Marvel Unlimited Reviews

by Nadanadanada

.…and the seeming inability for Marvel to admit a major mistake, and simply roll back to the old version. I have read Marvel comics since 1968, and I have never been more disappointed by an iPad app. Notice that I didn’t call it a phone app; IT WAS NEVER REALLY MEANT FOR PHONES, IT WAS PREVIOUSLY GEARED TOWARD TABLET USERS because of the materials presented in/by MarvelUnlimited . I have canceled my subscription over this stupidity, and I advise you to do the same. And I’d been subscribed for years! UPDATE: My annual subscription has been canceled, but remains in effect until the end of January. YOY HAVE UNTIL JANUARY 25th TO GET IT TOGETHER, MARVEL, OR I WILL NOT BE RETURNING, AFTER SEVERAL YEARS OF ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS. UPDATE, JANUARY 16: A few tweaks and changes have been made since the major September “update” (foul-up is more like it). Have they helped anything at all?? NOPE! I just deleted my reading list, and I will not be back. MarvelUnlimited was once for comic fans to read books; it is now only an advertisement for “this week’s Marvel/Disney project”. I am now certain that this update’s initial problems will never be resolved. It doesn’t fit their new concept for MarvelUnlimited anymore. They do not care about the facts, either, only your shekels. Don’t get taken.

by Det. B

A week ago Marvel Unlimited was the best comic reading app and comic investment on the market. It had a few glitches but it was a 5 star app and was worth every penny. I’ve had it for years and I have tried DC apps, Comixology, CloudLibrary, and Hoopla. Marvel was the best even when it was purely web-based back in the day. But the most recent update threw away everything in an attempt to be intuitive and create a “cooler” look. I had years of comics marked as read and a library full of my next comics to read. All gone in an update. Replaced with some random issues I’ve already read weeks or months ago. The search feature was so easy to use before. Now it is so user unfriendly and difficult to find issues. Don’t get me started on how difficult it is to add or delete issues from your library. I just read an issue using full screen mode (smart panel doesn’t seem to work right for some issues and isn’t my preferred view mode) and I noticed that it will not do full screen. It has a black border around the page of about half an inch. Makes everything smaller and I have the newest large iPhone model. The update is a huge step backwards. Please fix it quickly because it is making me reconsider continuing my subscription. Luckily I have a few months left before I have to renew so I hope the marketing and software geniuses behind this update get it figured out and get it functional again. Change can be good. But this was poorly conceived.

by Slothrop86

This newest update deleted all my continue reading options - every single comic and it’s place are gone. There were a lot to keep track of, and I was also using an external page to keep track of what to read next because MarvelUnlimited doesn’t have a good sorting option. But now even the most basic feature was just..reset. I’m kind of devastated in a way I really couldn’t imagine I would be over something so seemingly trivial. Absolutely cannot recommend an app that would ever do this.

Old review:

I really, really want to give MarvelUnlimited 5 stars. It’s a great experience, great selection, at a great price. But if you look a little more closely, especially at the comics from the 60s and 70s, you start to see the art is washed out and heavily compressed - like a jpeg. The beautiful crosshatching and stippling as a result of the printing press process is almost completely lost. As an artist this is incredibly distracting. Maybe this is a byproduct of the digitizing of old comics - maybe an attempt to make them more modern looking? Maybe to just deliver them in a cheaper format, at a lower resolution? But if you, like me, zoom in on a panel and expect to see the color of an old comic actually be a few colors printed on top of each other, dot by dot, you will be disappointed. This is a shame, as much of the detail and therefor quality of older works are lost. Maybe I expected too much, but for me it’s a very unfortunate loss.

by Robertsg3

The old version of MarvelUnlimited was, aside from a few obnoxious bugs, super well-designed and made sorting and organizing comics and reading lists incredibly easy. With this latest update, they’ve not only turned MarvelUnlimited into a buggy mess, but they’ve set the user interface back about 10 years. It’s like the designers are TRYING to make reading less convenient.

