ComicFolk - Streaming Viewer

📚 ComicFolk - Manga Viewer with AI Translation & AI Work Info for NAS, Cloud & Home Servers

Stream manga and comics (ZIP/CBZ/RAR/CBR/PDF) from your NAS, cloud storage or self-hosted server — no downloading in advance. AI translates speech balloons on the page and sums up each work for you.

■ 📖 NEW! AI Work Info

• AI reads a book and sums up its title, authors, publisher, genres, synopsis and keywords

• Get it for one work from the folder screen, or for a whole folder from the menu

• Edit anything; your edits are kept when the AI runs again

• Shown in the app's language (English, French, Chinese (Simplified / Traditional) or Korean)

* Requires a CFSP server (v0.1.37+, free) and a Gemini API key

■ 🌐 AI Translation for manga dialogue

• AI reads each speech balloon and shows the translation over the original text, fitted to the balloon

• 6 languages: English, Japanese, French, Chinese (Simplified / Traditional) and Korean

• Pages ahead of where you're reading are translated in advance

• On or off per book; works in Panel Mode and 4-koma Mode too

• Translations are saved on your server and shared with your other devices

* Requires a CFSP server (v0.1.27+, free) and a Gemini API key

AI features use Google Gemini. Get an API key for free from Google AI Studio (no credit card required). Page images are sent to the Gemini API; the free tier has daily limits (roughly 2,000 translated pages or 250 works a day).

■ Connects to a wide range of sources

CFSP servers (see below), SMB servers (NAS), WebDAV, Google Drive and local folders. Register several routes for one server (e.g. home LAN and VPN) and the app connects via the fastest one.

■ Even better with a self-hosted server (CFSP)

Install the free "ComicFolk Sync Protocol Server" on a PC at home (Windows, Mac, Linux) to unlock:

• AI Translation and AI Work Info

• Easy setup: scan the QR code in its admin panel

• Fast archive parsing and thumbnail generation on the server; rebuild thumbnails from the app

• History, tags, bookmarks, crop and image correction settings synced across your devices

• Smaller page images on mobile data

• One-click server updates

Find the download link in the app's Settings.

■ Broad format support

ZIP / CBZ, RAR (RAR4 & RAR5) / CBR, and scanned comic PDFs (one image per page). Archives containing folders or other archives are supported too.

■ Read panel by panel or strip by strip

• Panel Mode: AI detects the panels so you can scroll one panel at a time

• NEW! 4-koma Mode: pages with two columns of 4-koma strips are split into single strips for vertical scrolling. Other pages stay whole, and you can choose per page whether to split

■ A comfortable reading experience

• Page-turn effects including "Page Curl," which bends the page like real paper

• Automatic splitting and merging of double-page spreads

• Left-to-right or right-to-left binding

• Margin cropping: NEW! "Auto" (weak / medium / strong) finds each page's margins, or adjust by hand

• Image correction: auto-adjusts blacks, paper white and brightness, or tune it by hand

• Night mode

• App in English, Japanese, French, Chinese (Simplified / Traditional) and Korean

■ Easy organization

• Volume numbers detected from filenames, with manual editing

• Sort by volume, filename, date or random; group by author

• Cover thumbnails that find and crop just the front cover

• Hide unwanted files or folders

■ Read offline

Download volumes to read without a connection. Smart Cache pre-caches the next volumes as you read.

■ History, bookmarks & tags

Resume where you left off, add bookmarks, and give books multiple tags — "Favorites," "To Read," "Action Manga" — shown as swipeable tabs, to build a bookshelf organized your way.

■ Pricing

Free to use, with ads. An in-app purchase removes ads completely. The Gemini API is free within its free tier (with a paid-plan API key, Google charges based on usage).