Do you like manga, superhero comic books, underground or European comics? If you have a good Android tablet or mobile and you are a bit like me, then surely today’s post will interest you.
In this week’s top list we review the best applications to read comics for free . As I always say in this type of rankings, remember that we do not include any application that promotes pirated content. All 100% legal, and adjusted to the law, as they say.
The best applications to read free comics from your Android tablet or mobile
The big American publishers like Marvel and DC still have a lot to learn when it comes to promoting their comics in digital format (it can’t be that almost all of them are paid and worth the same as on paper!). Given the success it is having, it is more than clear that the future lies in initiatives like Shueisha’s…
sleeve PLUS
Shueisha has revolutionized the comic sector with this application. Manga Plus offers completely free of charge all the manga that are published in Shonen Jump and the rest of the publisher’s magazines simultaneously with their release in Japan.
If we want to keep up with Dragon Ball Super, My Hero Academia, Boruto, One Piece or reread modern classics like Death Note , we cannot ignore the Manga Plus proposal. At the moment it has a catalog of 56 active publications, with weekly updates and many of them also in Spanish. Undoubtedly, the best app to read free and quality manga from your mobile.
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SLEEVE Plus by SHUEISHA
Developer: 株式会社集英社
Price: Free
If you like manga, also stay tuned to K MANGA , a similar app developed by Kodansha and which will be available as of May 10, 2023. Of course, for now the platform will only be deployed in the United States, leaving the other countries pending for a future that we hope will arrive soon. It must be remembered that Kodansha is the publisher of such emblematic manga as Akira, Sailor Moon, Attack on Titan, Vinland Saga, Ghost in the Shell or Tokyo Revengers, among others.
WEBTOON
The big difference between WEBTOON and the rest of the apps that publish comics that also appear on paper is the format. This app only collects comics that were originally intended to be read on a screen, which makes them much easier to digest (fewer bullet points and bubbles per page).
The WEBTOON platform collects more than 7,000 webcomics of various genres , ranging from action, through horror, romance, comedy and everything that comes to mind. The style is also very varied, with American-style webcomics, manga, manhwa, or superheroics. The authors are also top notch, and we find interesting things like Sarah Anderson ‘s Sarah’s Scribbles . The best app to read comics for free and legal after Manga PLUS.
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WEBTOON
Developer: WEBTOON ENTERTAINMENT
Price: Free
Tapas – Comics, novels and stories
Another excellent app to read comics and manga from the mobile or tablet screen is Tapas. As they are webcomics, the pages are adapted to the mobile format, which makes them much easier to read. There’s a lot of light and romantic novels, but it also touches on genres like horror, fantasy, or comedy .
After having done a good review of the catalog, I would say that the medium level is a little more amateur than WEBTOON, although it also contains titles of the highest quality. Some of his most popular comics are “ They say I was born a King’s daughter ”, “ Silent Horror Z ” and “ Jack: The American Ghost ”.
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Covers – Comics and Novels
Developer: Tapas Entertainment Inc.
Price: Free
madefire
Madefire’s great hallmark is that it includes “Motion Books” in its catalogue . An innovative format that gives movement and sound to some of its comics, creating a much richer and more interesting experience for the reader.
Its library of free comics is made up of publications from publishers such as DC Comics, Valiant, Blizzard, IDW, Archie or Valiant, among others. Almost all of them are number ones and one-shots, having to pay if we want to read later issues. In any case, it is a good place to find out if we like any author or series, and from there we can look for chestnuts on our own.
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Madefire Comics & Motion Books
Developer: Madefire
Price: Free
ComiXology
One of the first and most important platforms to read comics in digital format. It has comic-books from Marvel, Image, DC and some other manga . Its catalog exceeds 200,000 copies, although the number is much lower in the free version. The big difference with Madefire in this sense -besides the absence of Motion-Books- is that it includes the free comics published by Marvel (Spider-Man, X-Men).
Last year Amazon (which owns the platform) integrated ComiXology with Amazon’s own store, and many users have complained about the downturn that the app has hit. In any case, you also have some advantages, like a bunch of comics that you can read for free if you are an Amazon Prime subscriber.
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Comixology: Comics and Manga
Developer: comiXology
Price: Free
WebComics
As its name suggests, an app to read webcomics on Android. It explodes above all the manga of the romantic and BL genre, with titles like “Somewhere in Time” or “I was XXX by my idol”. It has more than 500 authors and a loyal base of more than 1 million daily active users.
