MangaLens watches your screen while you read manhwa, manga or manhua in any app, finds the speech bubbles, wipes them clean and re-letters them in English — live, hands-free, like a human scanlation.
No translucent boxes floating over text. The original lettering is gone — wiped through the balloon's own detected mask — and the English is typeset in its place.
No screenshotting, no share-menu, no cropping. Stop scrolling and the page translates itself; scroll and it gets out of your way.
Capture and OCR run entirely on your device. The free engine sends only bubble text. Optional AI Vision sends the page image — only to the provider you chose.
Bring a free Google AI Studio key and the AI reads whole pages with story memory, a persistent name glossary, honorifics and natural tone. A live model picker always offers Google's newest Flash models.
Character names, pronouns and running jokes stay consistent across pages, chapters and restarts — scoped per series, so stories never contaminate each other.
Korean webtoons, vertical Japanese, simplified and traditional Chinese — plus raws that are secretly Spanish or English uploads. It reads what's actually on the page.
Yes. The default Google engine and the offline engine cost nothing and need no account. AI Pro mode uses your own API key — Google AI Studio keys have a free tier that's plenty for reading.
Screen capture and OCR are 100% on-device. The free engine sends bubble text only; AI Vision mode sends the page image to the AI provider you picked, and nowhere else. No analytics, no tracking, no account.
Any app that shows a page — browsers, reader apps, galleries. Private/incognito tabs block screen capture by design (the capture shows black), so use a normal tab.
Check that "Display over other apps" is granted, and that you're not in a private tab. The in-app Diagnostics toggle shows exactly what was detected if something looks off.
Use "Tap to translate" mode — capture idles until you tap the floating button.