Mangaplay Studio

Mangaplay is for anyone making a manga or comic to quickly mock up a storyboard using text. A browser text editor to write a story and immediately visualise the script with intuitive panel layouts — no drawing required.

It has an added bonus of a screenplay viewer, so you can share the same script with the screenplay writing community for feedback.

Available as either a website or downloadable .html file. Mangaplay runs locally in the browser. 

Try it right now by downloading it on itch or visiting https://mangaplay.studio to run it.

Step 1

Start with a blank page and just write. The .mangaplay format is plain text with a handful of simple markers for panels and dialogue, so you can lay out a full storyboard as fast as you can type it.

Step 2

And there it is , your script rendered as a ready-to-read page.

 Switch between manga, comic and screenplay views at any time, tweak a panel, and the preview updates instantly. 

When it's ready, share it with your artist, your co-writer, or the screenplay community for feedback.