Panels Overview
What is Panels?
Panels is a digital comic reader app that offers a clean and delightful interface for reading your favorite titles. It supports most common comic types, multiple image formats, and allows you to synchronize your reading progress across all your devices. The app also offers various reading modes, including panel-by-panel guided view, right to left reading for manga, and experimental features like screen reading and panel-by-panel navigation. You can import files from various sources, including iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, and more.
Features
- Support for CBR, CBZ, and PDF comic types
- Support for multiple image formats, including WebP
- Synchronize reading progress across devices
- Organize comics into collections
- Light and Dark mode themes
- Various reading modes, including panel-by-panel guided view and right to left reading for manga
- Stream comics from OPDS compatible servers
- Password or Face ID lock for collections and files
- Access to experimental features like screen reading and panel-by-panel navigation
- Native support for importing files from various sources, including iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, and more
- Import from local network shared files and folders via SMB and Embedded web server, iTunes, external drives, Airdrop, and Drag&Drop from other apps.
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Product Details and Description of
this app is the best reader for your digital comics. Enjoy reading your favorite titles in a clean and delightful interface, with plenty of customization and Premium features. Main features: - Support for most common comic types: CBR, CBZ, and PDF. - Support for multiple image formats, including WebP. - Synchronize your reading progress across all your devices. - Collections: organize your comic library by easily grouping your comics. - Themes: support for Light and Dark modes, and many others. - Choose between various readers, from horizontal and vertical to panel-by-panel guided view. this app offers many reading modes to improve your reading experience. - Right to Left reading (manga): read any comic with this app. - Stream comics from your OPDS compatible server. - Lock content with a Password: Keep files secure using a password or Face ID for your collections and files. - Access experimental features like screen reading or panel-by-panel navigation. Native support for importing files from: - iCloud Drive - Dropbox - Google Drive - Microsoft OneDrive - Substack - OPDS: Ubooquity, Komga, Kavita, and others - Local network shared files and folders via SMB and Embedded web server - iTunes - External drives - Airdrop - Drag&Drop from other apps
Top Reviews
By joecunningham
This Is The Way
There are a number of apps for comic book collectors to organize and read in. Nothing comes remotely close to this app, whose developers always respond to user questions and implement user suggestion quickly if the idea has obvious merit. They have a forum site set up just for communicating with users. The app itself is stellar. There are no folder icons because the devs understand how important cover art is when you’re trying to find something. Instead you create stacks of cross-referencable comics which look like a stack seen from above. Everything stays where you drag it if you don’t want auto alphabetization - so you can separate artists from writers, or new stuff from the permanent part of your collection, or what have you. i could go on and on as to what make this app the clear winner in its field. My collection is vast (over 500gb) and the app scrolls smooth as glass. I’ve been able to organize that much content sensibly and quickly. They’ve provided tools to help people on phone screens read panel by panel instead of page by page. With the last update it can even read to you. Excellent elegant software.
By ninininuebubwu
Ok start, could be better
It’s a very useful and minimalist app but this comes with its limitations. For example, I have not found a way rename or delete a collection once it’s been created. I cannot create sub folders to sort comics this leaves me with like 100 collections when they could be just 10. I can’t rename comics. The title of a comic isn’t shown in the icon/cover view. Needs to be a back or home button instead of always clicking a collection header and scrolling through my long list of collections. Really could be better. Edit: Thank you for the reply. I did not realize that was how to delete collection I kept on holding and going through settings. Wish you the best
By Datapotomus
Love this app wish it had double tap to zoom though
I would like to say that this is the best looking comic book reader on the iPhone hands down. Everything about it is beautiful. The navigation is extremely well done, and it doesn’t add a bunch of stuff that gets in the way of reading. After two days of usage I bought the ad-free version because I loved it so much. If I had one criticism of the app it would be that I would also like to have double tap to zoom option either in the settings that you can turn on or, just on by default. Other than that, this app is perfect for my needs.
