Panel Clips Plus
Keep the panel that got you, with a note: highlights, for comics. Clips live in a scrapbook, and any of them can go to a friend as a card with the series credited.
The reader
Panel by panel, like a camera.
Guided view finds the panels on every page, right on your phone, and moves between them. The rest of the page sinks into the dark, and past the last panel the page turns and the camera opens on the next one's first.
- Guided viewTap through every panel in the book's own order, right to left for manga. Hold for the whole page; tap a panel there to go into it.
- Hands-free PlusPress play and the camera moves on by itself, holding a splash page longer than a reaction shot and leaning slowly into each panel. A whole chapter without a tap.
- Every way to readRight to left, left to right, vertical, and long webtoon strips that never stutter. Two pages side by side on an open foldable or a tablet.
- Kind to your eyesA dimmer and warmer light inside the reader that never touches the phone's setting, and volume keys that turn the page when you want them to.
Visit, then Keep
Read anything. Keep only what you love.
Chapters from your online sources open straight away and only load the pages near you. Leave without keeping and they leave with you, so your phone doesn't fill up with chapters you read once.
- Tap a chapter to visitNo download step, no waiting for a whole chapter. The next few pages are fetched as you turn.
- Keep is instantPages you've already seen are reused, so keeping a chapter you just read is often done before you lift your thumb.
- Always clearA small seal says Visiting, Keeping or Kept, and your series page says what's on this phone.
The counter
Tap Volume 1. It's there.
Open a series and its volumes and chapters are ready to read, with the sources out of your way. Take one book tonight, or the lot, and they come over the counter in order with a real progress bar.
- One tapVolume 1, Chapter 1 or the whole run. Sumiyo finds a copy in your sources and fetches it; you just read.
- A real barMegabytes of megabytes and the speed, then each page counted as the book opens. It follows you in a small strip while you read something else.
- Each book on its shelfVolume 3 lands beside volumes 1 and 2, in order, not as a loose file. The rest of the series stays one tap away.
Make it yours
Your icon. Your backdrop.
Try them here. Night is everyone's; the other icons and backdrops come with Plus, and the app lets you preview every one before you decide.
Five inks for the moon
The same crescent and seal, on your home screen in the ink you like.
What's around the page
True black for OLED, slate to rest your eyes, paper and white so webtoons run edge to edge.
And everything around it
Made with care, panel by panel.
Clarity Plus
Low-resolution scans, sharpened. Small pages are upscaled two times on your phone, a page or two ahead of you.
Your reading
History by day, time read this week, your streak, and the series you read most. Incognito when you'd rather not.
Continue, from home
A widget that opens the reader on the exact page you left.
New chapters find you
A quiet check every few hours and one notification naming what's new. With Plus, they're kept on your phone on Wi-Fi.
Sync Plus
Your library, sources and the page you're on, the same on your phone, tablet and other devices.
Yours to lock
Fingerprint or face to open the app, and backups you export and restore yourself. Restoring never wipes newer reading.
Your shelf, your sources
Comes empty. Fills with what you choose.
Sumiyo ships with no manga and no sources. You add the sources you're allowed to use, as small .json files, and every story on them opens here. You're in charge of what you add.
{
"sumiyo": 1,
"name": "My library",
"baseUrl": "https://library.example.org",
"readingMode": "rtl",
"search": { "url": "/search?q={query}" },
"chapters": { "url": "/series/{id}" },
"pages": { "url": "/read/{id}" }
}
- Add one three waysPaste it, pick the file, or give its link. Sumiyo shows you what it is and asks before adding it.
- Comics through your debridBring your own TorBox or Real-Debrid key and comic releases come in one book at a time. Sumiyo never torrents on your phone.
- Order them your wayTurn sources on and off, and move the ones you trust to the top.
PastePick a .jsonFrom a linkTorBoxReal-Debrid
Privacy
No ads. No analytics. No account needed.
Your library, progress and kept chapters live on your phone. Panel finding, hands-free, clips and Clarity all run on the phone itself. Sign in only if you want sync, and delete your account from Settings any time. Debrid keys are encrypted with a key from your phone's keystore.
Sumiyo Plus
Reading is free. The rest is Plus.
Every source, every reading mode, keeping chapters, history and backups are free, and stay free. Plus is the extras, and it's how Sumiyo keeps going.
Monthly
$1.99/ month
Try a month first.
Best value
Yearly
$14.99/ year
About $1.25 a month.
Lifetime
$29.99once
Pay once, keep it.
US prices in USD; other countries see their own in Google Play. Subscriptions renew until you cancel in Google Play. Everything in Plus
Questions
The short answers.
What is Sumiyo?
A manga, comic and webtoon reader for Android phones, tablets and foldables, built around the panel. It reads every format of page, guides you panel by panel, and keeps your place across everything you read.
What can I read in it?
Whatever your sources offer. Sumiyo comes with no manga, comics or sources of its own; you add the .json sources you're allowed to use.
Is it free?
Yes. Reading, every source, every reading mode, keeping chapters, history, stats, backups and the widget are free, with no ads. Plus adds extras like hands-free reading, Panel Clips, Clarity, icons, backdrops and sync.
Which devices does it run on?
Android 9 or later, on phones, tablets and foldables. On an open foldable or a tablet, pages sit side by side like a book.
Does it collect my data?
No ads and no analytics. What you read stays on your phone unless you turn on sync, which stores your library and progress in your own account. The privacy policy has the details.
When can I get it?
Sumiyo is coming soon to Google Play.
Ready when the lights go down.
A reader for the night. Free to read, with Plus when you want the rest.
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