Questions, answered.

A Chrome extension that translates manga, manhwa and webtoons directly on the site you are reading. It finds the speech bubbles, reads the text, translates it and letters the translation back into the bubbles, in one of 26 languages.

Open the extension in the Chrome Web Store, click Add to Chrome and confirm. The Manhwave icon appears in your toolbar. Pin it for quick access. No account is needed for your 50 free credits a week.

Open a chapter, click the Manhwave icon, choose your target language and click Translate. Bubbles are translated as they come into view while you scroll at your own pace. Use the extension controls to pause or return to the original view.

Desktop Chrome on Windows, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS. Other browsers are not supported yet. There is no mobile version yet: Chrome on phones does not support extensions. The website itself works on every device.

Not to try it. Your first translation starts your free credits without a signup form: 50 every week. Confirming your email raises your weekly free credits to 100. You can also buy a plan without creating an account first: after payment, we email you a secure link to access your purchase. You can set a password in Account if you prefer.

Credits measure translation capacity. Each page you translate uses credits in proportion to how much text it contains, so a dialogue-heavy manga page costs more than a webtoon panel with one line. Your balance is shown in the extension before you translate. Credits are counted by text, not images: 1 credit per started 750 characters of source text, so on paid plans a chapter costs from about 1 cent.

Yes, every week. Once a week your free balance is topped up to 50 credits, or to 100 after you confirm your email. The top-up happens the next time you use Manhwave after 7 days. Unused free credits do not stack beyond that amount, and credits you buy (plans and one-time credits) are separate and never reduced. Weekly free credits are one per person: they can be paused for accounts that share an email address or network with other accounts, or while free usage is unusually high.

Starter (1,000 credits a month) suits a few series read weekly. Plus (3,000 credits a month) is for a growing reading list. Unlimited is for binge readers and has no credit cap, subject to fair use. All plans include all 26 languages, every supported site, saved translations and font controls. See the pricing section for current prices.

No. Monthly credits reset at the start of each billing month, including on annual plans. Free credits are topped up every week to 50, or to 100 after email confirmation, and unused free credits do not stack.

No. Translations you generated are saved to your account and open for free. A different target language or a fresh translation of the same page counts as new work.

Unlimited is meant for one person reading at a human pace, even a very fast one. Automated or bulk translation, account sharing and feeding translations into other products are not covered. If usage looks like that, we may slow down or pause new translations and get in touch. Normal heavy reading is never a problem.

Through Stripe, by card. Prices are in US dollars; taxes may be added at checkout depending on your country. We never see your full card number.

Annual billing costs 33% less than paying month by month. Credits still renew monthly on annual plans, so the reading experience is identical.

Yes, at any time, with no fee. Cancelling stops the next renewal. You keep your plan until the end of the period you already paid for.

Cancelling stops your next renewal. Your plan stays active until your paid period ends. Unused monthly credits expire at the end of each monthly credit cycle, including on annual plans, and do not roll over. One-time top-up credits do not expire. Cancelling does not remove your free credits; weekly refills remain subject to the free-credit rules and eligibility checks.

Consumers in the EU, EEA and UK can withdraw within 14 days of purchase; we refund the price minus a proportionate amount for credits already used. We also refund duplicate charges and charges made after a confirmed cancellation. Full details are in the Terms of Service.

Yes. Open My account and choose Change plan. An upgrade (for example Starter to Plus) starts right away: you pay only the prorated difference for the rest of your current billing period and get the extra credits for the current month immediately. A downgrade starts at the end of the period you already paid for, so you keep what you paid for until then. Monthly and yearly billing can’t be swapped in the middle of a period. Contact us if you need help.

Sources: English, Japanese, Chinese and Korean. Targets: 26 languages including English, Polish, Spanish, Romanian, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Thai, Turkish and Japanese.

They are produced by language models tuned for dialogue, with the whole chapter treated as one story so names and tone stay consistent. They are not official translations and can occasionally miss a joke or a nuance. The original text of every bubble is one hover away.

By design, no. Sound effects, logos and credits are left exactly as drawn. Only speech bubbles, captions and system panels are translated.

Yes. Pick Manga, Comic or Classic lettering and adjust the text scale in the extension. Changes apply to the current page without translating again.

No. Translations are drawn as an overlay in your browser. The site, the images and the chapter files are untouched. Switch the extension off and the page is exactly as it was.

Reader sites that show comic pages as regular images, including official platforms such as WEBTOON, Tapas, Tappytoon and Manta. There is no fixed list. Results can vary with page layout and how images load, and we adapt to site changes over time.

Not your chapters. Bubble detection and text recognition run on your device, and your pages are never uploaded or stored. We send the extracted text and your target language for translation; for some languages a small low-resolution grayscale preview of the page goes with them to help with grammar, for that request only. To see on which sites Manhwave fails, the extension reports the site name (not the address of the chapter). We do not keep a history of the chapters you read and we do not sell data.

In your account, so you can re-open them without spending credits, and in your browser’s extension storage. Deleting your account removes the saved translations.

Yes. Email us from the address linked to your account and we delete the account, saved translations and remaining credits within 30 days. Details are in the Privacy Policy.

Reload the page and try again. Make sure the chapter images have loaded and that you are on a page with comic images, not a series overview. If the site opened before you installed the extension, a reload is required once.

Very small, low-contrast or hand-drawn lettering can be missed by detection. Scroll slowly so images fully load before translation runs. If a whole site is consistently skipped, send us the URL through the contact page.

Increase the text scale in the extension or switch to a more condensed lettering style such as Manga. Text shrinks automatically only when it would otherwise not fit its bubble.

Credits renew at the start of each billing month. If a payment failed, paid features pause until it succeeds; check the email from Stripe. If the payment went through and credits are still missing, email us with your account address.

Use the contact form and include the site URL, the series and chapter, your browser version and a screenshot if possible. That usually lets us reproduce the issue the same day.

Manhwave does not host or distribute manga. It translates text on pages you are already reading, inside your own browser, for your personal use. You are responsible for reading on sites you are allowed to use. When a series is officially available in your language, please support the official release.

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Both are written in plain language.