Panels - Comic Reader 4+
The best comic reader
Produkt Studio
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Improve your comic reading experience with Panels. Enjoy reading your favorite titles in a clean and delightful interface, with plenty of customization and advanced features.
Key features:
- Universal Compatibility: Support for most common comic types: CBR, CBZ, CB7, PDF and comic ePUB* (not text eBook). Support for multiple image formats, including WebP.
- Cross-Device Sync: Synchronize your reading progress across all your devices and resume reading exactly where you left off.
- Full iCloud Drive support: store your entire library on iCloud and access it from different devices.
- Library Organization: Effortlessly manage your comic library with intuitive tools for easy navigation.
* Themes: support for Light and Dark modes, and many others.
* Reading Presets: Choose from a multitude of reading presets or create your own, including horizontal, vertical, or panel-by-panel guided view.
- Right to Left reading (manga): read any comic with Panels.
* OPDS support: Stream, search and download comics from your OPDS compatible server.
* Secure your content: Keep files locked using a password or Face ID for your collections and files. Use Incognito mode to keep your reading sessions hidden.
- Customize your library collections: change folder color, logos and use custom images to make it yours.
* Customizable Live Text and Subject detection.
* Experimental Features: Access experimental features like screen reading or panel-by-panel navigation.
Native support for importing files from:
* iCloud Drive
* Dropbox
* Microsoft OneDrive
- Substack
* OPDS: Komga, Kavita, Codex and others
* Local network shared files and folders via SMB and Embedded web server
- iTunes
- External drives
- Airdrop
- Drag&Drop from other apps
Page Filters:
* Reduce Noise
* Increase Sharpness
* Reduce Moiré
* Crop Borders
* Require an active subscription or a one-time purchase.
• You may purchase an Auto-Renewing Subscription to unlock all the premium features while it\'s active; or a one-off purchase to unlock the current major version features forever.
• Your subscription will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and will automatically renew (at the duration selected) unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
• Current subscription may not be cancelled during the active subscription period; however, you can manage your subscription and/or turn off auto-renewal by visiting your iTunes Account Settings after purchase
• Read our privacy policy and terms of use: https://panels.app/privacy / https://panels.app/terms
What’s New
Version 3.6.8
Fixes:
• Some favorite paths cannot be resolved and fail to open.
3.6.7
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Fixes:
• Subscriptions won't be restored automatically on launch.
3.6.6
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Improvements:
• App boot up is way faster.
• iCloud Drive Libraries index faster.
Fixes:
• Reading PDFs in double-paged mode crashes the app.
• Pages keep flashing, especially when streaming.
• ePUB pages sometimes are not rendered and a black screen appears.
• Purchases are lost and can't be retrieved without internet connection.
• Some readers leak memory and can exhaust the device after a few comics read in a row.
• Being offline while indexing an iCloud Library can lead to performance degradation.
• If the Panels fails to open a comic, it can get stuck in a loop where a "Loading" message shows up on launch.
• The app crashes on launch due to invalid Favorites.
3.6.5
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New features:
• Added per-library settings for default reading direction and reading mode.
• Improved library settings by moving reading direction into library settings.
Fixes:
• Swipe to navigate back in the library does not work.
• The download overlay on comic covers on iCloud libraries disappear quickly after the download starts.
• App stuck in "Loading" state.
• Readers show black pages with PDF and ePUB comics.
• Crash related to memory pressure while reading
• Crash when accessing certain database objects
• Resolved a crash caused by deleting OPDS servers.
3.6.4
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Features:
• iOS 18.2+ users can use Image Playgrounds to generate avatars using Apple Intelligence.
Improvements:
• Custom folder libraries are now included in the free tier.
Fixes:
• Library layout is broken when a row only contains folders.
• App Locker does not work correctly and leave the app stuck behind a blur veil but allows interaction.
• One Drive importer can crash the app.
• The user avatar fades in every time it appears on screen.
• Accessing an local network OPDS server like Calibre fails.
• Side Taps in vertical scroll reader does not work as expected.
• Sometimes the app gets stuck in a Loading state.
• Library List mode layout is broken.
• The Reading Now section sometimes crashes the app.
• The Library sometimes crash.
• Link to illustrator is incorrect.
• The reader sometimes rests to the first page.
• After the onboarding, the library shown is not the one selected.
• Favorites are broken.
• Sometimes entire folders disappear an reappear. Forcing a new index and, in some cases, losing manual sorting.
• Pages flicker in the reader with certain configurations.
• Comic Packs (compressed files containing comic files) are not handled correctly.
• When restoring purchases fail, it shows the incorrect error message.
• One-finger zoom can now be enabled tapping anywhere on the page.
• Substack deeplinks don't work.
Ratings and Reviews
Beautiful comic reader but needs iCloud sync
Update: now I can use iCloud storage and view my comics without needing to download them this is now a 5 star app 👌
Best comic reader app by far. Makes me smile every time I use it.
This is by far the best looking comic reader on the App Store. How it displays your comics is awesome and the reading experience is top notch. Unfortunately its missing a vital feature pretty much every comic app has, iCloud sync. With the free app I’ve chosen to use all I have to do is place the comics in an iCloud folder and it magically appears in the app. Panels has a really clunky way of managing importing of comics. I want to use Panels and pay them all my money but until the include this simple feature I’ll be reading my comics elsewhere
Developer Response ,
Panels does offer support for iCloud sync, although it is a Premium feature. To enable it, go into library -> content -> add another library. Navigate to your root folder located in iCloud drive and add it. From that point, all content in that folder will be automatically synced. I hope that helps
A simple yet powerful app
Started reading a couple months ago and been using the app ever since, the app is just great with new features and updates coming regularly, this has one of the cleanest if not the cleanest interface out of every comic reader, most others that have clean interfaces are either paid apps(the app should be free, if they have subscription for comics, that should be a separate thing) or just bad.I’ve only faced a couple of problems with the app which were quickly fixed after informing the devs.
Just gonna say this to devs: you guys rock, keep up the good work
Great Reader, Awkward Library
While the reader aspect of this is wonderfully elegant and well designed and the design of the app is much more refined than any other comic reader on the app store, the overly simple library system holds it back.
While you can change the reading direction and read mode, there’s no simple way to just change it for collections in the hold-tap menu which feels like a missed opportunity, the lack of iCloud support for an iOS app feels really weird and the fact you can’t treat your external libraries as the structure of your collection and have to download things piecemeal works but is an isolating experience that makes the app more like an app that’s just good at opening CBZ files than one that holistically encapsulates my library and gives me joy in browsing and reading it in it’s entirety.
App Privacy
The developer, Produkt Studio, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Produkt Software Engineering S.L.
- Size
- 124.2 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Catalan, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Produkt Software Engineering S.L. 2024
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Panels+ Monthly £1.29
- Panels+ Yearly £9.99
- Panels 2 £19.99
- Panels 3 £19.99
- Panels 3 Upgrade £9.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.