Manga Cleaning & Redraw Tool

A Manga Cleaning and Redraw Tool That Fits the Full Release Workflow

KOMA Studio is built for the reality of scanlation work: remove source text, preserve the art, and keep moving toward a finished release without context loss.

Cleanup is rarely the final problem. Teams need to remove source text, preserve the art, and keep the page ready for lettering and QA without creating downstream rework.

In Short

What makes a manga cleaning and redraw tool useful in production?

A useful cleanup tool does more than erase text. It has to preserve art quality and keep the page ready for lettering, redraw review, and final QA.

Cleanup quality affects every downstream stage
Redraw choices need review context
Chapter workflows punish extra handoffs

Where cleanup tools usually fail

Many tools can remove text, but the workflow falls apart when redraw, lettering, and QA all happen somewhere else. That is when chapter consistency starts leaking.

How KOMA approaches cleaning and redraw

KOMA positions cleaning and redraw as one stage inside the same chapter workspace used for translation and typesetting. That makes it easier to review every decision in context instead of rebuilding pages downstream.

Page cleanup lives next to translation and lettering
Redraw work stays visible during QA
The workflow scales from single-page fixes to chapter batches

When cleanup has to survive the whole chapter

KOMA is the better fit when text removal is only the beginning and the same page still needs redraw review, lettering, and final QA. The bigger the chapter workload, the more that continuity matters.

Open source, MIT licensed, free forever

KOMA Studio is developed in the open under the MIT license. It runs on your own machine, keeps projects on your disk, and never gates a feature behind a paid tier. You bring the AI model — hosted or local — and everything else is yours to inspect, modify, and redistribute.

MIT license — commercial use, forks and redistribution allowed
Self-hosted desktop app with no account and no usage telemetry
Bring your own API key, or run a local model offline
Issues, milestones, and the roadmap are public

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Where cleanup tools usually fail How KOMA approaches cleaning and redraw When cleanup has to survive the whole chapter Open source, MIT licensed, free forever

Common Questions

Does KOMA only remove text, or does it support the rest of the page workflow?

KOMA is built around end-to-end scanlation work, so cleaning is one stage inside a larger release pipeline.

Why is redraw context important?

Because redraw choices affect lettering, readability, and final QC. Context makes those tradeoffs easier to evaluate.

Is KOMA Studio open source?

Yes. The source code is published on GitHub under the MIT license, so you can read it, build it, fork it, or send a pull request.

Is it really free, or is there a paid tier?

There is no paid tier, credit system, or feature lock. The app is free forever and every capability ships in the open-source build. If you choose a hosted AI model you pay that provider directly; run a local model and there is nothing to pay at all.

How do I contribute or request a feature?

Open an issue on GitHub, claim a good first issue, translate the UI, or improve the docs. Development happens in public and priorities are discussed with the community in Discord.

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