The new search function is borderline unusuable. The old version of MarvelUnlimited had a variety of Browse features that made comic discovery fun and easy. Now, sometimes it’s impossible to find a specific issue even if you search for the exact title and issue #. Reading Lists are no longer easy to navigate. For some incomprehensible reason, they got rid of the handy Grid View in your library, meaning that all comics are now organized by series. This makes jumping back and forth between series (which is necessary if you’re following a reading order or reading chronologically) and absolute chore. This is all made even worse by the fact that MarvelUnlimited is now ridden with bugs and constantly forgets which comics are “read” and “unread.” Meaning, even if you organize your unread books chronologically, the list is no longer accurate because half of the books are ones you already read months ago.

Just an all-around disaster. I can only assume this redesign was some corporate mandate to make MarvelUnlimited more mobile-friendly.

by Athenieus

Before the recent update to the “all new Marvel Unlimited” MarvelUnlimited was good. Now the titles say one thing and load up another. You use to be able to add several titles to your library and they would be in chronology order and would just be all in one place. Now they are put in subfolders in a list that you have to download. That’s a broken system made by someone who doesn’t read comics. If you have 2 comics on going monthly like i.e. X-Men and Uncanny X-Men you want to have both issues of Jan together in ONE folder NOT TWO. On the old app you could add 12 issues from each and you would be good for the whole year for each and it would synch up perfect. You took that away unless you download. Why?? And there is no option to put them in a separate folder if I wanted, which you could have done that which would have been cool. I would hope you could fix this in an update but it took me over a month to get access back to my account because of the last “ALL NEW UPDATE” but I’m scared to death to update this thing. So, yeah. I’m done. UPDATED FOR RESPONSE : Your update did not address my issues. At all. You took away multiple titles in one folder to only sorting ONE title at a time. You regressed not progressed.

by Cap'N Thordo

I have been a MU subscriber for many years and this latest update got rid of the best feature IMO of being able to search by publication date. I was reading all of the books chronologically and the search by publication allowed me to find every comic published in a year and now I see zero way to do that easily. You’ve made MarvelUnlimited unusable for me now. Will be canceling if that feature is not restored soon. **Update** Marvel still has not restored some of the most basic functionality of their app that once made it good, and now they’ve axed my subscription one month early, even though I was given a free month because of this poor release that is still unusable for me. Marvel’s suggestion that you can sort by publication date inside a series is laughable and does no good whatsoever.

*** UPDATE ***
Marvel has in fact added back the search by publication date, but it was done incredibly poorly and I have already submitted a ticket to support with the two most glaring issues along with more scathing criticism of their overall poor development of this new app. Oh, and this latest update once again wiped out my reading history that I had been painstakingly attempting to restore. Still 1-star! Mighty Marvel indeed!

by SJLMRT

I used to absolutely love MarvelUnlimited, but it has become increasingly difficult to use since the newest update. First, I had to spend an hour removing books that I had read and removed weeks and months ago. Then, I had to go through the books to see which ones I had already read, because the “read” marking was gone. The library is hard to go through because it now forces the books into series, instead of allowing you to use the grid showing you all of your books in chronological order. I like the idea of following a series, but it is not greatly implemented. I would rather a “pull list” that automatically adds the new issue of a series into your library. I think my final complaint would be for after you finish a comic. It used to give you the option to remove it from your library and then either continue or exit back to your library. Now it is a couple of more clicks to exit the book, remove from library, exit to the series view, and then back out to your library. I can understand trying to make it look more modern, but when functionality goes down, it’s not worth it.

by WeeGee990

I’ve been a subscriber to MU for just under 3 years. It has been amazing saving money and shelf space being able to read thousands of Marvel comics. A couple weeks ago, a new update dropped that changed pretty much everything. While MarvelUnlimited looks and handles better, it introduced a lot of bugs. Over time these have gotten fixed, that’s not what I’m mad about.

