The new Smart Lists view in ComiXology 3.7. The new Smart Lists tab provides a quick view of your ComiXology collection, listing your recently purchased and unread issues.

I’ve been using ComiXology 3.7 for a few weeks now, and it’s superior to the old version of the app in every way. “It’s a complete rearchitecting… it’s been a long time coming.” “That was exactly what we were aiming for,” ComiXology CEO David Steinberger told me. Today that all changes with the release of version 3.7 of ComiXology’s Comics app, which introduces a new interface (across not just iOS but also Android and Amazon) featuring customizable lists, improved library options, and the sense that there isn’t a blank space at the heart of the app anymore. It had been designed as a shop-and-read experience, but was suddenly reduced to “-and-read.” I kept using it for reading-I’d been buying most of my digital comics right on ComiXology’s website for a year-but what was once a smooth experience was now fractured and awful. Amazon wasn’t interested in paying Apple 30 percent of its in-app sales, Apple wasn’t interested in negotiating terms, and comic book readers could no longer buy and read comics with a couple of taps.īut the real shame was that without the commerce features, the ComiXology iOS app was completely out of balance.

When ComiXology was bought by Amazon last year, the company almost immediately ripped all in-app purchases out of the iOS version of its popular comic-book-reading app. Note: This story has not been updated for several years. ComiXology 3.7: New app makes the best of the Amazon/Apple situation

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