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Comic Sticks

Read xkcd: a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

Completely free
Linux
Open source

Overview

Comic Sticks is a comic and manga reader, available on Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing: keyboard shortcuts, themes and dark mode.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“Comic Sticks brings xkcd comics to your desktop with quick comic searching, offline browsing, and intuitive keyboard shortcuts.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
“Dark mode for late night reading” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
“Comic Sticks ( ) is a simple xkcd comic viewer written in Go using” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Comic Sticks is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

Open source code
Commercial use allowed

About

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 explainxkcd.com

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 10 November 2026
Last technical check: 8 November 2026
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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