Longbox vs Panelly

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

Panelly is a comic and manga reader that understands the speech bubbles. Tap a bubble to read its text, translate it into your language and hear it spoken — on your device. READ COMICS IN ANY LANGUAGE Panelly finds the bubbles on each page, recognizes the lettering and detects the comic's language automatically. Tap a bubble to see the original and its translation, or turn on translations right on the page and watch every line change over as you read. LOOK UP ANY WORD Tap a word in a bubble to look it up in your device's dictionary, Wiktionary or Wikipedia — with its dictionary form, meanings and examples. HEAR EVERY LINE Listen to a bubble in its original language with the voices built into your device — great for learning Japanese, Korean, Chinese, French, Spanish and more through the comics you love. SMART FRAME-BY-FRAME READING Panelly finds the frames on every page and takes you through them one by one, in the book's reading direction, with a mini map of the page. Tap the map to see the whole page again. MADE FOR MANGA, COMICS AND WEBTOONS • Manga mode reads right to left, webtoon mode scrolls vertically • Automatic double-page spreads, page curl or slide • Bookmark pages and add notes to them • Chapters, fullscreen reading and image filters • Settings for each book, and your place remembered in every one READ TOGETHER OVER WI‑FI Share a comic from your iPhone, iPad or Mac and open it in a browser on any phone, tablet or computer on the same Wi‑Fi. Pages turn in step with the app — no account, no upload, and sharing stops when you do. MAKE IT YOURS Choose a look — Sunrise, Newsprint, Thunder or Petal — each in light and dark, while the reader stays black so the art comes first. YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR WAY Import CBZ, CB7, PDF, EPUB and MOBI image books, or open files in place without copying. Search, sort, browse covers or a list, edit details and filter by progress and type. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no tracking. Text recognition, translation and speech run on your device, and your comics are never uploaded. Only a word you choose to look up on Wiktionary or Wikipedia is sent to that site. WORKS ON IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC A sidebar library on iPad and Mac, keyboard shortcuts on Mac, and two-page reading on foldable-size screens. FREE TO START Every feature is free with the welcome comic and one comic of your own. Unlock unlimited comics with a single purchase — no subscription. Panelly starts with a short welcome comic that shows you around as you read it. Privacy Policy: https://letspeak.info/panelly/privacy/