Inkroost vs Mangami
Both draw manga pages with AI from a written story and take art you drew yourself. Pick Mangami for one-click drafts of a whole manga at a desktop. Pick Inkroost to create on any device or inside ChatGPT and Claude, and to take a chapter further: translated editions, Inkroost Animate episodes, promo kits, print and readers on your own series website.
How this compares
| Feature | Inkroost | Mangami |
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| Draws a manga page from a written scene | Yes | Yes |
| Plans a whole story, scripts every page and draws the chapter | Yes | Yes |
| Publish pages you drew yourself, a whole chapter or a PDF at once | Yes | Yes |
| Character, place and prop sheets that keep the art consistent | Yes | Yes |
| Pick the image model for each drawing | Yes | Yes |
| Layer-by-layer page editing (Pro Studio): frames, layers, take a panel apart | Yes | Yes |
| Give a character a new pose (25 poses or your own words) and pose a 3D mannequin | Yes | No |
| 3D rooms for locations | Yes | No |
| Speech bubbles, captions and sound effects | Yes | Yes |
| Continuity check on pages you drew yourself | Yes | No |
| Create from a phone | Yes | No |
| Create from inside ChatGPT or Claude | Yes | No |
| Translated and colour editions of your chapters | Yes | No |
| Inkroost Animate: turn chapters into animated episodes with voices, published to your YouTube channel | Yes | No |
| Promo kit: chapter posters, trailers and webtoon strips | Yes | No |
| Export as a Kindle ebook or a paperback for Amazon KDP | Yes | No |
| Give a comic as a gift | Yes | No |
| Readers follow chapters, comment and come back | Yes | Partial |
| Supporter-only chapters unlocked through Patreon | Yes | No |
| Send chapters to other publishing platforms from the chapter | Yes | No |
| Support link for creators | Yes | No |
| Your own series website, on yourname.inkroost.com or your own domain | Yes | No |
Compared on what each product describes publicly about itself on mangami.com and inkroost.com, checked on 3 November 2026. Prices are not compared: see our pricing page.
Your art. Your story. Your readers.
Bring your original comic, manga or webtoon. Upload your pages, publish chapters, and give readers a reason to come back.
Upload & share your work →Free to publish · No AI required · Your work stays yours
Free to start. AI drawing is paid for in credits, and packs start at $5.99 USD.
Free to start. You keep your work, and you can take it down whenever you like. See a finished chapter ·
One scene, drawn in the manga looks you can pick
Inkroost's own drawing of one rooftop scene in each manga look. Pick a look and every page you draw starts from it.
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Manga B&W
High-contrast ink, speed lines, dramatic angles
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Shonen
Action, screentone, impact frames
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Seinen
Fine detail, cross-hatching, cinematic panels
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Shojo
Soft tones, elegant lines, emotional close-ups
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Chibi
Cute, rounded, bright and simple
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Start free. Keep going with a plan.
New accounts start with 50 free credits — enough for your first 5 pages. Uploading pages you drew is always free. Plans start at $3.99 a month, and credit packs at $5.99.
Manga on Inkroost
Real manga that reads right to left, published here by the people who own it.
Which one fits you
What both do
Both draw manga pages with AI from a written story, keep characters, places and props consistent with sheets, let you pick the image model, letter pages with speech bubbles, and take art you drew yourself.
Choose Mangami if…
You work at a desktop and want a whole manga drafted from one story in one click, a large menu of image models to choose from, and HD upscaling.
Choose Inkroost if…
You want to create on a phone or inside ChatGPT or Claude, Pro Studio for panel-by-panel control with poses and 3D rooms, and to take a finished chapter further: translated and colour editions, animated episodes with Inkroost Animate, a promo kit, a Kindle or paperback edition, and readers on Inkroost and your own series website.
What it looks like, step by step
Screenshots of the actual screens, in the order you meet them.
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Bring the pages you drew
Uploading your own art is free, and those pages sit in the same chapter as the pages the AI draws.
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Write the scene, see the price first
Describe the page in plain sentences. The page count and the credit cost show before anything is drawn.
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Publish to readers
The chapter reads right to left in any browser, free, for readers who follow the series and come back for the next chapter.
Manga pages published here
Straight out of the catalogue. Tap one to read the chapter it belongs to.
What it costs
One AI-drawn page is 10 credits (about $0.30), so a 20-page chapter comes to about 200 credits (about $5.99). New accounts start with 50 free credits — enough for your first 5 pages. Uploading art you drew yourself costs nothing, and reading is always free. See the full pricing.
Questions people ask
Is Inkroost a Mangami alternative?
Yes. Like Mangami, Inkroost draws manga pages with AI from a written story and takes pages you drew yourself. It also lets you create from a phone or inside ChatGPT and Claude, translate your comic, make animated episodes and publish to readers.
Can I bring pages I drew myself?
Yes. Uploading art you drew yourself is free, and those pages can sit in the same chapter as pages the AI draws.
Does Inkroost work on a phone?
Yes. You can write, draw with AI, review and publish from a phone browser as well as from a computer, with nothing to install.
Can I use Inkroost from ChatGPT or Claude?
Yes. Inkroost has an app in ChatGPT and a connector for Claude, so you can plan, draw and publish chapters from the chat, and everything lands in your Inkroost studio.
What does a chapter cost in dollars?
One AI-drawn page costs 10 credits (about $0.30), so a 20-page chapter comes to 200 credits (about $5.99). Uploading art you drew yourself costs nothing. Credit packs start at $5.99.
More ways in
Your first page is free.
Free to join, no card needed, and your 50 welcome credits draw your first 5 AI pages. If you would rather draw them yourself, upload them instead — both are first-class here.
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