# Flows: Comic and Manga Reader — Panel by panel CBZ, CBR, PDF > Panel by panel CBZ, CBR, PDF (iPhone/iPad app by Daniel Nunn.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/flows-comic-and-manga-reader/id6825192911 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Daniel Nunn](https://appshunter.io/developer/6825192913) - Category: Books, Entertainment - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 16.0 · 55 MB - Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, European Portuguese, Russian and 3 more - Released: 2026-10-31 - Data updated: 2026-11-10 ## What is Flows? Flows is a comic, manga and webtoon reader for iPhone and iPad that reads your own files, one panel at a time or as one long scroll. PANEL BY PANEL Flows finds the panels on each page for you, then zooms to one at a time and moves through them in reading order. It handles the layouts simple readers get wrong: small panels laid over a full page picture, pictures drawn across two pages, and panels that bleed into each other. Each panel is widened to take in any speech balloon that crosses its edge. Double tap any panel to zoom straight to it. Everything runs on your device, and nothing is uploaded. YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR WAY Home shows the books you are reading and the folders you pin. Folders can hold folders, and show as a fanned stack, a mosaic, a folder with a cover or book spines. Flows can also show the folders your comics are in and your servers' libraries. Every book keeps its place, down to the panel. WEBTOONS AND CONTINUOUS SCROLL Webtoons and other vertical strips open as one continuous scroll, the way they are drawn, and reopen at the exact spot you stopped. Pinch to zoom in on a detail. Any comic or manga can be read as a scroll too, for one book or for all of them. READ ALOUD Flows can read the lettering on the page out loud in your device's own voices, panel by panel, for readers who find small lettering hard to read. Free, and it runs on your device. BUILT FOR IPAD Held sideways, Flows shows facing pages side by side, the way a printed comic falls open. A picture drawn across both pages is read as one. Held upright, a wide double page can be split in two. READS YOUR FILES • CBZ, CBR, CB7 and CBT comic archives • PDF and EPUB Import them from the Files app, or open them in Flows from Files or another app's share sheet. No account, and no library to upload into someone else's cloud. TURN PAGES YOUR WAY Tap, swipe, or use a keyboard or a page turner. Right to left reading is supported properly, panel order included, so manga reads the way it should. Four panel manga can be read down each column instead of across the page. EVERY SETTING WHERE YOU READ Brightness, night reading, page layout, page turning and panel mode are all in the reader menu, in the same groups as Settings, and each book can keep its own choices. Settings can be searched, and Flows speaks 13 languages. FLOWS PRO One purchase, kept forever. No subscription. • Your own server: Komga, Kavita, Stump, Audiobookshelf or any OPDS catalog. Browse, download or read without downloading, and keep your place in sync across devices • Edit details: fix the title, series, number, writer or publisher of a book, or of a whole series at once, written into the book and sent to Komga or Kavita • App lock: Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode to open Flows • Sharpness: crisper line art on soft or blurry scans • Page tints: sepia, newsprint, grayscale or high contrast • True Black for OLED screens • Page turns: page curl, cover, fade or instant • Read by itself: panels and pages step on at your own pace • Reading stats, with a daily goal and your reading streak • A watched folder, and backup and restore of your progress Local files and folders, the reader, panel mode, continuous scroll, read aloud, two page view, bookmarks and right to left manga are free, and always will be. PRIVACY Flows has no ads, no tracking and no analytics. Panel and text detection run on your device. Reading stats never leave your device. Server details you enter are stored on your device and used only to talk to your server. Free to read your whole collection, with no account and no ads. Open a comic and tap into the first panel. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Flows Pro | $4.99 | one-time | ## Is Flows safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Flows. ## Is Flows legit? Flows: Comic and Manga Reader has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Flows is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 3.0.19 — 2026-11-09 Covers now appear about three times faster after you import a folder. PDF comics now open on iPhone and iPad. New settings: Pitch black makes the page around the panel black; Centre each panel puts panels at the page's edge in the middle of the screen; Double tap starts panel mode reads on from the panel you double tap. Check for new comics now finds folders imported with older versions, and checks the folder you are in. An empty library's Home shows how to add your comics. ### 3.0.15 — 2026-11-05 New in panel mode: Whole page at the end. Turn it on in Settings and, after the last panel, a tap shows the whole page before the page turns. ### 3.0.14 — 2026-11-04 Every folder you import can now be checked for new comics, on its own or all at once from the + button. With Flows Pro, watch more than one folder. Deleting a folder can now remove its comics from Flows too; the files on your device stay. ### 3.0.12 — 2026-11-02 A new library. Home shows what you are reading and the folders you pin. Shelves are now folders, with folders inside folders, four card styles to choose from, and folders from your files or servers if you want them. A short tour shows what is new. Also: ebook text stays clear of the Dynamic Island and the home indicator, and keeps your place when you turn the device or change the text size. OPDS catalogs that need no sign in can be added, series show how many books are unread and how many you are reading, and PDF pages are ready for panel mode much sooner. Choose any page as a book's cover, from the book's menu or its details. Moving around a book: a Pages grid shows every page, the slider shows the page under your thumb, and a long jump in panel mode no longer leaves you waiting. Tap zones let you choose which parts of the screen go forward, go back or show the controls, with left and right hand layouts. Webtoons: pinch, pan and double tap to zoom, and turning your iPhone keeps your place. Ebooks: Light, Sepia, Dark and True Black pages, Serif, Sans serif or OpenDyslexic, and your own line spacing, margins and alignment. Wide double pages can be split in continuous scroll too, turned to fit the screen, or split by hand. Also: Read aloud reads Japanese, Korean and Chinese lettering in the language you choose, a Storage screen shows what Flows keeps and clears what it can, books in no folder appear under Not in a folder, wide panels can be shown whole in panel mode, runs of one title from different years are separate series, and Kavita and Komga edits are kept exactly as you make them. Smoother reading: every swipe turns the page, quick taps keep up, pages stay ready when you switch apps and come back, and Flows draws at up to 120Hz on fast screens. Import a whole folder of comics for free, read in place, with its subfolders as Flows folders. Search inside the folder you are in, and filter folders like the library. A newly opened book turns quickly from the first page. On a phone held sideways, nothing sits under the camera or the buttons. Panels are found more accurately and read in a better order, on the pages readers reported. Flows now prepares panels in the background only once you have used panel mode. Turn off Prepare panels for the whole library in Settings to prepare them only for the book you are reading. Clearer names and descriptions for folders. After Import a folder, the + button can check that folder for new comics and add only those, for free. With Flows Pro, check your watched folder the same way, or in Settings. Import a folder is up to three times faster and no longer slows down on a big folder; covers follow just after, and an import can now be cancelled. Fewer freezes and "not responding" messages, especially with comics on an SD card or in a cloud folder, and with PDFs. ### 2.0.16 — 2026-10-31 No release notes. ## More apps by Daniel Nunn - [Glowtide: Rhythm of the Sea](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/glowtide-rhythm-of-the-sea/id6829165693) All apps by Daniel Nunn: https://appshunter.io/developer/6825192913 ## Related topics [tts comic reader](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/tts-comic-reader) · [panel comic reader](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/panel-comic-reader) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-11-10.*