# Mangit Aiolum story: https://aiolum.com/story/mangit/ · added 2026-11-12 · updated 2026-11-12 **In short.** Mangit (Phone app that translates manga, manhwa and webtoon pages with AI and redraws the text over the art, Hungary): US$653 in total revenue, November 2026. Evidence grade A: disclosed by a company or a filing, or verified by a payment processor. Team: 1 founder; his site says his apps are shipped solo. Mangit's own headcount is not stated. Launched December 2025; still running, revenue flat. Phone app that translates manga, manhwa and webtoon pages with AI and redraws the text over the art · Hungary · AI-native · solo founder · still running, revenue flat · group: Photos and portraits - Outcome: US$653 in total revenue, November 2026 (evidence grade of the headline number: A; headline in US dollars: 653) - Launch: December 2025; months from launch to the outcome: 11 - Team: 1 founder; his site says his apps are shipped solo. Mangit's own headcount is not stated - Outside funding: None reported - Main factor: Niche - Meters, 1 to 4: evidence strength 3, copyable pattern 3, capital needed 1 - Tags: AI-native, Solo founder, Bootstrapped, Running, B2C, Comics Links: - Visit mangit.app: https://mangit.app/ - App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6756326988 - Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.measify.mangit - Verified revenue on TrustMRR: https://trustmrr.com/startup/mangit **The product.** An iPhone and Android app for reading comics in a language the reader does not know. The reader picks a screenshot, a photo or a PDF page. Mangit sends it to an AI model, and the page comes back with every bubble and sound effect redrawn in the reader's language. **Why it worked.** It does one narrow job for one kind of reader: it turns a raw manga, manhwa or webtoon page into a readable page. Mangit's guide says a camera translator such as Google Lens lays text over the picture. It says Mangit redraws the text inside the bubbles. Customers buy pages or a subscription. Evidence grades: A = disclosed by a public company, a filing or a payment processor, or verified by one; B = two or more independent reports agree, or a journalist confirmed it; C = a founder claim that no one else verified; D = reported, not verified: one founder claim or a third-party estimate with no second source; E = no revenue figure found, so the headline is a non-money fact and the other facts carry their own grades; calc = computed on this page from graded facts. ## Summary Mangit is a phone app that translates comic pages. It takes a page as an image and uses image translation. This is an AI model that reads the text in a picture and translates it. It then draws the new text back into the same place. The app covers manga (Japanese comics), manhwa (Korean), manhua (Chinese) and webtoons (comics made for scrolling on a phone). The website and the App Store list 30 or 31 languages, and the reader does not choose the language of the page. Mirzamehdi Karimov is named as the founder on the TrustMRR profile. His own site says he works as a senior Android developer and runs his apps through a studio called Measify. The app is sold by Measify Kft, a company in Budapest. The earliest version in the App Store version history is 1.0.4 of 16 December 2025. TrustMRR lists revenue from January 2026. The headline figure is US$653 in total revenue to 11 November 2026. It comes from the payment records of RevenueCat, the in-app purchase service that the app uses. TrustMRR says it retrieves these figures from RevenueCat by API key. It also lists US$97.70 for the last 30 days and a monthly recurring revenue of US$40.03. The amounts are small. No press article about the app was read. ## Why did Mangit work? ### It serves one reader who holds a page they cannot read The App Store text is written for manga readers, webtoon fans and Japanese learners. It works on photos, screenshots and PDFs that the reader already has. The Google Play text lists readers who want raw chapters in their own language. The website says the app translates pages a reader already has. Mangit's guides say a camera translator such as Google Lens lays text over the picture. They say Mangit redraws the text in the bubbles and leaves the art as drawn. ### Customers pay for pages with packs or a subscription The App Store lists a weekly plan at US$6.99, a yearly plan at US$29.99 and a lifetime plan at US$59.99. It also lists page packs from US$0.99. The app counts translations for each user every day. The privacy policy says this is done to keep costs fair. The store listing says pages that fail to translate are refunded. ### The website adds guides and free tools around the app The website has guides on translating a webtoon, on sound effects and on Korean honorifics. It also has a speech bubble maker, a name converter and quizzes. No downloaded source says how many customers these pages