Longbox vs Emaki

Longbox is a comic reader for people who already have the comics. Point it at your CBZ, CBR and PDF files and it opens them. No account, no upload, no waiting for a library to sync before you can read anything. READING • Fit to width, height or whole page — whichever suits the book • Turn your phone or iPad sideways to read two pages at once, and art drawn across a spread still gets the screen to itself • Pinch to zoom anywhere, double-tap to snap • Right-to-left for manga, set per series and remembered • Night and sepia filters, plus in-app brightness that leaves your system setting alone • Opens on the page you left, every time • Entirely offline — nothing is streamed unless you ask for it YOUR LIBRARY • Import from the Files app — anything on your iPhone or in iCloud Drive • However many comics you own — a hundred or ten thousand, there's no limit • Issues group into series on their own • Search, favourites and reading history • Up to eight libraries, any of them behind a passcode • Reading streaks and a leaderboard, if you want to be on it ALL OF THAT IS FREE The reader is never behind a paywall. Not the filters, not the fit modes, not the reading direction, not reading offline. There's no cap on how many comics you keep, either. If it opens a comic, it costs nothing. LONGBOX PREMIUM • Connect a Komga, Kavita or OPDS server — browse it, read from it, download for offline • Hide comics you'd rather not see, without touching the server • Browse your Dropbox from inside Longbox: a single issue or a whole folder, without leaving the app • Sharpening and upscaling for scans that need it • Beta features first – Panel by panel (alpha) — splash pages and complicated layouts often won't detect • Automatic metadata — publisher, year, creators and characters • EPUB novels — contents, adjustable type, themes and highlighting • Unlimited libraries • Smart Lists that keep themselves current • Your place follows you — across your devices, and in step with your server both ways • Your own picture as the app background • Seven accent colours, each with its own app icon Comics you have already downloaded from a server stay readable forever, even if Premium lapses. Paying us was never what made them yours. PREMIUM PRICING Longbox Premium is available as a one-time purchase, or as a subscription billed monthly or yearly with a 7 day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed in Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://getlongbox.app/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://getlongbox.app/terms.html

iPhone/iPad: Try the first 20 pages per book free. All pages require a one-time in-app purchase. No monthly fees. For archives, PDFs and image folders. Manage your own files and ebook metadata from ebookjapan, DMM, Kindle, BOOK WALKER, Rakuten Kobo and BookLive. Review before adding; prevent duplicates and preserve existing covers. Resume interrupted updates or run a full recheck. New in-app online entries: Kobo (kobo.com), verified with a free book in a Rakuten ID-linked Japan/English library; Kindle (Amazon.com), verified with a free book. Both were tested through import, re-import and official reader text display. Other countries, including UK, and large/multi-page overseas shelves are unverified. New overseas entries exclude Safari Sharing, extensions and general saved HTML. Keep the login screen/text across app switches; use standard Paste. Shortcuts can open/search the shelf and be disabled in settings. Spine recognition, Japanese Siri AI and Google Play Books are deferred. Use cover or list views, search/filter tags, add whole-book notes and organize series across stores, including manual merge/separation. Each purchase retains its own reading link. Send candidates from supported shelves displayed in Safari using the share sheet. Japanese page OCR runs on-device. Use a correctly read ISBN to request NDL title-correction candidates and compare them with existing metadata. The replacement title starts unselected; only selected fields are staged in the editor, and existing metadata changes only when you save. Search terms/ISBNs are sent to NDL; ISBN cover requests use openBD. Universal purchase scope The universal unlock removes reading limits on Mac, iPhone and iPad with the same Apple Account. It does not add another OS's exclusive features. The iOS unlock covers iPhone/iPad; adding Mac requires an active iOS unlock plus Upgrade to universal. Universal and legacy full-reading purchases can be restored. Mac Creator Tools (saving corrected images, batch export, eyedropper, etc.) is a separate purchase, not included in the reading unlock; it does not unlock reading by itself. Direct licenses, books, external-service fees and DRM removal are not included. Restoring purchases does not copy book files. Comparison: https://piktoo.com/emaki-ios/support-en#platform-differences Free limits and purchases Photos, videos, connections and bookshelf browsing are free. Read Aloud allows about 12,000 characters per text book before purchase. The one-time reading unlock covers app functions, not books or third-party content. Supported formats ZIP / CBZ, RAR / CBR (RAR4/5; WinRAR 7: unencrypted, single-volume, dictionary up to 256 MiB), 7z / CB7, PDF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, HEIC, WebP, AVIF, and more. Speech bubble translation Translate speech bubbles on-device with Apple frameworks. Images/text are not uploaded. Machine translation may miss handwriting or sound effects. Try the first 20 pages free. Support Piktoo Studio is an independent developer. Contact support@piktoo.com in English or Japanese. We reply in turn. Privacy No Emaki account, ads, usage analytics, or tracking. Reading history and connection details are stored on your device. When Sync Across Devices is on, viewing history, favorites, and bookmarks are stored in your iCloud and are not sent to the developer's servers. Komga integration syncs reading progress to the server you specify. Purchases and restoration use Apple In-App Purchase. Online shelves open provider links without importing book files or bypassing DRM. About the screenshots Screenshots show a self-made sample, "Give My Regards to Black Jack" by Shuho Sato (free secondary-use permission), and public-domain "Hokusai Manga" and "Choju-jinbutsu-giga." Books are not bundled. Saved pages and text Open WebScrapBook folders, HTZ and MAFF files. Read HTML and text in full for free. Long-press a folder > Open as Web Page for index.html/index.htm. Separate from Web Bookshelf links.