Downloads carry a small mark
Files you save from the free tier have a small ChapterLingo mark on them. Signing in removes it. The mark is on the download, not on what you read on screen, so it never gets between you and the page.
Free Manga Translator at full resolution
Two pages right now without an account, then 30 the moment you sign in, and 4 to 20 free every day you check in. Same engine, same resolution, nothing cut down — this free manga translator hands over the file the paid plans produce. Judge the manga translator on your own page, not somebody else's demo.
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JPG · PNG · WebP · AVIF · HEIC · PDF · EPUB · CBZ · ZIP — a single page or a whole chapter. Your first 2 pages are on us, no account needed.
The free output is the paid output
Drag any handle to compare. Every right-hand page is our own output. · Pepper&Carrot by David Revoy — CC BY 4.0
What the free manga translator includes, and what signing in adds
Your glossary starts when you sign in
Character names and recurring terms are remembered per account, so they carry from one chapter into the next. That needs somewhere to save them. On the free pages every run starts fresh, which is fine for one chapter and gets tiring across twenty. A free manga translator with nowhere to save them starts fresh every session; signing in is what changes that.
The wall is the page count, nothing else
No feature is disabled to make the free tier worse. You get the same detection, the same reading and the same lettering the paid plans get. No feature is switched off to make the free manga translator worse than the paid one.
Whole chapters from $5.99 a month
Ready for the rest of the chapter? Plans start at $5.99 a month, and page packs start at $9 and never expire. Both are on the pricing page with the page counts written out.
From file to readable in about a minute
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Drop a page in
A screenshot, a photo of a printed page, a file you downloaded, or a whole chapter as CBZ, ZIP, PDF or EPUB. Images and documents are both accepted and there is nothing to install.
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Pick the languages
Japanese, Korean or Chinese in; English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German or Indonesian out. Reading direction follows the source and can be changed if your file is unusual.
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Read it
The balloons are located, the text inside them read, and the translation set back into the same balloons with the artwork left alone. Download it, or carry on to the next page.
What you actually get before paying anything
Free tiers in this category vary wildly in what they hand over.
Some give you a low-resolution preview and put the real file behind a signup. Some watermark the output so heavily it cannot be read. A free manga translator worth trying hands you the actual page, and here the only limit is a page count.
Output
Full resolution, not a preview
The page that comes back is the size you uploaded, at the quality the paid plans get. There is no downscaled sample tier and no separate "HD" upgrade for the same job. A preview that cannot be read is not a trial of anything. Judging a manga translator on a downscaled sample tells you nothing about the file you would have kept.
Access
No account, no card, no email
Nothing is collected before you have a result in front of you. Drop a page in, get it back. If it does not read the way you wanted, you leave without having given anything up, which is the only honest way to let someone evaluate this.
Scope
Every source language is open
Japanese, Korean and Chinese are all available on the free pages. Language is not a paid unlock, because a tool that cannot read the thing you have is not a tool you can evaluate. Language is not a paid unlock in this free manga translator, because the one you need may be the one behind the wall.
What the free run leaves alone
The free pages are not a reduced version of anything — same engine, same resolution, same decisions. Those decisions are mostly about what a manga translator refuses to touch, which is what separates a page you can read from a page that has been damaged in translation.
You get the line, not a rewritten one
Puns, rhymes and wordplay built on how the original sounds come back as what they mean. Rewriting a joke into a different English joke is a creative decision, and it is not one an automatic pass should be making silently on a page you care about. What arrives is what the character said, which is what lets you follow the scene and check it against the original beside it.
Text drawn into the picture stays in the picture
Signs, handwritten notes and lettering that is part of the artwork are read where they are legible and left where they are. Replacing them means repainting whatever sits underneath, and invented background is a worse outcome than a line left in its own language. The drawing you uploaded is the drawing you get back. A manga translator that repaints your background has not helped you.
Full resolution, delivered, not previewed
The free pages come back at the size they went in, with the lettering set to the balloons, ready to read or keep. There is no watermark, no half-size preview and no upgrade prompt standing between you and the page. Read them, check the names, and decide from the actual output rather than from a sample of it.
Crowded pages are handled in one pass
A page with a dozen overlapping balloons, dense background lettering and effects drawn across the panels is the hardest case in the format, and it goes through the same single pass as a quiet one — read as one conversation, so a line in the corner still knows who is speaking. That is worth trying on the busiest page in the chapter rather than a typical one. It is the page worth handing a free manga translator first, because it is the one that decides the question.
Answers
Free manga translator questions
Two pages, no account, full resolution, no card. There is no trial that quietly turns into a charge, because there is nothing to convert. A free manga translator that hands back a locked file is a trial, not a free tier.
Signed in, yes — at least 4 more pages every day you check in, on top of the 30 the account starts with. The streak pays more as it runs: day three is 10 and day seven is 20, so an unbroken week is 54 free pages with the series glossary running behind every one of them. The two pages before the account are the taste, not the refill.
No. Same engine, same resolution, same detection and lettering. The only difference on a download is a small mark, which signing in removes. It is the same manga translator, at the same resolution, end to end.
A chapter is usually about twenty pages, so the two before the account get you the opening. A free account carries the whole thing: 30 pages up front is a chapter in one sitting, and checking in keeps the next one coming — day seven of a streak pays 20, a chapter on its own.
JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF and HEIC for single images, and PDF, EPUB, CBZ or ZIP for a whole chapter. Documents are unpacked and counted by their pages. The free manga translator takes images and archives alike.
Yes. It runs in the browser with nothing to install, and the output keeps the resolution you gave it so it is still readable on the device you are holding.
Nothing is deleted and nothing is locked behind a countdown. The pages you already translated stay downloadable, and signing in puts 30 more on the account, with 4 to 20 arriving every day you check in. There is no timer pushing you. It is the same manga translator, now with a glossary that carries your character names into the next chapter.
Pages are processed to produce your result, not collected to build anything. Nothing you upload on the free tier is attached to an account, because there is no account to attach it to.
For your own reading, yes. Redistributing them is a different question and depends entirely on the rights to the artwork you uploaded, which this tool does not grant you. The commercial licence on the paid plans covers what the tool produces, not the source material.
Your first two pages on the free manga translator
No account, no card, nothing to install. If this manga translator reads the way you wanted, the plans are on the pricing page — and if it does not, you have given up nothing to find out.