Prismedia vs Comink
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Prismedia
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Your media is already one collection. Prismedia gives it one private home. Connect the native app to the Prismedia server you host, then browse, watch, listen, and read without handing your library to an advertising platform. Movies, series, music, audiobooks, ebooks, comics, images, and galleries keep their own purpose-built experiences while sharing one identity, one account, and personal progress. WATCH IN FULL FIDELITY Prismedia uses a custom native player built around the codecs and playback capabilities of your Apple devices. Supported sources can direct-play at original quality, including lossless audio, while the server can remux or transcode when the device needs another format. Paused playback keeps title, timeline, stream state, resolution, audio, subtitles, and speed controls readable. READ YOUR WAY Open EPUB, PDF, and comic archives in a native reader. Choose typography, theme, margins, spacing, pagination, or continuous scrolling. A book can also carry an audiobook edition, keeping reading and listening progress together so you can move between text and narration. LISTEN NATIVELY Browse artists and albums, manage a queue, and control music or audiobooks with familiar native playback surfaces. Artwork, chapters, progress, shuffle, and repeat stay close at hand. BUILT FOR EVERY SCREEN Use touch-first browsing and reading on iPhone and iPad, then move to a focus-first living-room experience on Apple TV. Personal accounts keep playback and reading progress with the right member of the household. SELF-HOSTED BY DESIGN Prismedia connects to a server you operate. The server centralizes library scanning, metadata, files, requests, acquisition, streaming, and background work. The native app has no advertising, cross-app tracking, or developer analytics. Requires a reachable Prismedia server and a Prismedia account. Server software, installation instructions, and source are available from the Prismedia website.
Comink
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Comink puts the comics you already own on your iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. Point it at your NAS, media server or cloud drive and start reading — no converting, no copying files around. One purchase covers every device. YOUR LIBRARY, WHEREVER IT LIVES · NAS: connect directly over SMB or WebDAV — Synology, QNAP and more · Media servers: Komga, Kavita and any OPDS catalog · Cloud: Baidu Netdisk, plus any cloud drive you can reach over WebDAV · Local: import from the Files app, or send files from your computer over Wi-Fi · Formats: CBZ, CBR, CB7, ZIP, RAR, 7z, PDF, EPUB, MOBI and AZW3 — read straight from the archive READ RAW MANGA IN YOUR LANGUAGE · Recognizes speech bubbles in Japanese, Korean and English pages, including vertical text, and sets the translation right back into the bubble · Recognition runs on your device. Translation uses Apple's built-in engine by default, or optional offline models (about 80 MB per language) that work with no connection at all BUILT FOR THE WAY COMICS ARE READ · Right-to-left for manga, left-to-right for comics, continuous vertical scroll for webtoons and manhwa · Two-page mode with cover offset, so spreads line up like a printed volume · Image enhancement: on-device AI super-resolution sharpens old, low-resolution scans · Smart margin cropping, color filters, page-curl or slide transitions, and auto-advance A CAT THAT READS WITH YOU · Name your reading companion on first launch. It keeps you company, remembers your name for it, and grows with your reading TAKE IT OFFLINE · Download whole volumes and keep reading on a plane or in the subway FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY · Kids Mode: choose exactly which sources a child's profile can open. Adding or editing a server requires the parent's PIN PRIVATE BY DESIGN · No accounts, no analytics, no reading data collected · Server and cloud credentials are stored in the system Keychain and synced only through your own iCloud Keychain FAIR PRICING, NO SUBSCRIPTION · 7-day free trial with unlimited reading · After the trial: 3 free chapters and 3 translated pages every day · One-time purchase unlocks everything, forever — on iPhone, iPad and Apple TV --- Comink is a reader. It does not provide, index or recommend any content. Everything you read comes from servers, cloud drives or files that you set up yourself.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Comink at 18.0 against Prismedia's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Prismedia | Comink |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 163 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Paul Davis | 芳芳 王 |
In-app purchases
Prismedia
No in-app purchases
Comink
No in-app purchases









