Still room to improve
It’s getting better, but since the separation from the japanese app there are was a mayor downgrade.
The app no has a comics appeal instead of a manga appeal.
We lost the bookshelfs and collections. The ongoing promotions are difficult to access.
You unfavorite something and it’s still marked as favorite. Sometimes the sort by option does not work.
Costs are higher and the discounts are less.
The app no has a comics appeal instead of a manga appeal.
We lost the bookshelfs and collections. The ongoing promotions are difficult to access.
You unfavorite something and it’s still marked as favorite. Sometimes the sort by option does not work.
Costs are higher and the discounts are less.
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Terrible reading experience
Can't increase the size of images... Each chapter is one long text file without proper pagination. This isn't an ebook reader. It's worse than the most basic text viewer. A total downgrade forced on me after changing device. Let me go back to the far superior and more user friendly Japanese app for my English ebooks. This is utterly unusable and should not have been released to the public.
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Response from developer
We are really sorry for the inconvenience. If not already done, can you kindly reach out to us via inquiry? Thank you very much in advance!
Interface is different
Haven’t read in a year and I come back to find ownership has separated from JP and there’s a new website and new app. I liked the simple UI of the old app. I miss the “read/unread” visual aid. And in place of the old “ xx% read” visual aid they put a small bar to give you an idea your progress but I like the exact number better than the bar. You can kind of create bookshelves like before but now they’re called “collections”. It’s not as visually appealing as the bookshelves because it just shows the books there in a row but I guess it works. I just miss how comfy the bookshelves felt. I’m still just starting to use the app and UI so I will come back and update this review as I continue to get familiar with it. I heard you can’t offline read anymore so I will be checking that next.
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Pretty Good
I don’t read a ton so I might not have all the issues others do. But this app has some really negative reviews and I’d just like to say it really is pretty decent. The browse section is pretty clean and easy to navigate. The library is neat. And it has a pretty good selection for someone who hasn’t read many manga or light novels at this point. My biggest complaint is the whole currency conversion stuff. I would love an option to just buy things with money not a fake coin but alas. Anyways, maybe this has just been a bunch of improvements since launch but I can confidently recommend this app to you.
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Downgrade from original
A complete downgrade from the original app. I have over a hundred books in my library and none of them are sorted. Old app sorted by alphabet, and grouped series together. Now its just a messy bookshelf. Also the only way to view downloaded books is by going offline. Old app downloaded books in order to read them but you could still view your collection even if they weren’t downloaded. There is also no more bookmark feature. Finally, if you were in middle of reading a book on the old app, just opening up the app automatically took you to where you left off. In the new app you have to manually go to your library and find the book in order to resume reading. The app is alright, but at the moment it is so much worse than the old app. Please work on this!
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