Every existing manga translation app is a pain to use — users give up or build their own

Summary

Readers and scanlators are intensely frustrated on two fronts: waiting indefinitely for their favorite manga to be translated, and finding that 'every app I have tried to use have been a pain to work with.' The failures compound across the workflow — bubbles that need manual repositioning because auto-typesetting overflows, no way to hand-paint over the original lettering when the automatic removal looks wrong, no clean export into the .zip/.cbz format readers actually consume, and no batch handling of a full chapter. The pain is severe enough that users abandon the category and hand-roll their own browser tools (one such post drew 167 upvotes), which proves both the depth of demand and the absence of a trustworthy, frictionless incumbent. Nothing on the market delivers a genuinely smooth end-to-end path from drag-and-drop pages to a reviewed, exportable chapter, and users have no way to know which tool will actually handle their language pair and art style before burning credits. A tool that is effortless for a non-technical reader, offers real manual override for bubble fitting and cleanup, and exports directly to read-ready formats would capture a large, vocal, currently-underserved audience.