Free AI manga translator — translate manga to any language
A free manga translator online: upload manga, manhwa or comic pages and get them back with the original art, balloons and lettering intact — translate manga to English or 30+ other languages from Japanese, Korean and Chinese.
example · 日本語 → English6 BALLOONS
RAW · 日本語TRANSLATED · English
An example page, not your upload — drag the divider to compare. Drop your own page in and this becomes your result.
Drop a page here, or click to browse JPG · PNG · WEBP · PDF · CBZ · CBR — up to 20 MB
Paste a screenshot or an image link anywhere on this page — or try one:
Translate to:Order:
3 pages a day freeNo signup to tryCredits never expire
Three steps, no account
The extension does the same thing without leaving the page you're on.
1
Upload your pages
Drop one page, a folder or a CBZ. Or right-click any manga image on a page and pick Translate with TranslateMyManga.
2
Pick your language
Vertical Japanese text, Korean speech bubbles and Chinese SFX are all handled. Context carries across panels, so pronouns and honorifics stay consistent.
3
Read or export
Continuous scroll, original layout, original art. Export to CBZ if you want to keep it.
What the other tools skip
Most manga translators stop at "upload one image, download one image." Reading a series needs more than that.
01
Whole chapters, not pages
Batch a folder or ZIP and get 18–40 pages back in reading order. No uploading page by page, no losing your place.
02
Reads in place
The browser extension translates on the site you're already on — the reader you use doesn't change.
03
Webtoon-aware
Long-strip manhwa is sliced and re-stitched, not chopped into squares. Vertical scroll stays vertical.
04
Fix what AI misses
Draw a box over a missed bubble and the model reads just that region for one credit. Then click any balloon to edit the text, resize it or drag it, and brush away anything left over — all free, in the browser.
05
Series memory
Character names and terminology stay consistent across chapters — the thing machine translation gets wrong first.
06
Credits never expire
Buy once, use whenever the next raw drops. No subscription that bills you between releases.
What it does to each kind of page
Real output from the tool, not mock-ups. Open a page to drag the before/after divider yourself.
Phone OCR and browser translate were built for menus and web pages. A manga page breaks most of what they assume.
TranslateMyMangaScreenshot translator
Panel reading orderDetected per page, right-to-left or left-to-rightTop-to-bottom, line by line
Where the translation goesRedrawn inside the original balloonA list beside the image, or pasted over the art
Vertical JapaneseRead natively, including furiganaFrequently read as unrelated single characters
A sentence across two balloonsJoined, translated, split backTwo disconnected fragments
Text drawn on the artworkStrokes lifted, the drawing kept, translation outlinedBoxed over — the art underneath goes with it
What you end up withA page you can read or archiveA wall of text you have to map back yourself
Who uses it
Four situations that come up over and over.
Readers ahead of the official release
The series you follow is months behind in your language, or never got licensed at all. Translate the raw chapter and keep going.
People reading outside English
Manhwa and manhua reach Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish and Indonesian far later than English, when they arrive at all. Translating from Korean or Chinese directly skips the double hop.
Creators localising their own work
You drew it, so there is nothing to argue about. Pin your character names once, run the whole issue, publish in two languages.
Language learners
Read the original next to the translation. Comics give you natural spoken register with the visual context attached — something a textbook cannot do.
The parts that decide whether a page is readable
Detection and translation get the attention. These six are what separates a usable page from a technically translated one.
ERASURE
Balloons only
Repainting stops at the inside of the balloon. Cover the outline too and the page looks like someone stuck white labels on it — worse than leaving the original text alone.
FITTING
Space that actually exists
English runs longer than Japanese, and the balloon was drawn for vertical text. Each balloon gets its own size, searched down from the largest that fits, hyphenating before it shrinks.
VOICE
One sentence, one size
A line spread over two balloons is set at the same size in both, so it reads as one person speaking instead of two.
MEMORY
Names that hold
A character called 白夜 stays Byakuya in chapter 12 the same as chapter 1. Machine translation loses this first and readers notice it fastest.
SFX
Kept in the art
Effects drawn into the artwork are redrawn where they sit with an outline, rather than dropped for being outside a balloon.
FALLBACK
Failing visibly
Illegible text comes back empty with the original left in place, instead of being replaced by a confident guess that happens to be wrong.
Try it on one page
Three sample pages are built in, including a dense one with nine small balloons on a dark background. 3 pages a day free, no account.
Yes — that’s the most common use. Upload a raw page, pick English, and the Japanese manga translator reads the vertical text right-to-left, translates every balloon with the whole page as context, and draws the English translation back into the balloons. Korean and Chinese raws work the same way.
Is the manga translator free?
The first 3 pages a day are free and don't need an account; sign up and you get 30 more. After that a credit pack starts at $4 — credits never expire, so you're not paying for months where nothing you read drops a new chapter.
Is translating manga illegal?
Translating something you legally own for your own reading is generally fine in most places. Redistributing a translated copy of licensed work is not, and that part is on you, not on the tool. We're not lawyers and this isn't legal advice — if you're publishing anything, get the rights first. Official releases exist for most popular series and they're worth buying.
Can Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude or DeepL translate manga?
They can read the text, and for a single panel that's often enough. What they don't do is the other three quarters of the job: finding every bubble, working out the right-to-left panel order, erasing the original lettering and reconstructing the screentone behind it, then refitting the translation inside the bubble. You get a list of strings back, not a page you can read. That pipeline is what this tool is.
Why are manga translations so bad?
Usually because the tool translated bubble by bubble with no idea what came before. A sentence split across two balloons becomes two broken fragments; a character's name changes spelling between pages; politeness levels flip at random. We translate the page as a unit and pin names and terms across the whole chapter, which fixes most of it.
How do I translate manga while reading?
Install the browser extension and turn on auto-translate for the site you read on. Panels get translated as they scroll into view, so you never leave the reader. For a whole chapter at once, use the chapter translator.
How accurate is it?
Printed dialogue in clean bubbles is close to publishable. Handwritten margin notes and sound effects drawn into the art are the hard cases — those you'll sometimes want to fix by hand — draw a box over what was missed and the model reads just that region. That works on every plan, including free.
Can I use it on my phone?
Yes. The site works on mobile browsers, and on Android the extension runs in Kiwi and Firefox. iOS Safari extension support is on the roadmap.
Do I need to sign up?
No. Upload a page or right-click an image and it works. An account only exists so your credits and your library follow you across devices.
Is there an unlimited plan?
There's a monthly plan with a high page ceiling. We don't advertise "unlimited" because every page costs us a model call — anyone promising unlimited is either rate-limiting you quietly or about to shut down.
I've seen this called a manga translater, or just manga translate — same thing?
Same thing. Manga translator, manga translater, manga translate, manga image translator, scan translator — people spell it every which way and they all mean the same job: take a page in Japanese, Korean or Chinese and give it back readable in your language.
How is this different from the open-source manga translators on GitHub?
The open-source projects are good and you should use them if you're comfortable running Python and have a GPU. This is for reading a chapter in a few seconds on your phone, on the site you're already on, with nothing to install.
Can I translate a whole chapter at once?
Yes — batch upload a folder or ZIP with the chapter translator, which keeps reading order and exports back to CBZ.
Does it work on manhwa and webtoons?
Yes — long-strip chapters are handled natively. See the webtoon translator page.
