Read it.
Nothing else on the screen.
Maki is a manga reader that does exactly one thing. Drag a ZIP or a folder onto the Dock icon and you are reading: paged, full-bleed, right-to-left.
It opens the pages. It stays out of the way. That is the entire app.
free · notarized · no App Store account needed
This is you, ten seconds apart.
Before: another reader wants you to make a library, wait for a scan, fix the metadata, maybe sign in. After: you dropped a file and the manga is already open.
hover her → (tap) to see the difference
Four decisions, and no more
Local-only
No network, no accounts, no telemetry. The file drops in, the pages come out, nothing leaves your Mac. Ever.
RTL-first
Built for tankōbon. Reads right-to-left by default; ⌘R flips direction and re-indexes every spread instantly.
Ghost page
Spreads pair themselves from aspect ratio. A faint hint of the next page fades in so you can feel the seam. No config, no guessing.
Zero chrome
One immersive view. The overlay fades on idle, the cursor auto-hides. There is no "normal" mode and "focus" mode. The app is focus mode.
Spreads that pair themselves.
Maki reads the aspect ratio of every page without decoding a single pixel. Tall pages pair into a spread; a wide splash stands alone. No global offset, no "shift the pairing" toggle to fiddle with.
When a spread loads, the next page ghosts in at the seam for a moment. If the art continues across it, you know. If it doesn't, you just turn the page.
n+1 preloaded
at 30% opacity
Every control
Decodes natively via ImageIO
Hardware-accelerated on Apple Silicon. Mixed formats in one archive decode fine. Corrupt entries are skipped, never crashed on. Natural sort keeps 2 before 10.
Everything it refuses to become
Close the app and it forgets everything. Reopen the file and you start fresh. That is not a missing feature. It is the point.
No history, no recents, no thumbnails cached to disk. Nobody who opens your Mac can see what you read, not even the most private of it. There is simply nothing left to find.
The name
巻 (maki): a rolled-up volume, one bound run of pages. Also a roll of sushi. Either way: something whole, taken in one sitting.