About MangaGloss
A translation tool built for the manga community.
Our mission
Comics deserve to be read in every language. But translating a chapter manually takes hours of typesetting, cleaning, and redrawing -- a single 20-page chapter can take a team of 4-6 people several hours to process through the traditional translation pipeline. MangaGloss automates the entire pipeline so translators can focus on what matters: getting the words right.
We built this as a tool, not a content platform. You upload your own pages, we translate and return them, then delete everything within 7 days. No catalog, no library, no distribution. We believe translators and creative teams deserve fast, affordable tools without giving up control of their content or workflow.
Why we built MangaGloss
MangaGloss started from a simple frustration: translating comics was painfully slow. A translation team of 4-6 people -- raw provider, translator, cleaner, typesetter, proofreader, QC -- would spend hours on a single chapter. Most of that time went to manual busywork: erasing text in Photoshop, placing translations line by line, checking font sizes, fixing consistency errors. The actual translation was a fraction of the effort.
We asked: what if AI could handle the cleaning, inpainting, and typesetting -- the 90% that is mechanical -- and leave translators free to focus on the 10% that requires human judgment? That question became MangaGloss. We built the pipeline around a GPU-powered engine that processes each page in seconds, added an editor so translators keep creative control, and added glossaries so terminology stays consistent across hundreds of chapters.
What makes us different
Built-in editor
The only manga translator with a post-translation editor. Click any bubble, edit the text, adjust font size and placement, and re-render the page instantly. AI gives you the first draft; you keep creative control over the final result.
Per-series glossary
Define character names, attack names, honorifics, and place names once per series. The translation engine uses your glossary automatically on every page, keeping terminology consistent from chapter 1 through chapter 100.
Privacy-first
Your uploaded and translated pages are available only to you, for 24 hours, through private expiring links. After that they can't be opened anymore, and all files are permanently deleted automatically within 7 days. We never use your content to train or fine-tune AI models. There is no readable catalog, no browse page, and no way for other users to see your files. Your content stays private from upload to deletion.
No watermark
Every translated page -- including on the free tier -- is clean. No branding overlays, no "Translated by" stamps, no forced attribution. The output is yours to use however you need.
Built by translators, for translators
MangaGloss was born from firsthand experience with the pain of manual comic translation. We spent months embedded in translation team workflows before writing a single line of code -- learning what slows teams down, what tools are missing, and where AI can genuinely help without getting in the way. Every feature we build is tested against real translation workflows, because we use the tool ourselves.
Our GPU pipeline handles text detection, OCR, neural translation, inpainting, and typesetting in one pass, then a quality check re-checks every bubble before you get the page. Most pages are ready in under a minute, clean and typeset for review or publication.
Company
GEOHOST LLC
Registered in New Mexico, United States.
Infrastructure runs on Cloudflare Workers for the API, Cloudflare R2 for temporary file storage, and NVIDIA GPUs for the translation pipeline.
Payments are processed by Paddle, our merchant of record, who handles billing, sales tax, VAT, and receipts on our behalf in your local currency.