Texidium vs Panels
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Texidium
Access digital textbooks and course materials anytime, anywhere, both online and offline. Enhance your study experience with features like note-taking, highlighting, and a read-aloud option. Collaborate with peers and instructors by sharing your annotations.
- Online and offline textbook access
- Chapter and page navigation
- Color-coded highlights and notes
- Share notes and highlights
- Read Aloud feature
- Add links to notes
- Adjustable font sizes
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Your textbooks, your way. Study smarter with Texidium – the solution that provides you with anytime, anywhere access to your digital textbooks and course materials. Key Features: - Access your textbooks online and offline, whenever and wherever you are. - Sort and search through your books with built-in chapter and page navigation. - Personalize highlights and notes by color-coding and categorizing key information. - Collaborate with classmates and professors by sharing notes and highlights. - Listen to textbooks and learn on the go using the Read Aloud feature. - Add links to videos, online quizzes, and other websites to your notes. - View your reading history to see where you left off at home or in class. - Adjust textbook font sizes for easier reading. Get the most out of your textbooks and excel in school with the Texidium Reader.
Panels
Enhance your comic and manga reading with a clean, customizable interface. Enjoy universal file compatibility, cross-device syncing, and advanced reading presets. Organize your library, secure your content, and import from various cloud services and local networks.
- Universal file compatibility (CBR, CBZ, PDF, ePUB)
- Cross-device reading progress sync
- iCloud Drive integration
- Customizable reading presets
- Right-to-left reading for manga
- OPDS server support
- Content security with password/Face ID
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Improve your comic reading experience with Panels. Enjoy reading your favorite titles in a clean and delightful interface, with plenty of customization and advanced features — fully DRM-free, with first-class support for OPDS, your own library, and your own files. Key features: - Universal Compatibility: Support for most common comic types: CBR, CBZ, CB7, PDF and comic ePUB (not text eBook). Support for multiple image formats, including WebP. - Cross-Device Sync: Synchronize your reading progress across iPhone, iPad and Mac and resume reading exactly where you left off. - Full iCloud Drive support: store your entire library on iCloud and access it from different devices. - Library Organization: Effortlessly manage your comic library with intuitive tools for easy navigation, custom folder colors, logos and cover images. * Themes: support for Light and Dark modes, and many others. * Reading Presets: Choose from a multitude of reading presets or create your own, including horizontal, vertical, or panel-by-panel guided view. - Right to Left reading (manga): read any comic with Panels. * OPDS support: Stream, search and download comics from your OPDS compatible server (Komga, Kavita, Codex, Ubooquity and others). * Secure your content: Keep files locked using a password or Face ID for your collections and files. Use Incognito mode to keep your reading sessions hidden. * Live Text and Subject detection. * Experimental Features: Access experimental features like panel-by-panel navigation. Panels Store — DRM-free comics from independent creators: - Browse and buy comics directly inside Panels, no extra apps or accounts. - 100% DRM-free: every purchase is yours to keep, read offline and back up. - Creators keep 80% of revenue, so your purchases directly support the people making the comics. - Purchased issues are added to your library and sync across your devices automatically. Native support for importing files from: * iCloud Drive * Dropbox * Microsoft OneDrive - Substack * OPDS: Komga, Kavita, Codex and others * Local network shared files and folders via SMB and Embedded web server - iTunes - External drives - Airdrop - Drag&Drop from other apps Page Filters: * Reduce Noise * Increase Sharpness * Reduce Moiré * Crop Borders * Require an active subscription or a one-time purchase. • You may purchase an Auto-Renewing Subscription to unlock all the premium features while it\'s active; or a one-off purchase to unlock the current major version features forever. • Your subscription will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and will automatically renew (at the duration selected) unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Current subscription may not be cancelled during the active subscription period; however, you can manage your subscription and/or turn off auto-renewal by visiting your iTunes Account Settings after purchase • Read our privacy policy and terms of use: https://panels.app/privacy / https://panels.app/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Panels at 70% against Texidium's 13%. Panels also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.2) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 months). Texidium's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads 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. Panels sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Texidium asks for nothing beyond the download.
Panels holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Panels has 12K ratings behind it against 26, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 13% of Texidium's written reviews are positive against 70% of Panels's.
Texidium ships an update every 3 months, Panels every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Texidium | Panels |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (26 ratings) | 4.8 (12K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 13.0% of reviews | 70.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 26 | 12K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #161 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 165 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Texidium Solutions Inc. | Produkt Studio |
Customer experience
Texidium
Panels
Bugs and requests
Texidium
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Panels
Reported bugs
5 issues- Crashes when opening large files
- Issues with page order and navigation
- Problems with zooming and scrolling
- Syncing and importing bugs
- Compatibility issues with older devices
Requested features
6 requests- Ability to create sub-folders and nested collections
- Automatic sorting and organization of comics
- Option to lock reading direction
- Double-tap to zoom functionality
- Progress tracking and bookmarking features
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- Support for more file formats like ePub
In-app purchases
Texidium
No in-app purchases
Panels
- Panels+ Monthly7 Days trial$1.491 Month
- Panels+ Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Panels 3 Upgrade$9.99
- Panels 2$19.99
- Panels 3$19.99
Questions
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