# Panels - Comic Reader — user reviews > 1,104 indexed App Store user reviews of Panels by Produkt Studio, rated 4.80/5 from 12,199 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/panels-comic-reader/id1236567663/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/panels-comic-reader/id1236567663.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 10,750 · 4★ 893 · 3★ 219 · 2★ 81 · 1★ 256 ## What do users think of Panels? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Smooth and responsive - 👍 Clean and modern UI - 💡 Useful features like panel view and vertical scrolling - 🔒 No ads in paid version - 👍 Good import and organization options - 🚀 Fast and stable performance **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional crashes and bugs - 🔒 Useful features locked behind paywall - 🔒 Subscription model instead of one-time purchase - 🐛 Issues with page navigation and zoom - 🐛 Problems with reading right-to-left content - 🐛 Syncing and importing issues **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes when opening large files - Issues with page order and navigation - Problems with zooming and scrolling - Syncing and importing bugs - Compatibility issues with older devices **Most requested features** - Ability to create sub-folders and nested collections - Automatic sorting and organization of comics - Option to lock reading direction - Double-tap to zoom functionality - Progress tracking and bookmarking features - Support for more file formats like ePub ## Newest reviews (13 of 1,104) ### 3/5 — Colocar função de anotações, valor para comprar está mais caro que o Procreate. *2026-08-21* Tem como colocar a opção de fazer anotações? ### 4/5 — Beautiful *2026-08-16, version 3.13.2* Beautiful UI, easy to use allows both reading directions genuinely saved me from reading plane manga. Only request is that the subscription should be cheaper since it doesn’t add a lot of features ### 3/5 — A okay app… *2026-08-11, version 3.13.2* Panels is a great app, but its page turning is low quality and laggy. I do wish more files were compatible and the app took up less space. And it sometimes doesn’t even load in the book…. ### 4/5 — LOVE THIS APP! *2026-08-11, version 3.13.2* A bit buggy but great ### 4/5 — Hi *2026-08-06, version 3.13.2* If you leave and come back, it brings you to a different page ### 5/5 — The best comics reader, hands down *2026-08-06, version 3.13.2* I’ve been using Panels for years and I’ll never need another reader app. Panels handles everything from reading to organizing, and does so with a straightforward, no-subscription-necessary interface. If given the chance, I’d happily buy Panels again just to support the sort of creators who make something genuinely worthwhile without nickel and diming their customers to death. ### 3/5 — Webtoon is buggy *2026-07-30, version 3.13.2* Webtoon force rendering in the dynamic island area, which leaves an ugly black hole on my comics. Need to block the ugly dynamic island area in webtoon continuous mode. Or at least fix the paginated logic, when I scroll up to previous page, take me to the end of the previous page, not the beginning of it. IT IS THE END OF THE PREVIOUS PAGE THAT CONNECTS TO THE BEGINNING OF THE NEXT PAGE. This is comic common sense!!! ### 5/5 — Ótimo app *2026-07-27* Tô gostando ### 5/5 — A new comic reader hero? *2026-07-22* I’m late to this party as I’ve been using Chunky for the last few years. However with no updates for years and waning functionality, I decided to try other comic readers. This one feels right and my comics look top notch. Since I know I’ll be using this for the next few years I have bought a copy outright knowing that I can use it on all my current and future (iPhone Fold?) devices. It syncs across all devices and I can store my comics on device or in the cloud, so great functionality. The only thing I would add is better automatic folder creation for comics with the same title. Keep up the good work! ### 4/5 — PanelsView *2026-07-19, version 3.13.1* Simple and clean. The only thing I’d love to see is PanelsView being better. I know it’s low priority but the marvel unlimited app really kills it with Smart Panels. Very cinematic while capturing the entire panel 98% of the time, and the full page before or after is amazing. Would really love to see this feature + more in the Panels app. Loving it so far though, thank you. ### 5/5 — Fantastic for comics and manga *2026-07-15, version 3.13.1* Using ODPS I can stream comics from my server easy, only change I would request is the ability to go to the next comic in the folder structure, like a next or back button. Thank you devs ❤️💕! ### 5/5 — peak *2026-07-14, version 3.13.1* peak ### 5/5 — Great app *2026-06-29, version 3.12.6* Make sure to reduce the amount of concurrent tasks so it doesn’t overload the processor and becomes laggy ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Ripe off *2026-08-16, version 3.13.2* Paid for full version before and now being told I have to repurchase due to new version off the app total rip off ### 1/5 — À fuir *2026-08-04* 23 € pour se connecter à un serveur OPDS (Komga sur Synology). Ça n’arrive pas à la cheville de l’ensemble Chunky/Ubooquity). Sur une recherche Spider-Man par exemple, il ne sort qu’un quart des bd taguées. Gros