Improve your comic reading experience with Panels. Enjoy reading your favorite titles in a clean and delightful interface, with plenty of customization and advanced features.
Key features:
- Universal Compatibility: Support for most common comic types: CBR, CBZ, CB7, PDF and comic ePUB* (not text eBook). Support for multiple image formats, including WebP.
- Cross-Device Sync: Synchronize your reading progress across all your devices and resume reading exactly where you left off.
- Full iCloud Drive support: store your entire library on iCloud and access it from different devices.
- Library Organization: Effortlessly manage your comic library with intuitive tools for easy navigation.
* Themes: support for Light and Dark modes, and many others.
* Reading Presets: Choose from a multitude of reading presets or create your own, including horizontal, vertical, or panel-by-panel guided view.
- Right to Left reading (manga): read any comic with Panels.
* OPDS support: Stream, search and download comics from your OPDS compatible server.
* Secure your content: Keep files locked using a password or Face ID for your collections and files. Use Incognito mode to keep your reading sessions hidden.
- Customize your library collections: change folder color, logos and use custom images to make it yours.
* Customizable Live Text and Subject detection.
* Experimental Features: Access experimental features like screen reading or panel-by-panel navigation.
Native support for importing files from:
* iCloud Drive
* Dropbox
* Microsoft OneDrive
- Substack
* OPDS: Komga, Kavita, Codex and others
* Local network shared files and folders via SMB and Embedded web server
- iTunes
- External drives
- Airdrop
- Drag&Drop from other apps
Page Filters:
* Reduce Noise
* Increase Sharpness
* Reduce Moiré
* Crop Borders
* Require an active subscription or a one-time purchase.
• You may purchase an Auto-Renewing Subscription to unlock all the premium features while it\'s active; or a one-off purchase to unlock the current major version features forever.
• Your subscription will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and will automatically renew (at the duration selected) unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
• Current subscription may not be cancelled during the active subscription period; however, you can manage your subscription and/or turn off auto-renewal by visiting your iTunes Account Settings after purchase
• Read our privacy policy and terms of use: https://panels.app/privacy / https://panels.app/terms
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Summary of user reviews
Positive highlights
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This app hasExcellent user-friendly interface
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This app hasVariety of file types supported
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This app hasDark mode and no ads
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This app hasFantastic for organizing large comic collections
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This app hasMultiple reading modes and options
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This app hasSmooth and responsive performance
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This app hasSecure and reliable
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This app hasHelpful and responsive customer support
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This app hasSeamless sync across devices
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This app hasIntuitive library management and organization
Negative highlights
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This app hasOccasional page skipping/jumping issues
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This app hasEssential features locked behind paywall
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This app hasCumbersome importing and organizing process
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This app hasLack of automatic categorization and sorting
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This app hasInability to access library from root folder
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This app hasRequires sacrificing device storage space
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This app hasLack of support for online comic sharing
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This app hasInconsistent and buggy reader functionality
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This app hasMissing essential features like bookmarking and page curl animation
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This app hasDifficulty managing large collections and folders
What's New in Panels
3.5.5
October 16, 2024
3.5.5
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Feature:
• Support for multiple OPDS accounts on the same server. You can now have multiple connections to the same server using different credentials. Reading progress sync also tells accounts apart depending on which account you used to start reading.
• Reading Sessions list now supports multi-selection so you can delete many sessions at once.
Improvements:
• SMB revamp. We have changed the third-party SMB library and we hope this implementation works much better than before.
Fixes:
• Some crashes.
Issues under investigation:
• Some users have reported reading sessions not syncing across devices. This build adds logs to trace down potential session update failures.
3.5.4
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Fixes:
• Crashes when opening from the widget.
• Crashes randomly drawing library cells.
• Widgets do not update on iOS 18
• PanelsView navigation is incorrect when reading RTL
Issues under investigation:
• Some users have reported reading sessions not syncing across devices. We are investigating the issue. Please reach us at support@panels.app if you're affected by this.
3.5.3
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Fixes:
• Page thumbnails view appear mirrored when the comic reads in RTL mode.
• Crash with double page + PDF documents
3.5.2
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Fixes:
• Readers randomly present the first page of the comic instead of continuing where they were left off.
• iOS 15 still resets the internal scroll of a page right before changing the page transition.
• Readers crash in iOS 18
3.5.0
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Improvements:
• OPDS Search Results now allows copying into your library.
• We have removed the dynamic background control from settings since it is already part of the readers' configuration.
• We've tweaked the Drag n' Drop thresholds to make it easier to drop comics inside folders.
Fixes:
• Next-up section text capitalization changes the casing of collection titles.
• Switching page when using Fill Screen adjustment shows a glitch where the page resets its internal scroll before changing the page.
I paid the full version but guess what, now they released a 3.0 version which I gotta pay again to get access... sorry, this is a joke to me
Response from developer
New features are not included in previous purchase plans, but purchased features are unlocked forever. Also, upgrades do not require any payment. In fact, we improve and expand old features for free. Only new features require additional payments.
If you’ve lost access to features you previously purchased, please contact us at support@panels.app so we can investigate if there’s a bug. But you won’t have to pay for something you already paid for.
