Omnibus – Comic Book Store 17+

Generally good, a few annoyances

Overall a good experience, but leaving the home bar on the bottom is extremely annoying on the iPad. If it was hidden, like in the kindle app, would make reading much more enjoyable.

Rejoice comic fans, Omnibus is here!

This is the app all comic fans have been waiting for for a long time. This app makes reading digital comics so easy, that I kinda envy new readers who get to start their comic journey with this app. The store layout looks great and is easy enough to navigate, the purchases and downloads finish in the blink of an eye, the reading experience is smooth, and there's enough variety and titles to keep even the most avid and curious reader busy for years to come. It's obvious that the team behind the app are actual fans of the medium, because they’ve addressed the main issues that have plagued the digital comic experience for decades, and it sounds they’re just getting started. Regardless, the comic fans and the comic curious can finally breath a sigh of relief, because Omnibus is here to save the day

Developer Response ,

Thank you so much! We're blushing!

Great effort but still buggy

There’s a solid collection of indie publishers and the experience is generally positive but I’ve run into a few problems that make the app hard to recommend.

First off shopping for a book in the store is tedious as the default sorting is based off of recent releases and not by book title.

Secondly the suggestions for what to buy next when finishing a book is not great if you’re reading a book that has multiple limited or short run series with similar names. Id get recommendations for different series instead of the one I’m currently reading.

The final issue is probably the biggest and ultimately what’s going to be make or break for me. After the most recent update I lost my entire collection of about a dozen or so books. Thankfully it’s not a huge investment but it is unsettling and doesn’t exactly fill me with confidence. I already reached out to their support so we’ll see what happens.

Developer Response ,

Hey jmcfey! All great points and things we're addressing!
1) We had to simplify a few thing sot get to launch, but are adding better sorting and filtering in our next set of work. We 100% agree!
2) Agreed on this too, it can for sure be better. It's on our list.
3) Don't worry, your books/purchases aren't lost. We are *SO* sorry you hit this bug. If you log out and back in your books reappear. We've been working on fixing it and are pushing a fix for it today. It's a really bad bug and we understand your frustration!