Open beta

Draw the manga you love to read.

You're one of the first artists to draw with MangaLoft — a focused manga studio for Mac and iPad. Free to create during the beta.

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Free for Mac & iPad artists while the beta runs. You'll need TestFlight — it's free from the App Store.

Before you draw: on iPad the Apple Pencil draws and a finger pans. On Mac, brush strokes need a pen tablet (e.g. Wacom) or an iPad via Sidecar — a mouse has no pressure, so it can't paint — but paths, text, balloons, tones and layout are all mouse-friendly. Full setup in the Getting Started guide.
A finished manga page in the MangaLoft Mac editor: six framed panels on the canvas, a layer per frame in the sidebar, and the G-Pen inspector open on the right
One page, one window — frames, layers, and the pen you're inking with. Sample art is AI-generated; the layout and inking are MangaLoft.

Slash the page into panels

Drag across a frame and it splits into panels — angled or straight. Then tap a panel and draw clipped inside it. Paneling built for how manga is actually laid out.

Real manga screentones

Bitmap, concentration lines, dot gradients, speed lines. Paint one into a region, then move, resize, and rotate it — it stays crisp, and stays editable.

Ink that follows your hand

A pressure-sensitive, pen-first canvas with brush presets — built for drawing, not clicking.

Lettering built for manga

Vertical text, ruby, outlines (縁取り), and automatic 縦中横 — placed right on the page, styled to taste.

Vertical and horizontal Japanese lettering with ruby in speech balloons

Take it to print

Export the full page with bleed and registration marks — For Print — or a trimmed page for screen and posting — For Display. PDF or PNG, at your DPI.

A print-ready page export with registration marks and screentones

…and the rest of the studio

Layers with folder groups · multi-page documents and a private Scrapbook · cross-document copy/paste · rulers and page guides · path (bezier) tool · speech balloons · pull one frame out to work on it alone — or hand it to your other device and bring it home · and page collaboration between two artists, if you have a drawing partner.

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Ready to make something you'd want to read?

Join the beta

A couple of quick questions and we'll get you into the beta.