bring. The page for legal manga apps says Mangit is not a reading app. ## How it was built These details come from Mangit's privacy policy and the founder's site. They are grade C. - A page is shrunk to at most 2048 pixels and uploaded to fal.ai. Then fal asks Google's image model to translate it. The policy calls the model nano-banana-2. - The policy says fal deletes the uploaded page after about 1 hour and the translated page after about 24 hours. The translated pages stay on the phone. - A one-bubble preview during setup goes through fal and OpenRouter to an OpenAI model. Older app versions used Replicate for the translation. - The app signs users in anonymously with Firebase Authentication. It also uses Firebase App Check, Cloud Functions, Firestore, Cloud Messaging, Crashlytics and Analytics for Firebase. - RevenueCat handles the subscriptions and page packs, which are sold through the App Store or Google Play. TrustMRR names RevenueCat as the verified payment source. - The website uses Google Analytics after consent and Cloudflare Web Analytics. The policy says the app includes Google AdMob and that ads are currently off. - The founder's site says he builds his apps with Kotlin Multiplatform and Compose Multiplatform. No source says this for Mangit itself. Sources: [7, 1, 6] ## Who tried this before Mangit, and why did they fail? Three companies in our database of failed startups sold a translation marketplace, a GIF app for messaging and a phone-camera app. The records say larger products overtook them. The values below are from that database, read on 12 November 2026, and are not independently verified. The failed startups come from our database of dead startups, retold here in our own words; Its entries are AI-assisted summaries of public sources, so they carry no evidence grade. ### TurboTranslations (2014 to 2023; funding US$150K; cause: Competition) - Promise: A faster and cheaper translation marketplace than the old translation agencies. - Why it died: The record says machine translation from Google and DeepL improved quickly, and a human translator marketplace could not follow. The record puts the seed funding at US$150K. - Record: ### Guggy (2017 to 2020; funding US$120K; cause: Competition) - Promise: A phone app that turns typed text into a matching GIF for messaging apps. - Why it died: The record says WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger added their own GIF features. It also says Guggy had no clear way to earn money. - Record: ### Blippar (2011 to 2018; funding US$130M; cause: Unit Economics) - Promise: A phone camera app that shows videos and 3D models when pointed at products and posters. - Why it died: The record says each brand deal needed costly custom content. It also says most users opened the app once and did not return. - Record: ## What changed Each of the three depended on a larger company or on a technology that others also improved. Machine translation, built-in GIF search and platform camera features each grew inside bigger products. Mangit sits in the same position. Google's image model does the translation, and the app stores take the payment. Two things differ. The Google Play text says most translation apps fail at bubble text, and Mangit redraws the text in the bubbles of a comic page. The founder's site says he has shipped 13 apps. Mangit's revenue is US$653 in total, and this does not show a large market. ## Can one person copy Mangit now? **Verdict: The method, yes. The income, not yet.** A narrow image translation app for one reading habit is a small business that one person can build, as US$653 in total revenue shows. The sources give no evidence yet of a large business. Several other manga translators exist, and the Mangit guides list them. 1. Pick one kind of page that general translators handle poorly, such as comic bubbles. 2. Send the image to a hosted AI model, so the app needs no model of its own. 3. Sell pages as packs and a subscription through the app stores, with RevenueCat handling unlocks. 4. Publish guides and free tools on a website that explain the job the app does. **What is still open.** Other pages that readers hold but cannot read: menus, forms, textbooks, signs and scanned notices in another language. ## How much revenue does Mangit make? The numbers, graded A small phone app with US$653 in total revenue in about eleven months, with revenue between US$36 and US$94 in each full month of 2026 | Fact | Value | Grade | Note | Sources | |---|---|---|---|---| | Total revenue to 11 November 2026 | US$653 | A | TrustMRR profile, synced 11 November 2026. It says the figures come from the payment provider RevenueCat through an API key. The last 12 months show the same US$653. | [1] | | Revenue in the last 30 days | US$97.70 | A | TrustMRR profile, 13 October to 11 November 2026. It lists growth of 143.2% against the 30 days before. | [1] | | Monthly recurring