See, there is a tab in MarvelUnlimited called “Continue Reading” and it used to keep track of all the series you were in the middle of, like the way streaming services do. If you finished an issue, the next issue would pop up in Continue Reading, making it easy to read multiple series at once (especially useful for events that take place over multiple series). The new update neutered Continue Reading, the tab now only keeps track of a single issue you are reading, not the whole series. I thought this was a bug, but contacting support told me that this is the intended way for it to work.

This is a major step backwards, as series hopping is incredibly difficult. You could use the library feature as a sort of Continue Reading, but that really floods the library that I use as a list of series I would like to read later. All of MU’s competitors have the same Continue Reading feature that MU used to have, and now MarvelUnlimited is a slog to use. I am going to keep this in mind in a few months when it comes time to renew.

by Bhumaz

Before the 7.0 update, MarvelUnlimited was so easy to use. I was able to search by publication date, choose a year, and read all the issues from that year in chronological order regardless of the series, creators, etc. With Marvel comics existing in a shared universe, I like to be able to see the whole chronological story of how things play out in the universe.

They completely removed this feature so now there is no way to read comics in chronological order, you can only search by character and series now so you would have to read the comics out of order as far as the marvel universe is concerned. I’m someone that likes to see everything from the beginning that leads up to certain points, like Civil War and the Infinity War, and also read those events in chronological order without having to switch between series constantly. I went from 1930s to the last 1960s before they removed the feature so i never got to get to those big comic events.

Please readd this feature it’s the only reason I unsubscribed is because this was removed and replaced with a harder to use UI and search function

by Antilles2210

Update: They seem to have fixed the issue with my missing “Read” issues. But the event that I was reading is still a huge pain to navigate. I like to read the issues in release order, jumping from series to series, instead of just one series at a time. The event page used to list all the different series in rows with the issues increasing left to right. It made things really easy to find. Now it lists everything in one looooong column top to bottom. So alllll the issues of one series, then allllll the issues of another, then alllllll the issues of another, and so on. It makes it a HUGE hassle to jump from issue 6 in one series to issue 6 in another series. A lot of unnecessary scrolling when the old way of showing them all in a grid worked so well.

This used to be a good app but they ruined it. After the update I had to delete MarvelUnlimited and reinstall it just to log in. I’m trying to find where I left off but the event that I was following is gone. I searched for one of the titles to find it that way but none of my comics are listed as Read anymore. The interface is not the worst I’ve seen but definitely a step backwards from what it was.

by HyenaChrome

I’ve been subscribed to Unlimited for a few years now and I’ve always loved the interface of the old app. Everything was simple and easy to navigate, particularly if you wanted to read a massive event in the correct order. With the most recent “Infinity” update, this has been removed. Although you can still see all included comics in events such as “House of M”, they are no longer numbered in reading order. Small detail that helped me stay on track while I read all comics in one event.

Another small issue is that now when I read comics in any mode, the time/date and white swipe bar are displayed at ALL times. On iOS with the old app, this was never a problem as they simply disappeared after a second. Just to reiterate, these are small issues that I’m assuming will get ironed out in future updates. At the same time, these should have been taken care of before releasing the update.

Despite that, I still love Unlimited and the content it brings. Having original issues all the way up to current ones is great, and the exclusive content is always welcome. I’d rate MarvelUnlimited 5 stars before the update, but until they can correct some of these problems, I believe its a solid 3 stars.

by Uncle Nobs

I love it but holy crud I hate it. This latest update makes searching and navigation even worse. The ‘Continue Reading’ section can’t even track the issues I’m currently reading, instead showing a random smattering of past issues. I have to go searching just to finish what I was reading.

