Maru - ComicViewer/TextReader
Simple! Powerful! ComicViewer/TextReader/PDFViewer/EpubReader
- Total installs
- 2,065,868
- Installs / day
- 0
- Rating
- 4.9★
- Released
- 15 Oct 2012
- Last update
- 1 Oct 2026
- Countries
- —
exact · Play shows 1,000,000+
since last crawl
59K ratings · 208 reviews
14y ago
v4.13.6 · 11d ago
not checked yet
Install history
exact counter from Google PlayInstalls per day · last 90 days
Change timeline
No changes recorded yet. We compare every crawl with the previous one and list title, icon, screenshots, description, version, price and availability changes here.
Country availability
Availability has not been checked for this app yet. “Check all countries” looks the app up in about 140 Google Play storefronts and shows where it is live, listed but not installable, or missing — plus any country-specific (custom) store listings.
Top countries
estimate · charts of 12 OctMost downloads likely come from 🇰🇷 South Korea (~14%), out of 125 countries where it is charted.
Estimated from top-chart positions weighted by each country’s Google Play market size. Countries where the app is not in a chart are not shown, so small markets may be missing.
Top chart positions
as of 12 Oct| Chart | Country | Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Top free · Comics | KR | #7 | = |
| Top free · Comics | MO | #71 | ▼ 6 |
| Top free · Comics | MN | #72 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | ME | #73 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | LI | #74 | ▼ 6 |
| Top free · Comics | AO | #75 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | BF | #75 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | BJ | #75 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | BW | #75 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | CI | #75 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | CM | #75 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | CV | #75 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | FJ | #75 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | GA | #75 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | ML | #75 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | MZ | #75 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | NA | #75 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | NE | #75 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | TG | #75 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | TZ | #75 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | UG | #75 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | ZM | #75 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | ZW | #75 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | AG | #76 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | AL | #76 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | AW | #76 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | BA | #76 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | BH | #76 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | GW | #76 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | HT | #76 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | IS | #76 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | KW | #76 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | MK | #76 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | MU | #76 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | PG | #76 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | RW | #76 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | TT | #76 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | AM | #77 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | BS | #77 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | CY | #77 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | DK | #77 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | FI | #77 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | HR | #77 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | JM | #77 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | LU | #77 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | MD | #77 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | MT | #77 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | QA | #77 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | SI | #77 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | TJ | #77 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | TM | #77 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | BZ | #78 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | EE | #78 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | LT | #78 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | LV | #78 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | SK | #78 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | PR | #85 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | AR | #88 | ▼ 4 |
| Top free · Comics | IQ | #88 | ▼ 7 |
| Top free · Comics | LY | #89 | ▼ 7 |
Show all 60 chart positions
App manifest
Read this app's manifest from Google Play: permissions, declared SDKs, components and AdMob app ID. Saved analysis appears here automatically.
Data safety
declared by the developer on Google Play- Shares data with third parties Location, Personal info, and App info and performance
- Collects data Device or other IDs
- Data is encrypted in transit
This is the developer's own declaration, summarised from the Play listing. The permissions below show what the app is technically able to access.
Permissions
11 in 5 groups4 Sensitive4 Notable3 Routine
What this app can do with your phone
- Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storage
- Add, change or delete photos, videos and other files in your phone's storage
Photos/Media/FilesSensitive2
Access to photos, videos, music and other files stored on your device
- Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storageread the contents of your USB storage ·
READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE - Add, change or delete photos, videos and other files in your phone's storagemodify or delete the contents of your USB storage ·
WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
StorageSensitive2
Access to files, photos and media saved on your phone's storage
- Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storageread the contents of your USB storage ·
READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE - Add, change or delete photos, videos and other files in your phone's storagemodify or delete the contents of your USB storage ·
WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
PhoneNotable1
Access to phone calls, call history, and voicemail
- See your phone number, device IDs, whether a call is active, and the other caller's numberread phone status and identity ·
READ_PHONE_STATE
Device ID & call informationNotable1
Access to your phone's identifiers, mobile network details, and call status
- See your phone number, device IDs, whether a call is active, and the other caller's numberread phone status and identity ·
READ_PHONE_STATE
OtherNotable5
Access to miscellaneous device features that don't fit other categories
- See Bluetooth settings and connect to paired devices like headphones, speakers or watchespair with Bluetooth devices ·
BLUETOOTH - Keep your phone's processor or screen from going to sleep, which can use more batteryprevent device from sleeping ·
WAKE_LOCK - Check whether you are online and whether you use Wi-Fi or mobile dataview network connections ·
ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE - Connect to the internet to load content and send datafull network access ·
INTERNET - Make your phone vibratecontrol vibration ·
VIBRATE
Sensitive = can reach personal data, location, camera/mic or act on your behalf. Notable = changes how your device behaves. Routine = normal for almost every app. Source: Google Play's permission list for all versions of this app.