It is a platform very similar to Tapas and WEBTOON, although personally I think that the comics that are published are a little below these in terms of variety and quality of drawing -with some noble exceptions-. In any case, it’s still an excellent source of free comics aimed at a fairly well-defined audience (mainly teenagers).
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WebComics – Webtoon & Manga
Developer: WEBCOMICS HOLDINGS HK LIMITED
Price: Free
Marvel Comics/DC Universe Infinite
Make no mistake, the Marvel and DC Comics apps are not the best place to go for free comics . In the case of Marvel, the company has two apps: Marvel Comics and Marvel Unlimited . The first is an app for selling and reading comics online, with some loose numbers that we can read for free. Marvel Unlimited, for its part, is a subscription service with which we can read all the publisher’s comics for a fixed monthly price.
In the case of DC Comics, the publisher currently only has the DC Universe Infinite app, which is a subscription service similar to Marvel Unlimited, with around 25,000 titles available, both new releases and classic stories. As we said, the service is premium, but they offer a 7-day free trial period that we can take advantage of to give their catalog a good review.
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marvel comics
Developer: Marvel Comics
Price: Free
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DC UNIVERSE INFINITE
Developer: Warner Bros. International Enterprises
Price: To be announced
tappytoon
Free platform for reading comics of the romantic genre mixed with touches of action and fantasy. Some of their most popular titles include names like Solo Leveling, Dungeon Reset, The Adventures of a Demon King’s Daughter, Light & Shadow, or The Abandoned Empress, among others.
The application allows you to read comics for free without even logging in, although if you want to have access to more content you’ll have to log in. It also has a points system that we can buy or get to support artists or unlock new chapters of our favorite webtoons, comics, manhwas, or graphic novels.
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Tappytoon Comics & Novels
Developer: Contents First
Price: Free
Dark Horse Comics
App to buy and read comics on Android practically identical to those of Marvel and DC. What makes these 2 different is that it has a larger catalog of free digital comic books in several languages (although Spanish is still very little present). It also has some shortcomings such as the absence of images or previews of the comics. It’s not something to get excited about, but overall it’s pretty good.
The American publisher Dark Horse is known for its cartoon adaptations of well-known franchises such as Alien, Battlestar Galactica, James Bond, Stranger Things, Overwatch and many others. Also, they publish manga like Berserk and The Sword of the Immortal, and it is the home of the legendary Hellboy.
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Dark Horse Comics
Developer: Dark Horse Comics
Price: Free
Crunchyroll Manga
Crunchyroll Manga is an app with a cheat, and it is that it is free, yes, but only if we are subscribed to Crunchyroll. It has a multitude of current manga, and some classics that we can also read from the app. One of its advantages is that it allows us to read the manga the same day they are put on sale in bookstores, so we can keep up to date with everything that is being published. However, it has a small drawback and that is that the comics are only in English (the main reason for its low rating in the Play Store).
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Crunchyroll Manga
Developer: Crunchyroll, LLC
Price: Free
Finally, I would not like to end this list without mentioning Lezhin Comics , one of the most popular apps for reading webcomics in South Korea. It has a credit system to read the content, although it also offers several titles for free. Of course, the romantic-themed comics are mainly focused, although there are also science-fiction and action series.
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레진코믹스 – 솔직한 재미 대폭발
Developer: LEZHIN ENTERTAINMENT
Price: Free
honorable mentions
If we already have our own comics in CBR, CBZ, PDF, etc. format. We can also choose to install a reading app that helps us read and organize our library comfortably.
CDisplayEx
I got to know this application in its version for Windows, and it is one of the first tools that came onto the market specially designed for reading comics, manga and comics in general (I got to know it when I was studying at the university back in the year 2000 and I still keep coming back to her on a recurring basis). Easy to use, intuitive and free.
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CDisplayEx Comic Reader Lite
Developer: Progdigy Software
Price: Free
Astonishing Comic Reader
I have read elsewhere that Astonishing includes free comics within the app, but nothing is further from the truth. Here there are no free comics, the content must be provided by us, but like CDisplayEx we are dealing with a reader for mobile phones and tablets that is most elaborate and perfectly suitable for reading cartoons, which is also great for having all our material well organized and classified. A highly recommended application.
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Astonishing Comic Reader
Developer: Studio Zero Games
Price: Free
What did you think of this article? If you want to continue reading other similar entries, I recommend you take a look at the post about the 10 best apps to read PDFs on Android or this other list with the 10 best apps to read free books . Thanks for staying until the end!