Massive Marvel library. So frustrating to use. Crashes, freezes, issues take several attempts to load. Seriously sometimes takes 20 minutes for an issue to load successfully. Why can’t I preview a cover image? Sometimes I don’t want to load an issue (thereby adding it to my ‘reading now’ list, bumping something worthwhile off of it). I just want a peak at the cover to gauge my interest. Why are the assistant editors and letterers listed in issue info, but often not the writer and artist? I want to know the MAIN creators when I’m looking for something interesting. Kill Bill stars Uma Thurman in a movie by Quentin Tarantino. No one cares who catered it. Search function often crashes MarvelUnlimited . Try the same search again and it does the same thing. I really really want to love MarvelUnlimited. It needs so much help.

by Terps2112

UPDATE 10/28
back up to four stars after latest update fixed most of the major bugs, especially the annoying sorting issues. Would still like to see some of the earlier functionality restored, such as the ability to browse with A-to-Z listings of characters and series, as well as the ability to search by publication month. The unlimited downloads, however, easily outweigh any of these minor inconveniences.

UPDATE: Even more problems with the new app. How much functionality had been lost? Doesn’t remember where I left off in a comic I’m reading. Sorting still completely broken. Can’t search by month, which is essential for catching up on years of comics. I hope the cancel auto-renew function still works! Horrible update. One star added for unlimited downloads otherwise would have been one. Doesn’t really help, though, if none of the downloaded comics are the right ones when I click on them. Somehow they’re all jumbled so when I click on a downloaded issue to read, one of my other downloads opens instead. Sorting is completely botched as well. I always sort oldest publication to newest in my downloads, but each time I go back to select another issue it’s resorted itself. Like others, seriously considering canceling auto-renew until a MAJOR update fixes things. Does anyone there QC these updates before they’re released into the wild?

by Logan17777

Yes this is a dream come true. I’ve now had MarvelUnlimited for over three years and consider it this best value of any app or subscription I own. They’ve updated and tweaked this thing to where it’s perfect! Want the new stuff? It’s all here running 3 months from when it first came out. I had 24 new comics in my queue from just last week. I read 20 of them. That’s over 80 dollars full retail. I pay by the year, averages out to like 2 dollars per week. That’s without touching my vast, insane library of arcs and comics stored in my queue that I struggle to break into due to all the cool new stuff dropped every week that I just gotta read. MarvelUnlimited lets you be frivolous and read goofy cool stuff you wouldn’t normally chance bc of the cost of buying a real comic. Because of this, the comics I read have greatly expanded, bc let’s face it, since it’s all included for the same price, let it rip! I still have real comics I’ve collected, but the Marvel app is like the addiction that once you start, your down for lifetime bc there is NO way your giving this up once you have a taste! The depth and availability of old school up to present is freaky and overwhelming. I’ve read 100s of awesome reads and haven’t even dented the availability of what I want to read. They just put to many cool new ones every week that ya just can’t resist. Anyway, this is a no brainer, go for it, but don’t say I didn’t warn you about staying up to late comic binging!

by Danboy420

One of those Apps that your tablet needs by default. Like a word processor, Netflix’s and iMusic. If you have ever collected comics at all. MarvelUnlimited save me hundreds/thousands of dollars a year on comics books. I would have to read my comics carefully to keep them mint. Most runs I would only read once then bag and board them. Then sort them in my long boxes. After time they take up half a closet and become a heavy pain to drag around rest of your life.

🤕Donate your comics to a children’s hospital🏩
⭐️⭐️⭐️Haveing MarvelUnlimited has let me do good and liberated half a closet space from 18 long heavy boxes. Pulled the comics with value, favorite story arcs & runs didn’t have the trade. Kept most issues from 85’ ‘86’. Year I started reading and collecting comics. Mother friend would visit me “my mother” when I spent few weeks in the hospital. She would come with all the super heroes. I remember really liking Gi Joe, Groo and Spider Man.
About 85% was left over. I thought the best place they could do lots of good. Hopefully open some young minds deep into the world of Marvel superhero’s and friends. The Children’s Hospital is where they found a new home. I was pleased to see they already had a strong collection. There are plenty of older kids and teens that are just in bed with time to read. Nothing helps you heal when you’re reading comics books⭐️⭐️⭐️

