Comparison

Torii Image Translator vs Neko Translator

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Torii Image Translator

This app translates text within images on websites, specifically for manga, manhwa, and webtoons. It allows users to edit translations, clean original text, and export projects in various formats. It offers a comprehensive workspace for scanlation projects on the web.

Highlights
  • One-tap image translation
  • Bulk chapter translation and export
  • Choice of AI translation models
  • In-browser text editing and cleaning
  • Context sharing for consistent translation
  • Export layered PSD files
Features
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Translate manga, manhwa, webtoons and comics right where you read them in Safari. Torii finds the text in any image on any website, translates it with the AI model of your choice, and typesets the translation back into the speech bubbles. Made by a solo developer, updated almost every week, with an active Discord community of 2,000+ readers and scanlators. WHAT YOU CAN DO • One-tap translation: translate any image on the page, or switch on auto-translate for the whole page • Bulk translate a full chapter, then download every page as a ZIP or PDF • Choose the AI model you prefer from the leading providers, or bring your own API key • Japanese, Korean and Chinese to English, plus 120+ other languages • Context sharing across pages keeps names and terms consistent through a chapter • Custom prompts to steer tone, honorifics and terminology your way • Translation history: browse and reopen everything you've translated A REAL EDITOR, RIGHT IN SAFARI Edit the translated page in place: • Move, resize, rotate and restyle every text box, with your own custom fonts • Erase, paint and AI-inpaint to clean the original text away • Find and replace across pages, multi-select, keyboard shortcuts, undo everything • Export layered PSD files for further work in Photoshop A FULL SCANLATION WORKSPACE ON THE WEB For bigger jobs, open toriitranslate.com in Safari for a complete project workspace with the same editor: • Upload whole chapters or volumes at once: images, ZIP archives, PDFs or saved Torii projects • Organize pages into folders, then translate everything with one tap • Import and export the original and translated scripts, and crop pages • Save the project and pick it up later, or download it all as ZIP, PDF, PSD or a Torii project file ON MAC, IPAD AND IPHONE Use Torii in Safari on all your Apple devices with one account and one credit balance. GETTING STARTED After installing, turn on Torii in Safari's extension settings and allow it on the sites you read. Torii includes a free trial; continued use requires credits on your Torii account. Questions or ideas? Join the Torii Discord. I read and reply to every message.

About

Neko Translator

Features
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Neko Translator - A professional AI-powered tool for automatically translating manga/comic images — from extracting dialogue, to summarizing each page's context with a multimodal model, to fine-grained translation by a large language model. Run the whole pipeline automatically in batches, or refine it box by box manually, then export or read with a single tap. Automated translation pipeline: Text-box detection → text recognition (OCR) → scene-context parsing → translation. All four steps are independently controllable, and each can be skipped or re-run as needed. Text-box detection / OCR: Automatically outlines dialogue and text regions in the image, with support for manually adding boxes, running OCR individually, reordering, and more. Fine-grained LLM translation: Translates with scene context taken into account, and supports a proofreading workflow for easy human refinement. Bring your own AI provider: Compatible with the OpenAI API, so you can connect a local Ollama, OpenRouter, and more. Model, concurrency, rate limits, and retries are all customizable, and your API key is stored only in your device's secure local storage. Glossary support: Keep character names and proper nouns translated consistently, with "do not translate" and "banned terms" options to ensure consistent wording throughout the book. Scene-context analysis: Parses the image content and uses the source text and summaries of adjacent pages as context, so the AI keeps dialogue coherent from page to page. Batch processing: Select multiple pages and chapters at once for automatic queued processing, with real-time progress and automatic retries on failure. Built-in reader: Horizontal / vertical layouts, paged / continuous scrolling — the reading direction is fully customizable. One-tap export: Export to LabelPlus TXT, or package everything together with the original images as a ZIP, making the follow-up typesetting work easy.

Screenshots

Torii Image Translator4 screens
Neko Translator4 screens

Verdict

The call

Torii Image Translator and Neko Translator are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Torii Image Translator ships an update fortnightly, Neko Translator every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Torii Image Translator versus Neko Translator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTorii Image TranslatorNeko Translator
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB68 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAntony Kaloferov禹 梁

In-app purchases

None

Torii Image Translator

No in-app purchases

None

Neko Translator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Torii Image Translator free?
Torii Image Translator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Neko Translator free?
Neko Translator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Torii Image Translator or Neko Translator have ads?
Neither Torii Image Translator nor Neko Translator shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Torii Image Translator or Neko Translator?
Torii Image Translator ships an update fortnightly, and Neko Translator every 3 weeks. Most recently, Torii Image Translator was updated on October 31, 2026 and Neko Translator on October 28, 2026.

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