Plugins are available for PDF (via poppler or MuPDF), PostScript and DjVu.

[4] Zathura has official packages available in Arch Linux,[5] Void Linux,[6] Debian,[7] Fedora,[8] Gentoo,[9] OpenBSD,[10] OpenSUSE,[11] Source Mage,[12] Ubuntu,[13] GuixSD,[14] and an unofficial macOS package provided by MacPorts.

[19] Same year, by the end of July it was added to the Source Mage Linux distribution.

[22][23] Zathura can adjust the document to best-fit or to fit width, and it can rotate pages.

[24] Zathura implements an optional sandbox mode using seccomp filter to restrict the consequences of potential vulnerabilities.