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What Are The Best Alternatives To Manga Buddy?
Searching for a good manga reading app with reliable translations and an intuitive UI, since my go-to suddenly stopped working. Any favorite webcomic platforms out there besides this one?
2026-06-21 09:24:17
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Jason
There are many legal and supported ways to read manga online. For example, there are many apps that allow readers to browse and download manga, such as Tachiyomi, and there are many websites that host a large database of manga, both official and scanlation, and allow users to create accounts and add manga to their "shelves" and rate/read the manga. For example, MangaDex is a popular website for manga fans. I recently came across a web novel called ‘Sext Buddy’ which plays with the ‘buddy’ name in a completely different genre. The story is a contemporary romantic comedy in which a purely physical arrangement is complicated by unexpected emotional resonances. The humor lies in the characters’ attempts to define the relationship as they agree it should be strictly but as time passes it continues to defy their own expectations.
2026-08-05
Zane
So most of my favorite manga sites are down so I have been searching for new ones and here are the ones that have been decent. MangaKakalot is good for most of the popular manga, but there are too many ads. I just downloaded ublock origin to help with that though. MangaFreak is pretty cool too because it has a lot of depth to the site and you can search for one-shots that you read years ago. RawDevart is really great for finding raw manga to learn Japanese.
Joining the Discord servers like MangaUpdates is also a great way to find fans sharing hidden gems or even offering access to a private manga site. In the meantime, Webtoons has vertical-scrolling series like Tower of God to take your mind off things. It’s all part of the search!
Joining the Discord servers like MangaUpdates is also a great way to find fans sharing hidden gems or even offering access to a private manga site. In the meantime, Webtoons has vertical-scrolling series like Tower of God to take your mind off things. It’s all part of the search!
2026-06-23
Delilah
Manga Buddy closed down and I had to switch to other apps. Most of them were decent enough though, MangaSee is the one I usually use now. It’s very easy to use, there’s not too many ads and it has some really obscure 90s titles that I didn’t even know existed. The ‘Full Color’ filter for certain titles is a pretty cool feature too. Bato.to is another site that I use, it feels kinda like an independent bookstore in that it’s really cozy to look around and read on. Community users can tag titles to specify whether or not they have good translations.
For iOS users, Paperback is a great alternative to Tachiyomi that you can install from the App Store (with a bit of sideloading involved), and then there’s Kodansha’s Manga Plus, a paid service that adds new chapters to its library of free titles on a weekly basis. Personally, I kind of enjoyed the journey of trying to find these MangaNeb alternatives, each of them has their very own unique twist and ‘feeling’ similar to switching between different streaming services.
For iOS users, Paperback is a great alternative to Tachiyomi that you can install from the App Store (with a bit of sideloading involved), and then there’s Kodansha’s Manga Plus, a paid service that adds new chapters to its library of free titles on a weekly basis. Personally, I kind of enjoyed the journey of trying to find these MangaNeb alternatives, each of them has their very own unique twist and ‘feeling’ similar to switching between different streaming services.
2026-06-26
Oliver
For Manga Buddy alternatives, I have some sites that I have looked at in the past that may work for you as well. The site MangaDex is a community-driven site with almost no ads and a huge database of manga that have been translated by fans. I really like how MangaDex respects the work of scanlators and gives them proper credit for their work. Another site that has a nice interface is Tachiyomi, which is an Android app for reading manga online. This is not a site, but rather an aggregator that pulls manga from across the web, and it can be customized to filter out genres that you do not like. It also has the ability to read offline, which is very handy for commuting.
However, there are plenty of amazing official releases available to read via apps and platforms too. The official ‘Viz Media’s Shonen Jump’ app for Android and iOS allows users to sign up to a $1.99/month subscription for access to a wide variety of current and even classic titles – we’re talking ‘One Piece’ and ‘Chainsaw Man’ here! The quality of the read is absolutely stunning and readers can expect updated chapters at the same time as they hit the Japanese shelves. There’s also the free ‘ComicWalker’ by Kadokawa which offers up a wide variety of officially released manga – mostly in Japanese, however, and so are best paired up with a good translation extension.
However, there are plenty of amazing official releases available to read via apps and platforms too. The official ‘Viz Media’s Shonen Jump’ app for Android and iOS allows users to sign up to a $1.99/month subscription for access to a wide variety of current and even classic titles – we’re talking ‘One Piece’ and ‘Chainsaw Man’ here! The quality of the read is absolutely stunning and readers can expect updated chapters at the same time as they hit the Japanese shelves. There’s also the free ‘ComicWalker’ by Kadokawa which offers up a wide variety of officially released manga – mostly in Japanese, however, and so are best paired up with a good translation extension.
2026-06-27
Korir Kipkemoi Willy
This list is way too long for my taste. It’s a good problem to have, but it makes choosing really, really hard. So, just pick the one with the name you like the most and go with it, I guess. Kotatsu looks kinda cool. Mihon looks kinda sleek. paperback is just really descriptive, I like it. Go with your gut. You can’t really go wrong with any of the ones I mentioned in this thread because they all let you read manga, which is the end goal. So, read a little about the ‘margins’ of each, flip a coin, and pick one to install for your next big manga reading adventure. The manga won’t read itself.
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