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After a lot of work YACReader 10 is finally here. The three main changes are support for themes, Lanczos and continuos scroll. But there are more updates and fixes.

Themes support in YACReader 10.

YACReader

• Add support for continuous scroll mode.
• Fix the translator.
• Add Lanczos interpolation for image scaling. You can control the method used via the settings under Image adjustments.
• Fix hdpi trackpad scrolling when scroll animations are enabled.

YACReaderLibrary

• Navigating between comics in the metadata editor no longer copies fields from the previous comic into ones that have no value set. To edit shared metadata across multiple comics at once, select them all and use the bulk edit dialog.

All GUI Apps

• Migrate Flow implementation from OpenGL to QRhi. This is a full new implementation with better performance and compatibility with operating systems and hardware.
• Add light/dark themes support that follow the system configuration.
• Add a theme editor and support for custom themes.
• The apps include 12 built-in themes to pick from.
• Add an application language setting with a system default option in YACReader and YACReaderLibrary.
• Fix fullscreen mode in Windows; interaction with the OS is now possible while the apps are in fullscreen.
• Improve support for multi-screen setups.
• Fix PDFs with crop information on macOS.

All apps

• Add support for user-installed Qt image format plugins via the shared plugins/imageformats folder in the YACReader settings directory.

I hope you like it. As always, let me know any suggestions or problems you may have. Please, if you like YACReader consider to become a patron in Patreon or donate some money using Pay-Pal and help keeping the project alive.

Offline and 100% private Live Translation is here. Now YACReader lets you translate comics in real time. It uses on-device OCR and translation on the current page, with no internet connection required, and lets you configure the language, colors, and font. YACReader can also detect the color of the text and speech bubbles and use the same colors as in the original comic, making the experience as pleasant as possible. This is an experimental feature and depends heavily on image quality. It fully respects your privacy; to use it, you will need to download the dictionaries for the languages you want. Available languages depend on what iOS supports natively.

Source vs translated example.

Translated text look is configurable, but by default the app will try to match the colors of the original bubble.

Matched colors in live translation

These are all the live translation settings available:

Translation settings

But there is more...

What's new

• Live translation while you read. It uses on-device (offline) OCR and translation on the current page, and lets you configure the language, colors, and font. Requires iOS 18+. This is an experimental feature and depends heavily on image quality. It fully respects your privacy; to use it, you will need to download the dictionaries for the languages you want. Supported languages depend on what iOS supports natively.
• More natural sorting in the local library and search results. Folders are shown first, and comics use their number when available. You can control the behavior in the settings.
• The QR scanner used to connect to YACReaderLibrary is now native, more reliable, and works better with light-on-dark QR codes, helping support the new themes coming in desktop version 10.
• Fixed PDF pages with crop areas so only the intended content is rendered.
• Fixed image filters so they no longer crop pages.
• Fixed the next comic not being marked as started when finishing the current one.
• Improved visibility of the close button in the full cover view.
• Stability improvements.

I hope you like it. As always, let me know any suggestions or problems you may have. Please, if you like YACReader consider to become a patron in Patreon or donate some money using Pay-Pal and help keeping the project alive. And remember that you can get the iOS app here.

This new update adds support for image filters, you can now have full control over how your comics look like. There is a quick preset that can be used to improve old scans instantly. Filters are synchronized across devices through YACReaderLibrary, you can edit them on a iOS device and they'll be updated on an Android one and vice versa.

Image filters on iOS and Android

iOS

• You can control how your comics look using image filters. You can find the options in the reader settings, there an auto filter button that applies a default set of filters to the current comic to fix old comics scans. The filters view lets you take full control over the filters.
• Support for displaying custom comic and folder covers in the remote browser for YACReaderLibrary (9.16+ needed).
• Support for iOS 26.
• More reliable widget content updates.
• Stability improvements.

Android

• Support for image filters, you can now adjust how a comic looks, this is specially useful for old comic scans. Filters get synchronized through YACReaderLibrary.
• The remote browser supports custom covers set in YACReaderLibrary.
• Better QR scanner to get the server connection information.
• Stability improvements.

