The new home for your comics
Panels is the ultimate DRM-free comic reader for iOS and Mac. Enjoy a beautifully organized library and a seamless, immersive reading experience.
Become part of the comic revolution
Join our thriving community of comic enthusiasts and be a part of our growth.
- App Downloads
- 1.1M+
- out of 5 - App Store rating
- 4.8
- App Store reviews
- 30,000+
- Comics read
- 20M+
Own your comics. Support creators.
The new DRM-Free Comic Store
DRM-free comics from amazing indie creators. Buy once, read forever in Panels.
Enjoy digital reading
Dive into your comics with Panels
Our reader is packed with features to get the most out of your reading experience.
- Universal File Support.
- We support all standard formats: CBR, CBZ, 7z, PDF, and comic EPUB.
- Text and Character Highlighting
- Select any text on pages to copy or translate with ease. Create stickers from your favorite characters!
- Seamless Sync.
- Sync progress of all your reading sessions across your devices.
- Multiple reading modes.
- Personalize your reading experience with configurable options like scroll direction, page animations, and more.
- One-finger zoom.
- Use one finger to easily navigate through the page, perfect for reading on the phone.
- Panel by panel navigation.
- Our Panels View focuses on one panel at a time, making your comic reading more immersive and enjoyable.
Choose your preset
Your comics. Your way.
Panels offers multiple reading options, allowing you to tailor your experience to your preferences. Whether you’re reading manhwa, infinite comics, manga, or regular comics, you can enjoy your content just the way you like it.
- Vertical scroll
- For manwha lovers, Panels offers a vertical mode that seamlessly adapts to the screen.
- Single or Double page
- Rotate to landscape for 2page view, perfect for iPad screens.
- Page curl animations
- Missing the feel of a physical comic? Turn on page curl for smooth page transition animations.
- Image filters
- Enhance your reading experience with filters to sharpen images or remove borders.
Your library, your way.
A better library experience
We understand the importance of covers. Panels features a sleek, elegant design with powerful tools to organize your comics effortlessly.
- Import your content from anywhere
- Panels offers multiple importing options, including Dropbox and OneDrive.
- OPDS compatibility
- Stream comics stored on your server and navigate them like a regular library with OPDS support.
- iCloud Drive Sync
- Store your content in iCloud Drive to sync seamlessly across all your devices.
- Enhanced Privacy
- Lock any comic or folder with a password for added privacy.
- Customization options
- Choose from multiple themes and different views to personalize your library.
- Handle Large Libraries
- Panels performs efficiently even with thousands of comics, making it perfect for extensive collections.
Keep your library in sync
Don't worry about storage
Avoid storage limitations by keeping your comics in the cloud (iCloud Drive, Dropbox, etc.) or on an external drive. Download or copy files as needed while browsing your entire library.
- Keep your comics in the cloud.
- Browse your cloud library effortlessly and download only the comics you want to read.
- Content synchronized across devices
- If you use Panels in multiple devices, this is the perfect feature to keep your library in sync.
- Ultimate OPDS companion
- Panels supports all OPDS 1.2 features and soon OPDS 2.0
- Stream Comics with OPDS
- If you use Komga or Kavita, you can read comics without downloading the full file.
Self hosting?
Connect your own OPDS server
Panels is a polished OPDS client for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Point it at the comic server you already run and read everywhere, with reading progress kept in sync.
- Your server, your library
- Works with any OPDS 1.x catalog you already run at home.
- Reading progress in sync
- Keep your place across iPhone, iPad and Mac as you move between devices.
- Stream or download
- Read on demand from your server or download full series for offline.
Loved and crafted by our Users
Thousands of people are enjoying Panels. Here’s what they have to say:
Beautiful
Love the app. Silky smooth experience.
The best
This app is amazing for manga reading…have not put my iPad down since installing
Extremely clean and feature-rich
Love this app. It’s the best way to read your manga & comic files
There are a lot of readers
I just need a pdf reader and you could say there are a lot of them. But in reality the top-10 results for pdf readers are unusable garbage. I need only few things from a reader: view pages clear&fast, scroll them, remember where I finished reading, easy controls… and they all fail in this. This app does it perfectly.
Perfection ✨
Whatever it is you’re doing… keep it up. This app is incredible; it’s always getting quick bug fixes, great interface and a lightweight app. it even has custom icons. Very happy to do the one-time payment when the app first came out. Thanks for this—it’s my #1 used app on ipad.
Best comic books reader ever
Beautifully organized and user-friendly preface. With multiple reading modes and themes. It’s certainly worth every penny, a magnificent and amazing app to read and organize books. The best thing is it saves the progress if you delete and re-download the file. Many thanks to the developers.
This is the reader you should try
This comic reader has everything you need. A clean interface, lots of possibilities and updated regularly. I moved over from iComics, tried a lot of apps but this one remained as my favorite.
The Best
The best comic reader around. Love it.
It's truly great
Other reader apps owned by multi-billionaires should take note, Panels does EVERYTHING better. It’s probably one of the most updated apps I’ve got. New features and fixes are added regularly. Worth every penny!
Great comic reader
Such a great comic reader. Simple, well organised, can handle subfolders pretty well.
Feature rich comic reader
If you want a comic reader with a lot of functionality, you should try Panels. In general, I hate a subscription model, but for Panels, I make an exception. This developer is very active with new versions… and once in a while to active. If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it. On the other hand, those bugs are fixed really fast.
Best by far
The best app for read comics BY FAR of all that i was trying (and i try a lot, al least 10 others 😂)
Best reader ever
OMG! This is the best app I have ever used to read. Everything is great about this app.
Amazing, high quality
Amazing experience
Great for reading Manga
I like the minimalistic & easy to use UI. Lot's of great features too. The best app for reading IMO.
Best app for Comics
I am using trial version and i love the app. There is no better app for reading comics than Panels. Recommend for everyone who loves to read cbr/cbz comic books.
L'application parfaite
Very ergonomic and intuitive. The biggest advantage for me is being able to reference an iCloud folder as a library. Automatic synchronization of content and, above all, it is possible to share libraries between friends by referencing a shared folder; it's just magnificent. And what's more, the application does not saturate your local storage and it does not download your comics but when you are going to read it.
Frequently asked questions
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- Is Panels a free app?
- Yes! Panels is a free app. You can download it for free and use many of its features: import comics, organize your library, read and track progress and many more. If you need more advanced features like page filters, cloud libraries, etc. you have the option to become Premium.
- Is Panels available for both iOS and Mac?
- Yes! Panels is available for both iOS devices (iPhone and iPad) and Mac computers. You can enjoy the same great experience across all your Apple devices with a single purchase.
- How do you become Premium?
- We offer 3 plans. Annual and monthly plans are subscription plans, they unlock all features as long as the subscription is active. In addition we offer an in-app purchase to buy all current features. You will keep those features forever, but when Panels releases a new major version, you will need a new purchase if you want to access them.
- How many libraries can I have?
- You can have as many as you need. You can add local libraries or cloud libraries (stored in iCloud Drive, Dropbox or your own OPDS server).
- Can I share my library?
- Yes, as long as it is not a local library. For example, if your library is located in iCloud Drive, you can just share that folder with any person using iCloud.
- Can I sync my libraries between iOS and Mac?
- Yes, when using cloud libraries (iCloud Drive, Dropbox, etc.), your content and reading progress will sync automatically between your iOS devices and Mac.
From the blog
News, updates, and tips from the Panels team.
