Buggy
Frustratingly only lets me zoom in on two pages before I have to either exit the comic and go back into it or by toggling between scroll vertically and scroll horizontally. It makes reading the comics on my iPhone 14 incredibly frustrating.
Severely Lacking
I just downloaded the app after purchasing a bundle from Fanatical (🖖 Star Trek). The app is simple to use, but doesn't always function correctly.
I have poor eyesight and I really need the zoom-in feature to work on EVERY page, not just every other page! Being able to link other accounts, the ability to further customise the app, and an overhaul of the UI would be a great starting point.
I really, really want to like you. However, you must show you care by offering a more modern, feature-rich rich, and user-friendly product. I’ll GLADLY return and change my rating/review should you make the necessary changes.
I have poor eyesight and I really need the zoom-in feature to work on EVERY page, not just every other page! Being able to link other accounts, the ability to further customise the app, and an overhaul of the UI would be a great starting point.
I really, really want to like you. However, you must show you care by offering a more modern, feature-rich rich, and user-friendly product. I’ll GLADLY return and change my rating/review should you make the necessary changes.
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Zoom
Overall love the app but there needs to be a way to zoom in on the words. I got it too a couple times then the ability stopped. I’m old I need to be able to zoom in I had to skip pages on a comic I bought because I couldn’t read the words.
Fine…
I just got the app so I could purchase the Sonic: Blade of Courage manga translation that is exclusive to it (as of now). And the app itself is fine. I do not believe it impacted my reading of the manga, and while I thought the pages should have more of a stationary flip to them, I again enjoyed the manga.
However, the fact that the reviews for the manga itself incorrectly assume the American team worked on it makes me feel like the app’s reviews are filled with bots/AI.
They just took down these reviews, but that really doesn’t sit well for the other possible reviewers. Considering that this app makes it seem like it only has a single 5-star review, when that’s not the case. I don’t know how many underhand tactics they use to make their products seem better, but I hope these actions stop.
They should really give you the option to leave your own reviews like how you would do for several other websites just to add the legitimacy towards not just the product, but the community surrounding it as well.
However, the fact that the reviews for the manga itself incorrectly assume the American team worked on it makes me feel like the app’s reviews are filled with bots/AI.
They just took down these reviews, but that really doesn’t sit well for the other possible reviewers. Considering that this app makes it seem like it only has a single 5-star review, when that’s not the case. I don’t know how many underhand tactics they use to make their products seem better, but I hope these actions stop.
They should really give you the option to leave your own reviews like how you would do for several other websites just to add the legitimacy towards not just the product, but the community surrounding it as well.
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Don’t spend money here. Full stop.
I had the app for a few years, and even “bought books” to read.. get a physical copy from Amazon for the same price. You “buy” a book on here, just for them to decide that you no longer get to read it, but they keep your money. I will NEVER download a comic book app again. As for IDW, I’ll find the books for free on a torrent site. I tried being honest, but they burned me on their end. Lesson learned.
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Where is this subscription?
I think it’s a pretty awesome app so far I believe that there should be a subscription button so we are able to come back to the app and support these comics similar to how these other apps like DC infinite and Marvel unlimited have older issues but still produce content on their app it would actually bring opportunity for IDW’s comics that have not been really looked at by other content consumers please add a subscription button to allow us to read. A lot of your comics people will come in droves for that.
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App is atrocious
Just got the tmnt collection on fanatical. If I had known the app was this bad I would have passed on the purchase.
So you can’t redeem codes
How is this a real website
Page numbers and time/date/battery% bar overlap reader on iPad Mini
They shouldn’t do that
Download functionality
Can you please improve the offline download functionality? If I hit download and decide to do ANYTHING else with my phone it decides to stop downloading the comic. Even if I want to hit back and look through my comic library? Making it near impossible to actually download a book. Genuinely the most horrid experience I've had with an app to date when one of its main features doesn't even work.
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Where are the Transformers comics?
I got this SOLELY for Transformers comics and cant find them????
Won’t let me log in
It keeps telling me “invalid password” when I try to log into the app, even though using the same username and password on the website works. Please fix!!
Needs some work, but happy to have it
The app needs a little work. But it’s so nice to have these IDW comics. I don’t have a comic shop really close to me but this app, no matters it’s little quirks, allows me to read the TMNT and Godzilla I really want to read. Keep up the good work. I’m grateful for the app.
Fix your Junkie App
When I try to find a specific issue which I have bought, the comics I scroll threw are in a random order and I’m often scrolling threw tons of them. Even searching the issue number gets me nothing. Sort the issues into folders or at least allow the user to do so. Also there have been an annoying amount of crashes and occasions where the next page will try to load but it stops on a black screen and I have to exit the reader and re-enter only to find the problem wasn’t fixed. This is annoying and unacceptable. I pay good money for these comics. Fix it!
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Forced to use
This app functions. But at such a basic level. It has next to zero features and chose the incredibly weird option of scrolling up or down to read a comic. There’s no panel reading options. If you accidentally tap the top or bottom of your phone or swipe a notification away you’ve lost your spot entirely. Exiting the reader doesn’t save your spot in the book. There’s no customization to the reading experience at all, you can’t wishlist or save books you want. It doesn’t group series together. There’s no real sort or filter function. So good luck trying to find similar titles in your library if you didn’t buy them in exact order. I’m just surprised that a company as big as IDW with so many IPs pushes this trash out when compared to other comic reading experiences.
Do better.
Do better.
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Glorified PDF reader, but bad
2 seems about right. There is nothing great about how it handles comics. No panel following, anything. But super annoying, no ability to read in landscape mode. That is just bad. If I could just download and take the PDF elsewhere, that would be great.
Problems
There’s no way to sort your comics and the search doesn’t work.
1 star because none is not an option
Can’t access the login button. can only create account
Awful
This app in its current version (6.0.4) is awful. It crashes on the iPad immediately after opening any comic, making purchased comics unreadable and worthless. Waiting for an update that might make this usable.
Constant crshes
I finally logged in to this new app and can’t go more than a few seconds with it crashing. Not even time to scroll through the legacy IDW library I have/had.
