Firstly, thanks for your message, it genuinely made me smile :)
As for your questions:
- No plans to open source it, unless I stop working on it.
As for the roadmap, it is extensive. In random order (both in terms of importance and release horizon) I am planning:
- exports as archives (if I remember properly, .cbr and .cbz formats are just renamed .rar and .zip respectively) as you mentioned
- proper font selection/customization (and eventually, bring your own) as you surmised
- workflow improvements (shortcuts, bulk commands vs current clicking item by item)
- specifying bubble type, from visual type (text in closed bubble opaque or not, text over background) to purpose
(speech, onomatopeia, in-world written text, meta explanation) and source (who is talking, to whom, etc)
- moving the current "zoom" level from chapter to series: link to Knowledge Base, for easier lexical reference
(with regards to man(ga|hwa|hua) names are often transcriptions of
foreign words / names which are often translated back with varying degrees of success).
- multiplayer
- making the app not just usable but ergonomic on mobile screens
- a lot more.
I will add a roadmap section on the app.
Origin story:
I worked as a translator (handwritten medical forms, business communications) during my studies and got interested in what was considered the state of the art for CAT tools. I ended up building my own out of scripts, macros and rule-based processing because nothing provided the ease, flexibility and low overhead I was looking for.
With nekostrips, I am convinced I can deliver a compelling tool for comics.
If you or anyone else feels like discussing further, you can contact me through the form on the app, or on social networks.
Shameless plug: my current project https://www.nekostrips.com aims at making the process as frictionless as possible. Still very rough around the edges, but useful for hobby purposes. I have several improvements in the works.
My current side project, a Computer Assisted Translation tool targeted at comics, manga, web toons, etc
(editing to add: currently NOT USABLE ON MOBILE)