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Your iPhone is the perfect device for reading comics, but reading comics and manga isn’t like reading books. You need a specialist app that can:

- Organize your comics by series, don’t look through hundreds to find the one you want.
- Show you large covers, they’ll tell you more than a title.
- Make it easy to move between issues when reading, you’ll go through a few in a sitting.
- Reliably zoom in on content, not show you the same borders page after page.
- Be smart about what to show you when you rotate the device, many comics have a mixture of portrait and landscape pages.
- Load big images fast, you don’t want to spend five seconds waiting for a page to load.
- Load your comics using USB, wifi or even from other applications that support file associations, like Drop Box.

That app is Comic Zeal. It does everything on the list and much more. It was the first comic reader on the app store more than two years ago. We’ve been listening to your feedback and improving on it ever since.

If you’re still not convinced read the review and have a look at our star rating. Then buy the app and read the usage tips below whilst it’s downloading.

Tips:
- When zooming, hold the gesture for half a second. Comic Zeal will lock that zoom and position when you turn the page, it’s a great way to hide borders. Try zooming using your thumbs while holding the iPad in both hands.
- Have a look through the in-app settings. There you can change he background (try the magic one), adjust brightness, turn on manga mode and other useful things.
- You can turn pages by swiping or tapping the sides of the screen. The tap area is thin so that you can easily reach past it with your thumb for scrolling.
- You can group comics by pressing ‘Edit’, select more than one comic, press ‘Move’, then select the ‘New Series …’ option.
- You can import cbz/cbr/rar and zip comics directly into Comic Zeal. You can import PDF using Comic Zeal Sync. If you want to import a folder full of images just zip them up.

Drag and Drop simplicity

Drag your comic files into ComicZeal Sync, watch them get shrunk. It’s that simple. CZ Sync reads cbr,cbz,rar,zip,pdf files and if given a folder full of images will turn it into a comic.

Please note, you no longer need to use Comic Zeal Sync.  All versions of CZ now support direct import of cbr/cbz files.  You need to use it for PDF files though although we’ll get you direct import of those in the next update to Comic Zeal.

SyncDocs built in

The standard in third-party iPhone syncing is built right in to ComicZeal Sync. Press ‘Sync Now’ after converting your comics and it will start up, ready to move the comics into ComicZeal. Exit SyncDocs, and ComicZeal Sync exits too.

Sort your comics as you convert them

Using the rename panel you can categorize your files into series, set individual issue names or change their numbering. Have a look at instructions to find out how.

PDF Support

To enable PDF support please install GhostScript from the links on this page. Use the default location and name so that ComicZeal Sync can find it.