Maybe not the update you were waiting for, but I think these are some nice additions to the apps. As always, let me know any suggestions or problems you may have. Please, if you like YACReader consider to become a patron in Patreon or donate some money using Pay-Pal and help keeping the project alive.

YACReader 9.16

YACReader 9.16 brings a set of improvements across all desktop apps, including a new build for Windows arm64 and support for macOS Tahoe. Here are all the changes:

YACReader

• Don't use scroll animations on macOS by default, it where hdpi scroll is most likely to be used.
• New toolbar on macOS.
• New mouse modes to turn pages. You can setup the app to use the left/right buttons to turn pages directly or you can click on the left/right part of the screen to turn pages.
• New setting to control whether the time is shown in the 'current page/total' label.

YACReaderLibrary

• Improve flexibility of the open comic in third party app setting so more complex commands can be used. e.g. open -a "/Applications/My Reader.app" "{comic_file_path}".
• Fix setting the comic rating in the table view.
• Log libraries validation when the app starts.
• New toolbar on macOS.
• New setting in Comic Vine scraper to force exact volume matches.
• Better default search query in the Comic Vine scraper.
• Improved navigation in Comic Vine scraper, including keeping the current query around to make edits and refined searches easier.
• Add support for custom covers for any folder using the context menu.
• The edit cover buttons now support looping through pages, going forward from the last returns to the first, and going backward from the first jumps to the last.
• Add support for custom covers for comics using the edit metadata dialog, you can use a pick file button or drag&drop an image into the cover view in the dialog.
• Covers can be set in bulk for various comics at once.
• New button to reset to the default cover of a comic.
• Support for storing the new image filters from iOS and Android apps.
• Fix cover loading in Comic Vine scraper.

YACReaderLibraryServer

• Log libraries validation when the app starts.

All apps

• PDF libraries have been updated for all Windows builds.

I hope you enjoy this new version. As always, let me know any suggestions or problems you may have. Please, if you like YACReader consider to become a patron in Patreon or donate some money using Pay-Pal and help keeping the project alive.

YACReader 9.15

New year and new version of YACReader for desktops, these are all the changes 9.15.0 brings:

YACReader

• Save magnifying glass size and zoom level.
• Add shortcut to reset the magnifying glass to its defaults (size and zoom), it is slash by default but it can be reassigned.
• Bump PDF render size.
• Fix trackpad scrolling, it makes using trackpads more responsive and natural.
• Added more info to Help → System info.

YACReaderLibrary

• Fix headers in the table view getting stuck in a non-movable state.
• Add option to set the type of a library. It will convert all the content to the desired type (comic, manga, etc.) and set that type as the default one for that library. Available in the library context menu.
• Added more info to Help → System info.
• New setting to open comics in third-party reader apps. It works by entering a command that will launch the app, e.g., /path/to/the/app {comic_file_path}. You can use {comic_file_path} as a placeholder where YACReaderLibrary will place the path to the comic file.
• Purge covers and metadata not being used after a full library update.
• Fix crash when updating the current folder content after a library update.
• Fix crash when current folders are empty after an update.
• Enable dropping content on the FolderContentView.
• Fix open containing folder... shortcut for comics.
• Add a dialog to show information about a library, including the number of folders and comics and the number of read comics.
• Fix occasional crashes when using automatic library updates.
• Add setting to hide the "Continue Reading..." banner from the home view.
• Improve Grid and Flow Info comics view scroll performance.

YACReaderLibraryServer

• New command --system-info to print information about the execution environment and available resources (including what image formats are supported and what libraries are used by the app).
• Fix automatic libraries updates not being triggered.

All apps

• Sorting heuristic to try to find spreads in the content of a comic is now only used for files with less than 1000 pages to avoid false positives.

I hope you enjoy this new version. As always, let me know any suggestions or problems you may have. Please, if you like YACReader consider to become a patron in Patreon or donate some money using Pay-Pal and help keeping the project alive.