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Comic Translation and Recoloring, Finally Done Right!

Every Comic, in Your Language
Coming to Mac App Store - Apple Silicon
42
Languages
14
App UI languages
9
File formats
€9.99
No subscription. No in-app purchases.

Standard translators fail at visual storytelling. PanelShift uses context-aware AI to understand both the art and the narrative - translating, restoring, and colorizing your comic archives entirely on your Mac. Whether you are finishing a discontinued manga, slicing an untranslated Korean webtoon, unlocking hundreds of faded bandes dessinées and stripverhalen that never crossed a language border, rendering Homer into Klingon, or deciphering Latin discordia and Gaelic folklore - your personal, fair-use translation lab restores, colorizes, and breaks the language barrier in seconds.

One-time purchase. No In-App Purchases! No subscription!

Download for Mac SOON See How It Works
Detect
OCR
Translate
Segment
Clean
Render
Colorize Page
Page Restoration
Translate Editorial Page
Manual
Auto
Translate All
Colorize All
All Page Restoration
Cancel
Batch Report
Pages
page 1
PanelShift UI
Languages
Source: Japanese
Target: English
Text Rendering
Font: Anime Ace 2.0 BB
Inpainting
Colorization Hints
Signature Feature

Bring faded comics
back to life.

Old doesn't mean gone. PanelShift restores yellowed, age-faded scanned pages back to clean white - then colorizes them with AI, entirely on your Mac, privately and instantly.

Original scanned Spirit page - black and white
Original B&W scan
→
Spirit page - colorized and restored by PanelShift
Restored + colorized

Old albums. New life.

PanelShift was built with scanned 1960s bandes dessinées, stripverhalen, and fumetti in mind. Pixtral LLM OCR handles aged, cursive, and hand-lettered balloon text that standard OCR engines cannot read.

Whiten yellowed or age-faded page backgrounds
Neural inpainting removes original text cleanly
AI colorization fills black and white artwork
Translate into any of 42 languages
Why Now

Thousands of free comics.
Most people can't read them yet.

A vast amount of comic history is sitting in digital archives right now - free, legal, and waiting. The catch: most of it is scanned, yellowed, black and white, and in a language you don't read. PanelShift was built exactly for this.

The Opportunity

The massive archives of 1940s and 1950s American comics on sites like the Digital Comic Museum exist largely because publishers frequently failed to renew their copyrights under historical US law. In France, Japan, and Korea, copyright is traditionally tied to the creator's lifespan - typically life plus 50 to 70 years - so the "free and legal" windows in these regions open up to slightly older, incredibly fascinating eras: usually the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

A scanned 1952 French bande dessinée is a faded, hand-lettered file most people can't read. PanelShift turns it into a clean, colorized, translated comic in the language of your choice - in minutes. And because PanelShift ingests PDF, EPUB, CBZ, CBR, CB7, ZIP, and raw image folders directly, you won't waste time converting massive downloads. Grab the high-resolution files straight from the archive, drop them in, and start reading.

1M+
Public domain issues available
Free
To download and keep
Now
The window is open
Key archives
Digital Comic Museum
The go-to for Golden Age American comics (1930s-1950s). All verified public domain, free CBZ downloads - drop straight into PanelShift.
digitalcomicmuseum.com →
Internet Archive
Millions of scanned items: American comics, European BDs, newspaper strips. PDF and CBZ downloads, ready for PanelShift.
archive.org →
Gallica (BnF) · Europeana · NDL
The major institutional archives for French, European, and Japanese material. Early pioneers of the comic medium, high-resolution scans, legally free.
See the full archive guide →
Explore the full archive guide: where to find free comics, manga and graphic novels →
Features

Everything you need
to translate comics.

Powerful AI tools for manga, manhwa, European albums, and webtoons. Every step automated. Every step editable.

