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24 alternatives to Madefire

An immersive comic book reading experience

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Madefire launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Kickstarter Spotlight▲117

   A page for funded creators to tell their story

   2015 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Bootstrapped Comic▲90

   Hilarious webcomic about tech/VC/startup life

   2016 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Fork▲80

   Make your life a comic book - and fork other's creations

   2015 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Out of the Office▲116

   Tech comics on stuff! Makes a great gift.

   2015 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Librify▲76

   Reading with friends

   2014 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Storium▲69

   Online Storytelling Game

   2014 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Storybird▲77

   Visual storytelling and poetry writing

   2014 · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Retelly ▲64

   A video magazine

   2016 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Matter▲185

   A new magazine built on Medium

   2014 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Penflip▲119

    A social writing platform

    2013 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Marvel (iOS)▲211

    Turn Sketches Into Prototypes

    2014 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Epic!▲156

    Netflix for kids books

    2014 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Blurb▲89

    Self publishing book platform

    2014 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Hugg▲66

    Make your texts beautiful

    2014 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    20lines▲83

    Sharable user-gen short stories

    2014 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Seedling Comic Studio▲81

    Create and share your own amazing comic book

    2015 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Comic Hoard▲84

    The webcomic library (Garfield, Penny Arcade, XKCD, & more)

    2014 · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Immersive▲60

    Create and publish beautiful Medium-like stories

    2014 · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Peggsite▲103

    A one-page board to express yourself

    2014 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Booklights▲169

    Make America Read Again 📖

    2017 · its alternatives →

21. 21
    The Sketchbook Project▲87

    A crowd-sourced library of Sketchbooks

    2014 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    LINE Webtoon▲68

    Free digital comics, updated daily

    2015 · its alternatives →

23. 23
    WeWrite▲90

    Crowdsourced Storytelling

    2014 · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Tapastic▲74

    Publish, discover, and read the best webcomics.

    2014 · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →