Seeneva: smart comic reader

RustyCoder

About this app

A libre smart powered comic book reader.

Features:
• Smart speech balloons zooming. 💬
• Speech balloons OCR and TTS. 👀
• Supports CBZ (.zip), limited CBR (.rar), CB7 (.7z), CBT (.tar) and PDF comic book archives.
• Supports different image formats on any Android device.
• View ComicRack metadata.
• Supports Left-to-Right (LTR) and Right-to-Left (RTL) read directions.
• Supports Android 4.1+ and all available Android ABIs arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86_64 and x86.
• Smart functionality performs locally on the device.
• Libre application under GPLv3 or later license.
• No ads, no personal data collection.

💬 Speech balloons zooming
Read digital comic books on mobile devices can be difficult especially if they have small screen. Seeneva to the rescue! Built-in Machine Learning model trained to detect speech balloons on pages allows you easily zooming and navigate through them with a touch of a finger.

👀 OCR and TTS
Have you ever wanted to copy text from speech balloons? Seeneva make it possible to use Optical Character Recognition on all founded speech balloons to extract text from them. And the built-in Android Text-To-Speech allows you to use Seeneva like audio comic book reader.

❗Note:
• No comic book included.
• OCR and TTS features are only available for English language right now.

Please read app repository https://github.com/Seeneva/seeneva-reader-android for more information about the app and known issues.

Ratings and reviews

This app was completely unusable and I had to uninstall after less than 5 minutes. First, I tried to open a zip file less than 50 Mb, and the app just froze. Next, I extracted the zip file to a folder, and used the app to open the individual jpg files. The app just gave an error message for every jpg. Meanwhile, I'm able to view the jpgs just fine in other apps. 1 star.

Because of the speech bubble function (which works well), this would be my main reader, however, it's almost impossible to get any books up on the app. They have opted to allow us to download a copy of each book you choose, which takes up space on my device, or to make a link from the app to the books on your device. Whichever option you choose, it takes FOREVER for the app to add them to the library. If the book is more than 80mb, goodluck, cause it will take you almost 45mins to 2 hours.

Ugly. Where is the library management? A zoom feature does not a comic reader make. Ok, the scrolling function is very very very cool I will admit. A few years ago there was another app called KomiK that has all but disappeared that had a similar idea but it did not scroll. However, loading the comics is very clunky, I would want to load chunks of a library or be able to link my library via komga. Also the colour palette...? No dark mode? User defined look and feel? Contact me for more.

What's new

New:
- Added support for Android 13.
- New translations added. Thanks to the contributors!