⚡
One-Click Full Album
Translate All runs all six pipeline steps on every page unattended: Detect, OCR, Translate, Segment, Clean, Render. Cancel anytime - completed pages are kept.
✍️
Manual Mode
Run each step individually. Edit OCR and translation text inline. Adjust fonts and rendering live. Full control when auto mode needs help.
🎨
AI Colorization
NEW
Colorize black and white comics. Set per-page colorization hints to guide the AI palette. Colorize All runs the full archive unattended.
🖼️
Page Restoration
NEW
Whiten aged and yellowed pages from scanned archives. Recover the crisp white backgrounds of the original print before translating or colorizing.
🎨
Use a Colorization Model, or Bring Your Own
PanelShift supports standard AI weight files (.pt, .safetensors) via the Custom Model Importer. Download any PyTorch colorization model from the open-source Hugging Face community and power your colorization engine exactly the way you want - no lock-in, no subscriptions, your hardware, your choice. Manga-Colorization-v2 - the community favourite - comes pre-bundled with PanelShift
📖
Watch, Correct, Enjoy - As It Happens
Each page lands in the viewer the moment it's done. No waiting for the whole album. Flip through what's finished, spot a translation you want to tweak, jump in and fix it - then let the rest keep running. You're always in control of what's happening, not just what happened. PanelShift is a translation workstation, not a comic reader - but comfort and flow during the process matter just as much as the result.
💾
Save and Resume
Save any session as a .panelshift project. Reopen days later and continue exactly where you stopped - all per-page settings preserved.
🧹
Neural Inpainting
Neural inpainting reconstructs backgrounds behind removed text. Enable Metal GPU in Settings for a major speed boost on Apple Silicon.
🔑
Bring Your Own API Key
2 free engines included. Add Claude, GPT, Gemini, Microsoft, Google, DeepL, Deepseek or any Custom LLM model for LLM-quality results. Keys stored locally, never shared.
📜
Webtoon Support
Import long-strip webtoon images. PanelShift slices at panel boundaries, translates, and exports a CBZ for vertical reading.
Six-Step Translation Pipeline + Three Power Functions

Fully automatic.
Fully editable.

Auto mode handles everything in sequence. Manual mode lets you take over any step on any page. Or combine both...

POWER FEATURE
🔧
Page Restoration
Yellowed pages, faded ink, age-damaged backgrounds. Restore them to clean before translation begins.
POWER FEATURE
🎨
Colorize Page
Black and white artwork, brought to life in full color. Colorize before translation for immersive reading - or after, for perfectly color-matched speech bubble fonts.
01
Detect
Our built-in detection model locates every speech bubble and text region on the page.
02
OCR
The right engine chosen automatically for your source language. Free bundled models handle most comics beautifully. Pixtral stands ready for faded scans and hand-lettered balloon text.
03
Translate
Your chosen engine translates each bubble. Review and edit inline before the next step.
04
Segment
Precise segmentation lines define the exact area to clean, protecting artwork outside the bubble.
05
Clean
Neural inpainting removes original text and restores the background. Touch up manually with the brush tool.
06
Render
Translation placed back with your chosen font, size, color, and style. Export as CBZ, EPUB, PDF, and more.
POWER FEATURE
📄
Translate Editorial Page
Editorial and book-alike pages carry meaning too. Author notes, recaps, context pages - translated separately, layout intact.
File Formats

Open anything.
Export everywhere.

Every major comic format supported for both import and export.

.CBZ
.CBR
.CB7
.CBT
.PDF
.EPUB
.ZIP / .RAR
Images
Folders
Webtoon (long strip)
Pricing

One Price! No subscription! No In-App Purchases! No surprises.

€9.99 on the Mac App Store. All future updates included.
Your local currency at checkout.

€9.99
One Price! No subscription! No In-App Purchases!
Mac App Store - Apple Silicon
✓ Google Translate + MyMemory + Yandex free
✓ Bring your own Claude / GPT / Gemini / Google / Microsoft / Mistral / DeepL / DeepSeek / Custom key
✓ 42 languages, page restoration, colorization
✓ Runs locally on Apple Silicon - private and fast
✓ All future updates at no extra cost