Sugoi Translator Alternative.
Manga pages in the browser, nothing to set up.
Sugoi Translator alternative for people who want to read manga pages in English without installing a toolkit first. Sugoi runs on your own PC and covers much more than comics; Manga Translator is a website that does one thing: you upload a page and get it back lettered in your language. Here is how the two compare.
Drop pages here or click to choose
JPG, PNG or WEBP · up to 10 MB per page
No sign-up · 20 free pages every week · Pages aren't stored
Before and after
A Japanese manga page, read in English
Two classmates have lunch and grumble about classical Japanese class, while the narrator can't recall the other girl's name. The speech bubbles and narration boxes are erased and lettered in English, in reading order.
- Vertical Japanese in bubbles and narration boxes
- English sized to each bubble
- A finished image, ready to save
Sugoi Toolkit and Manga Translator, side by side
Sugoi Toolkit, which grew out of the original Sugoi Translator, is made by MingShiba for reading Japanese media: manga, visual novels, games, light novels and audio. The table covers only what matters for translating comic pages.
| Manga Translator (this site) | Sugoi Toolkit | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | In the browser, on a phone or a computer. Pages are processed in the cloud. | On your PC, with offline translation once installed. Sugoi Desktop runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. There is also an online reader, Sugoi Manga, with browser extensions. |
| Setup | Nothing to install. Open the page and upload. | Download and run the toolkit. New versions go to Patreon members first; for V25, the release post promised a public link about a month later. |
| Hardware | Any device with a browser. No GPU needed. | Runs on your own CPU or GPU, so speed depends on your PC. GPU acceleration needs an NVIDIA card with CUDA (setup notes). |
| Languages | Reads Japanese, Korean and Chinese. Writes English and about 50 other languages. | Built for Japanese to English (see the Sugoi-14B-Ultra model card). Its manga OCR reads Japanese, Chinese and English as of V25. |
| On the page | Original text erased and the translation lettered into each bubble. You get a finished image. | Sugoi's manga translator also typesets the translation onto the page; Desktop V3 lists improved typesetting. |
| Beyond comics | Comic pages only. | Visual novels and games on screen, EPUB and web novels, audio and AI chat, with one account. |
| Price | 20 free pages a week without an account, then one-time credit packs from $5 for 1,000 pages that never expire. | Patreon membership from $6 a month, which includes the downloads and 1,200 coins a month for Sugoi Manga at 1.5 coins per page (plans). |
Sugoi details come from its website, blog and Patreon page as checked on November 11, 2026, and may have changed since. Manga Translator isn't affiliated with Sugoi Toolkit or MingShiba.
Which one fits how you read
Sugoi, if you read more than manga
Visual novels, Japanese games and light novels are where Sugoi goes further than any comic-only site. It also suits you if you want translation to run offline on your own PC.
This site, if you just want the page
A few chapters on a phone or laptop, without installing anything or picking models. Also when you need a language other than English, or read Korean and Chinese comics too.
Both, if you like
Keep Sugoi for games and novels on your PC, and upload manga pages here when you're away from it. Nothing has to be uninstalled or exported.
How to translate a manga page without installing anything
Drop in the pages
Drop one page or a whole chapter above, in reading order.
Leave it on English
Or pick one of about 50 other languages, then press Translate.
Read, then keep
Read the English pages here, then save them one by one or as a ZIP.
Try it on your own pages first
20 pages a week are free without an account, so you can compare the result with Sugoi on the same chapter. Credit packs are paid once and never expire: 1 credit is 1 page.
See pricingQuestions about Sugoi and this site
Is this site made by the Sugoi developer?
No. Manga Translator is a separate service and isn't affiliated with Sugoi Toolkit or its developer.
Is Sugoi Translator free?
Sugoi has released free downloads and models, such as Sugoi-14B-Ultra on Hugging Face. Its newest toolkit versions and the coins for Sugoi Manga come with a Patreon membership from $6 a month; see its Patreon page for the current terms.
Do I need a GPU to translate manga here?
No. Translation runs in the cloud, so a phone or an older laptop is enough.
Can I translate manga into languages other than English?
Yes. Pick one of about 50 output languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian and Korean.