Kites
Kites Manga Translator

Read raw manga
in your language

The AI manga translator for your browser. Translate manga, manhwa, and webtoons with zero servers, clean polygon inpainting, and authentic comic lettering.

Available in the Chrome Web Store Free Install Options GitHub
Verified Web Store Extension • 100% Free & Open Source • WebGPU On-Device AI
Original grayscale Chinese manga page Kites English translation with full-page colorization and speech balloon wrapping English 中文

Full translation + colorization (Chinese → English) — Artwork: @almondnuts117

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Intuitive Experience

Designed for Frictionless Reading

From subtle in-page hover triggers to an interactive full-screen studio editor.

⭐️ In-Page Hover Button

Instant In-Place Translation Without Clunky Popups

Hover over any comic panel on Twitter/X, Pixiv, or manga reader sites. An unobtrusive floating translation button appears seamlessly using modern CSS Anchor Positioning. Click it, and the panel translates right inside the artwork.

🖱️ Hover Button
Floating badge appears on hovered images with zero page interference.
📌 Persistent Pins
Keep actionable translate pins on all comic images for quick reading.
🚀 Auto-Translate
Viewport observer queues and translates chapters as you scroll.
✂️ Area Crop
Translate protected canvas, WebGL games, or custom screen crops via Ctrl+Shift+X.
⚡ Reading Hotkeys
Press 'F' to peek at original raw scan, 'M' for full-screen chapter reader mode.
🎯 Right-Click Menu
Right-click any image on the web and select "Translate Image".
Kites In-Page Hover Translation Button
Kites Quick Control Popup

Quick Control Popup

Switch target languages, toggle reading modes, or trigger on-demand viewport translations in one click.

Kites Chapter Reader and Fast Scanner

Chapter Reader & Fast Scan

Discover lazy-loaded panels across whole chapters, read in Webtoon mode, batch translate, and export 1-click chapter ZIPs.

Kites Deep Settings Panel

Deep Engine Presets

Configure PaddleOCR models (v3-v6), neural inpainting (LaMa / AOT-GAN), WebGPU acceleration, and custom API keys.

Interactive Post-Editor

Kites Studio: Full Creative Control

Inspect clean background plates, edit dialogue directly on canvas, erase defects with AI inpaint brush, and export 1:1 lossless PNGs.

Double-Click Inline Editing • AI Brush Inpainting • 1:1 PNG Export
Kites Studio Editor: Live Interactive Workspace
Kites Studio Full-Screen Editor
Under the Hood

Built with Cutting-Edge Client-Side AI

Kites eliminates heavy Python dependencies and expensive cloud servers by running optimized neural networks directly in Chromium via WebGPU.

⚡

WebGPU Hardware Acceleration

Runs ONNX Runtime Web directly on your graphics card with seamless WASM fallback. No local CUDA or Python installation needed.

📐

Kruskal-MST Spatial Clustering

Reconstructs reading order and merges fragmented text lines into unified dialogue balloons using graph-theoretic minimum spanning trees.

🎨

Dynamic 64px Patch Inpainting

LaMa Manga and AOT-GAN neural inpainters operate on localized dynamic-bucketed crops at 1:1 scale, avoiding ugly gray blur boxes.

🔀

Smart Translation Waterfall

Automatic failover across unlimited on-device WebLLM (Qwen 3.5, Gemma 3, Llama 3.2), unlimited Google Translate, our 100 free/day community cloud pool, or private API keys.

🔒

100% Private & Local-First

Your images never touch our servers. All OCR detections, clean backgrounds, and translations are stored locally in IndexedDB with 7-day TTL pruning.

📖

100% Free & Open Source

Licensed under GPLv3. Auditable source code, zero hidden analytics, zero telemetry beacons, and zero monthly subscriptions.

Get Started

Install Kites in Seconds

Choose the installation method that fits your needs. 100% free, private, and open source.

Recommended • 1-Click

Chrome Web Store

Fastest • Auto-Updating

The official Google Chrome Web Store release. One click to install, verified by Google security review, and stays continuously updated.

  • 1-Click Install: No zip extraction or terminal needed
  • Automatic Updates: Get new models and fixes seamlessly
  • Verified MV3: Adheres to strict Chrome extension sandboxing
  • Chromium Support: Chrome, Brave, Edge, Arc & Opera
Add to Chrome (Free) ↗

Release ZIP

Offline • Unpacked

Pre-compiled distribution package ready for Developer Mode. Great for offline machines or testing specific version snapshots.

  1. Download the latest release .zip bundle
  2. Extract to a persistent local folder
  3. Navigate to chrome://extensions/
  4. Toggle Developer mode & click Load unpacked
Download Release .ZIP

Build from Source

Developers • Open Source

Complete auditable GPLv3 TypeScript source. Inspect algorithms, tune models, and build with Vite & Rolldown.

git clone https://github.com/Unheat/Kites.git
cd Kites && npm ci
npm run build
GitHub Repository