Downloads & Offline Reading

Download series and books directly to your device to read without an internet connection. Perfect for traveling, saving bandwidth, or ensuring your favorite content is always available.

Why Download?

Read Anywhere: No internet connection needed once downloaded

Save Bandwidth: Don’t stream the same pages multiple times

Faster Loading: Instant page loads from local storage

Reliable Access: Content always available, even if your server goes offline

Downloading Content

Download a Series

Navigate to the series you want
Tap the Download button
All books in the series will download
Progress indicator shows download status

Download Individual Books

Open the book’s detail page
Tap the Download button
The book downloads to your device

Smart Downloads

Smart Downloads is an automated way to keep your favorite series’ unread books available on your device without manual intervention.

How it Works

When you enable Smart Downloads for a series, Komic monitors your reading progress and the server for new books. It automatically keeps a specific number of unread books downloaded. As you finish reading a book, Komic can automatically delete it and download the next unread one in the series.

Enabling Smart Downloads

You can enable Smart Downloads from two places:

Series Details: Tap the Smart Download button (icon with a circular arrow and a downward arrow) in the series header.
Series Context Menu: Long-press on a series in your library and select Smart Download.

Configuration Options

When configuring Smart Downloads for a series, you can set:

Rolling Window: Determines how many unread books to keep on your device. For example, if set to 3, Komic will always try to have the next 3 unread books ready.
Monitor all unread: Komic will monitor and download all unread books in the series.

Managing Monitored Series

Manage all your active Smart Downloads in Settings → Downloads → Monitored series. From here you can adjust rolling window sizes, disable monitoring, or manually trigger a sync.

Viewing Downloads

Downloads Tab: Shows all downloaded content from all your servers

Unlike library browsing, downloads from different servers appear together in one unified view. You can see everything you have available offline regardless of which server it came from.

Downloaded Badge: Content that’s downloaded shows a badge in the library view

Managing Downloads

Deleting Downloads

To free up storage space:

Navigate to the downloaded content
Tap Delete Download
Content is removed from your device (but stays on the server)

You can re-download content anytime.

In addition, you can enable Delete when read in Settings → Downloads. When this global setting is ON, Komic will automatically remove a book from your device once it is marked as read, freeing up space for the next download.

Storage Considerations

Downloads use device storage. The amount depends on:

Number of books/pages downloaded
Image quality and resolution
Comic format (CBZ, CBR, PDF, EPUB)

Check your device storage regularly if you download frequently.

Offline Reading

Once downloaded, books work completely offline:

No Connection Required: Read without Wi-Fi or cellular data

Full Functionality: All reader features work normally (zoom, modes, settings)

Local Progress: Reading progress saved locally

Sync When Online: Progress syncs to your server when you reconnect (if sync is enabled in Settings → Reader → Sync)

Multi-Server Downloads

If you have multiple servers (Komic+):

Unified Downloads View: All downloads from all servers appear together in the Downloads tab

Server Association: Each downloaded book remembers which server it came from

Independent Management: Delete a server and its downloads remain on your device

Download from Any Server: Switch between servers and download content from each

This makes it easy to have an offline library that spans multiple servers.

Tips

Download Over Wi-Fi: Large series can use significant data - use Wi-Fi when possible

Pre-Download for Trips: Download content before traveling without connectivity

Manage Storage: Regularly clean up finished or unwanted downloads

Check Server Space: Some servers have download limits - check with your server admin

Re-download If Needed: Deleted downloads can always be re-downloaded from the server

Troubleshooting

Downloads Failing:

Check internet connection
Verify server is accessible
Ensure sufficient device storage
Try downloading individual books instead of entire series

Missing Downloads:

Check you’re looking in the Downloads tab
Verify download completed (check progress indicator)
Restart Komic if needed

Corrupted Downloads:

Delete and re-download the content
If problem persists, check the original files on your server