regret. Pas de réglages de couleur, de luminosité. On paye 23 € pour se connecter à un serveur gratuit qui, lui, fait le boulot. Je vais voir si il n’y a pas possibilité de remboursement car franchement c’est honteux. **Developer response:** Hi, Thanks for taking the time to leave your feedback. We’re sorry to hear Panels didn’t meet your expectations. Panels has extensive support for OPDS servers, including Komga, and many users rely on it daily with very large libraries. Regarding your Spider-Man example, Panels displays the metadata provided by your OPDS server. If the search results differ from what you see in Komga itself, we’d be happy to investigate if you contact us at support@panels.app. We also appreciate your feedback about reader customization. More reading options and customization continue to be an area we’re actively improving. Thanks again for your feedback ### 1/5 — 都登陆不了的 *2026-07-28* 登陆不了苹果，也没有人调整测试吗 **Developer response:** Please, reach us at support@panels.app Apple Sign-In works well on our end. We’d like to investigate what’s happening with your account. We’ll try to fix it as soon as possible. ### 1/5 — Reinstalled after a while…wtf happened *2026-07-17, version 3.13.1* Leave for a year. Come back and it’s like a completely different app. A store?!! My old server no longer connected. Yay. ### 1/5 — А где синхронизация? *2026-07-13* Позвольте… а если я читаю на компьютере, как синхронизировать прочитанные или позицию чтения? Пока одна звезда… да ещё и платная :( **Developer response:** Sorry for the inconvenience. Unfortunately, we had some issues on our servers that prevented the synchronization to work correctly, but it was fixed in less than a few hours. It should be working fine now. If it does not work for you, please reach is at support@panels.app and we’ll investigate. ### 1/5 — Unable to import *2026-07-01, version 3.12.6* No longer able to import pdf ### 1/5 — Garbage *2026-07-01* This worked for a while and then suddenly the Downloads section just broke. It won’t load anymore. I have 75GB of content downloaded. Now my options are to not have access to them or try to delete the app and redownload all of it. Spectacular. I have comic apps that haven’t been update in over 5 years that don’t screw up this bad. If you read locally avoid this app. Update: I ended up clearing the cache, rebooting multiple times, offloading snd reinstalling the app, and I even let it sit and load for an hour. It eventually loaded 4 comics and then when I clicked expand it went back to infinite loading. I decided to just delete it and start over. Surprise the OPDS connection doesn’t work anymore either. It’s stuck “Loading”. But don’t worry the truly important part of this local comic book reader app works…THE DIGITAL STORE! Can’t believe I got scammed out of $20 so these guys could bait and switch priorities. I’ll be moving back to Chunky as it still works despite being abandoned. **Developer response:** We’re sorry Panels is not working with your setup. We want to help and make it work for you. But we can’t do much here so please, contact us at support@panels.app and we’ll investigate what’s going on and fix it asap. ### 1/5 — Garbage *2026-06-27, version 3.12.6* This worked for a while and then suddenly the Downloads section just broke. It won’t load anymore. I have 75GB of content downloaded. Now my options are to not have access to them or try to delete the app and redownload all of it. Spectacular. I have comic apps that haven’t been update in over 5 years that don’t screw up this bad. If you read locally avoid this app. ### 1/5 — get rid of the store *2026-06-14, version 3.12.6* i remember when this app was cool ### 1/5 — Crashes when opening a comic *2026-05-27, version 3.12.3* Always crashes when opening a comic in window mode on iPad ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Top *2026-08-19* Super appli. Marche aussi bien voire mieux que certaines appli payante comme Perfect Viewer X Si on peut synchroniser les dossiers sur les différents cloud (cloud, Google drive...) cela sera au top du top ! ### 5/5 — Best comic reader all around *2026-08-16, version 3.13.2* Never have any issues reading my stuff, web upload works flawlessly, love panels! ### 5/5 — Worth every penny *2026-08-14* The only good comic reader available on iPad. Minimalistic yet fully functional. I wish cropping could be more manual than simple white area cropping. Definitely gonna buy Panels 4 once it get out. ### 5/5 — ótimo *2026-08-12* lancem pra android também pelo amor de deusss, quero usar no meu tablet 😔☝️ primeira interface de leitor de hq que eu gosto ### 5/5 — Perfeito *2026-08-12* Melhor app pra ler comics no IOS ### 5/5 — Good *2026-08-11, version 3.13.2* Really Good for indie comics ### 5/5 — Excelente *2026-08-09* Um app muito bom ### 5/5 — Organization *2026-08-09, version 3.13.2* Love the app! Please fix the “manual” sort filter as i’m not able to completely fulfill my reading orders. ### 5/5 — LOVE IT *2026-08-07* i read it ALL THE TIME ### 5/5 — Best Reader! *2026-08-07, version 3.13.2* Best comics/books reader that I’ve used. The recently added store is a great resource for products to read! I read all of my .pdf files though Panels! --- *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 2026-08-29.*