Halftone: Comic & Manga Reader

The reader your comic and manga server deserves — and the comfiest way to read on a phone.

Halftone connects straight to the places you already keep comics: Komga and Kavita (native, not just OPDS), Audiobookshelf, any OPDS catalog, SMB shares on your NAS, WebDAV, Dropbox, OneDrive, and the files on your device. No account with us. No middleman server.

HOLD ZOOM

Reading comics on an iPhone used to mean pinching, dragging, and losing your place. Hold Zoom fixes it: press and hold anywhere and the page magnifies, then pan with the same finger — joystick-style, one-handed, made for dense pages and small lettering. Release to ease back, or keep the zoom and keep reading. It's reading-direction aware, too: Western pages zoom to the top-left first, manga to the top-right. Free for everyone — no unlock, no trial, no asterisk.

YOUR SERVER, FIRST-CLASS

• Komga and Kavita: native API clients — series, collections, page-by-page streaming

• Audiobookshelf: read the comics on your server, with its covers and progress

• Two-way, page-level progress sync — stop on your iPhone, and the server's web reader opens on the same page

• OPDS for everything else: Codex, Ubooquity, Calibre-Web, Stump, and more

• SMB and WebDAV — your NAS, found automatically on the network

• Dropbox, OneDrive, iCloud Drive, and any Files-app folder

• Stream without importing, or pin chapters for offline with one tap

• iCloud sync carries your place to your other devices — through your own iCloud, no account of ours. It even covers the sources that have no progress sync of their own: SMB, WebDAV, OPDS, Dropbox, OneDrive, and Files-app folders

A READER BUILT FOR COMICS

• Apple Books–style page curl that folds at the spine — or a classic slide

• Double-page spreads, with one-tap pairing fixes — plus a spine shadow and paper margins between facing pages

• True right-to-left for manga: page order, tap zones, curl, and scrubber all follow

• A proper webtoon mode: smooth long-strip scrolling, detected automatically

• Match Page backgrounds: margins take the page's own color, white stays paper-white, night scenes stay dark — or Backdrop, a soft blur of the page itself

• Fit to height, width, or screen, with fine scale control — remembered per series

A LIBRARY THAT KEEPS UP

• Built for thousands of files: fast search, collections, merge and move

• Reads ComicInfo.xml on import — real series names, correct chapter order, and right-to-left detected automatically

• Local imports and streamed series side by side on one shelf

• Wi-Fi transfer from any computer's browser

• One-tap backup to a folder you pick; export as standard CBZ with ComicInfo.xml

• Privacy tools: Incognito reading, Face ID app lock, hidden comics

READS EVERYTHING

CBZ/ZIP, CBR/RAR, CB7/7z, PDF, image-based ePub (DRM-free), and plain folders of images.

FAIR PRICING, NO DARK PATTERNS

Free is genuinely free: your whole local library, no series limit, at full quality, with spreads, right-to-left, webtoon scrolling, and Hold Zoom — and it never expires. Premium adds the connected half — servers, cloud drives, streaming, iCloud sync, backup, and the privacy tools — plus the deluxe reader touches: the page curl, the spine shadow and margins, and Match Page backgrounds. One-time lifetime unlock, or a small subscription if you prefer. Same features either way. Nothing you imported or downloaded is ever deleted if you stop paying.

YOUR COMICS NEVER MEET OUR SERVERS — WE DON'T HAVE ANY

The app supplies no content and phones no one home. Your files and your servers are the only inputs, credentials stay in your Keychain, and there are no ad SDKs.

SAMPLE ARTWORK IN SCREENSHOTS

"Pepper&Carrot" by David Revoy (CC-BY 4.0, peppercarrot.com) · "Give My Regards to Black Jack" by Shuho Sato (author's free-use declaration) · US public-domain Golden Age comics.

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