Sumi – AI Manga Translator

Sumi is an AI manga translator for people who read manga, manhwa and webtoons. Instead of pasting translation boxes over the panel, Sumi erases the original lettering, restores the art underneath, and typesets your language inside the original speech bubbles, so vertical Japanese stays vertical and the page still looks like a page. It works live on the manga site you are reading, on 110+ manga sites, and the bubbles fill in one by one as you scroll. Use it where you already read. The Chrome extension (also on Firefox) translates the page you have open in your own browser: no uploading, no waiting, and it works on sites where you are signed in. The online translator takes JPEG, PNG, WebP, ZIP and CBZ files and lets you download the finished pages. The Sumi app for iPhone, iPad and Apple Silicon Macs adds a Safari extension, whole-chapter import (including PDF and EPUB) and a built-in reader. Sumi translates Japanese, Korean and Chinese into 100+ languages. It never hosts, indexes or crawls manga; it only translates pages you already have open. Pricing: Freemium. Your first page needs no sign-up, a new account gets 5 free pages, and you can claim 5 more every day. Sumi Pro starts at $6.99/month.

Sumi translates text embedded in manga, manhwa, manhua, webtoons, and comics into a reader’s chosen language. It works on the page already open in the browser, including pages viewed while signed in, rather than requiring a chapter to be fetched first. Sumi erases the original lettering and re-typesets the translation inside the artwork, helping readers follow untranslated or unfamiliar-language pages while preserving the page’s visual layout. Readers open a chapter in a supported browser or in Sumi’s app, then tap or click the Sumi control to translate the current page. The service detects speech bubbles, reads Japanese, Korean, or Chinese text, erases the original lettering, and typesets the translation in the artwork. In the app, Auto can translate each page as the reader turns it. Users can also upload or paste page images; the app imports chapter files, and iPhone and iPad can translate offline after downloading a model pack. Sumi is for readers of raw manga, manhwa, manhua, webtoons, and comics who want to read pages in another language. The page describes browser-extension users, phone and tablet readers, and people translating their own page images or chapter files. It highlights in-place lettering, vertical CJK typesetting, support for 30 tested official platforms, and offline translation on iPhone and iPad. A free tier includes one page without an account and additional daily pages with an account.