One of the better comic reader apps at good price

Just bought an iPad Air and was looking for a comic book reader app to view DRM free comics in cbr & cbz formats. Found iComic in the App Store so decided to give it a try since it was very reasonably price (under $3) & description seemed to offer what I was looking.

Turns out that it is a really solid comic reader app as it smoothly flips pages when reading (plus gives feature of going to next issue in series when you reach end of issue) and comics look good in app too. I imported comics with iTunes sync so have not tried the wireless option yet but iTunes sync was easy.

This app could get 5 stars if it added better import for single issues - features say that app sorts comics into series but found I had to do this when dropping in single issues in a series - seems like the app will sort them if dropped in a folder. This is nice as some comic apps do not read folders but can be an problem if you want to only put in a few issues in a long running series and then you have to manually sort them or would have manually make a folder (on your computer) and drop issues you want into that folder & then sync that folder. Sorting single same named issues is a must add feature for me - hopefully this can be added in an upcoming update.

The layout is a bit different in this app as it has a small tab you can access from above bar - this is where you can access your sorted series or single issues. You can also access by sliding finger over from left to pull up your sorted series - nice added feature! At first I did not like it as I am used to tapping in an out of menus, but after using it I actually really liked it as cuts out some tapping into menus and was easier to access.

Other minor tweak would be the way comics are shown as read - small progress bar moves across bottom of comic cover - would be better if comic greyed out etc when finished being read - sometimes hard to see small progress bar if looking quickly.

Besides these couple things above, the app is very solid & certainly worth a look if you are in the market for a DRM free comic reader app especially since it is offered for less money and seems to offer all the main features (plus a few more) needed in a comic reader.

Trick Fan about iComics, v1.2.1