# Panel Flow

> Panel Flow (iPhone/iPad app by Luciano Bastos Nunes.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/panel-flow/id6755895197 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Luciano Bastos Nunes](https://appshunter.io/developer/437607774)
- Category: Entertainment
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 9+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 158 MB
- Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish
- Released: 2025-12-01
- Data updated: 2026-08-18
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/panel-flow/id6755895197/reviews.md

## What is Panel Flow?

Read comics and manga like never before. Panel Flow uses artificial intelligence to automatically detect panels and speech bubbles in your comics, delivering a guided, immersive, and accessible reading experience.
No more pinching and zooming. Just tap to move between panels in the correct reading order — AI does the heavy lifting for you.

Features

- AI-Powered Guided Reading — Automatic panel detection with smart zoom. Tap to navigate frame by frame.
- Speech Bubble Translation — Read comics in any language. AI recognizes bubble text and translates it right on the page.
- Text-to-Speech (TTS) — Listen to your comics read aloud. Perfect for accessible reading or multitasking.
- CBZ & CBR Support — Easily import your comic file collection.
- Reading Modes — Western (left-to-right) and Manga (right-to-left).
- Minimal Interface — Clean design that keeps the focus on reading.
- SwiftData Integration — Organized library with automatically saved reading progress.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.6.0 — 2026-05-10

What's new in 2.6.0

Smarter panel detection
- New analyzers find gutters, nested panels, and full-page splashes more reliably, so guided reading stays on the panel you actually want to focus on.

Smoother reading
- Autoscroll speed now responds the moment you move the slider — no more pausing to feel the change.
- Tighter slider range gives you finer control over slow, comfortable scrolling.

More reliable downloads
- Chapters that failed in data-saver mode now fall back to standard quality automatically.
- Expired MangaDex links are refreshed in the background so retries actually go through.
- MangaDex chapters can now fall back to a secondary language when your primary choice isn't available.

Polish
- A friendly review prompt appears only after you've spent meaningful time in the app — never on first launch.
- Various stability and performance fixes throughout the reader and library.

### 2.3.0 — 2026-03-21

- Image Enhancement
Upscale your comic pages with ML-powered image enhancement. Enhance individual pages, full chapters, or entire publications with 2× resolution using on-device machine learning, no internet required.
- Collections
Organize your library your way! Create manual collections to group your favorite titles, or set up smart collections with custom filter rules that automatically keep themselves updated.
- Improved Panel Detection
Deliver more accurate panel and speech bubble detection for smoother guided reading.
- Double-Tap to Zoom
Quickly zoom into panels with a double-tap gesture, now available in guided reading mode and the webtoon reader.
- Performance Improvements
Smoother scrolling in the webtoon reader with frame-synced auto-scroll
Reduced memory usage with smarter off-screen resource management
Faster bubble overlay rendering with caching
- Bug Fixes

### 2.2.0 — 2026-03-03

What's New in 2.2.0                                             

  • Auto-detect reading direction — Panel Flow now infers whether a publication reads left-to-right or right-to-left based on genre, source,
   language, and publisher metadata.
  • Guided reading with auto-play TTS — Panels are highlighted in sequence while text-to-speech reads each bubble automatically.
  • Redesigned reader settings — Detection, TTS, guided reading, and translation settings are now organized into dedicated panels for easier
   access.
  • Reader HUDs hidden during onboarding — A cleaner first-time experience without overlay distractions.
  • Performance and stability improvements — Concurrency safety audit and general bug fixes.

### 2.1.0 — 2026-02-25

- Guided reading mode for webtoon reader — auto-scrolls and reads speech bubbles via TTS with speed control (0.25×–3.0×) and tap-to-pause
  - Server setup wizard — automatically detects server type (Kavita, Komga, OPDS) with a streamlined setup flow
  - Option to hide TTS playback controls — audio keeps playing while the overlay stays hidden
  - Fixed "Continue Reading" list not updating when leaving the reader
  - Scroll performance and ML detection improvements
  - Improved panel sorting and localization

### 2.0.0 — 2026-02-16

- Enhanced panel detection with a new Machine Learning model for improved accuracy
- Automatic speech bubble translation — read comics in any language right on the page
- Guided reading mode with automatic zoom between panels
- Text-to-Speech (TTS) for detected speech bubbles
- Performance improvements — faster page loading and panel detection
- UI/UX improvements — more intuitive navigation, smoother transitions, and visual refinements for a more comfortable reading experience
- General stability fixes

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