About Panels - Comic Reader
Improve your comic reading experience with Panels. Enjoy reading your favorite titles in a clean and delightful interface, with plenty of customization and advanced features. Key features: - Universal Compatibility:...
Improve your comic reading experience with Panels. Enjoy reading your favorite titles in a clean and delightful interface, with plenty of customization and advanced features. Key features: - Universal Compatibility: Support for most common comic types: CBR, CBZ, CB7, PDF and comic ePUB (not text eBook). Support for multiple image formats, including WebP. - Cross-Device Sync: Synchronize your reading progress across all your mac devices and resume reading exactly where you left off. - Full iCloud Drive support: store your entire library on iCloud and access it from different devices. - Library Organization: Effortlessly manage your comic library with intuitive tools for easy navigation. * Themes: support for Light and Dark modes, and many others. * Reading Presets: Choose from a multitude of reading presets or create your own, including horizontal, vertical, or panel-by-panel guided view. - Right to Left reading (manga): read any comic with Panels. * OPDS support: Stream, search and download comics from your OPDS compatible server. * Secure your content: Keep files locked using a password or Face ID for your collections and files. Use Incognito mode to keep your reading sessions hidden. - Customize your library collections: change folder color, logos and use custom images to make it yours. * Live Text and Subject detection. * Experimental Features: Access experimental features like panel-by-panel navigation. Native support for importing files from: * iCloud Drive * Dropbox * Microsoft OneDrive - Substack * OPDS: Komga, Kavita, Codex and others * Local network shared files and folders via SMB and Embedded web server - iTunes - External drives - Airdrop - Drag&Drop from other apps Page Filters: * Reduce Noise * Increase Sharpness * Reduce Moiré * Crop Borders * Require an active subscription or a one-time purchase. . You may purchase an Auto-Renewing Subscription to unlock all the premium features while it's active; or a one-off purchase to unlock the current major version features forever. . Your subscription will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and will automatically renew (at the duration selected) unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. . Current subscription may not be cancelled during the active subscription period; however, you can manage your subscription and/or turn off auto-renewal by visiting your iTunes Account Settings after purchase . Read our privacy policy and terms of use: https://panels.app/privacy / https://panels.app/terms
New features - Rebuilds the library indexer from scratch — streaming architecture, deferred metadata processing, parallel rendering during prefetch, dual fingerprinting, and safer path construction. The result is faster indexing, lower memory usage, and better reliability overall - Adds TAR/CBT support with automatic decompression for TAR variants (.tar, .cbt) and compressed forms (.tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar.xz), ensuring compound file extensions are recognized and displayed correctly Improvements - Improves PDF rendering performance and quality by removing an unnecessary JPEG round-trip and optimizing image rendering for pages loaded from disk, plus faster prefetch for native PDF mode - OPDS servers using Digest authentication are now supported - Web server icon now tints green with a pulse animation when running Bug fixes - Fix import of accented filenames - Fix locked content name leak in Up Next by showing the correct subtitle for locked items - Fix deadlock during iCloud library import - Add timeouts for reading progress fetch/update in Komga and Kavita to prevent hangs and keep syncing after reading - Fix thumbnails rendering as white - Fix locked content appearing in the Reading Now section - Fix low-res thumbnails on Retina displays - Fix OPDS cross-device reading session lookup using a normalized URL fallback - Fix library progress indicators not updating after a settings change - Fix iCloud library not detecting externally added files - Fix web server unreachable from local network - Fix double page reader jumping pages on portrait-to-landscape rotation
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Panels - Comic Reader since it was posted on our website on 2021-12-17 23:23:02.
The latest version is 3.11.0 and it was updated on 2026-05-19 15:25:25. See below the changes in each version.
Panels - Comic Reader version 3.10.1
Updated At: 2026-03-04
Changes: - New experimental feature: Live Translations (on-device)
Read comics in any language supported by iOS. Panels translates on your device (iPhone, iPad, or Mac) and overlays the translated text back into the original speech bubbles so you can keep reading naturally.
Enable it in Settings -> Panels Labs.
- New icon pack: Pastel
Soft pastel icons to bring a little spring to your springboard.
- News section
A new place to keep up with Panels updates and announcements.
Bug fixes:
• Crash opening the app and app taking too long to open
• iCloud reading sessions now sync properly across devices
• Fixes around tapping the sides to advance to the next comic
• Fixed blank cells in languages other than English
Panels - Comic Reader version 3.9.14
Updated At: 2026-02-13
Changes: Bug fixes
- Fixed widget becoming black with big covers
- Fixed OPDS downloads not resumable from Reading Now
- Fixed duplicate breadcrumb names when clicking favorites on macOS
- Fixed side taps at the end of a comic not proceeding to the next one
- Fixed multiple Files imports failing or stopping at 20% progress
- Fixed external libraries becoming unlinked after reopening the app
- Fixed Panels Store link
Panels - Comic Reader version 3.8.2
Updated At: 2025-08-30
Changes: Aug 30, 2025
Version 3.8.2
Improvements:
• We've tweaked the layout to take advantage better of the space.
