Easydict vs Manga Image Translator
Easydict and Manga Image Translator are both document processing software. Easydict is open source under GPL-3.0, with 15k GitHub stars. Manga Image Translator is open source under GPL-3.0, with 11k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Easydict when
- You read or write in several languages on a Mac and want quick lookups.
- Pick Manga Image Translator when
- You want machine-translated manga pages and can run a GPU model locally.
Side by side
A macOS dictionary and translation app that looks up selected text or OCR'd screen text across Apple, DeepL, Google, OpenAI and Chinese translation services.
Detects text in manga and other images, translates it and redraws the translation onto the image.
Several services need your own API keys, and docs lean Chinese.
Releases are still beta and the public demo site no longer works.
Production-ready
Usable
Desktop app
Self-hosted server and command line
Swift, Objective-C and Python
Python, PyTorch, Transformers and FastAPI
Open source, GPL-3.0 (strong copyleft) (both)
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license. (both)
15k GitHub stars
11k GitHub stars
Established: started 4 years ago, latest release 2.25.0.
Established: started 5 years ago, latest release beta-0.3.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.