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An on-device manga translator for Apple Silicon Macs
For manga with no English release, Claude Code built a native Mac app that OCRs and translates pages locally within a tight memory limit.
Credits
- Reddit poster Zealousideal-Young-4 Source ↗
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The full story
The poster has read manga for years, but some series had no English translation, only Spanish, Portuguese, Korean or Mandarin ones. They asked Claude Code (Opus 5.5) to build a native Apple Silicon app that reads text from manga pages in any of several languages and translates it into English, entirely on the device, with peak memory under about 250 MB and smooth scrolling through more than 2,000 images.
The app also had to let the translated text be edited and formatted and include an erasing and retouching tool. The poster says it took two or three planned prompts plus refinement prompts, such as giving each button its own tooltip.
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Sources
From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Claude Opus 5.5 is phenomenal. Built a Local on device Manga Translation App for Apple Silicon DevicReddit poster: Zealousideal-Young-4Posted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.
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