apvlv

June 4, 2026 ยท View on GitHub

apvlv is a PDF/EPUB/TXT/FB2/MOBI/CBZ/HTML ... Viewer Under Linux/WIN32 and its behaviour like Vim.

Apvlv is an open source software, was created by Alf and is hosted on github.

Now, it is still growing.

Like Vim, Apvlv makes people reading their PDF/EPUB files just like using Vim.

So, Apvlv bindings lots of Vim command and its behaviour is like Vim. For example, < Ctrl-f > to forward page, < Ctrl-b > to previous page, 'k','j','h','l' to scrolling a page up, down, left or right, and so on.

And, Apvlv can understand that how many times you want to run the command.

The only thing you need to do is typing the number before the command. For example, typing '50' and < Ctrl-f > will go forward 50 pages, typing '30' and < Ctrl-b > will go previous 30 pages.

What's more import is apvlv can support view a directory as content of a pdf/epub document. Pressing 'k' or 'j' to move selected up or down, 'h' or 'l' to collapse or expand a dir, and press 't' will open the selected document in a new tab.

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Linux

Install the dependencies from your distribution (Qt6, quazip-qt6, cmark, and optionally mupdf, poppler-qt6, djvulibre, tesseract, libreofficekit), then:

cmake -B build -S . -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cmake --build build --parallel

scripts/build.sh is a thin wrapper around these two commands (scripts/build.sh debug for a debug build).

Windows

Install Qt 6 and jq, set QT_ROOT_DIR to the Qt directory, then run from a Developer PowerShell:

scripts/build.ps1

It bootstraps vcpkg, installs the C/C++ dependencies, configures CMake, and builds. This is the same recipe the Windows CI runs.

Install

  • Make a package and install it.

    cmake --build build --target package

  • Or install it directly.

    sudo cmake --install build

License

apvlv is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

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