According to AlphaMoat, as of 2026-09, the Chrome extension MangaLens has 317 users, rated 4.1 (11 reviews) — ranked #2,747 of 10,223 AI browser extensions, and #596 of 2,072 in Office & Collaboration.
What is MangaLens
Translate manga into your language in one click. High-quality OCR + AI, right on the pages you're reading. 🌸 MANGALENS — READ ANY MANGA IN YOUR LANGUAGE, INSTANTLY
Ever found an amazing manga... available only in Japanese? MangaLens breaks the language barrier: it translates pages DIRECTLY in your browser, overlaying the translation on the original speech bubbles. No copy-pasting, no external apps, no tab switching: open the chapter, press one button, and read.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ HOW IT WORKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. Open a manga page on any site 2. Click the MangaLens ✨ button 3. Bubbles translate themselves as you scroll — your reading never stops
The translation appears INSIDE the page, with an authentic comic-style font and colors that automatically adapt to each bubble (white, dark or colored). The result looks like a professional scanlation, not a machine translator.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎨 SCANLATION MODE — THE ORIGINAL TEXT ACTUALLY DISAPPEARS ✨ (Premium) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Turn on Scanlation Mode and MangaLens doesn't just cover the bubbles: it digitally ERASES the original text from the page and places only the translation on a clean background. The result looks like a page hand-translated by a scanlation team — no boxes, no original Japanese bleeding through underneath. It's the difference between "readable" and "beautiful to read." Premium subscribers only.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧠 NEXT-GENERATION AI TRANSLATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ Professional OCR: reads stylized fonts, vertical Japanese text and complex lettering ✔ The AI translates SENTENCES, not words: natural dialogue, right tone, slang respected ✔ Automatic chapter glossary: character names and recurring terms stay consistent from first to last page ✔ Personal glossary: teach MangaLens how to translate YOUR terms (techniques, nicknames, special moves) from the Options page ✔ Source language auto-detected: Japanese, English, Korean, Chinese and more ✔ Automatic reading direction: right-to-left for manga, left-to-right for manhwa and comics
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━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 BUILT FOR BINGE-READING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ Progressive translation while you scroll: first pages instantly, the rest prepares as you read ✔ Smart cache: already-translated pages reappear INSTANTLY — even after reloading or re-reading tomorrow — and don't consume quota ✔ Extreme compatibility: works even on tricky readers (lazy-loaded images, canvas, blobs, bot-protected sites) ✔ Area mode: select any region of the page and translate just that ✔ Click a translated bubble to see the original text — perfect for language learners! ✔ Read aloud: tap to have the translation spoken with your browser's built-in voice ✔ Adjustable font size
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 BUILT-IN ANILIST + MYANIMELIST TRACKER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Connect your AniList OR MyAnimeList account and MangaLens updates your reading progress BY ITSELF: finish a chapter and the counter goes up, no action needed. Never again "which chapter was I on?"
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏆 READING REWARDS YOU: LEVELS, COUPONS & FREE CREDITS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ Level up page after page: from Novice 📖 to Manga Legend 👑 ✔ Unlock real rewards: premium credits, discount codes up to 15%, exclusive fonts and themes ✔ Watch a short ad (only if YOU choose to!) → get free premium credits ✔ Invite a friend with your code: on their first purchase, bonus credits FOR BOTH
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💎 FREE TODAY, PREMIUM WHEN YOU WANT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ FREE PLAN: free translations every day, forever, no credit card required ✔ FREE PREMIUM TRIAL: your first 50 high-quality AI translations are on us ✔ CREDIT PACKS: one-time, no subscription, never expire — pay only for what you use ✔ PREMIUM €4.99/MONTH: unlimited top-quality AI translations + Scanlation Mode (original-text erasing); manage or cancel in one click from the customer portal
No ads while reading. Ads exist ONLY on the optional "free credits" page, if you choose to use it.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 PRIVACY & SECURITY FIRST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ Images are processed only to translate them and are NOT stored ✔ We never sell your data. To anyone. ✔ Payments fully handled by Stripe: your card details never touch our servers ✔ No remote scripts or fonts: everything is bundled in the extension ✔ Quotas and accounts protected by server-side anti-abuse systems
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE (50+ LANGUAGES) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Translate manga INTO 50+ languages — Japanese, Korean and Chinese sources into the language you actually read in, from major world languages to Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Catalan, Albanian and many more. The MangaLens interface itself is localized in dozens of languages too, so the whole extension feels native wherever you are.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❓ FAQ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
- Does it work on my favorite site? → Almost certainly yes: MangaLens works on the images visible in your browser, on any site you read.
- Do I need an account? → Yes, a free one (email, 30 seconds): it protects the free quotas from abuse.
- Are the translations actually good? → We use state-of-the-art AI models: natural sentences, context respected, consistent names. Judge for yourself with the free trial.
- Can I cancel anytime? → Yes, in one click from the customer portal. Purchased credits never expire.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚖️ RESPONSIBLE USE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MangaLens works exclusively on content you are already legitimately viewing in your browser. It does not bypass paywalls or DRM, and does not download or redistribute content: it is a language-accessibility tool for strictly personal use. Always support the authors by purchasing official editions when available in your language.
📧 Support: [email protected]
Install MangaLens and read that chapter you've been waiting for — today, in your language. 🍜
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Data month: 2026-09 · User counts and ratings come from public Chrome Web Store data, aggregated monthly. See methodology.