Who writes them
Yomi Editorial is the team that builds Yomi, the camera translation app. There is no outside content agency and no freelance byline pool. The people who write a guide about reading raw manga are the people who wrote the code that reads the speech bubbles.
That is a strength and a bias, and it is worth stating plainly: we make a translation app, so our guides mention it. What we will not do is pretend a competitor is worse than it is. Our comparison pages say what Google Lens, Google Translate and Papago do better than us, because a comparison you cannot trust is worth nothing to you and nothing to us.
How a guide gets checked
Before a guide is published, four things happen.
- Every phrase is tested in the app. If a guide says Yomi reads a vertical speech bubble or a handwritten menu, someone pointed a phone at one first.
- Japanese, Korean and Chinese are given in script and in romanization so a beginner can say them out loud, with the literal meaning separated from the natural translation when the two differ.
- Register is stated, not assumed. Politeness levels change what is correct. A phrase that works with a shopkeeper and a phrase that works with a friend are labelled as such.
- Claims about other apps are dated. Products change. When we say a tool cannot do something, that is what it did on the date shown on the page.
What the dates mean
Every guide carries a date. When a guide has been meaningfully revised, the byline shows Updated and that date, not the original publication date. Fixing a typo does not move the date. Changing an instruction, a price, a phrase or a comparison does. We update the existing page instead of publishing a new one, so a link you saved keeps working and keeps being right.
Numbers and test results
Where a guide gives a figure from our own testing, the method is published alongside it: what was tested, how many samples, on what device, on what date. If we cannot show you how a number was produced, we do not print the number.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it. A native speaker spotting a clumsy phrase, a reader finding an outdated claim about another app, a broken instruction: all of it is useful.
Write to contact.yomi@gmail.com. Corrections that change the meaning of a guide are noted on the page itself, not silently swapped in.
What we cover
71 guides across Japanese, Korean and Chinese: everyday phrases, travel and restaurant situations, and translating manga, manhwa and webtoons. Start at all guides, or go straight to the manga translator or the camera translator.