revenue and subscriptions | US$40.03 from 11 active subscriptions | A | TrustMRR profile, 11 November 2026. It lists a 9.4% rise in monthly recurring revenue over 30 days. | [1] | | Revenue by month in 2026 | US$35.96 (April) to US$93.82 (June) | A | TrustMRR monthly table: January US$42.03, February US$57.95, March US$62.67, May US$73.26, July US$72.93, August US$50.16, September US$59.71, October US$57.91. | [1] | | Average of the ten full months, January to October 2026 | about US$60.64 a month | calc | Calculated: the ten monthly amounts in the table of TrustMRR, added up (US$606.40) and divided by 10. | [1] | | Downloads, all time | about 13,800 (iPhone about 3,300; Android about 10,500) | C | The Measify studio page, updated 11 November 2026, shows the rounded figures 13.8K, 3.3K and 10.5K. The Google Play listing shows 10K+ downloads. | [5, 4] | | Share of installs that pay | 0.08%; about US$3.64 per subscription a month | C | The Measify studio page. TrustMRR shows 11 active subscriptions, and 11 of about 13,800 installs is about 0.08%. The two sources agree. | [5, 1] | | Calculated revenue per install | about US$0.05 | calc | Calculated: US$653 divided by about 13,800 installs. The Measify studio page shows the same US$0.05. | [1, 5] | | App Store rating | 3.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings | C | The App Store listing on 12 November 2026. Three ratings are too few to judge quality. | [3] | | First App Store version in the version history | 1.0.4 on 16 December 2025 | C | Version history of the App Store listing. Earlier version numbers are not listed, so the launch could be a few days earlier. | [3] | | Seller and country | Measify Kft, Budapest, Hungary | C | The privacy policy names Measify Kft as the service provider. The Google Play listing names Measify Korlátolt Felelősségű Társaság in Budapest. The company's start date was not found. | [7, 4] | | Earlier use of the Measify name | Measify AI, a text generation tool, in 2023 and early 2024 | C | An Internet Archive copy of measify.com from 29 February 2024 shows Measify AI with the footer "2023 Measify". No downloaded source ties that tool to the same owner. | [10] | | Team | 1 founder; the founder's site says 13 apps shipped solo | C | The founder's site says he runs the studio on his own and works as a senior Android developer. It does not give Mangit's headcount. | [6] | How to read this table. Grade A values come from the payment records that TrustMRR reads from RevenueCat by API. Grade C values are statements on the company's own pages and store listings. A "calc" row, graded X, was computed on this page from the rows it names. ## Pricing Mangit prices in the US App Store, read on 12 November 2026 (grade C, company listing) | Plan | Per month, billed yearly (US$) | Per month, billed monthly (US$) | Limit | |---|---|---|---| | Premium, yearly | 29.99 a year | | up to 200 pages a week | | Premium, weekly | | 6.99 a week | up to 200 pages a week | | Lifetime Premium | 59.99 one-time | | pages per week not shown | | Try 3 pages | 0.99 one-time | | 3 pages; pages never expire | | Basic Credit Pack | 4.99 one-time | | page count not shown | | Pro Credit Pack | 9.99 one-time | | page count not shown | | Premium Credit Pack | 9.99 one-time | | page count not shown | | Ultimate Credit Pack | 19.99 one-time | | page count not shown | | Free allowance | | | 3 pages once, then 3 pages a week | The App Store lists these in-app purchases for the US storefront. It does not show how many pages each pack holds. The version 1.3.0 notes say the first 3 pages are free, plus 3 free pages every week. They also say Premium includes up to 200 pages a week. TrustMRR gives the same weekly, yearly and lifetime prices and says page packs start at US$0.99. ## When did Mangit launch, and how did it grow? Timeline From the first App Store version in December 2025 to a small paid business in November 2026. Each entry carries its grade. - **2023** (grade C [10]): An Internet Archive copy of measify.com from 29 February 2024 shows Measify AI, a content generation tool, with the footer "2023 Measify". No downloaded source says who ran it. - **16 December 2025** (grade C [3]): The earliest version in the App Store version history, 1.0.4. Version 1.0.5 follows on 18 December 2025. - **January 2026** (grade A [1, 3]): TrustMRR lists the first month with revenue, US$42.03. Versions 1.0.10 and 1.0.16 appear in the same month. Version 1.0.20 of 29 January adds support for multiple languages. - **February 2026** (grade A [1, 3]): Versions 1.0.22, 1.0.23, 1.0.24 and 1.0.26 appear, each with bug fixes. Revenue for the month is US$57.95. - **26 October 2026** (grade C [3]): Version 1.2.0, called a major update, adds better sound effects and a Try 3 pages pack. - **7 November 2026** (grade C [4]): Google Play shows the last update on this date. The notes list 3 free pages at the start, 3 free pages every week and an invite reward. - **11 November 2026** (grade A [1]): TrustMRR syncs US$653 in total revenue, US$97.70 for 30 days and US$40.03 in monthly recurring revenue. ## What could go wrong for Mangit? - **Comic pages that readers bring themselves.