Comments on: The 3 best iPad comic book readers

By: Greenies

Greenies — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 10:24:16 +0000

I’d recommend ComicGlass.

Easy to set up controls. (left side next page, bottem menu, top close book, …)
Fast & good quality

Easy transfer:
Go to their website and install their media server application.
Start up media server, point to your comic/manga storage folder.
Download straight from the media server on to your device, no more computer actions required.
Only downside is you have to manually order them into seperate folders. (Hoping it’ll be a new feature soon)

By: Kelly Anderson

Kelly Anderson — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 05:36:58 +0000

“Fanfiction” – Awesome tool for Reading Stories on iOS
Fanfiction is a diversified app covered with thousands of different stories in many different languages. Through this you can read the subject of your own interest.
iTunes Link:
http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/fanfiction/id457484628?mt=8

By: Matthew Levine

Matthew Levine — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 23:50:43 +0000

I agree with David on this one. Biased as I may be, the comixology app is by far the best one available, personally. not just as a reader or store but the fact that it also catalogues all your downloads and stores your books and various other “library” type functions for your digital comics. plus to be able to take your book from the web to your iphone to your ipad is priceless.

By: davidlomax

davidlomax — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:30:35 +0000

I echo your disappointment in Dark Horse’s refusal to join in with Comixology. I guess it must be a case of their not wanting to split their profit with yet another middleman (Apple being so greedy with their 30% and all), but it’s frustrating. Dark Horse has a great catalogue and some heavy talent; I just don’t like their app as much as Comixology’s and I don’t like having to buy in two different apps.

This was a good overview. Thanks.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 01:01:14 +0000

I concur about CloudReader. A hidden gem.

By: eula

eula — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:44:00 +0000

I love reading comic books eversince and i love it even more when I discovered that Ican download it through ipad and also on my iphone. Comic zealis is so fun to use because it can organize my comics by series,
and whats more nice about using ipad or iphone is that i can zoom it w/out seeing the borders and i can share it through dropbox or usb:)

By: Adam C

Adam C — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 09:00:48 +0000

Yes I used it too and guess what after downloading there is a prompt to open it in.

By: Greg Naughton

Greg Naughton — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 15:43:28 +0000

CloudReader. It’s free, super super simple, and very fast. Best reader I have on iPad — ebooks included. Just tap to get next page. much better than dragging.

By: Randy Stewart

Randy Stewart — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 04:33:14 +0000

+1 on the Comic Zeal recommendation and here’s a tip on how I use it.

On the iPad, I find that by having the comic zoomed to full width of the comic, it shows 80% or so of the page, which is the most comfortable viewing size for me.

In Comic Zeal, with “Assisted Panning” turned on, tapping once on the right side of the screen will show the rest of the page. Turning the page leaves the screen with the same zoom factor, making for navigation through a comic fast, easy and highly viewable.

I wish the Comixology app would adopt something like this as I find pane by pane viewing tedious.

By: Mr. Bee

Mr. Bee — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:16:32 +0000

I use Comic Zeal as I think it’s the best of a bad lot, but like most “vanity apps” created primarily by one person, it’s quirky and the options are not for everyone. When you look through a folder of comics for instance, it places a bookmark at the end of each as you finish it meaning you can never view that comic again until you manually reset the bookmark. It’s also terribly slow at almost everything when you have more than a handful of comics in it and while viewing the individual comics is snappy, scrolling through the library is always a jerky-jerky experience (probably due to the roll-your-own interface choices.