r/webtoons • u/kayeoaks • 14d ago

Advice/Critique/Help Tapas is closing; now what?

Im just a southern American dumbass obsessed with reading manwha who is absolutely devastated that Tapas is shutting down. All that money just wasted on an app to read so many stories and now they will just be gone.

How would you recommend finding and following any possible updates on the different stories? How do I cope with losing everything from this site? I was lucky that I only read a couple of stories on Pocket Comics, so when they closed I wasn’t as devastated. It helped that I found out about Pocket Comics when I saw my favorite story on Tapas, not from opening the app to that disappointing notice. Y’all, that notice absolutely ruined my entire week.

Anyways, thanks for reading my woes.

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u/Peachy_coloured 13d ago

After spending so much money here and finding it to be the somewhat more reasonable of the prices, Im finding it hard to want to move to a new app, but I have trouble sourcing physical. Any advice on maybe free reading apps or where to find physical versions

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u/PossibilityOk7607 13d ago edited 13d ago

Official apps your looking at: Webtoon, Manta, Tappytoon, and Lezhin. There maybe others but those are the only ones I am aware of and use.

Unofficially, your not going to find normal apps. It will be websites. Apps from the store are monitored and so you cant have unofficial content for free on them without them being shut down.

If you poke around enough you'll find what your after. Usually searching for a comic name and wading through the results is the best way.

Physical stuff, I get the majority of my comics from Amazon. But I have got them from other places too like Waterstones and Forbidden Planet. (I'm in the UK and want English copies)

I keep an eye on a few different imprints to see what stuff is being printed. Webtoon Unscrolled, Inklore, Yen Press, Ize Press.

Not everything gets printed, mostly the bigger comics and occasionally something smaller that they know is good.

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u/kayeoaks 13d ago

Same, maybe we will get lucky and find a free one

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u/neroe5 13d ago

so not quite what you are looking for but https://bookwalker.com/ lets you download the things you buy, there is a DRM but it is the kind that is rather easy to break if need be