Manga Reader Apps(iOS & Android)

Mangas are a pleasure to read on the touch screen devices but it's real problem trying to find good manga reader apps. Here are some free apps that allow you to download and read manga on iOS and Android devices without having to empty your wallet.

Apps for Apple devices

1. Mangarock

Mangarock is by far my favourite manga app. Purchasing the full version costs $3.99 and removes ads and allows unlimited downloads but even without purchasing the full version, the app is good enough. It allows you to read manga in 7 languages:- English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Chinese, Vietnamese.

- English: MangaHere, Manga Rock, Mangareader, MangaEden (English)
- Spanish: Submanga
- French: Scanmanga
- German: Meinmanga
- Vietnamese: Manga24h, VNsharing, Thienduongmanga.
- Italian:Manga Eden (Italian)
- Chinese: 99mh

They have filters for websites, alphabetical, popularity, category and status(ongoing/complete). 

You can read manga in landscape mode or portrait mode. You can lock zoom, control brightness,  lock orientation, quick browse.

They allow you download as many chapters you want of any ONE manga. 

You can keep track of as many manga updates by adding it into your favourites. You can also set it to auto download new chapters of your favourite mangas. List can be personalized in settings.

You can check and delete your manga reading history.

Reading direction can be changed according to your preferences(left to right/ right to left) or set it to auto detect reading direction(according to website).

My rating-->4.5 stars/5 stars

2. Manga Storm

Manga Storm was my very first manga reader app and it's great except for the fact that using the free version only allows you to download 10 chapters, see three mangas worth of history and favourite three mangas. There are five websites that mangastorm uses mangafox, mangahere, mangareader, mangaeden and batato. You can even view and search for manga from all five of the websites without having to click on each website one by one. It's nice to use but I prefer mangarock's UI.

My rating-->2.5 stars/5 stars

Apps for Android devices

1. Mango

Mango cannot be downloaded directly from the Google Play so you have to download it from their website at http://mango.leetsoft.net/. Mango's UI is simple and easy to use. It's completely free and allows unlimited downloads and favorites. Who could ask for more?

Rating-->5 stars/5stars

2. Manga Watcher

Manga Watcher has been removed from Google Play but can be downloaded from their website, http://www.manga-watcher.com/. Manga Watcher is as good as Mango in every aspect plus you get a cool looking bookshelf like with the manga covers on display. It's FREE and doesn't require any upgrading or whatever nonsense Apple apps seem to come up with. 

3. Mangarock

Read the first app of this post. Coming to Android devices in July 2013.

Best Japanese Learning Apps(iOS)

Most Japanese learning apps cost you a ton and aren't really fun to learn with but the apps below are FREE.

1. Hiragana Pixel Party

Hiragana Pixel Party is definitely number 1 on my list of best Japanese learning apps cause it's fun, the voice in the game is by a native Japanese speaker and you can download it for free and it comes with a few free levels to try it out. It only costs $0.99 to upgrade to the full version and get 384 levels to learn Hiragana and Katakana. It is THE ONLY app in my entire Ipad that I paid for. Overall 4.5 stars.

2. Hiragana and Katakana- Complete Basics of Japanese

It's not the best app for learning Japanese if you are just starting but if have been learning Hiragana and Katakana and you just wanna test yourself without the hassle of asking someone else then this app is good enough. All things considered, 3 stars.

3. Japanese- Hiragana/ Japanese-Katakana/ Japanese-Kanji

These are THREE SEPERATE apps by the same person and with the same user interface(UI) and features.

So far this is the best free app that I have found for learning the stroke order for Japanese. They have 6 apps, one for Hiragana, one for Katakana and 4 for Kanji. The Hiragana, Katakana and 2 of the 4 Kanji apps are completely free while the other two Kanji apps are $1.99 each. This app is extremely fun to use for me since I'm completely useless at memorizing things. The 1st from left in the picture above is the one that teaches stroke order. The second one is where you have to arrange the letters in order to form a word according to the picture given. The third one is by far my FAVOURITE part of the app. Why? CAUSE IT'S AWESOME!! It's a mini game and there are two modes, the picture mode and the letter mode. In the picture mode, you have to touch the picture that corresponds with the word read by the speaker while in letter mode you have to touch the first letter of the word that the speaker says. Okay I'm gonna cut this short cause I'm starting to ramble XD. Overall this app gets 5 stars from me.

4. Kana Card Free

Kana Card is a free app that allows you to flip through or to test yourself in Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. Kana Card is basically like memory cards that people use to remember things. It user interface is really simple and nice to use. All in all, it gets 3.5 stars from me.

Please comment and tell me what you liked and disliked about my post. Thanks for reading my mad ramblings :D.