Use Case
3D UX/UI mockups that scroll inside a laptop and a phone
Full page screenshots scroll inside a 3D laptop, app screens tap on a 3D phone, hotspots link out. One URL that opens in any browser, nothing to install.
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Spreads, reading direction and lettering decide whether a digital comic reads like the printed issue. Set each one before you export.
You drew the issue for paper. The reveal lands on the turn, the splash runs across two facing pages, and the grid was paced page by page. Then it ships as a PDF, the reader scrolls it in a preview pane, and the splash arrives cut down the middle. A flipbook viewer puts the pages back into pairs, so the craft decisions you already made survive the export.
This is the one decision you cannot repair after export. The cover displays alone, so page 1 sits opposite page 2 and everything after that falls into facing pairs. Count forward from the cover before you export anything.
Flipping manga fixes the reading order and breaks everything else in the panel. Handedness reverses, signage reads backwards, and any lettering baked into the artwork mirrors with it. Readers of right-to-left comics are used to the direction and would rather have the art intact. Say which way the issue reads on the cover page, and nobody spends the first three pages working it out.
A page drawn at US comic trim is 6.6 by 10.2 inches. On a 6-inch phone the same lettering sits at the edge of comfortable, and the nine-panel grid that reads on paper becomes nine stamps. Letter for the smaller screen when the digital edition is the primary one.
Read the finished issue on your own phone, start to finish, before you publish. Almost every legibility problem is obvious in two minutes on the device and invisible on a 27-inch monitor.
The single-issue length is a print convention that survives the move to a browser. Twenty to thirty-two pages is long enough to be an issue and short enough that a reader gets to the end in one sitting. Serialised chapters of eight to sixteen pages suit a monthly cadence better if you are drawing alone. The 200-page collection is where the format stops working, because at that length readers start reaching for a bookmark and a search box.
A free first issue at a public URL is the funnel indie creators actually run, and later issues get sold by gating the link through Gumroad, Ko-fi or Itch and delivering the URL on purchase. Patreon tiers do the same with time instead of money, and patrons get the link a month before it goes public. There is no per-reader authentication, so a shared link is a shared issue. Most creators find that leakage costs them less than DRM friction does.
The i3Dify free plan holds 3 projects and 50 MB, and a full issue exported at 150 DPI counts against that ceiling. Every issue published on free carries the i3Dify branding pill. Pro is 3 dollars a month and takes the pill off.
A comic that opens in a browser with its spreads intact reads the way you drew it, turn for turn. Drop a hotspot on the last page pointing at the next issue, and the reader who just finished one is one tap from the next.
Turn your issue into a flipbook.
Export your pages as a PDF, single pages rather than spreads unless a splash was designed as one wide image, then upload and publish. You get a URL readers open in any browser with no app.
Export the splash as one wide image and check where it lands in the pairing. The cover displays alone, so page 1 faces page 2. Count forward to confirm your spread falls on a facing pair rather than across a turn.
Yes. Keep the art unflipped, since flipping breaks handedness and any text inside the artwork, and note the reading direction on the cover page. Most manga readers prefer unflipped.
Twenty to thirty-two pages for a single issue, or eight to sixteen for a serialised chapter. Long collections work poorly because readers start wanting bookmarks and search.
Gate the link through Gumroad, Ko-fi, Itch or Patreon and deliver the URL on purchase. There is no per-reader authentication, so treat the link as the product and accept some sharing.
Larger than print convention when digital is your primary format, and test on a real phone before committing. Keep dialogue-heavy pages to four to six panels.
Full page screenshots scroll inside a 3D laptop, app screens tap on a 3D phone, hotspots link out. One URL that opens in any browser, nothing to install.
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