Yakumi
Translate manga & manhwa right on the page, SFX included
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Yakumi is a Chrome extension that translates manga, manhwa and manhua where you read them. Hover a page and press Translate: the original lettering is erased and the translation is drawn back into the bubbles. Sound effects and printed text like signs are translated too, and "Show original" switches back anytime. Translate into English, Japanese, Korean or Chinese. 20 pages free with no account, 60 a month when you sign in.
PH · launched Nov 1, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: translation and localization tools · 195 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -31% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Chrome Extensions
- Languages
- Artificial Intelligence
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Could you build this?
Partial A Chrome extension UI is easy to vibe-code, but accurate manga text detection, inpainting of original lettering, and re-typesetting into bubbles require a computer vision pipeline that is hard to get right.
What it would actually take: Combine an OCR model for Japanese, Korean, and Chinese text with a vision LLM for context, a segmentation or inpainting model to erase the original lettering, and a typesetting engine to fit translations into bubbles and sound-effect areas. The extension itself is standard. The hard part is quality across varied art styles and layouts, which takes ML tuning and substantial testing.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 215 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #72 of 216 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 320 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Serifu · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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