Comics with sound effects you can hear
LiveComics plays comics with sound. When a panel has a sound lettered in the art, like BOOM, CRASH or KRAK, you hear it as the panel comes up, and a soundscape of the scene, like rain, traffic or a crowd, runs quietly underneath. Every balloon can be read aloud too, or you can turn the voices off and read the words yourself with only the sound. Every book on the free streaming shelf plays this way, and you can add sound to the comic files you own.
How do comics with sound effects work?
Each page is split into its panels, in reading order. When a comic is prepared, every panel's art and lettering are read: the sound words drawn in it become short sound effects, matched to what is making the noise, and the scene becomes a soundscape. A few loud things drawn with no word at all, like a gunshot, an explosion, a fire or breaking glass, get a sound too. When the panel comes up, its effect plays first, then the voices, all over the soundscape, and the sound dips while someone speaks.
Can I read the words myself and only hear the sound?
Yes. While you read, open the speaker button and slide Voice all the way down. The balloons stay in the art for you to read, and the sound effects and the soundscape keep playing. Tap through at your own pace, or let it play. When you add your own comic, you can also untick Character voices and keep Soundscapes & SFX, so no voices are made for it at all.
Which comics have sound effects?
Every book on the free streaming shelf plays with sound effects and a soundscape: pre-code horror, war comics, 1950s science fiction and more. Hear a sample with no account, and stream the whole shelf with a free one. Any comic file you own can get the same sound when you add it.
Can I add sound effects to my own comics?
Yes, to CBR, CBZ, PDF and EPUB files you add to your library.
- Make a free account at livecomics.to, or get the app from the App Store, Google Play or the Microsoft Store.
- In your library, press + Add Comics and pick your files. You can pick many at once.
- Choose Panels + Audio. Under Audio stages, keep Soundscapes & SFX ticked, and Character voices too if you want the balloons read aloud.
- Press Add. The price shows in credits before you press it, and pages you mute are left out of it.
Sound effects and soundscapes come with a monthly plan or a top-up, like the voices. Adding comics and reading them is free: a free account imports 30 comics a month and holds 1 GB, about 20 single issues, with no card. Panel view, without sound, is free on every issue.
Can I read manga and webtoons with sound effects?
Yes. Choose Manga as the reading type when you add a volume and the panels run right to left, with the sounds lettered in the art played like any others. Webtoons and manhwa scroll top to bottom with their sound effects and soundscapes as you go. It plays the files you bring, not episodes inside the Webtoon app or any other app or site.
Can I turn the sound down, or mute part of a comic?
Yes, three ways. The speaker button has a Voice slider and an SFX / soundscape slider, plus SFX while speaking, which sets how far the sound dips under a voice. Slide one all the way down to mute it. On a single panel, pause and choose Fix a voice or mute a sound to mute just its soundscape or just its effect, for you alone. And when you add a comic, Mute pages picks pages to keep silent, like ads and text pages, and you are not charged for their sound.
Can I see the sounds written out?
Yes. In Settings, turn on Subtitles (CC) and then Sound captions. Above the dialogue, each panel names its soundscape and its sound effect with what it is, like KRAK (metal snapping). It is there for reading with the sound off, and for deaf and hard of hearing readers.
What doesn't it do?
It plays no music. The soundscape is the sound of the place, like wind, rain or a crowd, and only music drawn in the art, like a bugle call, gets a short sound of its own. The sounds are made for each panel, not taken from a film or a recording of the comic. A soundscape plays a couple of times and then fades, so a panel you stay on goes quiet. And it adds sound to the comics in your LiveComics library, not to comics in other apps.
Straight answers
Are there comics with sound effects for free?
Yes. Every book on the free streaming shelf plays with its sound effects, a soundscape and every balloon voiced, free to stream with a free account, and you can hear a sample without one. They are classic public-domain and openly licensed comics.
Is there an app that plays comics with sound effects?
Yes. LiveComics plays comics panel by panel with the drawn sound effects, a soundscape under each scene and every balloon read aloud, in any browser and in the apps for iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows.
Are there horror comics with sound effects?
Yes. The free streaming shelf is full of 1950s pre-code horror, and each book plays its screams, creaks and crashes as sound, over a soundscape of the scene.
Does it play music while I read?
No. You hear the sound of the scene and the sounds drawn in the art, never music. If you like music while you read, play your own and turn the SFX / soundscape slider down, or keep both.
Can I turn the sound effects off?
Yes. Slide SFX / soundscape all the way down in the speaker button, and the voices keep playing. To silence one panel's effect only, pause and choose Fix a voice or mute a sound.
Is this the same as an audio comic?
It is the same reader. An audio comic here has every balloon read aloud as well as the sound; with the voices off, you read the words yourself and still hear every effect and soundscape.
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