Comics Plus 12+

1. If you are going to offer something and place it on the popular page… make sure it works and is there?

2. Don’t make the page bounce when I swipe. It is incredibly unnecessary.

3. Tri panel swiping should be up and down, not left and right.

4. Make the middle tap menu pull up faster. It takes a full three seconds before responding.

5. Remove swiping out of the book entirely. Just force me to use the X button. If I want to go back to a page, half the time I’m swiping out of the whole book.

6. Allow the reader to place books into each completion status. When I finish a book, let me put it in “finished” because it doesn’t do it by itself (or at least hasn’t yet).

7. Loading times are loooong. Especially when I’m just browsing for something new in Featured or Popular.

Generally, I enjoy the app. It is great to have access to so many things I can’t check out at my own library. But if I spend more time fighting with the UI than I do reading, there’s a problem.

The app has a decent selection of popular titles in their entirety, but a number of bugs and odd design choices make it pain to use. Like others have said, swiping on the left side of the screen and accidentally closing your book is really annoying. I just ran into a bug today with Beserk Volume 5, where in 2 page mode, the pages are swapped. Streaming is also quite laggy. Comparable reading apps offer a much smoother experience. Hoping that with time the kinks can be worked out, but in the meantime it’s just a passable experience.

This app has a fantastic selection of comics. Honestly, you could spend years reading in it. And they have fixed so much of the app in the past year. However, there are some issue with the app.

#1. When you open the comics on the iPad, the pages are super small. Like the size they might be on a phone. Please have it fill the screen! bridges and Hoopla have this fixed.

#2. The moving of from page to page is jerky. It would be nice if it was more reactive to the touch and the pages would turn over faster.

#3. It would be nice if the titles were under the comics when browsing. It can sometimes be difficult to tell which volume it is.

Those are honestly my only gripes. They have come a long way, and now you can read their omnibuses! Yeah! Oh and their downloads actually work. Keep up the great work guys!