About Novel Translator

By the Novel Translator team. Last updated 12 November 2026.

Novel Translator is a machine translation (MTL) service for readers. You upload raw Chinese, Japanese or Korean web novels and light novels (EPUB or TXT), or manga, manhwa and webtoon pages, that you already have, and you get a translated file back. We also run free tools for EPUB files, Japanese names and Korean hanja.

What we do and don't do

We translate files you bring. We don't host, sell or link to novels, chapters or scans, and we don't publish lists of titles to read.
Upload only files you own or have permission to translate. Our responsible use policy explains what that covers.
What we charge is on the pricing page.

How we use AI

Every translation is made by a large language model. No human translator reads or edits your output.
Novel text is translated by Google's Gemini models by default (as of November 2026). Manga and manhwa pages are read and translated by automated systems, some of them run by other AI providers. The privacy policy says what happens to your files.
For each translation job you can review and edit a glossary of names and terms, so that a name keeps the same spelling from chapter to chapter.
Machine translation makes mistakes. The usual ones are names, a character's gender when the original leaves the subject out, honorifics, wordplay, and terms the novel invents. Read it as a fast, rough translation, not an official one.
Some free tools don't use AI at all. The Japanese name converter, the Japanese name meaning lookup and EPUB split and merge run on rules, word lists and file code we wrote. Their pages say what they cover and where they fall short.

How we write this site

Pages are written by the Novel Translator team, often with help from AI tools. We check what a page says against what the product actually does before we publish it.
Our Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai pages are written for each language rather than run through a translator. Not all of them have been read by a native speaker yet.
When we show a sample translation, the source is a public-domain work, such as Lu Xun's A Madman's Diary (1918), or text we wrote ourselves.
A number we publish should have a source or come from our own test, with its date. Some older pages don't meet this yet, and we are going through them.

Corrections and contact

If something on this site is wrong, or a translation went badly in a way we should know about, email [email protected] or use the contact form. We fix confirmed factual errors on the page. Copyright notices go through our copyright and DMCA policy.

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About Novel Translator

By the Novel Translator team. Last updated 12 November 2026.

What we do and don't do

We translate files you bring. We don't host, sell or link to novels, chapters or scans, and we don't publish lists of titles to read.
Upload only files you own or have permission to translate. Our responsible use policy explains what that covers.
What we charge is on the pricing page.

How we use AI

Every translation is made by a large language model. No human translator reads or edits your output.
Novel text is translated by Google's Gemini models by default (as of November 2026). Manga and manhwa pages are read and translated by automated systems, some of them run by other AI providers. The privacy policy says what happens to your files.
For each translation job you can review and edit a glossary of names and terms, so that a name keeps the same spelling from chapter to chapter.
Machine translation makes mistakes. The usual ones are names, a character's gender when the original leaves the subject out, honorifics, wordplay, and terms the novel invents. Read it as a fast, rough translation, not an official one.
Some free tools don't use AI at all. The Japanese name converter, the Japanese name meaning lookup and EPUB split and merge run on rules, word lists and file code we wrote. Their pages say what they cover and where they fall short.

How we write this site

Pages are written by the Novel Translator team, often with help from AI tools. We check what a page says against what the product actually does before we publish it.
Our Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai pages are written for each language rather than run through a translator. Not all of them have been read by a native speaker yet.
When we show a sample translation, the source is a public-domain work, such as Lu Xun's A Madman's Diary (1918), or text we wrote ourselves.
A number we publish should have a source or come from our own test, with its date. Some older pages don't meet this yet, and we are going through them.