Chunky Comic Reader User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience64.1% of reviews
Neutral9.3% of reviews
Negative experience26.7% of reviews

~ Based on 270 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Chunky Comic Reader Safe?

Chunky Comic Reader appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Chunky Comic Reader is 83/100.

This assessment is based on 485 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.2/5.

Safety Analysis

77.9% of ratings point to a safe experience
6.4% of ratings suggest some concerns
15.7% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 485 App Store ratings for Chunky Comic Reader.

Is Chunky Comic Reader Legit?

Chunky Comic Reader appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Chunky Comic Reader is 78/100.

Based on 78 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Deserve 100 stars

All features for free

Not good on Mac

The app didn’t just open my files, it moved them from my NAS where I have them stored and buried them in its folders. That alone was enough for me to uninstall.

Excellent app

Highly recommend. The only request I have would be to update the SMB to SMB2 for security

Does What You Want it to

Adobe hobbled Acrobat Reader by preventing you from using the iOS native file handler to move multiple documents into the app at once. Now you have to either add documents one at a time or pay to get access to what's already built into iOS.
Guess what? Chunky is not only the best CBR reader I've ever used - it also does PDF files. It’s clean, it’s organized, and, yes, it lets you use the native iOS file manager to transfer large numbers of files into the app at once. So long, Adobe.
Chunky is just really good at what it does. I bought the pro after using it for just a week, it's that good. My only complaint - literally my only complaint - is that you can't sort grouped items by unread first, and that's such a nitpick for an otherwise perfect reader app.
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Love it , Wish it had a vertical scroll feature

Love this app use it everyday very easy to use . Love its category / search feature. Wish it had a vertical scroll feature that would make this perfect

Does nothing, doesn’t work

You can’t open files. It hasn’t been updated in five years.

No good anymore

This app is dead following the latest iOS update

iPadOS looks to have broke it

Since the most recent update, the app no longer seems to work.

SMB1 required?!?

This is extremely dangerous setting to enable and is a great way to infect computers on your network. Please update to allow SMB2!

Broken UI

PDF's silently fail to import. No dark mode.

Doesnt work with current komga

Could not connect

RIP my friend

Loved Chunky, even if just for the cool trick of snagging a portion of the screen. But it seems no longer able to access Dropbox of iCloud, even with premissions. So sad.

Dumb

Can’t add books on your device unless you upgrade to pro. Stupid. panels is better.

Keeps my old iPad alive

Great reader! Keeps my old iPad alive! Still syncs with my iCloud! But the sync is very slow! Use it daily! Great app!

It WAS a great reader…

After 5 years without support it’s falling behind on things like the latest RAR version, making it unusable in cases. Time to look for a supported reader.

Developer has abandoned their app

I cannot recommend anyone purchase this app, as who knows where your money goes off to and it hasn't been updated in over 5 years. The developer's website is no longer live and it links to an incredibly sketchy Amazon page for in-game currency.

Disappointing really as I quite like the app and would appreciate the local web server functionality, but I cannot fund folks who simply abandon support of their products.
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Great reader, not great file transfers

I have loved using the free version. I can read my CBR and PDF files with ease. However, I recently bought the Pro version and cannot access files on my shared network folder, Google Drive, or OneDrive, which was the whole reason I bought the outside version.

Needs a stretch feature

Needs a stretch feature I don’t like scrolling up and down on a a page to see the full page. Would rather have stretch than fill

Was a great app, but there are issues…

First, the app support link goes to some website that’s selling things and not to any form of support. That’s very off-putting.

Second, it’s very tiresome to put my OPDS server details in every other day only to find chunky deleted them. Why does it keep erasing the servers? I tried to get app support but, as I mentioned, the link doesn’t go there.
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Best reader sadly

This is the best comic reader out there but it needs so many improvements. My biggest issue is that it frequently gets rid of your reading progress which is pretty essential