# Zinel — The social space for ZINEs > The social space for ZINEs (iPhone/iPad app by Hayata Naruse.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/zinel/id6760587635 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Hayata Naruse](https://appshunter.io/developer/1873741870) - Category: Social Networking, Graphics & Design - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 13 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-04-13 - Data updated: 2026-08-19 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/zinel/id6760587635/reviews.md ## What is Zinel? Zinel is a social app for creating, publishing, reading, and collecting digital ZINEs. The things you love. A place you want to remember. The photographs you keep returning to. Words, sketches, references, and fragments you have collected. A small world you want someone else to see. Choose them. Arrange them. Give them a sequence. Turn them into pages. Combine photos, writing, sketches, screenshots, poetry, and visual ideas to shape your perspective into a digital ZINE of your own. A collection of everything you love. A record of a particular place or time. A story told through photographs. A personal archive. A book of poetry, comics, fashion, travel, or experimental work. There is no single way to make a ZINE. Zinel is a place to edit your interests and ideas into a book, then publish it for the world to discover. CREATE YOUR OWN ZINE Build multi-page digital ZINEs with a freeform canvas editor. Add photos, text, shapes, sketches, and other visual elements. Move, resize, rotate, layer, and adjust the opacity of anything on the page. Design every page around the way you want it to look and feel. Create photo books, visual diaries, poetry collections, comics, moodboards, travel journals, art books, fashion stories, personal collections, and anything else you want to bring together in one book. PUBLISH IT AS A BOOK Give your finished ZINE a title, description, category, and tags. Publish it to a global creative community, keep it private, or save it as a draft until it is ready. Your work is presented as a digital ZINE to be experienced page by page — as a complete publication with its own sequence, rhythm, and point of view. SHARE IT WITH A LINK Every published ZINE can be shared as a browser link. People can open and read your ZINE even if they do not have the Zinel app. Add it to your social profile. Send it directly to someone. Feature it in your portfolio or on your website. Your ZINE can travel anywhere a link can. CREATE ON MOBILE OR THE WEB Use Zinel on your phone, tablet, or in a web browser. Start building pages while you are away from your desk, then refine the details on a larger computer screen. Create in the environment that works for you, without being limited to a single device. READ ZINES FROM AROUND THE WORLD Discover independent publications from photographers, artists, writers, designers, poets, and creators around the world. Explore photography, art, poetry, fiction, comics, fashion, culture, music, and more. Search by title or tag and find new work, ideas, and perspectives. A book shaped by someone’s obsession. A personal record of a memory or place. A collection devoted to one specific subject. Read the worlds that cannot be understood through a single image alone. COLLECT THE ZINES YOU LOVE Save memorable ZINEs into your own collections. Keep your collections private, or publish them as a curated shelf of work selected by you. Follow creators whose work resonates with you, discover their latest ZINEs, and connect through reactions to their work. EXPORT, ARCHIVE, AND PRINT Export your ZINEs as high-quality PDFs or image sequences. Save them. Send them to someone. Build a personal archive. Print and bind them as physical ZINEs. Take a book created digitally and bring it beyond the screen. PDF export is available with Plus or Pro. FREE TO START Zinel is free to start. Upgrade to Plus or Pro to unlock more pages, unlimited publishing, PDF export, custom fonts, advanced creation tools, and additional features for creators. Collect what you love. Shape it with your perspective. Publish it as a ZINE. Make your world into a book. Terms of Use: https://zinel.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://zinel.app/privacy ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Zinel Pro Yearly | $59.99 | per year | | Zinel Plus Yearly | $29.99 | per year | | Zinel Plus Monthly | $3.99 | per month | | Zinel Pro Monthly | $7.99 | per month | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.0.17 — 2026-08-14 Fixed an issue where a few ZINEs could not be opened on mobile. If a ZINE ever fails to load, you now get a clear retry option instead of an endless spinner. Opening ZINEs is faster and more reliable, especially on weaker connections. Authors picked for Stand now wear a "Featured in Stand" badge on their profile, and the Stand tab shows a dot when something new is waiting for you. You can now rate Zinel from Settings — it helps more creators find the app. Saving a signature for reuse is now part of Zinel Pro. Signing each ZINE by hand when you publish stays free for everyone. Various small fixes and improvements. ### 1.0.16 — 2026-08-12 Photos added several at a time now keep their full resolution, soexports and prints stay sharp. Profile links and invite codes now work regardless of capitalisation or stray spaces. Various small fixes and improvements. ### 1,0.15 — 2026-08-06 Various small fixes and improvements. ### 1.0.14 — 2026-08-03 ・New: Stand — picks, writing and ideas from the Zinel team. ・Invite a friend and you both get a month of Pro. ・Saved ZINEs have moved into your profile, under "Saved". ・Minor fixes and improvements. ### 1.0.13 — 2026-07-31 ・Fixed the app asking you to set up your profile again on every launch — your account and work were always safe, and now they show up correctly. ・New: share your profile with a QR code, made for print. ・New: save your signature once, applied to every new ZINE. ・Shapes and textures now survive publishing. ・Minor fixes and improvements. ## Apps similar to Zinel | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Arrange \| Match & Connect](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/arrange-match-and-connect/id6737575766) | — | Free | Social Networking | | [QFTNEXUS](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/qftnexus/id1588216488) | 5.0 (6) | Free | Social Networking | | [Pulse: Standards, Not Swipes](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pulse-standards-not-swipes/id6773115568) | 5.0 (1) | Free | Social Networking | | [maindmagazine](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/maindmagazine/id6479518524) | — | Free | Social Networking | | [MasterPics: Photo Community](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/masterpics-photo-community/id6749677550) | — | Free | Social Networking | | [Journey: Community, Group text](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/journey-community-group-text/id1479197942) | 4.8 (22) | Free | Social Networking | ## More apps by Hayata Naruse - [Sanctum](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sanctum/id6759219070) All apps by Hayata Naruse: https://appshunter.io/developer/1873741870 ## Related topics [zine maker](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/zine-maker) --- *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 2026-08-19.*