TritonPanels 1.3 is on the App Store and Google Play, and almost all of it goes into one feature: Panel by Panel, the reading mode that finds the panels on a page and takes you through them one at a time.
When we introduced it, it read the gutters on the page. That works beautifully on a bordered scan and badly on everything else — full-bleed art, borderless digital layouts, busy grids. 1.3 replaces the whole approach.
A detector trained on comic pages
The new detector was trained on Western comic pages rather than deduced from white space, and it finds panels on far more of them: full-bleed art, borderless digital layouts and busy grids included. It runs entirely on your device — the model ships inside the app, nothing is uploaded, and it works on a plane. Covers and splash pages are still shown whole, because a splash page is the panel.
Every panel, in the right order
Two things used to go wrong even when detection was right. A wide strip that filled the page would leave the camera where it was, so stepping onto it looked like nothing had happened. And a grid could be read column-first instead of row-first.
Both are fixed. Wide strips are now shown full width and centred, and grids are read row by row. Blank margins are no longer mistaken for panels.
Controls you can actually reach
In Panel by Panel, tap the sides to step back and forward, tap the top of the screen for the controls, or swipe down to show them and up to hide them. A short drag now counts as a tap, which matters more than it sounds: reading one-handed on a phone, a “tap” is rarely a clean one.
Guides for every way of reading
Four reading modes with different gestures is four things to learn. The first time you open a mode, a one-screen guide shows you its gestures. You can bring it back any time from How Controls Work in the reader menu, or turn the guides back on under Settings → Gesture Guides.
Also in 1.3
PDFs now report their page count correctly in Panel by Panel. Everything else is where you left it: CBZ, CBR (RAR4), CBT and PDF; Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive; collections, tags, bookmarks, notes and reading stats; twenty languages.
The full history is on the changelog.