ComicDrive Downloads & RevenueComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader · Google Play
ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader gets 100+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader is #48 in Comics Free on Google Play in United States and charting in 14 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 11 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperZuarinware
CategoryComics
PriceFree
Released
Installs10k+
Rating★ 4.8 (390)
Updated
Content ratingEveryone
ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader update history & changes
Last change · 39 events since 5 Sep 2025Full timeline ↓📈Entered the top 100📈Charting in a new country🔎Top 10 for “comic book”📦Updated to version 3.22📦Updated to version 3.20✏️Description updated✏️Renamed⭐Passed 10K installs⭐Passed 100 ratings🆕First spotted by AppInsider
Full timeline · 39 events
- 📈ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader entered the top 100Top Free · Comics · ID
- 📈ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader charting in a new countryIndonesia
- 🔎ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader reached Top 10 for “comic book”#6 in Indonesia search · popularity 28
- 📦ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader updated to version 3.22• New filter Available offline: shows only the comics you can read without a network.
• Create missing covers for a whole series at once, in the series' ⋮ menu.
• New setting Scroll tall pages first: tapping the page edges scrolls a tall page before turning it.
• Webtoon mode: the button at the end of a comic now works on an upright phone, even when the last page is short.
• With Cut margins on, a page zooms in as far as one without.… more - 📈ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader entered the top 100Top Free · Comics · MX
- 📈ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader charting in a new countryMexico
- 📦ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader updated to version 3.20• Webtoon: new Page gap under Layout (None, Small, Medium, Large), so comics read as a strip no longer run together. Seamless stays the default.
• New in Settings › Storage & cache: After reading – keep a download you have finished, move it to the cache or remove it to free space.
• Webtoon with Fit page: a zoomed page stays centered and moves sideways only once it is wider than the screen.… more - 📦ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader updated to version 3.19• New: Auto white balance (reader › Display) makes yellowed paper white and faded lines black, page by page. Off until you switch it on.
• AVIF pages (Android 12+) and HEIC pages (Android 10+) now show instead of being left out.
• Webtoon mode gets Fit page: every page whole, also in landscape.
• Rescanning a Google Drive folder now picks up comics deleted or added elsewhere, e.g. in the browser (Android 8+).… more - 📦ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader updated to version 3.18• Downloaded comics now stay on your phone until you remove them: Android's storage clean-up and Clear cache no longer delete them. For comics you downloaded before, tap Download once more to keep them – nothing downloads again.… more
- ✏️ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader: description updated· US
- 📦ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader updated to version 3.17• Panel reading can now turn a panel much wider than tall on its side and show it much larger, for a phone held sideways. Choose the direction in Settings › Panels › Turn wide panels (works while the screen doesn't auto-rotate).
• A comic in a folder on this device whose file was moved or deleted now says “File not found” instead of a technical error. Moved without renaming? Open the file at its new place with Add comics › Open single comic file to keep your reading progress.… more - 📦ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader updated to version 3.16• New buttons at both ends of the page slider open the previous and the next issue of a series.
• The new list button at the top of the reader shows every issue of the series.
• With fullscreen reading off, the page now sits between black status and navigation bars, so nothing covers the artwork any more.… more - ✏️ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader: renamedComicDrive: CBZ & CBR Reader → ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader · US
- 📦ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader updated to version 3.14• Panel reading is sharper on most devices: a zoomed panel shows the full detail of the page, so lettering no longer looks soft.
• Covers for PDF comics on network shares are now created too, without downloading them.
• Webtoon mode: large double pages no longer close the app.… more - 📦ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader updated to version 3.15• ComicDrive now speaks 16 more languages, 29 in all.
• Organize many comics at once: select them, then choose Organize in categories or Remove from library in the ⋮ menu of the selection bar. Both can be undone right away.
• All comics now sits on the Start screen right below what you are reading, above Favorites and Bookmarks, so your whole library no longer waits below your categories.… more - 📦ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader updated to version 3.13• Settings › Display › Use the camera area: when it is off, pages stay clear of the front camera.
• Fit width in landscape: tall pages open at the top, and turning back opens the previous page at the bottom.
• Cut margins: single pages in landscape are sharper on most devices, and going back to a page is faster.
• In landscape, the reader's controls no longer sit under the navigation buttons or the camera.… more - ✏️ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader: description updated· US
- ✏️ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader: new screenshots12 screenshots (was 12) · US
- 📦ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader updated to version 3.12• Search in the library now finds your folders too, and comics by their artist, inker, colorist and the other people named in them.
