Manhwa translation
Manhwa, from Korean into English, with the art left as drawn.
Panelift is an AI manhwa translator: upload a chapter in Korean and get it back in English, the Korean lettering erased, the art painted back and the English lettered into each bubble. It reads the whole chapter before translating, so names, genders and the way characters address each other stay the same from page to page and from chapter to chapter.
What Panelift does with it
Long strips, cut where the panels already break
Manhwa often arrives as one tall webtoon strip. Panelift cuts it at the gutters between panels, translates each part and puts the strip back together, so only the lettering changes.
Hyung, noona, sunbae: who calls whom what
Forms of address carry the relationships in Korean. Panelift keeps a list per series of who calls whom what, and every later chapter uses the same English for it. You can edit the list.
Colour art painted back
Under each bubble the Korean lettering is removed and the colour art painted back, then a pixel check confirms nothing outside the lettering changed.
Names that stay the same at chapter 80
The cast list (names, genders, terms) is learned from every chapter and used by the next one, so a name chosen in chapter 1 is still that name at chapter 80.
How a chapter goes
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Bring the chapter
Upload the pages (PNG, JPEG or WebP), a ZIP or CBZ, or paste the link to the chapter's page.
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Check the series
Panelift reads the title off the pages, looks the series up and fills in its English title, story and genres. Change anything that is off.
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Translate
The whole chapter is read first, then every bubble is erased, the art painted back, and the English lettered into the same space.
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Read, fix, download
Read it in the browser, reword any line in the page editor, and download the chapter as a ZIP or a PDF.
Questions
Can Panelift translate manhwa from Korean to English?
Yes. Korean is one of Panelift's three source languages (with Japanese and Chinese), and English is the language it letters into today.
Does it work with webtoon-style long strips?
Yes. A strip much taller than it is wide is cut at the gutters between panels, translated, and stitched back into one strip.
How much does it cost to translate a manhwa chapter?
Fast mode costs 1 credit a page (2.5 for an 18+ series), and every account starts with 10 free credits. A page that fails a check is refunded. See the cost page for what a chapter costs in your currency.
Do I need the rights to the manhwa?
Yes. Panelift is for people who hold the rights to a work or have the rights holder's permission; you confirm it for every chapter, and rights holders can ask for a takedown.
