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Panelglass – Manga Translator for Android v0.1.0

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v0.1.0
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Panelglass is a manga translator for Android: open a raw manga, manhwa, manhua or webtoon site,

Added

  • Screen translation in the reader.
    • Press Start and the screen is translated. After each scroll, the next screen is translated once the page
      settles.
    • Translations stay pinned to the artwork while you scroll or the site shifts its layout.
    • Scrolling and paged readers both work: a tap or swipe page turn is noticed, pages still downloading are picked
      up when they arrive, and rotating the phone translates the new layout.
    • Balloons cut off at the screen edge wait until they are fully on screen.
    • Only comic art is translated, never the site's toolbars floating above it.
    • ⋮ → Re-translate reads the current screen again from scratch.
  • In-place lettering.
    • The original text is removed and the translation is fitted into the same balloon or caption box, sized to stay
      readable.
    • Vertical Japanese is supported.
    • Three lettering fonts are included.
  • Four translation engines, cloud or fully offline:
    • Gemini, with your own API key: it reads each balloon itself for the best quality and speed, and works with
      any Gemini or Gemma model your key can use.
    • Google Translate: on-device (ML Kit), free, with ~30 MB offline language packs.
    • Qwen 2.5 1.5B: an on-device model, a one-time 1.6 GB download. It runs on the GPU, or on the CPU on phones
      under 6 GB of RAM; Settings → Models → Qwen runs on changes it.
    • Gemma 4 E2B: a higher-quality on-device model, a 2.6 GB download for phones with 8 GB of RAM.
  • Built for comics.
    • A bundled comic text and bubble detector finds the lettering.
    • Japanese is read by the optional manga-ocr model (140 MB download) or by ML Kit.
    • Model downloads keep going in the background and resume after interruptions. Every file is checked against a
      pinned SHA-256.
  • Languages.
    • Translate from Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), English, Spanish, French, German,
      Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian or Vietnamese.
    • Translate into any of those, or into Thai, Arabic or Hindi.
  • Your sites.
    • No sites ship with the app: add the readers you use and pin favourites.
    • Set languages, auto-translate and ad blocking per site.
    • Recent chapters are kept in History.
  • Ad and pop-up blocking.
    • Public block lists (AdGuard DNS, HaGeZi pop-up ads, StevenBlack as a fallback) are fetched and refreshed daily.
    • Pop-ups and popunders are caught, and interstitials and tap-hijacking overlays are cleaned up.
  • Translate page (⋮ → Translate page): translates the site's own text, such as titles, chapter lists and
    comments, on the device. Show original puts the page back.
  • Try a translation box in Settings, to check an engine before reading.
  • Themes and app language.
    • Four themes: Default, Panel Pop, Soft Bloom, and Paper & Ink.
    • The interface is available in 16 languages (Arabic right to left), switched in Settings → App language.
  • Privacy.
    • API keys are encrypted with the Android Keystore and never logged.
    • The offline engines keep everything on the device, and there is no Panelglass server.
    • Nothing is backed up, and uninstalling removes everything.
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