Store listing
Full description
This is an app that allows you to open text files, comic files, compressed files, PDF, epub files stored on your Android phone or web server and view them as if they were books.
It does not provide content (novel/manga files) by default.
※ Only Google Play Protect-certified devices are supported.
The main features are as follows.
1. text viewer
- Support TXT, CSV, SMI, SUB, SRT
- Support EPUB (text and picture display), support built-in font
- Open compressed text (ZIP, RAR, 7Z, ALZ/EGG) directly
- Changeable fonts (san-serif/serif/custom font), adjust size/spacing/margins etc
- Changeable character encoding (Auto/UTF-8,...)
- Changeable text/background color/background image
- Page turning method: arrow/screen tap/screen drag/volume button
- Page turning effect (animation) : roll over, slide, swipe, scroll
- Various Quick navigation: navigation bar, dial, page input
- Add/rename/sort/lookup bookmarks
- Text-to-Speech: language selection, speed control, special characters/kanji exclusion
- Slideshow: adjustable speed
- Search text: one by one, search all
- Edit text: edit, add new file
- Text alignment: left, justified, 2-sheet horizontal view
- Quick brightness
- Sentence organization
2. comic viewer
- Support JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP, WEBP, TIFF, HEIC, AVIF, ZIP, RAR, 7Z, CBZ, CBR, CB7, ALZ/EGG, PDF files
- Open compressed pictures (ZIP, RAR, 7Z, ALZ/EGG) directly
- Support zip streaming
- Support double compression
- PDF: zoom up to 8x and sharpen option when zooming in
- Left-right order/shuffle: left -> right, right->left (Japanese style), landscape 2-page view
- Support zoom in-out, magnify
- Page turning method: arrow/scroll tab/scroll drag/volume button
- Page turning effect (animation): left/right scroll, up/down scroll, webtoon scroll
Webtoon scroll can smoothly scroll very long pictures.
- Quick navigation: navigation bar, dial, page input
- Add/rename/sort/lookup bookmarks
- Slideshow: set in seconds
- Keep picture zoomed in
- Support animated gif/webp/avif
- Support picture rotation (manual rotation, Auto rotation of JPEG/Webp)
- Double filter(inversion, sepia, sharpen, ...)
- Support cropping edge
3. file function
- Color mark of reading history: red(recent), green(partially read), blue(fully read)
- Picture Preview: Tiled(Large, Small), Detail
- Selectable file extension
- Sorting : Name, Size, Date
- Support delete rename, copy, move
- Searching: file name, content, picture
- Support uncompressing manually
- Support read or write of USB storage(FAT32,NTFS,exFAT)
4. other
- Theme/Color
- Support language selection (Korean, Chinese, Japanese, English, ...)
- Support Auto Synchornization of reading history
- Support SFTP (secure file transport protocol)
- Support FTP (file transport protocol)
- Support SMB (Windows Shared Folder, Samba)
- Support WebDAV
- Support Google Drive
- Support Dropbox
- Support MS OneDrive
- Password lock
- Support S-pen of Samsung Note 9 and above: page turning, pausing slideshow
- Headset button support: pausing slideshow
- Media button (Bluetooth earphone, etc.) support: pausing TTS
- Backup/restore settings (Maru, Arar compatible)
- Shortcut management (e.g. add/delete shortcut of other apps)
What's new
- Bug fixes
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