Comic Sticks

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

com.github.rkoesters.xkcd-gtk

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

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Screenshots

The application displaying xkcd comic 1906, "Making Progress".

The application displaying xkcd comic 888, "Heaven", with the search menu open and showing results for "heaven".

The application, with dark mode enabled, displaying xkcd comic 888, "Heaven", with the search menu open and showing results for "heaven".

Observed history

App	Change	Version	When ↑

No observed changes yet.

The initial import establishes a baseline. Future version changes will appear here.

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Upstream releases

Release notes supplied by the developer. These dates are not Flathub package publication times.

1.7.321 Sept 2025

Improve the comic image inversion in dark mode so that the resulting colors are closer to what they would look like in the original image (thanks to Flachz).

Dependency updates.

1.7.28 Oct 2023

Update Dutch translations (thanks to Vistaus).

Minor improvements:

The explain comic action now scrolls directly to the explanation.
Add icons to app actions in application metadata.
ChromeOS theming fixes.
Minor packaging fixes.
Dependency updates.

1.7.119 Mar 2023

Minor packaging fixes.

1.7.019 Mar 2023

Add the cache management window, allowing you to download all comic images in preparation for being offline.

Add or remove bookmarks with one button click.

Keyboard shortcut changes:

New: Add or remove a bookmark with ctrl+d
New: Show bookmarks list with ctrl+alt+d
Changed: toggle the light/dark theme with ctrl+t