by DCShields

I have always been a comic book fan. However I live in a rural place, and there were never any places to buy comic books of any kind growing up. Having MarvelUnlimited and being able to read all the stories I wanted to is perfect. Curated lists of things like universe spanning events make MarvelUnlimited easy to use. A library of over 25k comics would be daunting if it weren’t so organized. If you find an art style or writer you like you can find all their past works in Marvel. The cell by cell reading is great on a phone and even on unconventional frames it scrolls through the dialogue and action in the order it was meant to be. For the most part. Occasionally there will be a place where if you don’t zoom out you may have missed a text box. It is still being updated and curated weekly with newer and old issues. If I had bought these comics new or even secondhand I would have spent a few thousand dollars on all I’ve read, for a fraction of the cost. Well worth it in my opinion.

by Alkirk87

As of right now, I cannot access MarvelUnlimited . Every time I try to login, I get a network error. I’ve tried to reinstall MarvelUnlimited . I’ve tried to cancel and renew my subscription. Nothing works. I’ve tried to go through customer support, and they responded to me once and said they cannot locate my account. I responded with my details to verify, but it’s been almost a week and I’ve still heard nothing. At this point, I’ve been about 2 weeks into a subscription that I’ve paid for, and have not been able to use MarvelUnlimited at all. Basically, I cannot judge whether MarvelUnlimited is good or not because I cannot get pass the login screen. I don’t know if this is an issue with MarvelUnlimited , my account, or what. What I do know is that I’ve been charged for something that I cannot access. I’ll gladly update this review if the issue gets solved. However, if I get to the point where I have to renew my account, I won’t be doing so as I will already be out an entire month of wasted money.

by Bksdhku

Marvel Unlimited is absolutely Amazing, Fantastic, Uncanny like the the X-Men.
I collected and read a lot great Marvel Comics in my youth. Wolverine and the X-Men were favorite long before the movies. I loved many many other characters too. But as I got older I went to college, got married and had a job and mortgage. I got away from reading comics. But I still had my collection and still went to the movies. About a year ago I started going through my collection and re- organizing it. As I went to the local comic book store for supplies. I bought a couple of comics and I got back into it. But I also realized a lot has change. A lot stories and events took place that I knew nothing about. I couldn’t go out and buy 20 years worth of back issues to catch up. But then I saw MarvelUnlimited. I subscribed to it and WOW WOW WOW. It’s like winning the comic book lottery so many stories at my fingertips. This is a great way for me to catch up on all favorite comics and reread some old favorites of mine. I can’t ever get bored because there will always be a story to read. Thank You Marvel.

by SuperShane12345

I’ve written a review for MarvelUnlimited Notre but I’ve gotten nothing but praise and even more to say. Marvel unlimited is truly incredible and makes me excited every time I open it. This subscription has grown and developed so much ever since it started and it’s truly something to “Marvel” at! For those unaware originally there was a 6 month gap between current volumes being updated now it’s only 3?! Amazing and the implementation of infinity comics is ingenious! The fact that we get brand new volumes weekly is such a treat for a marvel fanboy like myself although I’m not quite used to the vertical format yet but it’s certainly not bad either. The only thing I’d still change is re-implementing numbers by the reading lists to assure comics aren’t read out of order and maybe a more extensive database about characters, groups, and events would make MarvelUnlimited even more perfect! Otherwise I’ve got no other critique and can’t stress enough how great it is if the developers see this just know you’ve created something wonderful that I genuinely cherish.

