
72
BU Score
Strong
Maru - ComicViewer/TextReader
✍️ BU Analytics Review
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Maru - ComicViewer/TextReader is an Android app from 마루치아라치 in the Comics category, currently rated 4.8★ across 57,872 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews — supporters praise core features while critics cite stability/value gaps.
Our BU Score puts it at 72 — Strong (healthy traction). For a Comics app, that means healthy traction.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below — live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (57,872 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🗓️ Snapshot Timeline
HISTORYEach bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v4.12.12🔄 updated 5d ago📂 Comics💰 Free📺 Ad-supported🚀 Launched 2012 (13y old)
📝 About this app
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)
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)
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Maru - ComicViewer/TextReader
- Developer
- 마루치아라치
- Bundle ID
- my.geulga
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Comics
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- maru.xyz
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $435/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- Not found
- Not found
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
- Total raised
- Not found
- Last round
- Not found
- Investors
- Not found
- Crunchbase
- Not found
- AngelList
- Not found
Press & Links
- Articles found
- Not found
- Listed on
- Not found
- Blog
- Not found
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- Not found
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth57,872 ratings+26% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.




