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Functional, But Concerning Practices
In general, Inkr’s speed when navigating the app and loading content has improved markedly. However, there are two big concerns I’ve had with the app:
Battery/Phone Temp: Most of the time while reading, the app will rapidly consume battery (2-3% a chapter on iPhone 14, worse on iPhone 12) and the phone will start overheating until the app is closed. This has persisted since at least December and makes me concerned about memory leaks or other unknown background processes.
Background Ads: INKR Extra promises no ads, yet I have caught the app playing ads in the background while opening chapters on several occasions. Easy to catch when using headphones or when my phone is not silenced because I’ll suddenly hear cheerful music playing unexpectedly. Why is this happening?Show lesssladbar
Poor execution
Great ideas with the ink to read for “free” and a reasonable subscription price and offering. If it worked. The app slows, freezes and crashes fairly often (iPad pro on latest update), sometimes less than a minute after fully rebooting the iPad and launching the app. Many systems are incomplete or non functional like “sales”. The tagline is “100% off” but that just means you can temporarily read the comic, not add those chapters to read later when you have time. On the contrary, 99% off means you can get all the chapters for the comic, permanently, for free or near to it. Is it sad when I want the sales to be LESS discounted?
Other failures are simple technical things like chapter downloads for later or offline reading hanging very frequently and requiring staring at the download bars or the ipad will shutoff the screen to save battery. This isn’t hard for the dev to circumvent, my ebook reader does it.
On a content note, many titles are dropped but still heavily recommended or promoted. 5 times now I have received a notification or list of recommended titles with a comic marked as “complete” with 20 chapters when the manhua has over 400. Other popular titles are marked as “ongoing” but have received 5 chapters in the last 6 months. Once again, the manhua has hundreds not translated on the INKR app but a quick google and there they are in English.Show lessThomas Doss
One major gripe
*update* I am removing another star and taking it down to a three. The app constantly makes my phone hot and drains my battery extremely quickly now. I gave them multiple updates to see if that would improve but it has not.
Don’t get me wrong. I mostly love the app. I love being able to pay a small subscription and get so much to read. Even if the stuff I’m able to read seems to keep getting smaller. But my main problem with the app is that even if you download chapters to read offline yo aren’t able to. Everytime I take a trip I download a few series to read on the plane and such. The app tells me that it can’t load them and it can’t connect to the internet! What’s the point of downloading to read offline if I have to be online to “load” downloaded chapters?!Show lessAdvent_Child
Technical issues
When it comes to this app I have no complaints about the content or the currency for unlocking chapters. It has become one of my favorite apps to use. My issue is with the technical problems I have been experiencing. I’m not sure why but I frequently get the trouble loading try again screen. This is extremely annoying when binging a series. After hitting try again many, many times it will either load or the app itself will crash. There’s also an issue with screen rotation. I had to lock this function on my phone when using the app because if I accidentally shifted my phone causing the screen to rotate horizontally, after turning it back to a vertical position the app would freeze and then I would have to close and restart it to continue reading. This has been going on since I downloaded the app a few weeks ago. Today it was really giving me a headache so I checked for updates ands there was one so I thought this would solve my problem but unfortunately that’s not the case. I have troubleshooted by uninstalling and reinstalling the app, turning off WiFi and only using cellular data but it hasn’t worked. I hope this issue can get sorted out.Show lessKDramaQueen1
One of the better apps
I call foul on completing the tasks to get free ink but needing to watch ads anyway to claim the reward. It should be one OR the other. I'll read the 5 chapters, maybe even more then get an ad shoved in my face to collect the ink. Why read it then? Counter productive. I just skim them to the bottom now so the comic doesn't even get the interest from me.
Aside from that it's not a terrible app. One of the better ones in terms of content, translation and cost of the ink. I prefer it to Manta, Tapas and Bilibili. MangaToons interface and point/reward system is better though.Show lessPrettygirlmissypthegreat
Decent service. Slow, glitchy app. Please fix.
I generally like the service. The collection of works includes stuff that differs from other similar services that collect from different publishers, including Kodansha. Translation quality wildly varies, though. Inkr might want to consider retranslating a lot of older comics, because they bring down the overall impression. I do appreciate that the newer ones have vastly improved translations and the ability to rate the quality. I also like that I can access the more mature rated content from the app. Some services restrict that to only web browser access.
My problem might be isolated to the current version, but everything loads so slowly. UI responses to taps have delays. And it constantly freezes, so I keep having to restart the app. I’ve tried rebooting, deleting the app and reinstalling, but it’s the same. Do some regression testing? Add another server? Incompatibility with something in an iOS update? Other similar apps I use aren’t this slow, so it’s not my internet connection. Anyway, good luck Inkr team.
For background, if it matters, I used to use Manga Rock and I’m currently a paying Inkr subscriber. I hope these quality control issues are addressed. I’d hate to have to cancel.Show lesssatori_
Splitting manga chapters and over-charging is scummy
I have a subscription because I want to legally support my favorite manga and webtoon creators, but man do they make it hard. Sometime the series are poorly translated (probably just machine translated honestly) and the typesetting qualify is bad. I mean when you compare what they’re charging for the quality they give to other established platforms like Lezhin and Tappytoon…they need a lot of improvement.
Also, the fact they split some manga chapter into multiple “chapters” when it’s really just 2-3 pages just so they can charge more is absolutely scummy. Like it’s cheaper to buy directly on bookseller, renta, etc then on their platform. This really pisses me off because people probably don’t even realize what a rip off it can beShow lessTranTracy
One major gripe
Don’t get me wrong. I mostly love the app. I love being able to pay a small subscription and get so much to read. Even if the stuff I’m able to read seems to keep getting smaller. But my main problem with the app is that even if you download chapters to read offline yo aren’t able to. Everytime I take a trip I download a few series to read on the plane and such. The app tells me that it can’t load them and it can’t connect to the internet! What’s the point of downloading to read offline if I have to be online to “load” downloaded chapters?!Show lessLearning feature
The app is nice, a bit limited on the amount of licensed series in terms of manga but still pretty decent and good search features.
A feature I would love to be implemented would be a learning feature kind of like for VIKI. Maybe something like holding down for x seconds would reveal the original text or a button you can toggle on or off (at least just for the speech bubble). I feel like learning to read another language through a fun medium like manga/manhua would be interesting.Show lessMilkyW98
Good but
I literally sat doing something else while waiting for “Daily coins” or the present button page to load and it never did. 10 minutes later it’s still loading. Restarted phone and checked for updates, still wasn’t working. Guess it’s good I came for a free story, but I also want to look at others, if I could just get some ink.Show lessJayden_Weird
