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
I’ve been using panels for going on 2 years now. In the beginning, it was really cool to be able to read my manga and comics on my iPad because I switched from physical books to digital thanks to the pandemic. Panels was really nice in the beginning albeit a bit lackluster feature wise. Over the course of my use, it’s been improving each update, adding all sorts of wonderful features and just making it a better experience. By far my favorite feature to day is them adding custom SMB server support. I have it connected to my home server where all my e-books are stored and now it’s just like my Plex server. Panels is definitely my go to app for all things comic related. You honesty can’t beat it in my opinion. I don’t even make reviews for apps but Panels is definitely one that deserves the praise. I put all my friends on to it and they love it just as much as I do. Please keep up the good work Panels time, y’all are truly making something special here for us comic lovers .
Worth the convenience.
Zowzy
I was trying to self host my own manga server using Jellyfin and once I got it working, I noticed that manga wouldn’t load to my phone using my reverse proxy. After many hours of troubleshooting, I downloaded Panels after reviewing some Reddit threads and figured it was worth a shot. I was a previous user of Chunky (another manga app that has been deleted I believe) and loved the OneDrive connection capability. I couldn’t find an app I liked since Chunky. Panels has easily taken that spot. I look forward to getting my Jellyfin server running and working properly but I think I’ll try the SMB connection first on Panel. If you are curious and want to try it out for a month, I’d say it’s worth the $2. At the moment, I’d probably pay the one time cost for a total unlock of the app just because of the convenience alone.
Issues on Mac OS 15.6
zhijoh
I love Panels on my iPad, so I was ecstatic when I saw it had finally come to Mac. While the interface is great, and it has dark mode unlike Simple Comic or YAC, I’ve run into some issues. First, it crashes. I’ve had the app freeze and crash on me while adjusting settings at least 3 times in the past 2 days. Finally, my biggest gripe: reversing reading order is finicky. I read almost exclusively manga, so it’s important that I’m able to read right to left. For some reason, the buttons you click to go backward and forwards do not reverse when reversing reading order, although your arrow keys do. I’ve also run into issues with the scroll wheel. It may just be my mouse, but scrolling a single page requires at least two full spins of the scroll wheel which is not easy to do. Being able to adjust scroll sensitivity would help this. It would also be nice to be able to use the vertical scroll wheel on your mouse to scroll your comic horizontally if you choose. Please fix reverse reading order and the scroll wheel sensitivity and this could be 5 stars!
Polished for a Jagged Rock
AbandonedCart
This is one of the better readers from a basic UI standpoint, but probably one of the worst from a technical one. You can add files through iTunes, but not whole folders. As for retrieving them from the app, you might as well forget it. You must create the folders in the app separately, either to import into or add to later. These folders also become part of the app and cannot be managed anywhere else. It’s an overly tedious design that hints at poor development or excessive attempts to force subscription without first building the trust that it will be any less tedious.Subscriptions meant to cover the cost of services make sense. After all, some do charge the developers. Lumping in services that the developers don’t pay a dime to maintain should be a separate, one-time fee to cover the cost of publishing the app. I can’t see paying Panels monthly to cover the cost of using my local server, unless they plan to send out techs to maintain it. After my experience importing files, I wouldn’t want to pay for that experience again.There is almost no animation to reading beyond the generic slide. For one of the most expensive apps to own, it is sad to fall short of the stock Books app included by Apple.Overall, I like the basic look of the UI and hope that one day the functionality catches up. Until then, I will continue to sync with Chunky and import the files here to organize when I get to it. If not for the UI, I probably wouldn’t bother at all.
Improvements
- Deleting a comic now also frees the temporary files Panels unpacked in order to read it.
- Those temporary files are now always cleaned up, including when the app is closed in the middle of a comic.
- General stability and memory fixes across the library, search and import screens.
Fixes
- Fixed being unable to move on to the next comic when your library is sorted by Last Read or Reading Progress. Opening a comic moved it to the end of its own folder, so swiping, tapping and the menu all had nowhere to go. Next Up on Reading Now was affected too.
- Fixed comics reopening on the wrong page. The single-page and double-page readers could stop tracking your position for the rest of a session, so closing the comic, rotating, opening the page selector or tapping to advance would jump back to an earlier page.
- Fixed the OneDrive importer getting stuck on a loading spinner when it could not list your files.