Excelsior!

by Stuart.Rice

Dear Marvel, I love the Marvel Unlimited app, it is probably one of the most used apps on my iPad and allows me to follow along with the amazing podcast "Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men" (I am merely a listener, but they deserve a shout-out). I love that I have access to almost all of the comics in the Marvel Universe and that there are always new things to discover in MarvelUnlimited through the storefront's curated suggestions. I could possibly live 4 lifetimes and not read all of the comics that I wanted. There are a couple of things that I would like to see. With some of the events, especially the ones spanning different comics, I would love to see the ability to "subscribe" to them and just get the next issue automatically downloaded to my device when I am done with the previous. I would love to see that functionality throughout, although I will say that you have done a bang-up job on the last update, it can even remember the page I'm on! Keep up the great work! It is the most satisfying $9.99 I spend every month! Stuart

by DxFerris

I get it: We live in an age of miracles, and the fact that an app like this exists at all is a wonder. But after all these years, it’s still a buggy, glitchy app. I use it on an iPad. And every month or two, I have to re-install it because it becomes useless and stalls out while loading comics. I use MarvelUnlimited to read before bed, and it winds up aggravating me when I want it to relax me. I hope everybody involved in the programming spends extra time in traffic jams and have chaotic, unsatisfying home lives in exchange for all my time they waste.

When it works — which, again, is uncommon — the product itself is great. Almost every Marvel comic ever, up through six months ago, at your fingertips? Amazing.

Oh, also: MarvelUnlimited is terrible at keeping track of which comics you’re reading. So prepare to spend plenty of time flipping through its so-so search feature.

The issues are ambitiously indexed by title, character, and even creators.

But if MarvelUnlimited doesn’t work, none of that means much, does it?

Seriously, they should fire everybody who has a hand in this. Like, maybe before you release an app, test it on more than one machine, with more than one version of an operating system, on more than one day. Don’t get it to work once and then release it, thinking it’s probably good enough.

I should be enjoying a Spider-Man comic or sleeping now, not writing this. If you can’t go the last yard and make sure your app works, don’t bother.

by A141P242!?

Love having access to near unlimited reading of marvel comics while traveling for work, but MarvelUnlimited itself splits the difference between marginally acceptable and absolute trash. Why do I have to close MarvelUnlimited then reopen it and relogin for it to recognize my account? Why does MarvelUnlimited freeze up arbitrarily when navigating between issues? Why does selecting an issue for “Read offline” sometimes not work and prevent me from viewing the issue until I unselect it? Why is there no way to word-wrap or horizontal scroll names of longer series to see what series your actually scrolling through without clicking them and losing your place? I’m in software and am sympathetic to anyone deploying applications on multiple platforms but seriously? For a paid subscription companion app, that is essentially a glorified image viewer, I would call this a swing and a miss for whichever department determined this was good enough for distribution... However, I still need to use MarvelUnlimited as there is no better alternative and would love to see usability issues addressed in future releases. If no updates other than resolution of MarvelUnlimited ’s quirky bugs were released my rating would change to a 5.

by JulianLaiGil

I’ve been using MarvelUnlimited on and off for a couple of years now and I’ve always found issues with it. Nothing that I couldn’t tolerate before but lately it’s gotten very annoying. I can’t read the comic book I want to read. The initial pages don’t load and, after restarting my phone they still won’t load. I tried to read it offline and nothing. Waited to be at home to see if it was a connection problem and still have the issue. I tried to contact support to see if I could submit a video capture or anything and there’s no easy way to report bugs. It’s very frustrating because of the time that I’ve used MarvelUnlimited and paid for the service, probably I’ve been satisfied with it 30% of the time. The time that I use MarvelUnlimited the most is in the subway and the offline books sometimes won’t even load either... I’m truly getting annoyed with it.

by Dr.Rolo

MarvelUnlimited is fantastic way to start getting into comics. I had hard time trying to get into them, but I saw an ad for it in my ps4 Spider-man game and thought I would try it. At first it was amazing, I was reading lots of X-men, Spider-man, and Star Wars. The big problem for me is that once you find a series and you catch up on it, the comics are never up to date with what the next issue is. For example, take TAS( The Amazing Spider-man 2018-present) there might be only #1-11, but on the Marvel Comics app it has the current issues. That is my biggest problem with MarvelUnlimited , because you pay all this money to read comics, but there’re not kept up to date. Some series are months and months behind on MarvelUnlimited . All and all Marvel Unlimited is not a bad app. If your new to comics it is a great way to find out what you like to read. If you’ve been reading for a while, like myself, you would probably be better off just using the Marvel Comics app and paying for your books, or just going to your local comic book shop.

