The best way for reading your comics

This new update adds support for image filters, you can now have full control over how your comics look like. There is a quick preset that can be used to improve old scans instantly. Filters are synchronized across devices through YACReaderLibrary, you can edit them on a iOS device and they'll be updated on an Android one and vice versa.

Image filters on iOS and Android

iOS

• You can control how your comics look using image filters. You can find the options in the reader settings, there an auto filter button that applies a default set of filters to the current comic to fix old comics scans. The filters view lets you take full control over the filters.
• Support for displaying custom comic and folder covers in the remote browser for YACReaderLibrary (9.16+ needed).
• Support for iOS 26.
• More reliable widget content updates.
• Stability improvements.

Android

• Support for image filters, you can now adjust how a comic looks, this is specially useful for old comic scans. Filters get synchronized through YACReaderLibrary.
• The remote browser supports custom covers set in YACReaderLibrary.
• Better QR scanner to get the server connection information.
• Stability improvements.

Maybe not the update you were waiting for, but I think these are some nice additions to the apps. As always, let me know any suggestions or problems you may have. Please, if you like YACReader consider to become a patron in Patreon or donate some money using Pay-Pal and help keeping the project alive.

YACReader 9.16

YACReader 9.16 brings a set of improvements across all desktop apps, including a new build for Windows arm64 and support for macOS Tahoe. Here are all the changes:

YACReader

• Don't use scroll animations on macOS by default, it where hdpi scroll is most likely to be used.
• New toolbar on macOS.
• New mouse modes to turn pages. You can setup the app to use the left/right buttons to turn pages directly or you can click on the left/right part of the screen to turn pages.
• New setting to control whether the time is shown in the 'current page/total' label.

YACReaderLibrary

• Improve flexibility of the open comic in third party app setting so more complex commands can be used. e.g. open -a "/Applications/My Reader.app" "{comic_file_path}".
• Fix setting the comic rating in the table view.
• Log libraries validation when the app starts.
• New toolbar on macOS.
• New setting in Comic Vine scraper to force exact volume matches.
• Better default search query in the Comic Vine scraper.
• Improved navigation in Comic Vine scraper, including keeping the current query around to make edits and refined searches easier.
• Add support for custom covers for any folder using the context menu.
• The edit cover buttons now support looping through pages, going forward from the last returns to the first, and going backward from the first jumps to the last.
• Add support for custom covers for comics using the edit metadata dialog, you can use a pick file button or drag&drop an image into the cover view in the dialog.
• Covers can be set in bulk for various comics at once.
• New button to reset to the default cover of a comic.
• Support for storing the new image filters from iOS and Android apps.
• Fix cover loading in Comic Vine scraper.

YACReaderLibraryServer

• Log libraries validation when the app starts.

All apps

• PDF libraries have been updated for all Windows builds.

I hope you enjoy this new version. As always, let me know any suggestions or problems you may have. Please, if you like YACReader consider to become a patron in Patreon or donate some money using Pay-Pal and help keeping the project alive.

YACReader 9.15

New year and new version of YACReader for desktops, these are all the changes 9.15.0 brings:

YACReader

• Save magnifying glass size and zoom level.
• Add shortcut to reset the magnifying glass to its defaults (size and zoom), it is slash by default but it can be reassigned.
• Bump PDF render size.
• Fix trackpad scrolling, it makes using trackpads more responsive and natural.
• Added more info to Help → System info.

YACReaderLibrary

• Fix headers in the table view getting stuck in a non-movable state.
• Add option to set the type of a library. It will convert all the content to the desired type (comic, manga, etc.) and set that type as the default one for that library. Available in the library context menu.
• Added more info to Help → System info.
• New setting to open comics in third-party reader apps. It works by entering a command that will launch the app, e.g., /path/to/the/app {comic_file_path}. You can use {comic_file_path} as a placeholder where YACReaderLibrary will place the path to the comic file.
• Purge covers and metadata not being used after a full library update.
• Fix crash when updating the current folder content after a library update.
• Fix crash when current folders are empty after an update.
• Enable dropping content on the FolderContentView.
• Fix open containing folder... shortcut for comics.
• Add a dialog to show information about a library, including the number of folders and comics and the number of read comics.
• Fix occasional crashes when using automatic library updates.
• Add setting to hide the "Continue Reading..." banner from the home view.
• Improve Grid and Flow Info comics view scroll performance.

YACReaderLibraryServer

• New command --system-info to print information about the execution environment and available resources (including what image formats are supported and what libraries are used by the app).
• Fix automatic libraries updates not being triggered.

All apps

• Sorting heuristic to try to find spreads in the content of a comic is now only used for files with less than 1000 pages to avoid false positives.

I hope you enjoy this new version. As always, let me know any suggestions or problems you may have. Please, if you like YACReader consider to become a patron in Patreon or donate some money using Pay-Pal and help keeping the project alive.

There a new UI design for the home screen of the YACReaderLibrary's remote libraries on iOS and Android apps, now the contents of the root folder are directly visible there and you can access the rest of the lists from a menu.

New home UI

Lists can be browsed from a new menu

Like always I hope you enjoy this new versions. Let me know any suggestions or problems you may have and please, if you like YACReader consider to become a patron in Patreon or donate some money using Pay-Pal it really helps keeping the project alive.

Check the new features in 1.6.0 for Android and let me know what you think:

• New remote library list to browse recently added content.
• Indicator for new content, there are settings to control what's considered new and to hide the indicator.
• Setting to disable page turn animation on tap to improve the reading experience in e-ink devices.
• Setting to disable tap gestures.
• Menu entry to reimport comics metadata from the server.
• Better flexibility to show information in the "What's new" view.
• Fixed folders import to avoid creating duplicated comics.