• Rename a comic right in ComicDrive: choose “Rename” in its menu. The file keeps its name.
• Rescanning a network share now removes the comics you deleted on the server. A comic you moved keeps its progress, bookmarks and favorite.… more - 📦ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader updated to version 3.11• Reading panel by panel now recognises panels much better.
• Layout in the reader now applies to the whole series, so a manga is set up once.
• Comics no longer form a series just because they share a folder. Make one with "Add to series…" or "Make a series from this folder".
• More series are recognised by their file names.
• Comics renamed in pCloud take their new name on the next rescan and keep their progress.… more - 📦ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader updated to version 3.10• New in Settings › Start screen: Next issues. Turn it off and Continue Reading shows only comics you have started.
• New in Settings › Library: show reading progress as a percentage.
• Large comics from pCloud now download completely.… more - 📦ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader updated to version 3.09• Start screen: show your categories as tiles with covers
• Cover creation in cloud folders starts with the smallest comics and shows download progress
• Shared Google Drive folders are turned away with an explanation
• A comic in two folders stays in both
• Rescanning Drive keeps reading progress, bookmarks and categories
• Library: closing a search returns to your place
• Webtoon: a second double-tap zooms back out… more - 📦ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader updated to version 3.07• Download comics to read without a connection: one from its menu, several from the selection bar, or a whole folder with Download all comics.
• Pick any background color for the reader: four ready-made tones or your own, in Settings › Display and while you read.
• New in Display: Printed paper turns white into paper and black into ink, like a printed comic.
• The Dynamic background now matches the edge of each page.… more - 📦ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader updated to version 3.06• Google Drive folders: the first scan now finds the comics in all subfolders.
• Settings › Storage & cache shows the space downloaded comics and page images take and how much is free. Clear cache removes both; covers stay.
• A comic you removed comes back to your library when you open it again.
• Help & guides in Settings › About opens the online guide. Setup dialogs and some error messages link to the matching help page.… more - 📦ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader updated to version 3.05• Panel reading misses less: large parts of a page that weren't detected as panels now get a step of their own.
• On a zoomed panel, drag with one finger to look around the page. At the page's edge, swipe once more to turn the page.… more - ✏️ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader: description updated· US
- ✏️ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader: new screenshots12 screenshots (was 12) · US
- 📦ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader updated to version 3.04• Turn pages while zoomed in: swipe past the edge and the next page keeps the zoom.
• Mark many comics read or unread at once, or mark all earlier issues of a series read.
• Archives inside an archive (e.g. a ZIP of chapter files) now open as one comic.
• OPDS catalogs can send custom request headers, e.g. for Cloudflare Access.
• The info button in the library explains subfolders and rescanning.… more - 📦ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader updated to version 3.03• Mark as read now works on comics you haven't opened yet, e.g. on a network share or in the cloud. Nothing is downloaded.
• Finished comics show their read mark in Recently Added too.
• Read again starts a finished comic from the first page.
• Opening a bookmark no longer moves your place until you turn a page.
• Hide the page number right from the reader: Layout → Page number → Off.
• Thicker progress bars.
• Large libraries appear faster at startup.… more - 📦ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader updated to version 3.02• Finished comics now carry a blue check mark on their cover, and so does a series you have read to the end. To gray them out instead or keep just the text, go to Settings → Library.
• Cut margins now also works in panel reading.
• A comic's long-press menu now offers the same actions everywhere: mark it as read or unread, add it to a series, or remove it from your library.… more - 📦ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader: now updating weekly4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- 📦ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader updated to version 3.01• Panel reading now puts each panel in the middle of the screen, even one at the edge of the page. To keep the old view, turn off "Center each panel" in Settings → Panels.
• Any page can be a comic's cover: in the reader, open Layout and pick the page you are on under Cover. The menu in the comic's details switches back to the first page, which also replaces a cover that came from a server.… more - 📦ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader updated to version 3.0Great news: ComicDrive 3.0 reads panel by panel! Tap "Panels" in the reader's bar and the view glides from panel to panel, zoomed right in.
• Tap the page edges to move between panels, swipe to turn the page.
• Panels are found on your device, nothing is uploaded.
• Pace, zoom and dimming: Settings → Panels.
• Settings now open straight from the reader's top bar.… more - 📦ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader updated to version 2.05• Plain .zip and .rar files now open as comics, no renaming to .cbz or .cbr needed.
• Slideshow: Pause no longer ends it, and the same button resumes it. Leaving the app or rotating the device now pauses it too.