** Mangit translates pages the user already has, and no source says whether those pages are licensed. The Google Play text lists readers who want "Japanese/raw chapters" in their own language. The website says Mangit "doesn't host or sell any series". The privacy policy says "Only upload pages you are allowed to use." - **The pages disagree on free use.** The home page and the guides of the website say the app has no free trial. The guides are dated 25 October 2026. The App Store and Google Play notes for the November 2026 version say the first 3 pages are free, plus 3 pages every week. Google Play shows "Contains ads" while the privacy policy says ads are currently off. - **Other apps from the same studio.** The Measify studio page, updated 11 November 2026, lists ClipUGC, an AI UGC video maker. It also lists AI Dance Video with the line "Face Swap Meme Maker". It lists VisionReel with the line "Manifest Your 2027 Future Self". The mangit.app pages do not link to them. The App Store listing of Mangit shows them in the store's list "More by Measify Kft." - **A small business next to a job.** The founder's site says he works as a senior Android developer and runs his apps through Measify. Revenue was between US$35.96 and US$93.82 in each full month of 2026. Three App Store ratings and 11 subscribers are a small base. - **Start date and owner of the studio.** No downloaded source gives the start date of Measify Kft. An Internet Archive copy of measify.com from February 2024 shows a different product, Measify AI, with the footer "2023 Measify". No source says whether it has the same owner. - **Rating and age wording.** The App Store age rating is 4+ and Google Play says Everyone. The privacy policy says the app "does not address anyone under the age of 13". The marketing text names manga readers and Japanese learners, with no mention of children. ## Sources 1. TrustMRR profile of Mangit (markdown), synced 11 November 2026 — https://trustmrr.com/startup/mangit.md (grade A). Read in full. The Verification Sources and Revenue sections give the RevenueCat figures. The profile text, the founder name and the price list are founder-written. 2. Mangit: Manga Translator for Manhwa, Manhua, Webtoons (home page) — https://mangit.app/ (grade C). Read in full on 12 November 2026. Source for what the app does, the language count and the no-free-trial wording. Guides and terms pages read as well. 3. Manga Translator - Mangit, App Store listing — https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6756326988 (grade C). Read in full on 12 November 2026. Source for the version history, the age rating, the rating, the seller and the in-app purchase prices. 4. Mangit – AI Manga Translator, Google Play listing — https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.measify.mangit (grade C). Read in full on 12 November 2026. Source for the 10K+ downloads, the last update date, the description and the seller name. 5. Measify, indie app studio with public numbers — https://measify.com/ (grade C). Read in full on 12 November 2026. Source for the install counts and the paying share of Mangit and for the list of the studio's other apps. 6. Mirzamehdi Karimov, site of the founder — https://www.mirzemehdi.com/ (grade C). Read in full on 12 November 2026. Source for the solo statement, the studio Measify, the founder's job and the Kotlin Multiplatform tools. 7. Mangit privacy policy — https://mangit.app/privacy-policy (grade C). Read in full on 12 November 2026. Source for the service provider, the AI providers, Firebase, RevenueCat and the age wording. 8. Mangit guide: Manga translator apps and tools compared — https://mangit.app/manga-translator-apps-compared (grade C). Read in full on 12 November 2026. Source for the no-free-tier wording and for how the company describes its own app against others. 9. Mangit guide: Legal manga apps, where to read manga, manhwa and webtoons — https://mangit.app/best-manga-apps (grade C). Read in full on 12 November 2026. Source for the sentence that Mangit does not host or sell any series. 10. Internet Archive copy of measify.com, 29 February 2024 — http://web.archive.org/web/20240229080106/https://www.measify.com/ (grade C). Read in full. Source for the earlier Measify AI product and its footer year. It does not name an owner. 11. Database of failed startups, local export — /method/#dead (grade C). Record pages read on the website on 12 November 2026. AI-written summaries, not independently verified. Source for the failed predecessors. Contact: aiolum@livyden.com. Run Mangit? Send corrections or a verified figure to aiolum@livyden.com (subject: Correction: Mangit).