TritonPanels started as a reader for the comics on your phone and in your cloud storage. Version 2.0 is for the rest of a real collection: the comic server in the cupboard, the NAS full of CBZs, the USB stick, the folder of manga you have been meaning to read. It reads all of them where they already are.
It is the biggest update since launch. These are the parts we think matter most; the features page has everything.
Your comic server, in your pocket
If you run Komga or Kavita, connect it and browse, search and read your libraries from the phone, with reading progress kept in step on the server in both directions. Start an issue on the sofa, finish it on the train, and the server knows where you are. Calibre and any other OPDS catalog work too, with search, sorting and filters; there, progress stays on the device.
The app talks straight to your server. There is no TritonApps server in between and no account to create, and your server password stays in the iOS Keychain or Android’s encrypted storage.
Live libraries
A live library is a folder TritonPanels reads where it is, refreshing when the files change. 2.0 can do that with a network share on a NAS, PC or Mac (SMB 2 or 3), a Dropbox folder, an iCloud Drive folder on iPhone and iPad, and a folder on the device, an SD card or a USB drive. It can also follow a Substack publication’s free comic posts.
And when you just want to get files onto the phone, Transfer over Wi-Fi lets you open an address in your computer’s browser, type the session code and upload. It runs on your own network and switches itself off.
Downloads you can see
Servers and shares are lovely until the signal drops. There is now one Downloads screen, with pause, resume and a Wi-Fi-only option, and Keep offline works on a single comic, a whole folder or an entire library. Storage usage shows what each library takes and lets you clear the caches separately.
Text on the page
You can now select the text in a speech bubble to copy, share or translate it. Translate pages, marked Experimental, goes further and lays a translation over the bubbles as you read — on iPhone and iPad it needs iOS 18. Lift subject cuts a figure out of the page. Recognition and translation run on your device; your pages are not uploaded.
Manga, colour and control
Right-to-left reading now applies to pages, spreads and Panel by Panel, with a Manga preset to switch everything at once. Pages can be warmed, desaturated, given a sepia tone, inverted or tinted, one comic at a time or as your default. There are six page-fit modes, Zoom Lock, a page-matched or immersive background, custom tap zones, reader presets, Continue to next comic, and page turns from a keyboard, game controller or remote.
Private when you want it
Incognito reading saves no progress or history, for every comic or just one. A passcode content lock covers the comics and folders you choose, and a privacy screen hides what you are reading in the app switcher. As before: no ads, no account, and no profile of what you read.
A tidier library
Collections have become folders, and folders can now sit inside folders, each with its own colour, symbol and cover; everything you had in a collection is still there under the same name. You can search every library at once, pick up from Reading Now, see what arrived in Recently imported, set reading goals by pages, minutes or comics, and look back over every reading session.
New formats
2.0 adds CB7, compressed TAR and image-based EPUB, plus AVIF, HEIC and JPEG XL pages, alongside CBZ, CBR, CBT and PDF. RAR5 archives still cannot be read on a phone; our guide to converting CBR to CBZ fixes them in a couple of minutes.
Guides for all of it
Alongside 2.0 we have published a full set of comic reading guides: connecting Komga, Kavita and Calibre, reading from a NAS, reading manga, translating a page, organising a collection and finding free, legal comics.
TritonPanels is a subscription with a 14-day free trial, on iPhone, iPad and Android. The full history is on the changelog.