TritonPanels Comic Book Reader vs PixComic

TritonPanels is a premium comic and manga reader for the files you already own, on iPhone and iPad: on your device, in your cloud storage or on your own comic server. Your first comic is free to read to the end. A subscription unlocks your whole library and every feature. Start with a 14-day free trial, then continue at the monthly or yearly price shown in the app. Prices are set by Apple and vary by region. NEW IN 2.0 Your comic server Connect Komga or Kavita to browse, search and read your libraries, with reading progress kept in step on the server. Calibre and other OPDS catalogs work too. Live libraries Read an iCloud Drive folder, a Dropbox folder (Dropbox app required), a USB drive or a network share (SMB 2 or 3; shares that require encryption are not supported) in place, refreshed when files change. Follow a Substack publication's free comic posts. Send comics from a computer with Transfer over Wi-Fi. Downloads and search One Downloads screen. Keep a comic, folder or whole library offline and see the space each uses. Search every library at once; Reading Now and Recently imported show where you are and what's new. Text on the page Select, copy and translate the text in speech bubbles. Translate pages (Experimental, iOS 18 or later) shows the translation over the bubbles as you read. Lift subject cuts a figure out of the page. It all runs on your device. Read your way Right-to-left manga. Warmth, sepia, invert and tint. A page-matched or immersive background. Reader presets, custom tap zones, Zoom Lock and new page-fit modes. Incognito reading saves no progress or history. Make it yours Folders inside folders, with colours, symbols and covers. New themes and accent colours. Reading goals by pages, minutes or comics. A passcode lock for chosen comics and collections. EVERYTHING ELSE Panel by Panel reads one panel at a time, found by an on-device detector. Single pages, two-page spreads and continuous scroll. Image filters for rough scans. Collections, reading lists, tags, ComicInfo.xml, bookmarks with notes and reading stats. Import from Dropbox and OneDrive, or from Google Drive and anywhere else through the Files app. FORMATS CBZ, CBR (RAR4), CB7, CBT and compressed TAR, PDF, and image-based EPUB, with AVIF, HEIC and JPEG XL pages. RAR5 and text-only EPUB are not supported. PRIVACY No ads and no account. Your comics and reading progress stay on your device. Server passwords are kept in the iOS Keychain and sent only to your server. We collect anonymous crash reports (Sentry) and subscription state from the App Store, not a profile of what you read. SUBSCRIPTION Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Cancel any time in your Apple ID subscription settings. Cancelling stops future charges; the period already paid for is not refunded. The interface is available in 20 languages. Terms of Use: https://tritonpanels.tritonapps.com/terms

PixComic is a local comic reader. It does not provide any comics — it reads the archives you already own, and it reads them fast. WI-FI TRANSFER, NO CABLE Start the server on your phone, open the address it shows in your computer's browser, and drag your files in. Uploads are chunked and resumable, so a multi-gigabyte archive survives a dropped connection, a locked screen or a closed tab — it picks up where it left off. The same page lets you browse what is on the device, pull a book back to your computer, delete one, and check free space. Importing from the Files app, AirDrop and "Open in" from other apps all work too. EVERY FORMAT, NO MOJIBAKE CBZ / ZIP, CBR / RAR, PDF, and plain folders of images. Scan releases from Japan and Greater China routinely store filenames in Shift-JIS or GBK rather than UTF-8, which turns into garbage text in most readers. PixComic detects the encoding automatically, and sorts chapters naturally — page 2 comes before page 10, not after it. THREE READING MODES · Manga: right-to-left, automatic two-page spreads in landscape, cover on its own page so the spreads line up the way print does · Standard: left-to-right · Webtoon: seamless vertical scrolling, pinch to set the page width A wide double-page scan can also be split into two screens, so spreads are comfortable to read on a phone held upright. BUILT TO STAY SMOOTH Every image is decoded off the main thread and downsampled to your screen, with pages preloaded in both directions. Page dimensions are measured once in the background — you can read the whole time it runs — and cached, so reopening the same book skips the rescan, the "Analyzing pages" strip along the bottom, and the one relayout that lands when it finishes. FOUR THEMES Standard, Sci-fi, Pixel and Paper. Not just a tint — corners, borders, typeface and light/dark all change together. ALSO Double-tap for a quick zoom and pinch all the way to native pixels (6x at most on very large scans), thumbnail navigation, bookmarks, a scrubber with page preview, automatic border trimming, screen-awake and brightness lock. PixComic is free and ad-supported: a banner on the shelf and an occasional interstitial before a book opens — never while you are reading.