Comixology - Comics & Manga App Reviews

I have this app on my old Amazon Fire, and I LOVED it. Showed me what was new/popular and I could search for anything. By artists, authors, genre, you name it. But this app on iOS is just a shell of what it could be. Its a shame really

I guess there must be a reason they took it out, but its owned by Amazon now so its super easy to buy comics. Everyone needs to chill out, its a minor inconvenience to have to go to another app, not the end of the world.

Why on earth would they take away in app purchases and make life so complicated for their customers? I guess Amazon has too much money to give two hoots .

Most of the reviews on here are 1 star angry because: 1. Removal of in-app purchasing. apples 30% fee is very high even in the business world. Some dont understand this. Others dont care and think it is greedy for Comixology to have all purchases done on the website which works great on mobile and easily done. Maybe they should add in app purchasing back with a 15% hike on comics. 30% apple fee is a big chunk of revenue loss and causes higher prices for consumers as costs rise. It is likely against apple policy to make a comic specific buy button link in the way some suggest. 2. Amazon officially owns Comixology and you have to convert over and sync your account. Which is a great thing for us because it means less worrying about all your purchases getting stuck in a no longer relevant and company that took a dive. I am an Amazon Prime member and they are a great company with great customer service. Amazon is doing great and will be around for a long time. Amazon helped save the USPS. It is thanks to Amazon that you can buy products at 50% less cost of brick and mortar shops. 3. Some people have a huge library they are trying to view using old slow devices. Im always amazed at people expecting a demanding game or app to run without crashing on ancient devices. I have an iPad mini that still works great except it is slow and has near full memory and could use a reset cleanup. When an app shuts down on me I dont go and blame the developers and dump 1 stars on them. My iPad Pro runs them awesome. I only have 1 app that crashes because it was abandoned by devs and not updated to work with ios 9 and Pro.

Not only can one not buy via the app any more, they have lost all the comics that I have been buying since this app first came out.

I cant make purchases through the app (on my iPad), and it wont let me even access my account without "enabling cookies" on my iphone (which I did and it still wouldnt work). I hope things get streamlined a bit. I like reading my comics on my iPad.

Complainers, it is Apples fault there are no in app purchases. Not only do they take a 30% cut, they also forbid you to sell the product cheaper on your site so there is no way to recover that fee. It is a load of crap and if they did it the price would have to go up for everyone. Props for that, and the app is great.

Im mostly here because of the large number of low ratings due to the unavailability of in-app purchases for this app. This is because of Apple and their policies, not some choice by the app developer/Amazon. (Dont you think theyd make it as easy as possible to get your money if they could?) This app was great for reading single-issue releases as well as the graphic novels that were imported from my Kindle library (a great feature). I do wish that my manga would have been imported too but they were not. In all, an app that deserves far more than two stars. It was the low rating that kept me from purchasing the app initially, and Im disappointed I didnt try it myself. Definite recommend this app.

EFFFFF-UUU!! I wouldnt mind merging my Amazon account with my Comixology account. However, by merging, I can no longer pay by PayPal and am now forced to use only the payment options offered by Amazon. WHY WONT YOU LET ME PAY THROUGH PAYPAL?!???? And shouldnt you have given me the choice to merge my accounts??? OR, at least allow me to split them back up! Awful! THERE ARE NO OTHER PAYMENT OPTIONS AVAILABLE OTHER THAN THROUGH AMAZON. Horrible!

I couldnt ask for much more.

The old version was simple and organized everything simply. The most current interface features "smart lists" which serve no purpose and only make this app harder to navigate. It is impossible to download old purchase without using the search function, which is also broken and hard to use.

Works nicely as a reader, but without basic In-app comic purchases this app is a miss.

While the loss of in-app purchases still stings a bit, in the long run its saved me a tiny bit of money due to Comixology not charging state taxes. As a comics reader this app is fantastic, unfortunately the UI is very jumbled. Ive gotten used to it, but it could still use some work.

Why cant I purchase through the app? This app is entirely useless now.

Its Amazon. Whats else is there to say. Oh right... No store.

For reason - probably related to more profits - they discontinued in-app purchases in 2014. I wont go on a long rant about the inconvenience to the customer to have to go online from the app and all that jazz. Im simply asking to bring back in-app purchases. I promise youd get more of my money.

Trying to create an account took me to Amazon. Then tried to log on to the app and said incorrect / invalid.

I completely understand the company preventing purchases through the app. Apple was squeezing their profit margin considerably. For me, its really no big deal to buy on the website and then read on my iPad. Overall a great experience.

The gradual decline of Apple continues. Along with many other poor decisions, their greed us gotten in the way of both customers and partners. I still enjoy the full functionality of Comixology on my Galaxy S6. This IPhone is just my work phone.

With the ability to buy comics still gone from the app, It remains a disappointment. The new organization features are nice and have been sorely needed for years. But they just serve to highlight even further how what was such a great comics experience has been ruined. Dont listen to the people trying to make excuses and blame someone else for the removal of the store. CMX owes a lot of its success to the App Store and its customers and were fine selling in app for years and Apples policies were unchanged. Now suddenly its a problem? Sure. It was a horrible, anti consumer move that dumped all over customers that have been giving CMX money for years. Thats just simple fact.