• Downloads now remember the last sort mode selected.
Fixes:
• Folders' style is not synced correctly on iCloud Drive libraries.
• Library leaks memory causing random crashes.
• There are some random crashes when applying themes.
• Panels crashes on launch to some users.
• Favorites make the library to not open any comic.
Panels - Comic Reader version 3.8.1
Updated At: 2025-08-14
Changes: Aug 14, 2025
Version 3.8.1
Fixes
• OPDS search can crash the app.
• Manual sorting not working in external libraries
• New theme styling can crash the app on Mac
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v3.8.0
This update kicks off early access to Panels 4! Premium users can now try upcoming features before their official launch — all opt-in and designed to make Panels better for everyone.
New
• Panels 4 Early Access: Try new features early from Settings.
• Themes are now available on Mac.
• Create your own themes (plus 12 new themes!) - Opt-in from Panels Labs.
• All-new Downloads management view (cloud users only).
• Added support for multiple comic identifiers.
Improvements
• Customize the sidebar on Mac.
• Support for animated images in comic pages.
• Faster and more reliable iCloud indexing.
• Smarter theme handling using system appearance.
• Better handling of offloaded iCloud files.
• Improved EPUB and folder comic recognition.
Fixes
• “Continue Reading” now behaves correctly in all modes.
• Fixed issues with EPUB rendering and SVG images.
• UI layout issues in search and downloads resolved.
• Improved drag-and-drop and folder creation behavior.
• Fixed back button in Reading Now settings.
• Resolved pagination issues with OPDS feeds.
• PDFs render correctly on iOS 26 beta.
• And many more stability and performance improvements.
• OPDS search results pagination doesn't work.
Panels - Comic Reader version 3.7.4
Updated At: 2025-06-01
Changes: Jun 1, 2025
Version 3.7.4
Fixes:
• QuickLook Thumbnails extension tries to generate an image for non-comic exclusive types, like zip or rar.
Panels - Comic Reader version 3.7.1
Updated At: 2025-05-17
Changes: May 17, 2025
Version 3.7.1
Improvements
• ePUB comics using image rendering mode can now use filters.
• Panels now remembers the selected rendering mode for each comic.
Bug Fixes
• Some ePUB have their pages shuffled.
Panels - Comic Reader version 3.6.13
Updated At: 2025-05-03
Changes: May 3, 2025
Version 3.6.13
Improvements:
• Big improvements in library performance
• Higher resolution covers on iPad when using big covers
• Import flow design for external services has been redesigned to match the library
• It is now possible to save a page to disk and share
Fixes:
• Some iCloud librares would crash starting on 18.4
• One Drive could appear empty for some users
• It is now possible to use : and / in folders and file names
• It is now possible to delete big libraries without crashing
Panels - Comic Reader version 3.6.11
Updated At: 2025-04-16
Changes: Apr 16, 2025
Version 3.6.11
Improvements:
• Allows multiple sign-in methods.
• Improved panels sorting algorithm in Panels View.
• Locked comic status is now synced in the reading sessions.
Fixes:
• Continue reading drag is broken.
• Continuous scroll reader jumps to a random page when zoomed out too much.
• Continuous scroll reader does not allow continue reading when zoomed out.
• Double tap zoom can accidentally trigger continue reading.
• Swipe to select multiple items on iPadOS does not work.
Panels - Comic Reader version 3.6.10
Updated At: 2025-04-04
Changes: Apr 4, 2025
Version 3.6.10
Fixes:
• Reading now fixes: locked comics not being blurred and continuous reading progress resetting.
• Continue reading arrow won't appear in vertical reader. It is now possible to navigate to next comic with keyboard.
• iOS 15 won't show reader presets nor page effects.
• Crash and Compilation Fixes: Resolved crashes and compilation errors across multiple platforms, including fixes for iOS and general compilation issues.
• Better implemented error handling for unavailable comics and removed duplicate comic references.
Panels - Comic Reader version 3.6.9
Updated At: 2025-03-31
Changes: Mar 31, 2025
Version 3.6.9
Fixes:
• Downloaded files sometimes appear as unavailable on Reading Now.
• Reading sessions don't sync correctly.
• User Avatar images won't sync correctly across devices.
• Touching a cell briefly when scrolling on the library shows the focus state.
• Comics sometimes appear on Reading Now in disabled stated, even if they are available.
• Comics downloaded from OPDS won't open from Reading Now.
• OPDS comics won't stream from Reading Now.
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