iComic vs Comic Reader Y for Mobile

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

Comic Reader Y reads the comic files and image folders you already have, with no conversion. Files from your Mac or PC, a USB drive, or a NAS open on your iPhone or iPad as soon as you pick them. ■ Supported formats • ZIP / CBZ, RAR / CBR, 7z / CB7, LZH, TAR / CBT (including compressed TAR such as tar.gz) • EPUB (image-based comic EPUBs without DRM) • PDF • Folders of images (JPEG, PNG, HEIC, WebP, AVIF, JPEG XL, and more) • Password-protected ZIP (the password is never stored) ■ Read books wherever they are • Copy over USB from the Finder on a Mac or Apple Devices / iTunes on a PC; the "+" menu shows how • Import files and folders from anything the Files app can see, or copy from the share sheet • Read folders on USB drives, SD cards, external SSDs, or iCloud Drive in place • Connect to Mac file sharing or a NAS over SMB. Pages load one at a time, so large files open fast, and nearby servers are found for you • Read the books on a nearby iPhone or iPad over a direct connection, no shared Wi-Fi needed, protected by a code and the host's approval • Share over SMB so a Mac, PC, or SMB app on your Wi-Fi can read and write your books • Sync external or NAS folders into On My iPhone or the Secret Folder; later runs fetch only new books • Books on external drives and NAS join your shelf as you open their folders ■ A reader built for comics • Right-to-left or left-to-right, automatic two-page spreads on iPad and landscape iPhone, cover alone, or spreads shifted by one page • Horizontal paging or vertical scrolling • A 3×3 or 4×4 tap grid you can assign freely: next page, previous page, menu, bookmark, page thumbnails, and more • Customizable reader menu: choose which functions appear, in what order, as icons or in the menu • Yellowed-paper correction turns old scans back to white paper and black ink, automatically or always • Per-book settings remember reading mode, direction, spread, zoom, and correction for each book • Auto page turn, with an optional interval based on the amount of text on each page • Monochrome and sepia tones, background colors, keyboard paging on iPad ■ A shelf that's easy to browse • Home shows Continue Reading, Recently Read, and Recently Added, with configurable sections and background • Browse by folder, by author, or as one flat list, in list or grid view, sorted by name, title, author, or date • Author, title, and volume are picked out of file names automatically, with built-in or custom naming rules • Search across file names, titles, authors, and folder names, or only within the folder you have open, including USB drives and NAS • Stock (your to-read list), bookmarks, and history • Copy, move, delete, rename, and batch actions ■ AI tagging, AI search and full-text search (Apple Intelligence devices only) • AI tagging: when rules fall short, AI reads author, title, and volume from the file name, folder names, and cover text. It only touches books you choose, and you can edit tags by hand • AI search: describe a book in a sentence or type a half-remembered reading. Titles, authors, and file names are matched by their reading as well • Full-text search: text on each page is recognized and indexed, so you can find a page by a line of dialogue or a single word • Everything runs on your device. File names, page images, and recognized text are never sent anywhere ■ Privacy and locking • App Lock with Face ID / Touch ID or a 4-digit passcode • Secret Folder: a dedicated area hidden from the Files app and your Mac, with its own history and bookmarks ■ Backups Shelf data is included in iCloud Backup. Settings lets you choose whether files in On My iPhone and the Secret Folder are included. Available in English, Japanese, French, and Korean. --- Note: AI tagging and AI search require Apple Intelligence. Full-text search uses iOS text recognition. Note: This app is a viewer for your own files. It does not include any comics or images. Note: The screenshots show "Black Jack ni Yoroshiku" by Shuho Sato.