RuneManga vs Yandex Translate for manga pages
Yandex Translate or RuneManga for manga and manhwa: one picture at a time or whole chapters, languages, extensions, price and privacy.
Short answer
Yandex Translate has a free image translator on its website: drop one picture, with no sign-in, and it shows the picture with the text replaced. It reads 48 languages in images, and Yandex Browser can translate the images on a page. It is made for any picture, not for comics: one image at a time and nothing fitted to speech bubbles. RuneManga is built for comics: whole chapters at once, the translation set inside the bubbles, and an extension for Chrome, Edge, Opera and Brave.
| Feature | RuneManga | Yandex Translate |
|---|---|---|
| WebApp upload | Yes. Add images, a folder, a ZIP, a CBZ or a PDF (50 to 500 pages at once depending on the plan, 20 MB each), correct the result in Edit mode, and download single pages, a ZIP or one PDF. | Yes: translate.yandex.com/ocr takes one JPG, PNG or GIF image of up to 5 MB, with no sign-in, and shows it translated, with a download button and a text view. |
| Browser extension | Yes, in the Chrome Web Store (Chrome, Brave, Opera) and Edge Add-ons; a Firefox version is in review. It translates pages right on the sites you read: an R button per page, Auto mode while you scroll, show original, Translate an area, Edit image and a ZIP of the page's translations. | No Chrome, Edge or Firefox extension for images that we could find. Yandex Browser has it built in: right-click an image to translate it, or translate all the images on a page. |
| Languages | From Japanese, Korean, Chinese, English and six more languages (or auto-detect) into 89 languages, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish and French. Arabic and Thai output is experimental. | 48 languages it can read in images, with automatic detection, according to the website. |
| Bubble-aware typesetting | Yes. Lettering in speech bubbles, caption boxes and text on the art is erased, the background filled in and the translation fitted in its place. Sound effects stay as drawn. Edit mode, in the WebApp and the extension, lets you move, restyle and rewrite the text. | The text in the picture is replaced in place. In our test with a simple page, each line was translated on its own, so a sentence split over two lines lost its meaning. |
| Colorize | SoonPlanned, not available yet. The colorizer is in development. | No. |
| Translation engine | RuneLingua, our own AI translator for manga dialogue, on every plan, Free included. A few languages it does not cover well yet use another translation service. You can also connect your own AI key (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, xAI or OpenRouter). | Yandex's own translation. |
| Pricing | Credits, 1 per page. Free at $0: 20 credits a day, claimed on the site, plus 30 once at sign-up that never expire. Supporter ($2.99, 1,000 a month), Pro ($4.99, 2,500) and Ultimate ($9.99, 5,000) are on sale now, with packs of 1,000, 2,500 or 6,000 credits that never expire. | Free on the website. Yandex does not publish a limit other than 5 MB per image. |
| Privacy and retention | Pages are processed on RuneManga's servers; only the text found on the page goes to the translation engine. Jobs are deleted about an hour after they finish and are not used for training. | The Translate terms do not say how long uploaded images are kept. Yandex's general privacy policy covers using data to improve its products. |
| Sign-up needed | Yes for the WebApp: a free sign-in with Google, Discord or an emailed link, no card. | No. |
When RuneManga is the better fit
- You want a whole chapter translated at once, from images, a ZIP, a CBZ or a PDF.
- You want the lines of a bubble translated together and set inside the bubble.
- You read in Chrome, Edge, Opera or Brave and want the pages translated where you read them.
When Yandex Translate is the better fit
- You want to translate one picture quickly, free and without an account.
- You use Yandex Browser and want to translate the images on any page.
- You read from a language RuneManga does not read yet: Yandex reads 48 in images.
Questions
Can Yandex Translate translate manga?
It can translate a picture of a page, one at a time. It is a general image translator, so it does not join the lines of a bubble or fit the text to it.
Is Yandex image translation free?
Yes, on the website, without an account, one image of up to 5 MB at a time.
Which one handles a whole chapter?
RuneManga: add the pages, a ZIP, a CBZ or a PDF and translate them in one run. On Yandex's website you translate one image at a time.
Sources
- Yandex Translate: image translation
- Yandex Translate Help: translating images
- Yandex Browser Help: translating images on a page
- Yandex Translate: terms of use
Facts checked on October 29, 2026 from each tool's own pages and store listings. Something out of date? Write to [email protected].