MochiDim or MochiTranslate?
Two products, two distinct jobs. Most readers eventually want both — but here’s how to pick the one to start with.
01Pick what describes you
“My eyes hurt by chapter 20.”
Manga pages are bright white. Webtoons are even worse. After an hour your eyes feel like sandpaper and your sleep gets weird. You want the pages to feel like ink on cream paper, not pixels on a flashlight.
Start with MochiDim
“I read raws and the English version is months away.”
You read Japanese / Korean / Chinese raws because waiting is not in your DNA. You’ve tried Google Translate and hated overlays covering the artwork. You want the English to go into the bubble.
Start with MochiTranslate
Both describe you? Save $8 with the Studio Pass bundle.
02Side by side
The complete picture.
| MochiDim | MochiTranslate | |
|---|---|---|
| What it solves | Bright manga pages burning your eyes during long reading sessions. | The bubble, sound effect or vertical kanji you can't parse on a raw manga page. |
| How it works | Per-channel tone-mapping (separate R/G/B curves) plus tunable blue-light reduction, scoped to the reader pane or just the manga panels — your choice. Runs in the browser's GPU compositor pass. | You hover any image and click the translate button that appears. The panel gets sent to Gemini's image-edit model, which re-renders it with English in the bubbles. Built for spot use — tap what you can't read, not the whole chapter. |
| Best for | Late-night readers, marathon binge sessions, anyone whose eyes give up before chapter 30. | Raw readers who can parse most of a chapter but get stuck on the occasional bubble, sound effect or vertical kanji. |
| What you need | Nothing extra. Install, set warmth, read. | A Gemini API key (BYO — image-edit currently needs Gemini specifically). MochiTranslate doesn't proxy your requests or take a cut. |
| Performance impact | Negligible. One CSS filter, no JS work per page. | A few cents of Gemini cost per panel you translate, on your own key. Cached re-reads are free, so already-translated panels load instantly with no API call. |
| Price | $19 once · lifetime license | $19 once · lifetime license (plus a few cents per panel paid to Google for Gemini) |
| Refund | 30 days, no questions | 30 days, no questions |
03When to get both
They stack better than they substitute.
MochiDim and MochiTranslate solve completely different reading problems — comfort vs. access — and don’t overlap at all. Installed together they make raw chapters readable and easy on the eyes at the same time, which is what most serious readers actually want.
If you’re sure today you only need one, start with that. You can upgrade to the Studio Pass bundle later — we credit what you already paid toward the bundle price. Email hello@mochipanel.com and we’ll handle it.
If you can already tell you want both — the bundle saves $8.
Read kinder. Read longer.
Whichever you pick, it’s a one-time payment and yours forever. No subscriptions, no upsells.