• New option in Settings → Controls: a slideshow button in the reader bar starts a slideshow in one tap.… more - 🆕ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader first spotted by AppInsiderUnited States
- 📦ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader version 2.04• Cut margins stays on and no longer crops into drawings.
• Layout sheet: one row per option, showing its value; screen orientation is also in Settings now.
• Slideshow: now in the Layout sheet, pauses while a sheet is open, plays right-to-left comics forward and turns whole spreads.
• Cleaner grids: no ⋮ on covers; long-press a cover for its options.
• Tips & gestures: a new Settings page lists the hidden gestures.… more - 🆕ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader released on Google Play
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.8 ★
390 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#48
Comics FreeMeasured
New ratings a week
37
▲ +6% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader on Google Play
App details
App ID
com.zuarinware.comicdrive
Publisher
Andreas Wiencke
Publisher country
Germany
Content rating
Everyone
ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Google Play shows an exact lifetime install count; downloads per day are its daily change (measured). When Play hasn't refreshed the count, they come from new ratings and Top Free chart positions. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Not on any Top Grossing chart: monthly active users × spend per user for its category, measured on the charted apps nearest the bottom of the charts.
Business model: In-app purchase-led
How ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
In-app purchases
One-off purchases
/mo
of revenue
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | ComicsFree | #48 |
 United Kingdom | ComicsFree | #28 |
 Russia | ComicsFree | #23 |
 Spain | ComicsFree | #20 |
 Brazil | ComicsFree | #47 |
 India | ComicsFree | #52 |
 Mexico | ComicsFree | #49 |
 Saudi Arabia | ComicsFree | #63 |
 Indonesia | ComicsFree | #67 |
 United Arab Emirates | ComicsFree | #62 |
 Turkey | ComicsFree | #66 |
 Netherlands | ComicsFree | #73 |
 Thailand | ComicsFree | #68 |
 Vietnam | ComicsFree | #71 |
Apps near ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader on the chart
Comics Free, around #48.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
Rating
4.8 ★
390 ratings
Measured
Ratings
390
Measured
Written reviews
15
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
37
▲ +6% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
under 1
Google Play
Recent ratings
4.7★
vs 4.8★ lifetime
Recent written reviews
4.7★
people who write skew negative
Review momentum
70/100
faster than 72% of Comics apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader
From the 38 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Mostly positive (95% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its design, and being easy to use.
What people like
- Design: “-minimalist design & layout”
- Ease of use: “-easy to rescan + add folders”
- Features & content: “I cannot think of a feature that is missing”
- Updates: “best comic app, and being updated, great work!”
About ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader
ComicDrive — The Modern Comic Book & Manga Reader for Android
Your comics, wherever you keep them. ComicDrive reads CBZ, CBR and PDF from your phone, your cloud folders, your NAS and your comic server. Free, with every feature included — no subscription, no account.
🔍 PANEL BY PANEL
• Tap Panels in the reader and the view glides from panel to panel, zoomed right in
• Read a full comic page on a phone screen, one panel at a time
• Panels are found on your device, nothing is uploaded
• Set the pace, the zoom and how much the rest of the page is dimmed
📂 READ FROM ANYWHERE
• Local storage and SD card
• Cloud folders through Android's storage framework — Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive and more
• Network shares over SMB, FTP and SFTP — read straight from your NAS
• OPDS catalogs: Komga, Kavita, Calibre-Web — stream page by page without downloading
• Progress on comics from Komga and Kavita is sent back to your server
• Catalogs behind Cloudflare Access or a proxy that needs custom request headers
Files stream from the source and are cached on your device for smooth reading.
🇯🇵 MADE FOR MANGA
• Right-to-left reading direction
• Webtoon mode with seamless vertical scrolling
• Double-page spreads on tablets and foldables, with a one-page shift when spreads pair up wrong
• Reader settings can be overridden per comic
⚡ SMART READING
• Automatic reading progress — pick up right where you left off
• The last page offers the next issue of the series
• Turn pages while zoomed in: the next page keeps the zoom
• Pinch and double-tap zoom, tap zones and volume-button page turns
• A slideshow that turns the pages for you
• Automatic margin cropping for scanned pages
• Bookmarks with notes and colors
📚 ORGANIZE YOUR COLLECTION
• The start screen leads with the comic you are reading, followed by Recently added
• Series detected automatically from file names and ComicInfo.xml
• Rename, merge and split series, set the reading order and pick any page as a cover
• Finished comics carry a check mark on their cover; mark many as read or unread at once
• Search, sorting, filters, grid or list view and a folder view
• Categories and favorites
• Hide issues you don't want to see — without deleting them
• Stays fast with large collections
🎨 IMAGE FILTERS
• Sepia, grayscale, high contrast and night mode
• Manual brightness, contrast and saturation
• Light and true-black dark mode
🔒 PRIVACY AND CONTROL
• No account needed; your library and reading progress are stored on your device
• App lock with PIN or biometrics
• Backup and restore your library, reading progress and bookmarks, also automatically on a schedule
📖 SUPPORTED FORMATS
CBZ, CBR, CB7 and CBT comic archives plus PDF. Plain ZIP and RAR files work too, and so do comics packed as archives inside an archive.
