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Comic fans cannot ignore these apps
If you like comics, you will love these apps.
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Put superheroes and villains in your pocket? These apps bring your favorite characters and stories to your smartphone.
From American Marvel or DC heroes to the Japanese Shueisha classics: Comic fans will find their favorite heroes and stories in smartphone format in the appropriate apps. Thanks to these apps for Android and iOS, comic aficionados always have their favorites on board.
The big draft horses of American and Japanese comics and manga naturally offer their own apps. In the cases of Marvel, DC, and Shueisha, these are, at their core, comic book e-readers with attached libraries. The “Marvel Universe” is available in Germany, the monthly flat rate for the collected Marvel content costs 9.99 euros.
Read popular Japan manga for free with the right app
To yourself, on the other hand to the “DC Universe Infinite” To be able to dial in, a VPN connection is currently required in addition to the monthly $9.99, because the app is currently only available in a few English-speaking countries, including the USA and Great Britain. Globally in the App and Playstore as well as free is against it the app “MangaPlus” by the Japanese comic publisher Sheuisha, which publishes the “Naruto” and “Dragonball” comics, among others.
While one of the largest cross-brand comic book libraries remains in the Comixology application (Android/iOS) gathered, but the classic among comic apps has belonged to the Amazon group since 2014 and is increasingly being integrated into its “Kindle” app. This means that users who import their existing “Comixology” collection into “Kindle” will lose their “Comixology” account. The mail-order giant also wants to become a leader among comic providers and is already another app where fans can buy and manage comics.
Comics in Apps: Read, Collect, Manage
Where Amazon is, Google is often not far. This also applies to the comic book market, where Google via “Google Play Books” which in turn has thousands of comics in its range. The fact that the purchase of a comic book is synchronized with the Google account is an advantage for many users, as this makes it easier to transfer to other devices and import into other apps.
Anyone who already owns several files from comic books and would like to manage them in one place will find the free “Astonishing Comic Reader” the right app, even if only for android devices. It can be used to manage and display CBR, CBZ and PDF files. In addition, the option is integrated into the app to display content on connected devices. So if you prefer to enjoy your comic favorites on a 4K television, you will find the right thing here.