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StreamZine Comics & magazines reader that supports many sources. August 20th, 2026 Now on App Store! |
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Added content source: PopBoks - Scanned archives of cult ex-Yugoslav music magazines Džuboks (1974–1985) and Ritam (1989–1995).
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Local Files support - Import files from your Mac and/or device:
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Using USB cable - Connect your device and StreamZine folder will appear in the Finder's Files list for it. Drag and drop into it.
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Using AirDrop - Send files from your Mac to your device and open them with StreamZine. The StreamZine folder also appears under On My iPad in the Files app, so you can copy into it over Wi-Fi either from iCloud Drive, or a Mac mounted with Files ▸ Connect to Server.
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Within the app: Import ▸ From Device - Opens a file browser to find and pick any file from the device itself.
- Local Files is always ON (no Settings switch) because the device itself is the source. Remove All Downloads ignores local files; Delete Library asks before deleting them. Local files show distinct badge in UI and can be filtered on.
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iCloud sync across devices signed into the same iCloud account.
- Syncing: Settings, Library, read status, pages you stopped on, Importing, deleting.
- Restoring from iCloud or installing the app on a new device pulls the existing library and app state in.
- NOT syncing: content downloads (still your responsibility per App Store policy compliance).
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Added content sources:
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BombJack — DLH's Archive, of scanned vintage computer magazines, books and manuals covering Commodore 8-bit, Amiga, Atari, Apple, MSX, Timex-Sinclair, Oric, Osborne and a dozen more machines in seven switchable sub-sources: Magazines (Commodore, Amiga, Other), Books, Hardware Manuals, Video Games-related, Other (newsletters, applications, advertising). Download individually to read.
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BatCave — A large open repository of comics. Import to browse and fetch metadata and Download to read.
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Stripovi.com — free Croatian web comics. Switch it on to see the index then Download individually to read.
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Spectrum Computing — English-language scans for the Sinclair machines (ZX Spectrum, ZX81, QL), indexed from the open ZXDB database and downloaded from the Internet Archive, in three switchable sub-sources: Magazines (Crash, Your Sinclair, Sinclair User, ZX Computing and the wider 8-bit press), Fanzines, and Books by imprint (Usborne, Interface, Melbourne House and more). Download individually to read.
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Atarimania — scanned issues of the Atari press across 70 titles: the 8-bit magazines (Antic, ANALOG, Page 6, STart, Atari User), the ST press (Atari ST User, ST Action, ST Format) and the US user-group newsletters. Switch it on to see the index then Download individually to read.
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Vintage Apple — the Apple side of the era, in two switchable sub-sources: Magazines (Byte 1975-1998, Macworld, MacUser, PC World, Softalk and Apple's develop) and Books & Manuals (scanned Apple and Mac books, programming guides, catalogues and the Inside Macintosh series). Switch either on to see the index then Download individually to read.
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Bug fixes and various improvements including: performance optimizations, Settings enhancements, honoring server cooldown periods, better handling of square-shaped artwork, display of download progress in MB, sort by scan size.
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Added content sources:
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RetroSpec, Tomaž Kac's archive of scanned ex-Yugoslav vintage (1972-2001) computer magazines (Moj Mikro, Računari, Svet Kompjutera, etc.) and computer books.
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Archive.org - the Internet Archive. A small embedded index for the ex-Yugoslav Amiga fanzines: Amiga Bilten (Sep & Oct '88) and A-Profy (Jul & Aug '90) and Import from Archive.org individual item detail pages.
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ComicBook+, an archive of public-domain Golden Age comics, pulp magazines, story papers and fanzines. You search/browse for a series, and Import metadata onto the shelf. To download you need a (free) ComicBook+ account.
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All sources can now be switched ON / OFF in Settings. Switching a source hides it everywhere but never deletes anything.
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Browser fencing All three browser views (StripZona, Archive.org, ComicBook+) are fenced to their own site. The address line is read-only and links leading outside those domains are not followed. (It is not a full web browser -- App Store compliance.)
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Smart Zoom trims the blank space off so the artwork fills the full screen. Detects scanner edges, paper margins, and lone page numbers. So magic and unique that is is ON by default (switchable in Settings).
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Bug fixes, UI/UX tweaks and additions including more natural zoom, sort by Recently Open, and Page Preview Grid.
- Imports a liked StripZona forum page and turns its posts into library entries.
- Finds cover art from the page itself, or by resolving against stripovi.com.
- Downloads from mirrors (MediaFire, Mega, Pixeldrain), including split archives and sets where one archive holds a run of issues.
- Reads CBR, CBZ, RAR, ZIP, 7z and PDF. Portrait turns pages like Kindle; landscape is one continuous fit to width (for oversized content) scroll with a scrubber down each edge, so it works in either hand. It remembers where you stopped reading.
- Search, filter, sort by title, hero, publisher, series or number, with read/reading/unread and downloaded states.
StripZona is a Serbian/ex-YU comics fan site. You browse its forum inside the app, import a topic page, and its issues become a searchable shelf — covers, series, hero, publisher and issue numbers, all read off the page in a convenient Kindle-style reader. Downloads and reading happen in the app. You will need a free StripZona account. StripZona Support Details (How logging in works, the heroes, series, editions and publishers this has been tested against, and what happens to a topic written some other way.)
Development Notes (Building and running, test fixtures, shipped indexes, etc.)
Content: there is no content. The app is a reader — it doesn't host, bundle, or ship any content. Content is downloaded at the user's request from freely accessible sources accessible to any web browser. Some sources require a free account, created on their own site. Browsing happens in views fenced to each source's domain — the app is a specialized reader, not a general web browser.
Code: Copyright © Mihailo Despotovic, 2026. Licensed under PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0.
- 🟢 Free to use for personal, educational, research, and non-commercial projects.
- 🔴 Commercial use prohibited. If you intend to use my code in any way in any revenue-generating product, you must contact me for a commercial license.