💛 FREE FOR EVERYONE
Every feature is included for everyone. The optional supporter purchase unlocks nothing: it removes the bar on the start screen and funds development. A future version will show a smal
Your comics, wherever you keep them. ComicDrive reads CBZ, CBR and PDF from your phone, your cloud folders, your NAS and your comic server. Free, with every feature included — no subscription, no account.
🔍 PANEL BY PANEL
• Tap Panels in the reader and the view glides from panel to panel, zoomed right in
• Read a full comic page on a phone screen, one panel at a time
• Panels are found on your device, nothing is uploaded
• Set the pace, the zoom and how much the rest of the page is dimmed
📂 READ FROM ANYWHERE
• Local storage and SD card
• Cloud folders through Android's storage framework — Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive and more
• Network shares over SMB, FTP and SFTP — read straight from your NAS
• OPDS catalogs: Komga, Kavita, Calibre-Web — stream page by page without downloading
• Progress on comics from Komga and Kavita is sent back to your server
• Catalogs behind Cloudflare Access or a proxy that needs custom request headers
Files stream from the source and are cached on your device for smooth reading.
🇯🇵 MADE FOR MANGA
• Right-to-left reading direction
• Webtoon mode with seamless vertical scrolling
• Double-page spreads on tablets and foldables, with a one-page shift when spreads pair up wrong
• Reader settings can be overridden per comic
⚡ SMART READING
• Automatic reading progress — pick up right where you left off
• The last page offers the next issue of the series
• Turn pages while zoomed in: the next page keeps the zoom
• Pinch and double-tap zoom, tap zones and volume-button page turns
• A slideshow that turns the pages for you
• Automatic margin cropping for scanned pages
• Bookmarks with notes and colors
📚 ORGANIZE YOUR COLLECTION
• The start screen leads with the comic you are reading, followed by Recently added
• Series detected automatically from file names and ComicInfo.xml
• Rename, merge and split series, set the reading order and pick any page as a cover
• Finished comics carry a check mark on their cover; mark many as read or unread at once
• Search, sorting, filters, grid or list view and a folder view
• Categories and favorites
• Hide issues you don't want to see — without deleting them
• Stays fast with large collections
🎨 IMAGE FILTERS
• Sepia, grayscale, high contrast and night mode
• Manual brightness, contrast and saturation
• Light and true-black dark mode
🔒 PRIVACY AND CONTROL
• No account needed; your library and reading progress are stored on your device
• App lock with PIN or biometrics
• Backup and restore your library, reading progress and bookmarks, also automatically on a schedule
📖 SUPPORTED FORMATS
CBZ, CBR, CB7 and CBT comic archives plus PDF. Plain ZIP and RAR files work too, and so do comics packed as archives inside an archive.
💛 FREE FOR EVERYONE
Every feature is included for everyone. The optional supporter purchase unlocks nothing: it removes the bar on the start screen and funds development. A future version will show a smal
What's new in 3.22
• New filter Available offline: shows only the comics you can read without a network.
• Create missing covers for a whole series at once, in the series' ⋮ menu.
• New setting Scroll tall pages first: tapping the page edges scrolls a tall page before turning it.
• Webtoon mode: the button at the end of a comic now works on an upright phone, even when the last page is short.
• With Cut margins on, a page zooms in as far as one without.
• Create missing covers for a whole series at once, in the series' ⋮ menu.
• New setting Scroll tall pages first: tapping the page edges scrolls a tall page before turning it.
• Webtoon mode: the button at the end of a comic now works on an upright phone, even when the last page is short.
• With Cut margins on, a page zooms in as far as one without.
Store changes
What ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Description updated
Renamed
ComicDrive: CBZ & CBR Reader → ComicDrive: CBZ & Manga Reader
Description updated