Releases: Wiredframe/paper-comic-reader
Release list
v1.3.9
Unsigned .ipa for sideloading (AltStore / Sideloadly / TrollStore).
Requires iOS 26 or later. On anything older the install fails with an unhelpful error rather than saying why.
iOS can't install this directly — see the README for how to sideload it and re-sign it with your own Apple ID.
What changed
- Shuffle highlights a comic in the grid and list instead of opening it
- Auto-hide reader controls after 2s and fix forced-landscape drift
- Re-read folder metadata in Settings, confirm folder removal
- Step the paper effect sliders in 5% notches
Full Changelog: v1.3.8...v1.3.9
v1.3.8
Unsigned .ipa for sideloading (AltStore / Sideloadly / TrollStore).
Requires iOS 26 or later. On anything older the install fails with an unhelpful error rather than saying why.
iOS can't install this directly — see the README for how to sideload it and re-sign it with your own Apple ID.
What changed
- Fire the reader's edge taps instantly, keep the centre double-tap zoom
Full Changelog: v1.3.7...v1.3.8
v1.3.7
Unsigned .ipa for sideloading (AltStore / Sideloadly / TrollStore).
Requires iOS 26 or later. On anything older the install fails with an unhelpful error rather than saying why.
iOS can't install this directly — see the README for how to sideload it and re-sign it with your own Apple ID.
What changed
- Follow the focused page across rotation and bookmarking in double-page
- Remove build-appstore.sh; App Store builds go through Xcode's Organizer
- Drop the App Store Connect API-key signing path
- Sign the App Store build with an ASC API key so releases can run headless
Full Changelog: v1.3.6...v1.3.7
v1.3.6
Unsigned .ipa for sideloading (AltStore / Sideloadly / TrollStore).
Requires iOS 26 or later. On anything older the install fails with an unhelpful error rather than saying why.
iOS can't install this directly — see the README for how to sideload it and re-sign it with your own Apple ID.
About this release
1.3.6 is a performance pass. If you have a large library — especially covers loaded from a folder or file server — the app could grow sluggish the more you browsed, and the Paper Effect sliders in particular felt laggy. Each cause was tracked down and fixed, so the app now stays responsive no matter how many comics you have.
What changed
- Fixed an app-wide slowdown after browsing a large library. The tab bar was keeping every browse tab's comic query loaded at once; with many comics that resident background work dragged the whole app down — noticeable even on unrelated controls like the Paper Effect sliders, and worse the bigger your library. Each tab (Recents / Library / Bookmarks) now loads its comics only while you're actually on it, so at most one query is live at a time.
- Kept the Paper Effect sliders smooth. The live preview re-rendered the effect on every tiny slider movement — dozens of GPU renders a second that piled up on smaller devices. It now updates once you settle on a value.
- Lower memory for covers, sharper carousel art. Bounded the decoded-cover cache and free each cover as it scrolls off, so a big library no longer pins a growing pile of images. The Discover/Recents carousel decodes each cover to its real on-screen size — crisp where it counts, lighter everywhere else.
- Smoothed the reader's control bars fading out. They now fade one glass control at a time instead of the whole bar as a single group, avoiding a per-frame backdrop redraw that dropped frames on high-refresh displays.
Full Changelog: v1.3.5...v1.3.6
v1.3.5
Unsigned .ipa for sideloading (AltStore / Sideloadly / TrollStore).
Requires iOS 26 or later. On anything older the install fails with an unhelpful error rather than saying why.
iOS can't install this directly — see the README for how to sideload it and re-sign it with your own Apple ID.
What changed
- Speed up the app across the board and fix the cover-grid layout
- Add a bilingual making-of story under docs/ (EN + DE)
- Update README with landing page link
- Refresh README screenshots; archive the App Store set under docs/appstore
- Add a privacy manifest declaring UserDefaults use
- Add build-appstore.sh — signed App Store archive + export
- Give the bundled demo comics space-free filenames
- Screenshot hook: scroll Settings to the Comic Folder section
- Screenshot hooks: target a comic, and deep-link the Paper Effect
- Seed a fresh install with four bundled demo comics
Full Changelog: v1.3.4...v1.3.5
v1.3.4
Unsigned .ipa for sideloading (AltStore / Sideloadly / TrollStore).
Requires iOS 26 or later. On anything older the install fails with an unhelpful error rather than saying why.
iOS can't install this directly — see the README for how to sideload it and re-sign it with your own Apple ID.
What changed
- Show CBZ covers in Files with a QuickLook thumbnail extension
Full Changelog: v1.3.3...v1.3.4
v1.3.3
Unsigned .ipa for sideloading (AltStore / Sideloadly / TrollStore).
Requires iOS 26 or later. On anything older the install fails with an unhelpful error rather than saying why.
iOS can't install this directly — see the README for how to sideload it and re-sign it with your own Apple ID.
What changed
- Smooth out the Discover and Recents carousel
Full Changelog: v1.3.2...v1.3.3
v1.3.2
Unsigned .ipa for sideloading (AltStore / Sideloadly / TrollStore).
Requires iOS 26 or later. On anything older the install fails with an unhelpful error rather than saying why.
iOS can't install this directly — see the README for how to sideload it and re-sign it with your own Apple ID.
What changed
- Keep search out of the carousel decks — Discover, Recents and Bookmarks
Full Changelog: v1.3.1...v1.3.2
v1.3.1
Unsigned .ipa for sideloading (AltStore / Sideloadly / TrollStore).
Requires iOS 26 or later. On anything older the install fails with an unhelpful error rather than saying why.
iOS can't install this directly — see the README for how to sideload it and re-sign it with your own Apple ID.
What changed
- Start on Recents, and lay out the carousel and page grid for iPad landscape
- Bookmarks: search, open the comic from page one, and swipe to dismiss
- Search comics, stories and issues, and filter to downloaded only
- Show download state, with per-comic Download and Remove Download
- Comic folder: import from any Files location and download comics on open
- Ignore the workflow-generated RELEASE_NOTES.md
- Release: build the changelog from git log, not PR-based notes
Full Changelog: v1.3.0...v1.3.1
v1.3.0
Unsigned .ipa for sideloading (AltStore / Sideloadly / TrollStore).
Requires iOS 26 or later. On anything older the install fails with an
unhelpful error rather than saying why.
iOS can't install this directly — see the README for how to sideload it and
re-sign it with your own Apple ID.
What changed
- Drop CBR support; read ComicInfo.xml metadata into every view
- Metadata: drop ComicInfo.xml -1 sentinels and read CDATA fields
- Reader: read-status on odd spreads, stale paper cache, dup bookmarks
- Paper: drop superseded preview renders; make PaperParams Sendable
- Library: grid alignment, stable sorts, story identity, multi-file open
Full Changelog: v1.2.2...v1.3.0