Comics Plus Reviews

ComicsPlus is completely broken for me now after the latest update. Regardless of being on wifi or cell service, it just gives an error saying no network is found. I am unable to do anything at all, even look at settings.

ComicsPlus just literally doesn’t work. I tried to sign in and it gave me an error message. Deleted it and redownloaded and it did the same thing again. Is there a version of this that actually works?

First note: don’t expect comics from Marvel or DC. The overall selection of comics appears to be comics for toddlers with childish art and stories. The only 2 Superman comics I saw looked like licensed versions that Disney Kids would produce.

All the book covers, images, and logos are sized waaay too big on iPad and are very pixelated.

I just find out about ComicsPlus on a Twitter thread I was excited to use it but I can’t because it doesn’t have any Sacramento libraries I all need is the Sacramento public library and I will be able to use this and hopefully edit my review. So if you can add the Sacramento libraries that would be great.👍🏽

Comics Plus is a service I’m delighted that is generously offered for free, but unfortunately ComicsPlus is not functional. The UI is clunky and left to be desired, but that is not a dealbreaker. The real problem is when I’m streaming a book, the resolution of the pages are abysmal — it looks significantly better on the web version than on ComicsPlus . When I tried to download a book, the progress bar wouldn’t budge, so I couldn’t get that to work. ComicsPlus is in dire need of fixing. In the meantime, I will use the web version instead.

Even when titles are downloaded the resolution is so bad that the text is nearly illegible. Can’t figure out why.

Good selection but the horizontal mode doesn’t display the correct pages. It’s one page out of sync

The content is amazing. ComicsPlus is garbage. Cant enjoy the content is it never loads, the search pages don’t load, the popular content doesn’t load. Super disappointing.

I love the concept and the selection on ComicsPlus but I agree with the previous comments. It’s too buggy to use. Downloads won’t start, place in book lost every time that I close it, book only loads the first 24 pages then loops to the beginning. I know there’s been other stuff as well. Also it would be amazing if readers could see a history of what we put on our shelves.

Edit: got excited to see that the latest patch notes include fixing the resolution issue. However, after updating and restarting ComicsPlus I haven’t seen any change or improvement. :(

Amazing catalogue with a decent ui but the resolutions are so low on iPhone that some pages are just illegible. Better off on desktop for now

Came back to this after a while away because I heard a lot of improvements had happened. Can’t read anything in my iPad Pro. Just a black screen. Have to hard close the whole app to get back to the main screen. This occurs after downloading, though streaming seems to work. The home bar on the bottom of the screen should be suppressed from displaying since it often overlays the image or even words on the comic.

I use an I phone 14 and the picture quality is horrific. It’s so blurry and pixelated that you cannot read the comics. Even zooming in doesn’t work. They have a such a wide selection and it’s even cooler that there’s no ads and it’s free but it’s rendered unusable if you’re not on a chrome-book or the website.

ComicsPlus has a decent selection of popular titles in their entirety, but a number of bugs and odd design choices make it pain to use. Like others have said, swiping on the left side of the screen and accidentally closing your book is really annoying. I just ran into a bug today with Beserk Volume 5, where in 2 page mode, the pages are swapped. Streaming is also quite laggy. Comparable reading apps offer a much smoother experience. Hoping that with time the kinks can be worked out, but in the meantime it’s just a passable experience.

I love the idea of being able to read comics via my library card. However, the quality of the images (at least in the one comic I tried to read) is bad and turning the page had this irritating transition effect. I still have it 3 stars because I want it to improve. This service is what we need. We just need a better viewing experience.

Love that public libraries are getting more involvement. But app response is delayed and laggy, even for downloaded books. The larger vertical view does not work at all.

ComicsPlus has a fantastic selection of comics. Honestly, you could spend years reading in it. And they have fixed so much of ComicsPlus in the past year. However, there are some issue with ComicsPlus .

#1. When you open the comics on the iPad, the pages are super small. Like the size they might be on a phone. Please have it fill the screen! bridges and Hoopla have this fixed.

#2. The moving of from page to page is jerky. It would be nice if it was more reactive to the touch and the pages would turn over faster.

#3. It would be nice if the titles were under the comics when browsing. It can sometimes be difficult to tell which volume it is.

Those are honestly my only gripes. They have come a long way, and now you can read their omnibuses! Yeah! Oh and their downloads actually work. Keep up the great work guys!

still lots of bugs; i think by downloading what i want to read i encounter less issues, but sometimes the pages black out and i have to close and reopen what i was reading (not the whole app) to get it to reload

1. If you are going to offer something and place it on the popular page… make sure it works and is there?

2. Don’t make the page bounce when I swipe. It is incredibly unnecessary.

3. Tri panel swiping should be up and down, not left and right.

4. Make the middle tap menu pull up faster. It takes a full three seconds before responding.

5. Remove swiping out of the book entirely. Just force me to use the X button. If I want to go back to a page, half the time I’m swiping out of the whole book.

6. Allow the reader to place books into each completion status. When I finish a book, let me put it in “finished” because it doesn’t do it by itself (or at least hasn’t yet).

7. Loading times are loooong. Especially when I’m just browsing for something new in Featured or Popular.

Generally, I enjoy ComicsPlus . It is great to have access to so many things I can’t check out at my own library. But if I spend more time fighting with the UI than I do reading, there’s a problem.

I love ComicsPlus because of the wide variety of comics, but I got halfway through a manga, and I’m getting frustrated. The thumbnail isn’t showing up so I can’t get back to where the chapter left off. Please fix this!

I am so happy that ComicsPlus has such a large variety of comics I can read, but my main problem is with zooming in. Sometimes when I try to zoom in or out, it just doesn't work. Even when I do zoom in it feels really slow and buggy. Sometimes it doesn't even zoom in to the place I want to zoom in to. I hope that this is fixed in a later update! Otherwise, amazing app!!