scrolly vs TradComics
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
scrolly
Transform your PDF reading with a delightful experience. Customize text size and themes, save your progress with bookmarks, and enjoy a unique vertical scrolling mode. Perfect for books, papers, articles, and textbooks.
- Customizable text size
- Theme selection
- Bookmark saving
- Vertical snap-to-scroll
- Read books, papers, articles, textbooks
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replace your scrolling addiction with reading! this app displays PDFs in a beautiful reading experience where you can change the text size, choose a theme, and save bookmarks scroll through your book with a vertical snap-to-scroll use it to read books, scientific papers, articles, and textbooks easily!
TradComics
Experience digital comics with a classic feel. This reader app supports popular formats like .tcb, .cbz, and .pdf, offering a familiar way to enjoy your favorite graphic novels and manga.
- Simulates traditional comic reading feel
- Supports .tcb files
- Supports .cbz files
- Supports .pdf files
- Intuitive reader interface
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A reader app that simulates the feel of reading a traditional comic book. Supports .tcb, .cbz and .pdf files.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: scrolly at weekly against TradComics's every 2 months. scrolly also leads on ratings volume (9 vs 1). TradComics's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for scrolly against 5.0 for TradComics. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: scrolly has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
scrolly ships an update weekly, TradComics every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on July 24, 2026 and June 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | scrolly | TradComics |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | totally important LLC | TradComics |
Customer experience
scrolly
TradComics
In-app purchases
scrolly
No in-app purchases
TradComics
No in-app purchases
