PanelPal vs Comic Day

PanelPal is the ideal reader for your library of syndicated comic strips like Dilbert, Garfield, Calvin & Hobbes, and other daily classics. Even if your collection consists of thousands of individual strips stored in folders or archives, PanelPal lets you browse, search, and enjoy them effortlessly. Open folders, ZIP/CBZ archives, or individual image files directly on your device and read in a clean, distraction-free interface that keeps the focus on the artwork. Navigation is fast and natural: swipe between strips, zoom in for details, and instantly return to the last comic you viewed. PanelPal goes beyond simple viewing. With on-device text recognition, you can search inside your comics to find specific jokes, characters, or dialogue across your entire collection. Everything happens locally on your device — no cloud services, no uploads, and no privacy concerns. Favorites and keywords help you organize large strip archives without forcing you into a rigid library system. Whether you’re revisiting decades of newspaper comics or maintaining a growing daily collection, PanelPal keeps everything accessible and searchable. The Comic of the Day widget brings a random strip from your collection to your Home Screen. Lightweight thumbnails ensure the widget stays fast, while the app always displays the original full-quality artwork. PanelPal supports common comic image formats and archive types including CBR, CBZ, ZIP, JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP, and TIFF. Simply open a folder or archive and start reading. PanelPal is built for strip collectors: fast, private, and fully under your control.

Turn your everyday moments into comics and illustrated storybooks, with no drawing skills needed. Comic Day is a visual diary and art journal that turns your stories and photos into hand-drawn comics. Describe a coffee with a friend, a weekend hike, or a small thing you don't want to forget, pick an art style, and watch it become a comic you'll want to keep. NEW: STORYBOOKS Turn one idea into an illustrated story of 2 to 6 pages. Your characters stay consistent from page to page, the book is drawn in the background, and every page is saved to your device, ready to read, zoom and share. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Make comics with 1 to 8 panels, in portrait or landscape 16:9 • Choose from 10 art styles: manga, cartoon, webtoon, sketch, chibi, newspaper, doodle, lineart, scrapbook and soft pencil • Build a cast of up to 12 recurring characters (friends, family, pets or your own avatar) from a photo or a simple text description • Keep the same characters looking like themselves in every comic and storybook • Write in any language, and the speech bubbles follow your story • Keep comics and storybooks on separate shelves in your library • Save to Photos or share single pages and whole stories with friends PERFECT FOR • Daily journaling and gratitude logs • Travel diaries and memory books • Bedtime stories and family keepsakes • Photo journals: pair a photo with a scene • Quick personal comics to share with friends PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your finished comics are saved on your device. You don't need to draw or caption anything. Just type a moment and Comic Day handles the rest, giving you a diary that's part scrapbook, part photo journal, part comic. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://comicday.app/privacy