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24 alternatives to I made an app that turns your life memories into Manga
I enjoy reading manga and journaling. Recently, I started wondering what would happen if I combined the two... I wanted a different way to document moments that happen in my life in a format that’s almost just as personal as writing, but also easy to share with friends. That’s how the idea to turn life memories into manga came about. With MangaMe, you can take moments from your life, anything from funny stories to the most mundane everyday activities, and turn them into a manga page for you to keep or share. The hardest part has been getting the AI to keep characters looking the same across…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Manga Me▲106An A.I. powered app that draws your anime/manga portrait!
2017 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Life Note▲467I'm excited to share Life Note with you. I'm the maker and have spent the last seven months working on it. Inspired by Tim Urban's Life Calendar idea, I wanted to create something to help people make better life decisions at pivotal moments. After a few pivots, our users' favorite feature turned out to be journaling with AI Mentors, leading to the creation of "1,000 Great Minds." I've experimented extensively with prompt engineering to make AI Mentors' responses personal and valuable through techniques like chain prompting, conditional prompting, and personalized prompting. I believe it's…
2024 · mylifenote.ai · its alternatives →
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Since I was young, I've loved anime, and over the years, manga has brought me joy, given me courage, and sparked excitement in my heart. However, as I read more, I realized that many of these manga weren't translated at all. I also came across some AI-based translation tools, but the results often fell short. So, I decided to create a tool that allows manga fans to read and enjoy their favorite manga, no matter the language or whether a translation team is available. This product has just been launched, and there are certainly areas that can be improved. However, with time, I'm confident it…
2025 · translatemanga.net · its alternatives →
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Rocket Journal▲218Hi HN! I just launched Rocket Journal, a voice-first journaling app designed to make reflection as easy as talking. Key ideas: Rant mode — vent freely, no judgment Reflect mode — guided prompts to help dig deeper AI insights — mood tracking, patterns, helpful takeaways Stickers & scrapbook — journaling feels lighter and fun Privacy-first — your data isn’t used to train models I built this because journaling apps often feel like “work.” I wanted something that felt like having a safe, responsive companion for those late-night thoughts or walks outside. I’d love feedback from the HN community:…
2025 · rocketjournal.app · its alternatives →
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Animefy▲14Turn your memories into dreamy anime art.
2025 · ghiblify-zeta.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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I'm a long time lurker that recently quit my job to work on my own projects, a lot due to the inspiration from Hacker News. Now I have published my first serious project, an app for learning how to write Japanese characters. It's the app I always wanted but couldn't find when I was studying. It tries to be simple to use, you just start the quiz and go with the flow. There's no need to plan and manage your studies, and it uses spaced repetition for better retention. There's a promo page with more details up at http://www.kanjibyhand.com. It's only for Android so far. The free version includes…
2012 · kanjibyhand.com. · its alternatives →
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AnimeMyPic▲22AnimeMyPic — Turn your photo into anime in seconds
2025 · animemypic.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, As a huge manga fan and a translator by training, I've always been in awe of the incredible amount of work that fan translators put in. The process isn't just about translation; it involves manually cleaning the original text from the bubbles, redrawing the background art (inpainting), and then carefully placing the translated text back in (typesetting). It's a true labor of love, but it's incredibly time-consuming. I wondered if modern AI could help automate the most tedious parts of this workflow. So, I built AIFandom. It's a web tool where you upload your manga pages, and it…
Oct 2025 · aifandom.app · its alternatives →
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Privacy-centric AI Anime filter for memory keepers
2023 · photo-to-anime.com · its alternatives →
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Journaling is a great practice to learn more about yourself - if done daily. I tried it multiple times and couldn't stick to it. This project is how I finally fixed it for myself. It works by eliminating my excuses. There is only one question a day that I'll answer - no time spent on "finding the perfect topic". I only need to go to the page - not find my notebook or create a new note/paragraph in another app. I only left myself a relatively small input area, less than a page in a small notebook - that way the commitment doesn't feel too big. I really enjoy the process and it has become…
2022 · dailyprompt.org · its alternatives →
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Turn photos into manga — Compose your stories
Sep 2026 · mangatronic.com · its alternatives →
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I’ve been hacking on a fun side project: Story to Manga The idea is simple: Paste a short story. Choose a style (manga or comic). Get back panels with consistent characters, settings, and mood. It analyzes your text, builds character references, storyboards the panels (dialogue, camera angle, mood), and then generates full manga pages. The hard part—and what makes it actually usable—is keeping characters consistent across panels. We’ve used it to turn micro-stories, hackathon recaps, and silly inside jokes into legit manga chapters. It’s still early, but fun enough that we thought HN might…
2025 · storytomanga.com · its alternatives →
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Turn your topics into comics. A simple way to create art.
2018 · studio.mangachat.co · its alternatives →
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Back in college, I really enjoyed reading The Manga Guide to Calculus and other books in that series. Inspired by that, I recently added a feature to my app AISheets.study that lets you turn any material into a manga-styled study guide using AI. It also supports other styles like xkcd and traditional colored comic styles. The link I shared is an example I generated from Paul Graham’s essay on fundraising (https://paulgraham.com/fr.html) Still ironing out a few quirks, but I thought it’d be fun to share this with the community!!
2025 · aisheets.study · its alternatives →
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2022 · mangaelite.com · its alternatives →
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I'm both a Japanese learner and an indie developer. Throughout my journey of learning Japanese (currently living in Japan), I've deeply felt the challenge of memorizing words — learning them only to forget, wanting to speak but finding myself tongue-tied. Why I Made This As someone who relies heavily on visual memory, I understand the power of turning abstract concepts into visual forms. You know that feeling when you're walking around and spot something interesting — maybe a beautiful seasonal poster, a curious shop name, or even just a package design that catches your eye? Those little…
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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I had a successful startup exit five years ago (we got very lucky) but recently realized I'm most happy when building software products. I spend the last ~2 months building this as a fun way to get back into software development; and to find out what all the kids are up to these days. I am also a passionate life-long Japanese learner so this project was really fun. It's been nutz how different things are now with all the AI whatnot. This for sure would have taken me a year, without all the AI. I did not spend much time doing market analysis or any of that jazz. Mostly because I was…
2025 · seikai.tv · its alternatives →
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Type few thoughts, then AI will help you write your journal.
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Turn your daily fragments into a beautiful book of life 📖
Mar 2026 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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