Star Trek Comics app good for
Great app. Only issue is I would like the ipad version to support file transfer via iTunes, like pages and other programs. This way I can back them up my self and be able to add them later with out redownloading the comic again. Just my preference. Maybe allowing use to import the comics we buy to iBooks, then iBooks can sync my comics. Many people want to add all there books and comics to iBooks. Use other apps to purchase but view and sync via iBooks/iTunes.
Love the comics - above what I was expecting.
I had a problem and lost access to my purchased comic, and these guys responded on a Sunday night. I had my purchase restored by 8:00 AM Monday morning. Terrific customer service.
Excellent comic experience -- works really well on iPhone; on iPad, WOW, fantastic.
My only minor suggestion, the artwork in bookshelf view is distracting -- is the repeating IDW graphic really necessary?
UPDATED: I took one business day for IDW to respond. Apparently you need to close all apps, then relaunch the IDW Comic app. Restore within the app and previously purchased items will appear. If you have trouble contact their feedback email within the app and they will help you. Thanks IDW!
***Old 1 star review follows******
Scroll to the bottom of the display and it asks you to click on lowest banner if you are updating from an older app.
It instructs you to create a NEW login to sign up to restore previous purchases. I did it. I "restored" afterwards within the app and got a pop up telling me previous purchases were restored! Hurray... except nothing shows up in que :-( I emailed their feedback folks and awaiting an answer! I will update rating and review when I hear back from their office.
Im a huge fan of ST, and have purchased a few of the the comics available on iTunes an love the idea of having a one app library of the comics.
It would be nice if this app could recognize that I have already bought a comic and let me download it again in this library.
Im bought maybe 20-25 books, and am really pleased with it overall. Zoom is nice, but to read panel-by-panel, rotate your device horizontally. (Some parts of the artwork dont always make it into the panel by panel though.) One thing I wish would be changed is that if you ever redownload your books, you think it would just fill in the gaps and download the one you are missing, but it redownloads everything again.
Some bad moments
All of a sudden I can not download any Comics I buy. I always get an authentication Error. If I retry I get the Same Error again. I already wasted over 3 Euro that Way!
Great Update,
purchases gone, cant log in, my whole comics gone!!!
The navigation is awkward and buggy, making the story almost unreadable.
Some panels cannot be navigated to or get cropped in landscape mode. Scrolling around and zooming in to read text bubbles is dizzying and distracting. It is as if you scanned a comic book and tried to read it with the photo app.
Pages where the graphic artist got overly creative with the layout are almost totally unreadable.
There is no guided interaction with the story. Buy the book.
I agree completely with the previous reviewer. This was awful. It reminded me of just a scanned comic viewed on a reader. I even paid for a comic just to give them the benefit of the doubt, but ended up deleting it, because the navigation was lousy and without zooming every screen, unreadable. With such amazing comic apps already available, one would have thought the developers would be embarrassed to be in the same pool.
Nothing special. Theres only 3 free comics that never change and the interface is uninteresting. I would recommend buying the printed comics.
When this app works the comics are great but I find this app is very unstable and crashes more than it works. Please fix this App!