Comic Mania vs Manga Relay
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Comic Mania
Design your own comic strips using a variety of characters and your own narrative. Personalize your story with unique characters and share your creations as images with friends.
- Create custom comic strips
- Diverse character selection
- Write your own story
- Save and share as images
- Unique character designs
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Create your own comic with a lot of characters and your own story. Make your story unique with adorable characters, such as orange and blue aliens or Betty and Oliver dragons. Once you create your comic, simply hit save and share it as an image with your friends. This game was imagined by a group of primary school students as part of the Entrepreneurship Weekend in Stara Sušica (Croatia) and developed by Exevio Ltd. as a sign of good will. This project wouldn't be possible without: Organizers: City of Rijeka, Department of Entrepreneurship, Dom mladih Rijeka Personnel - Vlasta Linić, Bojana Ćoso, Vanja Pletikosa, Petra Arežina, Luka Filipan, Edi Budimilić Illustrator - Korina Hunjak Comic Mania Team - Dominik Babić, Stella Ćuk, Klara Jalžabetić, Mia Maoduš, Marin Šimičević Testers - Tamara Dika, Antonija Zoric, Damjan Markovic
Manga Relay
Collaborate with friends to create 4-panel comics. Take turns drawing each panel, and receive notifications when it's your turn. You can import drawings from other apps or take photos of your creations.
- Collaborative comic creation
- Turn-based panel drawing
- Import drawings from other apps
- Photo integration
- Notifications for turns
- Rate and comment on comics
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Draw 4koma comics with your friends! Take turns drawing the next panel. Take a photo of your comic, or copy and paste from a drawing app you have on your iPhone or iPad! 1. Start your first panel in a manga 2. Add your friend to draw the next panel 3. Get notifications and draw the next panel 4. LIMITLESS UNPREDICTABLE CREATIVITY! :D Rate, comment, enjoy!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Manga Relay at 4.8 against Comic Mania's 4.0. Manga Relay also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 15 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 77%). Comic Mania's advantage is ratings volume (58 vs 5) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 14.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Manga Relay holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Comic Mania has 58 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of Comic Mania's written reviews are positive against 100% of Manga Relay's.
Comic Mania ships an update every 15 months, Manga Relay weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Comic Mania | Manga Relay |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (58 ratings) | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 58 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Exevio Ltd. | Genki Mine |
Customer experience
Comic Mania
Manga Relay
Bugs and requests
Comic Mania
Reported bugs
2 issues- Cannot see saved comic strip if photo access denied
- Takes a long time to load
Requested features
16 requests- Add more characters (superheroes, villains, aliens, animals, monsters, etc.)
- Add backgrounds (settings like forest, plain grass, apartment, airplane)
- Allow changing panel size
- Add extra pages/allow for longer comics
- Remove text limit
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- Allow creation of covers
- Allow making own characters
- Add stickers (explosions, kapow, kaboom)
- Allow drawing
- Allow searching web for pictures
- Add more layouts
- Add more emotes for existing characters
- Add sound maker
- Allow web pics on there
- Allow flipping to landscape
- Add more options (would pay for them)
Manga Relay
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Comic Mania
No in-app purchases
Manga Relay
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Comic Mania free?
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