by B.Watts

I have loved my Marvel Unlimited subscription, but one thing I want to use it most for is still frustrating to do. Reading major events is definitely the most exciting thing about the service for me, and I do like the reading lists service for that. The problem is the lack of sorting with those lists. With Civil War 2 or Secret Empire for instance, there are many different comic runs that make up the story. To actually read them in order you need to constantly scan the dates of every issue in those multiple runs or get another reading list online and follow that.

Honestly a view as single list with basic sorting options like: “sort by release date” would make it a hundred times easier to read the issues in a proper order! This one feature would make the MU experience for reading events that span multiple
comic runs 100x better!

by Sigourney Orgeron

To the people complaining that they have to pay a monthly
fee.....why were you expecting free access to thousands of comics? This really confused me when it came to reviews. I have no problem paying a monthly fee to something I plan on using frequently.
As for MarvelUnlimited itself, loading times can be rather annoying but downloading them seems to fix that for me. I get most people don’t have that type of storage or don’t want to do that and I agree that MarvelUnlimited SHOULD work online on the servers no problem, but if you can give it a try that might help.
I personally downloaded this to read old Spider-Man comics that exist nowhere so I think this is a treasure to have personally (I wouldn’t be able to read them otherwise). Overall I don’t think MarvelUnlimited deserves 1 or 2 stars at all. That a bit harsh.

by W00dy1007

I can’t put MarvelUnlimited down. I read comics every day now. Thanks to marvel unlimited I’ve been able to read so many issues I’ve lost count, where before this I would have never been able to afford to buy how many comics I have read. Don’t get me wrong I have a collection of my favorites like the venom and carnage series or the iron wars saga, but I can’t get enough of reading them on my computer or phone. Here are a few issues with the offline downloads where sometimes if you have downloaded so many books and you have very bad service that is in and out it will sometimes delete the offline saves. Even after you turn your phone on airplane mode. But it’s ok as long as you have WiFi or decent. Word to the wise; try the one month free trial. Cancel it in your subscriptions the next day so it doesn’t auto charge next month. And if you really like it go online on a computer and get the year subscription through their desktop site. Save you about 40$-50$

by PortSyd

If what you want to do is read specific comics, this is a fine app. You can add comics to your library and filter by read or unread. But you can’t create subsets in your library, and you can’t mark something that you read but that your spouse is still waiting to read. There’s no filter for reading age, so I can’t easily find comics that are appropriate for my son, and when I read something that would be okay, I have no way to sequester it from the books that are too bloody for a seven year old. I haven’t found a good way to put an entire story arc (like all of Secret Invasion, across all books, for example) in my library, and then there’s no good way to sort that out from other story arcs that happened to be published at the same time. So MarvelUnlimited is great when I know what book I want to read. But it has the potential to be a lot better and to better engage people in comics than it is/does currently.

by Lucao_raiol

I’ve been reading comic books on Marvel Unlimited for a whole year and I simply love it. It’s really easy to search and read comics with it and I simply love how dynamic it feels to read comic books with the smart panel option toggled on.

I just got a new iPad Pro 11” and I was very disappointed that, after months of it being launched, there isn’t a full screen compatibility for it. I have to use MarvelUnlimited cropped to a 9,7” screen, I believe.

Besides that, sometimes after updating MarvelUnlimited , some of my read comic books in my collection randomly go to my unread collection. This is mildly annoying, but the 11” screen compatibility is way worse to me, because I bought a new iPad specifically to offer me a larger screen

by Mr Noital

The subscription service is a miracle of the modern age, and MarvelUnlimited itself works a lot better (bug wise) than other (maybe outdated) reviews would suggest. I haven’t used MarvelUnlimited and service for more than a week, but I have enjoyed it thoroughly so far (logging in, downloading/reading comics, etc.).

