MangaBAT - Manga Rock Pro 17+

Like the title says, MangaApp is all around pretty dope with a wide compendium of titles both niche and mainstream, the UI isn’t the prettiest but it’s practical and easy to navigate.

My two biggest issues stem mainly from being a tablet user who lives in a spot with bad internet. My personal favorite way to read manga digitally is using a tablet in landscape view with both pages on screen, especially since I usually have a keyboard attached most of the time. However the app can only be used in portrait mode with no option to even view single pages in landscape. Secondly there’s no way to download chapters to read offline, as I said I don’t have good internet and it’d be nice to download some titles at work so I can read them at home without waiting for pages to load.

In the end though MangaBat is still probably the best manga reader on IOS and as it’s just on version 1.0.3 I’m hoping the option to download titles and view 2 pages at once in landscape for those of us with bigger screen will be in upcoming updates.

I’d say pretty good other than the incessant review request every time I come back to the app, including if it’s already open and I’m just switching back to it from another app. Other than that, it has many (not all) of the manga, manwa, etc that I search for, and generally more episodes that are currently submitted as translated to English than most other apps. So for that alone I give it a four star, plus the app’s *relatively* easy to use platform. The minus one star is for the annoying review prompts every time I leave the app for 0.5 seconds. But other than that, the ads are not too bad as far as I can remember, though I did buy the ad removal thing, which I think was pretty cheap all things considered. But I am only reviewing this because I’m hoping that it will leave me alone for 3.5 seconds. Do what you will with this info, whether you be user or developer or whatever

So between every chapter a video ad played as opposed to just regular page ads I’ve seen with most manga type apps. Some ads won’t even let you close out unless you interact with them. I’ve had times where I’ve gone through a whole ad, accidentally clicked exited the chapter instead of changed the page(this isn’t easy to do, I was just absent minded) and when I went back into the chapter I had to watch ANOTHER ad even though I literally just watched one seconds before. The other issue is that going to another chapter can be finicky. Which is particularly frustrating with the video ad thing because a chapter won’t load, I’ll watch an ad to load into a black screen and changing pages doesn’t work, and it won’t work until I fully close out the app and go back, to yet ANOTHER ad that I need to watch to even see if it works. So while I like that they have working tags and you can browse by genre, personally I can see these rather long video ads hurting enjoyment. Alternatives could be just page ads mixed into chapters.