tinypica finds every bubble, sound effect and caption on the page, translates them against your project glossary, and gives the page back typeset. The same character keeps the same name in chapter 1 and chapter 140, in every language you ship.
1,000 credits on signup · no card required
CH. 01 · How it works
Four steps, one pipeline. Each step includes the ones before it, and you pay only for the steps that run. Pick a step to see the page at that point.
R-01R-02R-03R-04R-055 lines found · chapter-1-source.txt
bubble · sound effect · caption, in reading order
Step 01 of 04 · the first step
Every bubble, sound effect and caption is found and read in reading order, and you get the script as a text file. Nothing is translated. The art is never touched.
Price
4credits a page
Same price on every AI model.
You get
The script as read, one file per chapter.
Demo page: Pepper & Carrot by David Revoy, CC BY 4.0. Modified by tinypica: read, translated and re-lettered.
prices on DeepSeek V4 Flash · other models add their premium on the translation step
CH. 02 · The hours you don't get back
Everything around it is what eats the week. Tracing bubbles by hand. Copy-pasting into a translator and back. Rebuilding the page in Photoshop. Then finding out chapter 40 spelled the lead's name three different ways.
| Three ways to ship a chapter | By hand | Generic MT + Photoshop | tinypica |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finding the text Every bubble and sound effect, one selection at a time. | Manual, per bubble | Manual, per bubble | Automatic |
| Name consistency A new translator joins; the honorifics quietly change. | Spreadsheet and hope | None | One glossary, every chapter |
| Second language Spanish means starting over from the raws. | Start over | Start over | Every chapter, one click |
| Typesetting | By hand in Photoshop | By hand in Photoshop | Done for you, editable |
| Handing off to a letterer | Native file | Flattened image | Layered PSD export |
| Onboarding a new translator | Read 40 chapters first | Not really possible | Inherits the glossary |
comparison reflects typical studio workflows · your mileage will differ
CH. 03 · What's inside
Glossary
Lock a character name, an honorific rule or a coined term once, at the project level. Every chapter after it resolves the same way, including the ones someone else translates six months from now.
Carrot · locked-nim · kept
Languages
A new target language translates every chapter you've already uploaded. No re-uploads, no second project.
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Exports
Flat PNG for the web, a chapter CBZ, or a layered PSD when a letterer takes over. Export as often as you like. It never costs credits.
PNGCBZZIPPSD0 credits to export
Text detection
Bubbles, sound effects and captions are isolated automatically, so translation happens in context instead of in a text box.
Script view
Read a whole chapter's dialogue in reading order and edit in bulk, instead of clicking into every bubble one at a time.
Live preview
Your translation is laid over the original artwork the moment it's done, so you catch a bad line break or a bubble that doesn't fit while it's still cheap to fix.
CH. 04 · Pricing
Every plan runs the whole pipeline. Pick the step you stop at to see how far each plan’s credits go.
€0one time
100pages, one time, fully typesetno card required
Was €15€10.50a month 30% off
750pages a month, fully typeset€1.40 per 100 pages
Was €80€56a month 30% off
6,000pages a month, fully typeset€0.93 per 100 pages
Was €180€126a month 30% off
15,000pages a month, fully typeset€0.84 per 100 pages
Launch offer Launch price for the first 30 subscribers, monthly or yearly. It stays yours for as long as you stay subscribed.
CH. 05 · Where we actually are
The honest version, so you can decide.
Dense sound effects drawn over artwork are still missed sometimes. Every line stays editable, so a miss is a quick fix.
Subscribe now and your rate holds through general availability.
Uploads are processed only to translate them. We don’t train on your artwork.
CH. 06 · Questions
1,000 credits on signup, no card. That’s 100 fully typeset pages.