The Adventures of Tintin Reviews

PLEASE ADD ITALIAN!!!!!!!

It's great to have Tintin books available on your phone and sold for a reasonable price. The best thing is that buying the book in an additional language is only $1. So I'm now enjoying Tintin as I learn Dutch (and then French).

The not-so-bad thing is that I have to buy the book in English first. I am guessing that if my native language were French, I would have to buy that first before I could buy the English version. This isn't ideal, but it's not too bad. I already have all the books in English, in printed editions.

The really bad thing is that the electronic version of the book forces the reader to use the pagination from the paper version. It would make FAR more sense to have a frame-by-frame layout, where you could just keep advancing to the next frame. As it is, you must manually zoom in to read the frame, and manually zoom out to advance to the next page, and manually zoom in again...doing this over and over and over gets really tedious.

Also, there are a very limited number of languages, while (if I remember correctly) the paper version of Tintin might be nearly the world record holder for being translated into more languages than any other book. I expect this will change as they get more books scanned in, so I'm not too worried, but I would love to use Tintin to help me learn Italian, Serbian, and improve my Spanish and Portuguese.

Just kidding, but really, on an iPad Pro (2019), the images are great. Thank goodness not in American English as some other would like. However when trying to read in landscape mode, the page isn’t mobile reactive (auto scale when the iPad is no its side vs. vertical). I’ll live with that, but needs an update. Beyond that awesome colors on retina screens.

I love the Tintin comics and I love this beautifully made app. You can switch between languages while reading. You pay for one book or collection but you have to pay a bit extra for each additional language. I wish they had a multi language collection deal. French audio is also a nice add on. Love it.

I love Tintin books and it is fun to read them. My dad bought me THE BLACK ISLAND to start and I really liked it so right after I finished I asked him if I could go to the book store to get more. The ones we got were: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN, THE SEVEN CRYSTAL BALLS, PRISONERS OF THE SUN, and THE CASTIFIORE EMERALD. After we finished those we found the Tintin app and instantly bought the collection we started reading them.

Milan

I’m so thrilled to be able to read all these beautiful adventures wherever I’m at, which is currently in Guatemala, in covid lockdown. So it’s been amazing, and I love that I can get them in French, the most enjoyable language learning ever! Thank you for TheAdventuresofTintin! I wish the other Franco-Belgian comics in this tradition had the same thing!

It’s amazing having one great collection of books all in one place. Plus all the books only cost $3.99. I love the books and their characters but the thing that makes them so good is that they have meaning and they are so well thought out. 5 stars all the way.

They charge $59 for all the Tintin covers and some virtual statues from the different episodes. But then when you download the actual TIntin comic album they want $1 more for every Tintin you download if you actually want to read one. So kind of gouge you twice. Happens a lot with apps like this. But just good to have a guy let others know what they’re getting into before dropping money 💰 into something like this. The actual Tintins to read are not available. Seems like kind of a ripoff for $60.

It almost like having the books with you - easy navigation and you can download the copies across your devices. Well done!

I have been reading Tintin books for over 50 years now. I have probably gone through each of them more than 50 times. I still enjoy every bit of it. What a great classic.

This collection of Tintin’s adventures has been done very well. A nice addition to the original paper books.

I loved reading tintin when I was younger. It’s nice to be able to read it on my phone!

Love Tintin, love TheAdventuresofTintin. Wish they would hurry up and finish publishing all the books already!

How amazing to have all of the Tintin titles grouped together like this on one -latform. Thank you so much!

App works well, glad to have Tintin on the go now.

Buyer beware. If you are used to the American English publication of the albums, the translation here is not that! I'm glad they give you the option to download a sample. A few pages in revealed that this is not that version. A lover of the American English translation might find reading these unsettling.

I “purchased” an album. It vanished from the shelf, but is not visible anywhere else. I clicked “Restore my purchases” repeatedly without any effect. I tried deleting and reinstalling TheAdventuresofTintin , rebooting the iPad. Nothing.

Beautiful app but not letting me log in

Does not restore in app purchases on new device. this makes TheAdventuresofTintin useless. Please fix issue and update TheAdventuresofTintin .

While it's wonderfully convenient to have the Tintin albums available for the iPad, there are some minor problems (e.g. The colors are very bright and saturated compared to the paper printing), and one major problem: the really poor new translation.
As the Wikipedia entry notes:

"The process of translating Tintin into British English was then commissioned in 1958 by Methuen, Hergé's British publishers. It was a joint operation, headed by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michael Turner,[58] working closely with Hergé to attain an accurate translation as true as possible to the original work.[59] Due in part to the large amount of language-specific word play (such as punning) in the series, especially the jokes which played on Professor Calculus' partial deafness, it was always the intention not to translate literally, instead striving to sculpt a work whose idioms and jokes would be meritorious in their own right. Despite the free hand Hergé afforded the two, they worked closely with the original text, asking for regular assistance to understand Hergé's intentions."

Much of the humor has been lost, and there are many English mistakes and clumsy sentences, sometimes embarassingly clumsy.
If the writing is important to you or to someone you're giving Tintin to, stick with the Paper albums.

TheAdventuresofTintin fails to download purchases after migrating to a new phone. So once you upgrade, you’ll never see your purchases again.

Stories are funny. I always come back and binge read this series and sometime lose track of time. The stories are very fun.

The support team is also amazing. Very very polite and helpful reps. I can’t wait for the future books to be released. I hope we see cross platform support like we see in “movies any where” this way I can read these titles on my laptop.

I have the albums in three languages and still got TheAdventuresofTintin so that I can have access to the digital collection any time, anywhere. A must have for Herge fans.

So many good memories, and all in one convenient place… looks gorgeous on my iPad mini with Retina Display. I love the bookshelf with the figurines… please add more from different stories. I have purchased all the Tintin books and I am now about to purchase all the Jo, Zette, and Jocko books… please add Quick and Flupke books next! Note that there is a minor bug in TheAdventuresofTintin … if you install it then purchase your first book, but Apple requires that you update your credit card in the process, you will be back to a state in TheAdventuresofTintin where it thinks that you have yet to download the book, but when you do, it says that you already downloaded it… the workaround in to delete TheAdventuresofTintin and reinstall it, and download all your books again. Besides that, the application is quasi perfect.

These are new translations into English. While I would have preferred the translations I grew up reading, I can excuse replacing some phrases no longer in common use. I can even appreciate what I assume to be the restoration of words that may have been toned down for the sake of sensitivity in earlier editions. There are infrequent errors in grammar, though, that are a distraction when they arise. They bothered me much more when I first noticed them, and I've rewritten this review to be less condemning.

With those grammar errors in mind I'll say this is a beautiful if slightly flawed app. The interface is handsome and straightforward. I patiently waited for English editions to be added. When they were I was irked that they were more expensive than the editions in other languages. Hoping for a discount for buying the entire collection, I waited for months. Titles were so slow to appear in English that I gave in and started to buy the volumes that were already available. The new books are certainly beautiful, and I love the idea of having them on my iPad. I guess I just wanted perfection for Tintin. It pains me to give TheAdventuresofTintin less than 5 stars.

Tintin is in French, which should be apparent if you look at the description which is in French and the pictures which are in French. Four bucks for each issue is a steal. Great way to keep up your French if you are just leaning the language. Probably not for beginners though. Very happy with this so far. English language may arrive sometime in 2015, if copyright issues get worked out. <-- from Tintin website.