2014-05-03
Great content, app needs more polish
Amar Chitra Katha is pretty well known in India for their kid-friendly retellings of Indian mythology, classics and biographies. This app is new and appears to be an attempt to move away from their first foray into digital comics (you can still find those on the UK App Store, where each comic is an app in itself).
Thankfully, the new Amar Chitra Katha app supports in-app purchases. The comics' quality has also received a boost and mostly look great. Exceptions include almost anyplace there's "handwritten" text instead of speech bubbles (e.g. the comic about Nehru), and some footnotes appear to be missing.
What the app lacks is polish. The Comixology app (even the new one) simply looks and feels like a native iOS 7 app. This doesn't. However, all the functionality one expects is presents and I look forward to the developers releasing an updated version of the app with an updated UI.