Rulia

Despite the boatload of media content out there, some people like to turn to the manga for entertainment. The various intriguing storylines coupled with the vivid imagery is bound to leave a lasting impression. If you have been collecting manga for years, then all you need a good reader to allow you to browse through your collection.

Rulia is an offline manga reader that provides a convenient way to enjoy browsing through various comics during your spare time.  Boasting a modern and stylish interface, the app supports most of the formats that this type of literature, including EPUB, CBR, CBZ, Tar and ZIP.

While the application includes numerous modern features that you can expect in a comic reader, two stand out, namely the trimming of the blank areas and the removal of the Moiré effect.

The latter is a common distortion specific to manga and other repetitive patterns, and that can make a file difficult to follow and read. Relying on denoising, the app removed the unwanted Moiré patterns, so you can enjoy a more visually pleasing reading experience. The reading experience can be further optimized by removing the blank areas from wide images and crop them so that they fit your screen dimensions.

In the eventuality that you are regularly using a stylus for handling various documents, then you will be happy to learn that Rulia supports Surface Dial. You can use your pen’s tail button to flip or turn pages of the current manga book you are reading. In a way, this can provide a similar experience of turning the pages of a physical book.

The app also supports paging via the Surface Dial, meaning that you can configure the turning angle of the dial to control the page navigation. Overall, this provides an alternative to browsing through the pages and may not be something everyone enjoys.