NEN vs MangaLens
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NEN
This app provides a calm, Pomodoro-style focus timer designed for deep work and study sessions. It helps users maintain attention with clear progress tracking and distraction-resistant routines, offering customizable break intervals and app blocking features.
- Focus, short break, and long break sessions
- Clear timer progress and round tracking
- Focus categories for different work types
- Block selected apps during focus (Pro)
- Apple Watch controls
- Live Activities and widgets
- Session history and progress insights
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NEN is a calm Pomodoro-style focus timer for iPhone and Apple Watch, built for deep work, study sessions, real breaks, and distraction-resistant routines. Start a focus session, move through short and long breaks, and keep your attention on the work in front of you. NEN is built around a simple Pomodoro-style timer flow with a quiet visual style, clear session progress, and useful controls when you need them. Use NEN for deep work, study blocks, writing sessions, coding, reading, or any routine where you want a focused rhythm without extra noise. Features: - Focus, short break, and long break sessions - Clear timer progress and round tracking - Focus categories for different kinds of work - Block selected apps during focus with NEN Pro - Apple Watch controls - Live Activities and widgets - Session history and progress insights - Optional NEN Pro lifetime unlock for deeper focus tools NEN is made for people who want a focused timer that feels calm, native, and easy to return to every day.
MangaLens
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Translate manga, manhwa and manhua right on the page you're reading in Safari. Tap MangaLens and the speech bubbles switch to your language, laid over the original art, with no screenshots, uploads or app-switching. Free to download, with 200 free translations every day. WHY READERS USE MANGALENS • Read chapters that haven't been translated yet: Japanese manga, Korean manhwa and Chinese manhua • Translations sit inside the original speech bubbles, so the artwork, panels and reading order stay intact • Works on the manga and comic sites you already read in Safari. No separate reader app, no importing files • One tap translates every image on the page, with no page reloads • 63 languages to read in, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Thai, Arabic, Hindi, Turkish, French and German • Made for iPhone and iPad HOW IT WORKS 1. Open MangaLens once and turn the extension on in Settings. 2. Open a manga page in Safari and tap MangaLens in the toolbar. 3. Choose your language once. Every bubble on the page is translated in place. FREE AND PRO Sign up free for 200 translations every day. The allowance resets daily. MangaLens Pro removes the daily limit, with a monthly or a yearly plan. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of that period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions in your Apple Account settings. PRIVACY MangaLens sends the images on a page to its translation service only when you start a translation on that tab. It does not read pages in the background, and it does not track you across sites or build an advertising profile. Terms of Use: https://mangalens.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://mangalens.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: MangaLens at 15.0 against NEN's 17.5. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. NEN sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and MangaLens sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
NEN ships an update every 5 days, MangaLens every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | NEN | MangaLens |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nijanthan Vijayakumar | Sameer Shaik Abdul Rahaman |
In-app purchases
NEN
- NEN Lifetime Unlock$2.39
MangaLens
- Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$49.991 Year









