- $0.99
- Category: Utilities
- Versions: 19 archived
- Installable: 19 of 19
- Availability: Still on the App Store ↗
- Seller: Y.Yamamoto
- jp.halfmoon.red.iComic
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 2.0 or later.
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Report an issueWelcome to iComic, the premier application for reading comics on your iPhone or iPod Touch. iComic makes great use of the multi-touch function for simple and effective page navigation and zooming to provide the best portable comic book read you will find. iComic displays high resolution comic pages (jpg, tif, or png image files) contained inside compressed zip or cbz format archives. Using the built-in download function, comics can be downloaded from the internet or from a personal server and stored locally on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Your downloaded comics are stored on your device and so are always available for reading, even when you have no internet connection. As iTunes resizes images to a compressed format, iComic is also useful for displaying images for other uses e.g. maps, high detailed photos and ebooks (convert your pdf books to jpeg and you have a perfect reader for those large pdf files, normally unreadable due to the high memory requirement). iComic currently provides three methods for turning pages: swiping your finger on the screen; by taps in the screen corners using the Corner-Tap method; or by Multi-Touch (tap once to page forward, twice to page back). Zooming is by the familiar pinch method used in Safari and other applications or by double tapping the screen when in Corner-Tap mode. The application is very stable and can easily handle zip files up to 60MB with infrequent problems observed with files of much larger size. Individual image files inside the zip files are constrained to a maximum 3 million pixels (e.g. 3,000 pixels high x 1,000 pixels wide or equivalent) though for the sake of battery conservation much smaller sizes (~1000 pixels high) are generally used. A manual for setting up and using iComic can be downloaded from http://red.halfmoon.jp/AppStore_iComic_V1.3_FAQ.pdf The author of this application is Japanese so for excellent community support and discussion in English please visit the helpful and friendly ~*~ Ultimate icomic Thread ~*~ at www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23759
Bundle Size Over Time
Chart History
Ratings Over Time
| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 19, 2010 | 3.1.3 | — | 481 | $0.99 |
| August 31, 2011 | 4.2.6 | — | 886 | $0.99 |
| August 18, 2012 | — | — | 905 | $0.99 |
| November 30, 2015 | 5.16 | — | 917 | $0.99 |
| December 8, 2016 | 5.16 | — | 918 | $0.99 |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 25It works perfectly with pdf files but it won't open folders that are within folders which in turn contain image files, please fix this issue
Now I don't need to connect to my PC every time to copy new comics anymore. Also no need to worry about the limited storage space on my phone.
I've used this app for quite a few years and it has served me well. It could do with a little revamping in terms of newer features, and maybe make managing favorites a little better (exporting, marking favorite while viewing, etc). I use it for viewing various comics in archives where I mark my favorites and review those months later. I don't use all the features of the app so I can't say much on the rest of it.
I've tried almost all the other comic readers, but I keep coming back to this one. Simple and straitforward. The only issues I've ever had where when I tried to load a giant comic (a file upwards of 100 MBs) and it crashed and/or turned pages a little slower than I liked. I've used this app for a long time on both my iPhone and iPad and I'd say it is really the best comic reader in the app store.
Great app but will not work on my new iPhone 5.
Solid app that is easy to use and fully functional compared to other manga readers. I also love that the author updates app regularly with major improvements! Worth much more then the $.99
10.3 부터 앱지원 안된다는데 .. 잘쓰고 있는데 제발 지원해주길 ㅠㅠ 이게 짱임 !!
I don't buy apps often so whenever I do, I make sure I get the best one. iComic is one of my most used apps on the iPad and the best manga reader I've found so far. It's also always being updated, which i think is great and something i consider when purchasing apps.
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.