Panels - Comic Reader
The best comic & manga reader
Free · In-App Purchases
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.
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 all your mac devices 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.
* 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.
* 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.
- Customize your library collections: change folder color, logos and use custom images to make it yours.
* Live Text and Subject detection.
* Experimental Features: Access experimental features like panel-by-panel navigation.
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
Ratings & Reviews
New features
- Rebuilds the library indexer from scratch — streaming architecture, deferred metadata processing, parallel rendering during prefetch, dual fingerprinting, and safer path construction. The result is faster indexing, lower memory usage, and better reliability overall
- Adds TAR/CBT support with automatic decompression for TAR variants (.tar, .cbt) and compressed forms (.tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar.xz), ensuring compound file extensions are recognized and displayed correctly
Improvements
- Improves PDF rendering performance and quality by removing an unnecessary JPEG round-trip and optimizing image rendering for pages loaded from disk, plus faster prefetch for native PDF mode
- OPDS servers using Digest authentication are now supported
- Web server icon now tints green with a pulse animation when running
Bug fixes
- Fix import of accented filenames
- Fix locked content name leak in Up Next by showing the correct subtitle for locked items
- Fix deadlock during iCloud library import
- Add timeouts for reading progress fetch/update in Komga and Kavita to prevent hangs and keep syncing after reading
- Fix thumbnails rendering as white
- Fix locked content appearing in the Reading Now section
- Fix low-res thumbnails on Retina displays
- Fix OPDS cross-device reading session lookup using a normalized URL fallback
- Fix library progress indicators not updating after a settings change
- Fix iCloud library not detecting externally added files
- Fix web server unreachable from local network
- Fix double page reader jumping pages on portrait-to-landscape rotation
The developer, Produkt Studio, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Produkt Software Engineering S.L.
- Size
- 171.4 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 13.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
English and 11 more
- English, Catalan, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Panels+ Monthly 1,99 €
- Panels 3 Upgrade 9,99 €
- Panels 3 22,99 €
- Panels+ Yearly 17,99 €
- Panels 2 22,99 €
- Copyright
- © Produkt Software Engineering S.L. 2024
