However, the platform was bought by Amazon in 2014 and, well, it’s all been a bit downhill ever since. Moving away from simple comics readers and into the realm of digital comic storefronts, comiXology was once the pinnacle of digital comics as an entire concept. Price: App free Individual purchases Amazon Prime subscriptions Best of all, it integrates with just about every cloud storage option out there, allowing you to easily load your comics into the app. In fact, the more you dig into Chunky, the more features you'll uncover – such as auto-contrast features, parental controls, western and manga reading modes, and both portrait and landscape display support. Supporting CBR, CBZ, and PDF formats, Chunky will automatically upscale low-resolution material, with pretty impressive results – as the developer says, it's 'built by graphics-geeks, for comic-nerds.' It will also automatically arrange your collection as you import files, and recognise metadata tags from cataloguing services.

The lack of iPhone support may disappoint – as might its absence from Android tablets – but this is an app designed to make your digital comics look as good as possible, which means demanding the biggest screens possible.

Chunky is a pure reader targeting the iPad exclusively.

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