Translate manga: the bubbles in reading order, on your device

What this tool does, exactly

The page is read and translated in this browser tab; nothing of it is uploaded, hosted or shared. The reader finds every bubble and caption and numbers them on the page in reading order, and your browser's own translator — in Chrome 138 or Edge 148 and newer, on a laptop or desktop — translates each one. The original and the translation sit side by side, both editable, and the script downloads as text.

What it does

Finds the lettering on the page, groups it into bubbles and captions, numbers them in reading order and passes each one to your browser's translator. A vertical column of Japanese is joined into one block and shown as one line. Every bubble is a pair of fields — what was read, and its translation — and correcting what was read lets you translate that bubble again. The download is a numbered script: one line per bubble in reading order, with the original under each translation.

Where the translation happens

In the translator built into your browser, on this device. The first time you translate a pair of languages, the browser downloads that pair's language pack from its own vendor, and the status line shows the download. That request is the browser's, not this page's, and it carries nothing of the page you are reading.

Which browsers

Translating needs Chrome 138 or Edge 148 and newer, on a laptop or desktop. Anywhere else — Safari, a phone, an older browser — the page says so before you choose a picture, still reads the bubbles, and leaves the script ready to copy into any translator you trust.

What it cannot do yet

It does not re-letter the page: the translation is a script beside the picture, not text set into the bubbles, and re-lettering is behind the button under the result, in preview, with a whole chapter from a ZIP or CBZ beside it. Korean lettering is not read yet — the reader knows the Latin alphabet, Chinese, Japanese and Russian, Ukrainian or Belarusian Cyrillic — so a Korean webtoon page comes back without text. Hand-drawn lettering and sound effects have not been measured, so they are not promised.

What it costs to load

The reader is about sixteen megabytes the first time, with Japanese and Chinese in it, cached by your browser afterwards; it reads an A4 page in about 0.6 seconds on a graphics chip, measured on an Apple M4 Mac. Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian need a second recogniser, eight megabytes more, fetched when you choose one of them in From. The language pack is the browser's own download.

Reading order

The bubbles are read right to left by default and numbered on the page in that order; the direction is yours to change. Left to right is for comics and webtoons, and the choice is remembered in this browser. Changing it after a read renumbers the bubbles in place and keeps every translation and every correction. The preview outlines one bubble at a time: point at a number, or move through the list, and its bubble is drawn round on the page.