iComic vs Pic Scanner app
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iComic
Read high-resolution comic pages from zip or cbz archives on your device. Enjoy seamless navigation and zooming with multi-touch gestures. Download comics from the internet or personal servers for offline reading.
- High-resolution comic page display
- Supports JPG, TIF, PNG in ZIP/CBZ
- Multi-touch page navigation
- Pinch-to-zoom functionality
- Built-in download manager
- Offline comic access
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Welcome to iComic, the premier application for reading comics on your iPhone or iPod Touch. iComic makes great use of the multi-touch function for simple and effective page navigation and zooming to provide the best portable comic book read you will find. iComic displays high resolution comic pages (jpg, tif, or png image files) contained inside compressed zip or cbz format archives. Using the built-in download function, comics can be downloaded from the internet or from a personal server and stored locally on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Your downloaded comics are stored on your device and so are always available for reading, even when you have no internet connection. As iTunes resizes images to a compressed format, iComic is also useful for displaying images for other uses e.g. maps, high detailed photos and ebooks (convert your pdf books to jpeg and you have a perfect reader for those large pdf files, normally unreadable due to the high memory requirement). iComic currently provides three methods for turning pages: swiping your finger on the screen; by taps in the screen corners using the Corner-Tap method; or by Multi-Touch (tap once to page forward, twice to page back). Zooming is by the familiar pinch method used in Safari and other applications or by double tapping the screen when in Corner-Tap mode. The application is very stable and can easily handle zip files up to 60MB with infrequent problems observed with files of much larger size. Individual image files inside the zip files are constrained to a maximum 3 million pixels (e.g. 3,000 pixels high x 1,000 pixels wide or equivalent) though for the sake of battery conservation much smaller sizes (~1000 pixels high) are generally used. A manual for setting up and using iComic can be downloaded from http://red.halfmoon.jp/AppStore_iComic_V1.3_FAQ.pdf The author of this application is Japanese so for excellent community support and discussion in English please visit the helpful and friendly ~*~ Ultimate icomic Thread ~*~ at www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23759
Pic Scanner app
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Text extractor is an OCR photo recognition software, the use of mobile phones can achieve text recognition, handwriting recognition, photo translation, batch scanning recognition and other functions, the identified text can be online editing adjustment, translation, and can be exported to word, txt and other formats, is your mobile multi-functional scanner. ---- Features highlights ---- [Language recognition] Support multiple languages accurate recognition extraction, even printed handwriting can be efficiently recognized, default automatic scanning, free hands. [image text tool] Intelligent OCR recognizes text, even if the search object is a picture, it can also enter keywords to easily locate and highlight. It can also copy and edit the text on the picture with one click, and support export to Word format. [Recording to text] Support real-time recording recognition, real-time recording text extraction; Support to import the recording in the mobile phone system, and then convert the recording file into text, which greatly improves your work and study efficiency! [Mobile phone number recognition] Provide quick identification of numbers, quick photo or local import, can be one-click identification! ---- What are they all doing with the literal artifact -- - ● Professionals: at any time to scan the contract at hand, company documents, meeting PPT, etc., a key to save documents, custom naming, can be found at any time, powerful office software small helper. ● Students: Scanning notes in class, reviewing materials quickly and conveniently. ● Teacher: Scan the classroom content, sort out the wrong questions in the students' test papers, and send them to parents to synchronize the teaching progress. ---- Suggested use ---- To ensure that you can fully extract all the text, when taking the photo: ● Sufficient light, try to avoid shaking ● Try to fill the screen with pictures 1, subscribe to become a VIP member, you can use the text extract artifact all paid functions. 2, according to your choice, text extraction artifact VIP members provide "monthly fee", "quarterly fee", "annual fee" two kinds of time cycle subscription 3. Payment: After the user confirms the purchase and makes the payment, it is credited to the iTunes account. User Agreement: http://cms.youjihy.com/article/detail/ioswztqsqyhxy.html Privacy Policy: http://cms.youjihy.com/article/detail/ioswztqsqyszc.html Automatic Renewal Agreement: http://cms.youjihy.com/article/detail/tpzwzzdxf.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Pic Scanner app at Free against iComic's $0.99. Pic Scanner app also leads on iOS requirement (12.1 vs 16.6). iComic's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6). On update cadence, ads and device support 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
Pic Scanner app is free to download; iComic costs $0.99 up front. Pic Scanner app sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. iComic asks for nothing beyond the download.
iComic ships an update monthly, Pic Scanner app every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iComic | Pic Scanner app |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.1 (7 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 12.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 136 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Y.Yamamoto | 铭楷 杨 |
Bugs and requests
iComic
Reported bugs
17 issues- App crashes when opening large comic files
- Rotation mode becomes stuck after using 'fix right' option
- Status bar doesn't disappear despite settings
- Bookmark settings not saved in iOS 4.x
- FTP upload fails with permission errors
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- File numbering displays out of order (01 after 1)
- Nested folder structures not readable
- Landscape mode rendering issues with black space
- Memory leaks causing frequent warnings
- CBR files with newer RAR compression show blank pages
- Swipe navigation not working properly
- App crashes after finishing a comic
- Cannot save rotation preferences
- Crashes on iOS 5+ with certain devices
- FTP connection issues on Windows 7
- Blank 'read error' pages in some CBR files
- App installs multiple times causing file confusion
Requested features
18 requests- CBR/RAR format support (added in later versions)
- iTunes file transfer integration
- Lock rotation option for reading
- Auto-rotate to landscape for 2-page spreads
- Improved file management and deletion from app
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- Better bookmark functionality with persistent storage
- Thumbnail previews of comics
- Directory/folder organization system
- Password protection for app
- Batch file import capability
- Page slider for quick navigation
- Support for PDF files
- Retina-friendly app icon
- Improved file sorting (alphanumeric)
- In-app FTP file pulling from servers
- Gesture controls for chapter navigation
- Reset read status for re-reading
- Automatic chapter continuation
Pic Scanner app
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
iComic
No in-app purchases
Pic Scanner app
- 连续包月会员$2.991 Month
- 连续包月高级会员$4.491 Month
- 连续包季会员$6.993 Months
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- 连续包季高级会员$8.993 Months
- 连续包年高级会员$14.991 Year
- 连续包年会员$14.991 Year









