# Hanbam: Manga & Novel Reader — Comics, EPUB, TXT & PDF Books

> Comics, EPUB, TXT & PDF Books (iPhone/iPad app by Hasung Jung.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hanbam-manga-and-novel-reader/id6820325440 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Hasung Jung](https://appshunter.io/developer/6820325442)
- Category: Books, Productivity
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 79 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish, Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan) and 1 more
- Released: 2026-11-04
- Data updated: 2026-11-10

## What is Hanbam?

A quiet hour to lose yourself in a book before sleep—Hanbam. Gather the comics, novels, and documents on your iPhone and iPad, in the Files app, and on Google Drive onto a single bookshelf, and read them like paper books. No account needed.

KEY FEATURES

■ Every format on one shelf
• Comics: ZIP, CBZ, RAR, CBR, 7z, CB7, PDF, images, comic EPUB
• Novels and documents: TXT, EPUB, PDF, DOCX, DOC, HWP, HWPX, MD, HTML
• Opens archives without extracting them, and separates a multi-volume archive into individual volumes.
• Reads old Japanese, Chinese and Korean text files in their own encodings, and lets you switch a book's encoding with a preview.
• Bring files in from the Files app, or from another app with Share or Open In.

■ Pages that turn like paper
• Turn the page with your finger, in comics and novels alike
• Two-page spreads in landscape and on iPad, like a real book
• Pages scanned two to a sheet are split into halves
• Right-to-left or left-to-right, set per book

■ A comfortable reader for novels
• Page turning, vertical scroll or horizontal scroll
• Vertical writing: read Japanese, Chinese and Korean novels and documents top to bottom, turning pages right to left
• Font size, line spacing, margins, paper color, brightness and tint
• Contents, search, bookmarks, highlights and a line-by-line focus mode
• Finds the chapters of a TXT novel and builds a table of contents for you

■ Listen while you read (TTS)
• Highlights the sentence being read and turns the page for you
• Keeps playing with the screen off, with lock-screen controls
• Sleep timer, and a choice of language and voice

■ Series and picking up where you left off
• Merge books into a series, or split volumes off
• Shelves for books you're reading, newly added, finished and your own collections
• Rename any book, and continue right where you stopped

■ Your reading record
• Start and finish dates and the time you actually spent reading, on a monthly timeline

■ Import from Google Drive
• Bring files you choose on Drive straight to your shelf, with pause and resume
• The app only sees the files you pick

■ No sign-in, on your device
• Your files are read on your device and never sent to a server.
• Export your reading record and settings to a backup file and restore them on another device.

Comics in the screenshots: Pepper&Carrot by David Revoy (CC BY 4.0)

## Is Hanbam safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Hanbam.

## Is Hanbam legit?

Hanbam: Manga & Novel Reader has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Hanbam is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-11-04

No release notes.

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