I would, however, suggest an interface that is more like the Marvel Comics app, as Unlimited’s interface (beyond some of its reading lists) does not provide enough options for exploring, learning, and seeing editor-picked series/lists (like in the Comics app). And speaking of series, the “read next in series” button at the end of a comic is great functionality, but I wish that I could search, select, and save series as a whole in the main interface. That being said, MarvelUnlimited still gives you the power to search for comics along a variety of criteria, which is important and helpful, albeit if you already know what you are looking for.

This leads me to wonder: why are there two apps, one for “subscription” and one for purchasing, when the experience could be consolidated? Are these two different developers, are there historical reasons, or something else? And what stops these apps from being consolidated?

All in all, MarvelUnlimited experience is solid for me, even if (in my opinion) the interface is lacking in functionality.

by Debradarlingface

The X-men we’re my gateway drug into Marvel Comics back in the 90s. Over the years I’ve become a fan of several other Marvel characters. I’d consider myself a casual reader, and though I have read some comics the majority of my fandom is from shows, cartoons and movies. Marvel Unlimited is amazing because not only can I go back and read some of my favorite stories, but can read about characters I know little or nothing about. I’ve always been a fan of the OG comics, so being able to go back and read the X-MEN or Avengers from the very beginning is what I really love about MarvelUnlimited! I’m also excited to read some of the bigger events that I have missed out on over the years (House of M, Secret Invasion, World War Hulk, etc). Highly recommend MarvelUnlimited for life long Marvel fans or for those just getting started!

by TheJosephIAm

I never took the time to read some of the reviews of this up until now and I am just shocked at how many people seem to have issues with it. I just passed my one year mark with marvel unlimited and while there were some really minor bugs in the past year, overall I have never had a single issue with MarvelUnlimited.

I have been very happy with this purchase and the amount of comics that I have been able to read in the past year using MarvelUnlimited on the iPad has been amazing. I’ll admit that I’m not a big fan of it on the phone but I prefer to do all my reading on my iPad anyways so no big deal for me.

My experience is that MarvelUnlimited has been extremely stable overall and I have been very impressed with it. A good update they did a few weeks ago I believe .6 update for allowing coming since you’ve already read to be shown as read is a great improvement. Keep up the good work

by Sakenobi18

Before getting MarvelUnlimited, I was planning on buying all the individual TPBs of all the best Marvel events from the Dark Phoenix Saga to Civil War. Buying all of those would have been hundreds if not thousands of dollars. With MarvelUnlimited and a subscription of $10 a month, I can read as much as I want. I can read all the events plus all the individual issues from my favorite series and discover new ones.

Reading on my iPad is a dream. All the pages are crisp and vibrant. Reading older comics never looked so good, not even when originally published. MarvelUnlimited runs well and I’ve had no issues with it. You can search by series, keyword, creator, etc, and create reading libraries to keep track of what you are reading. I’m grateful that MarvelUnlimited exists for Marvel and wish DC and Image would do something similar. Either way, this is a great app that allows me to read whatever I want for a small monthly fee. It doesn’t get better than that.

by Unshelved Bill

I have been using Marvel Unlimited since it first came out, and it’s a love/hate relationship. I love the access to the comics, but I hate how long it takes them to squash bugs and the unreliability of the service. It feels like it’s someone’s part-time job.

Most recently, there is no support for the screen size on the 11” iPad Pro, which is almost three months old now. That means wasted screen real-estate that MarvelUnlimited could really use. MarvelUnlimited would also benefit from keyboard support, e.g. navigate through a comic with arrow keys, toggle between full-page and panel view with the space bar, etc.

Come on Marvel, we give you money year after year, please give us an app worthy of your comics.