Guides

Guides to translating manga, manhwa and webtoons.

Short, practical guides for the WebApp, the browser extension and getting the best results.

New to the terms? The glossary explains OCR, inpainting, typesetting and more.
getting-startedtutorialwebsite

How to translate manga online, step by step

Upload pages, pick a language and download the translated chapter. Free with a Google, Discord or email sign-in; pages are deleted an hour later.

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  4. Overgeared anime: where to read the webtoonovergearedmanhwaanime2 minRead
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Start here

  1. What is RuneManga? A manga and manhwa translatorgetting-startedoverview3 minRead
  2. How to translate manga online, step by stepgetting-startedtutorialwebsite3 minRead
  3. How to translate manhwa and webtoons to Englishmanhwawebtoontutorial2 minRead
  4. How to translate Japanese manga to Englishmangajapanesetutorial4 minRead
  5. How to translate Korean manhwa to Englishmanhwakoreantutorial3 minRead
  6. How to translate Chinese manhua to Englishmanhuachinesetutorial3 minRead
  7. RuneManga free plan: what you get and what changespricingfree-plan5 minRead
  8. How does AI manga translation work?aiocrinpainting4 minRead
  9. Manga vs manhwa vs manhua: the differencesmangamanhwamanhua4 minRead
  10. Best free manga translator: your optionsfree-plancomparison4 minRead
  11. What is RuneLingua? Our AI manga translatorrunelinguaengine4 minRead
  12. How to colorize manga: by hand and with AIcolorizetutorial3 minRead
  13. How does AI colorize manga? A plain explainercolorizeai4 minRead
  14. Why AI manga colors change from page to pagecolorizetroubleshooting4 minRead
  15. Translate manga and manhwa into your languagelanguagestutorialmangamanhwa2 minRead

Using the WebApp

  1. Translate your first chapterwebsitetutorial3 minRead
  2. Upload a ZIP, a folder or a pasted imagewebsiteuploadzip4 minRead
  3. Translate, colorize or both: which mode to pickwebsitemodescolorize3 minRead
  4. Google Lens manga translation not working?google-lenstroubleshooting4 minRead
  5. How to translate a manga PDFpdfwebsitetutorial3 minRead
  6. Manga translation editor: fix and reletter pageseditorwebappextension4 minRead

Browser extension

  1. Manga translator browser extension: how it worksextensionoverview2 minRead
  2. Translate manga while you read in your browserextensionreading4 minRead
  3. Browser extension permissions explainedextensionprivacypermissions4 minRead
  4. Best manga translator extensions comparedextensioncomparison4 minRead

Quality & privacy

  1. Best image quality for manga translationqualityscanstips2 minRead
  2. Why translated text does not fit the bubblequalitytypesettingtroubleshooting3 minRead
  3. Why RuneManga misses some text on a pagequalityocrtroubleshooting4 minRead
  4. Is RuneManga safe? What happens to your pagesprivacyretention5 minRead
  5. Is a manga translator safe? What to checkprivacysafety4 minRead
  6. Why manga sound effects are not translatedsound-effectsquality4 minRead

Alternatives

  1. Torii alternatives for translating mangaalternativescomparisontorii3 minRead
  2. Ichigo Reader alternatives for manga translationalternativescomparisonichigo-reader2 minRead
  3. Google Lens alternatives for translating mangaalternativescomparisongoogle-lens2 minRead