Read xkcd: a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language
Comic Sticks brings xkcd comics to your desktop with quick comic searching, offline browsing, and intuitive keyboard shortcuts.
Features:
- Search for comics
- Keep track of comics with bookmarks
- Cache comics for later offline viewing
- Dark mode for late night reading
- View comic metadata
- Quickly access comic explainations via the explain xkcd wiki
Get it on AppCenter
Get Comic Sticks and more on elementary AppCenter, the open, pay-what-you-want app store for indie developers. Every app is open source and has been reviewed and curated by elementary to ensure a native, privacy-respecting, and secure experience.
Note: This app is only available for elementary OS 5.1 Hera. If you’re on elementary OS 6 Odin, it will not appear in AppCenter. You can reach out to the developer and ask that they update it for OS 6.
What's New:
1.3.2 – Feb 8, 2020
- Add Italian translations (Thanks to albanobattistella)
- Minor performance improvement to bookmarks menu
- Fix a bug (race condition)
1.3.1 – Nov 8, 2019
- Add loading icon while fetching comic
- Add Dutch translations (Thanks to Vistaus)
1.3.0 – May 11, 2019
- Add bookmarks for keeping track of comics
- Update search menu to not waste space
1.2.0 – May 3, 2019
- Add support for translations (user interface only, comics will remain in their original language)
- Add French translations (Thanks to NathanBnm)
1.1.3 – Jan 14, 2019
Fix for changes to xkcd API encoding.
1.1.2 – Nov 16, 2018
- Fix restoring of window state when maximized
1.1.1 – Nov 4, 2018
- Add keyboard shortcut for dark mode
- Fix saving of properties window state
1.1.0 – Oct 30, 2018
The dark mode update!
- Add dark mode that inverts the comic image to improve readability in the dark
- Add buttons to titlebar for jumping to the first comic and the newest comic
- Fix issue with encoding of comic metadata (fixes display of special characters and emojis)
- Fix memory leak when closing additional comic windows
1.0.4 – Oct 22, 2018
Update app metadata to pass appstream-util validate-relax
1.0.3 – Oct 21, 2018
Revert fuzzy searching due to regressions
1.0.2 – Oct 21, 2018
Minor fixes
- Use fuzzy searching
- Only show alt text when hovering directly over the comic image
1.0.1 – Oct 19, 2018
Update OARS metadata.
1.0.0 – Oct 18, 2018
First stable release
- Improve startup time
- Add keyboard shortcuts for faster navigation