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Full Feature List
Everything PanelShift can do.
Every tool, setting, and workflow explained.
Every comic is unique. Translating horizontal text into a vertical manga balloon requires finesse, and AI cannot magically erase physical coffee stains from a 1940s scan. That is why PanelShift adapts to you. Use Full Auto to quickly binge the next chapter, dive into Manual Mode for granular, pixel-perfect control over every OCR and inpainting step, or mix both approaches page by page.
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Translate All
Full album, fully automatic. Cancel at any time - completed pages are kept. Resume from any page with Translate from Here.
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Page Restoration NEW
Whiten and clean yellowed pages from scanned archives. All Page Restoration runs the full album. Revert any page to original instantly.
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AI Colorization NEW
Colorize entire albums or individual pages. Colorization hints guide the AI palette. Works on manga, European albums, and restored scans.
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Smart Bubble Detection
PanelShift's bundled detection model locates speech bubbles, caption boxes, and text regions. Adjustable block threshold prevents over-detection on covers and title pages.
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Automatic OCR Routing
Free, built-in OCR models selected automatically per language - the right engine for your comic, every time. Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Western scripts, and more. For the professional finishing touch on faded, scanned, or hand-lettered pages, PanelShift is ready for Pixtral - the sharpest eye for aged ink.
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Neural Inpainting
Reconstructs backgrounds after text removal. Enable Metal GPU in Settings for under 2-second cleaning on Apple Silicon M-series chips.
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Inline Editing
Edit OCR text or translation in the right panel before rendering. Fix names, adjust tone, correct wording - without re-running the translation step.
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Font and Text Control
Choose font, size, line spacing, color, alignment, bold, italic, underline, and outline weight. Import custom fonts in Settings.
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Manual Inpainting Brush
Touch up spots where automated cleaning fell short. Variable brush size, eraser, and clear-all controls on every page.
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Translate Editorial Page NEW
Author notes, episode recaps, historical context, maps, character bios - editorial pages carry meaning too. PanelShift handles text-heavy non-comic pages separately, preserving layout while delivering accurate translation.
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Webtoon Import
Slice long-strip webtoon images into pages at panel boundaries. Export a CBZ optimized for vertical reading.
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Flexible Export and Project Save
Export translated archive plus optional extras: raw OCR text, translated text, or inpainted pages as a separate archive. Save any session as a .panelshift project and reopen days later - all per-page settings, corrections, and language choices preserved.
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Build Your Own Processing Stack
PanelShift does not force you into a one-size-fits-all pipeline. Every engine is modular and swappable: choose your detection approach, your OCR engine, your translation provider, your inpainting model, and your colorization weights. Tailor the entire workflow to your hardware, your source material, and your reading preferences.
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Bring Your Own Colorization Model
PanelShift comes pre-bundled with Manga-Colorization-v2 by vergil1000 - a community favourite for standard manga colorization. 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.
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Watch, Correct, Enjoy - As It Happens
Each finished page appears in the viewer immediately - no waiting for the full album. Spot a translation you want to change mid-run? Click in, correct it, continue. You stay in control of the process, not just the output. PanelShift is a translation workstation first - the live preview is there for comfort, flow, and catching things early, not for sitting back and reading.
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42 Translation Languages
Yes, including Klingon, Latin, and Classical Greek - because ancient scrolls and starship logs deserve translation too.
See all 42 languages →14 UI LanguagesThe app interface runs in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Russian, Turkish, Danish, or Indonesian.
Translation Engines
Free engines included.
LLM quality one key away.
Start translating immediately with the free bundled engines. Add an API key* for significantly better results with LLM-powered translation. PanelShift also supports custom prompt addition.
*Tip: most LLMs offer a free tier. Try before you commit.
Google Translate
Free - no key needed
MyMemory
Free - no key needed
Yandex
Free - no key needed
Claude / Anthropic
Anthropic API key
Mistral 🇪🇺
Mistral API key
Gemini x.x Flash
Google API key
Microsoft Translator
Azure API key
Custom LLM Model
Any model - even ones released after PanelShift shipped.
Your data never leaves your machine. No cloud processing. No tracking. Your comics, your keys, your hardware.