Booklover - eBook Reader 17+

I had a previous comic reader that I was very happy with (Comic Zeal), but the developer stopped updating it and over the past several years it has slowly become more and more unusable. I have been searching for a good replacement for a long time and have tried pretty much every comic book reader in the App Store.

I love this app. This is the first app that I have been happy with since Comic Zeal. I can really tell that the developer has put a lot of thought and care into the app. I also find that so many comic readers on the App Store are impossibly ugly, and Booklovers is thankfully very nicely designed and looks great.

I have one complaint that makes me unable to use this app as my main comic reader. I still gave it 5 stars, because it deserves 5 stars, but it is very difficult to manage a large comic collection without folders. I appreciate tags, and the metadata functions and you can use tags and genres to make do, but I have a collection with thousands and thousands of comics and it’s very unwieldy without folders or some approximation of folders. PLEASE add some folder functionality so that people with tens of thousands of comics from many different series can keep everything more organized instead of having to scroll through what becomes an enormously long list of tags. Thank you! Great app.

Thank you so much for your great feedback, we really appreciate it..!

We have been planning on features to manage series title and would like to release it as soon as it has got ready.  For folders, although we have been attempting to offer a way to manage books with metadata instead of folders, we do understand that there are people who prefer to manage their books with folders and we are thinking of a way to respond to the demands. Please give us some time and hopefully we can offer some solution to meet your needs in a future version. Thanks again for your encouraging words!

Best app for a big libraries but small physical storage space—allows one to download the particular books one wants while keeping others in the cloud.

I wish there was a dark mode, and I wish that custom metadata synced between devices. I also wish you could nest tags.

But otherwise this app is great, and perfect for me.

Thank you so much for your great feedback!

- For dark mode: We would like to consider implementing it after checking out whether Apple announces system-level dark mode in the next version of iOS :)

- For metadata sync, It is definitely in our roadmap, however it will be probably after we've added a few other major features.

- For nesting tags - Very interesting idea! We would be really grateful if you could give an elaborated idea to us at booklover@plastic-software.com if it's not too much trouble - Thanks again!

Unfortunately, iOS native Dropbox downloads appear to be broken across a lot of apps, including this one and many others. As a workaround, launch the Dropbox app and export with the iOS share menu.

Overall, very customizable and user friendly app!

Thank you for using Booklover and your review!

If you are unable to access/download files in Dropbox (or any other cloud storage services) from within apps including Booklover via iOS native file browser, please try the following:

1. (Make sure that the version of your Dropbox app, or any other app provided by the specific cloud storage service, is the latest)
2. Restart your iOS device

From our past support experience, this will restart the file provider extension of the Dropbox app (or of an app provided by the cloud storage service) and seem to fix the issue.

The problem seems to lie in somewhere between the file provider extension of the Dropbox app (or any other cloud storage app) and the internal system of the iOS. We are afraid that there is not much we can do on our (app developer) side to address the issue for now. We are sorry for the inconvenience.