What manga is this? Find it from one panel

How do you find a manga from one panel?

You crop the picture to one clean panel and search it with a reverse image search engine that knows manga. MangaTrace does both on one page: it crops in your browser, then sends the panel to the engine you pick. If the art is in an engine's index, you get the title, often with the chapter.

1. Add the picture. Drop a file, pick one from your photos, paste a screenshot, or paste an image link.
2. Crop to one panel. Cut out speech bubbles, borders, watermarks and any app bar. One clean panel beats a whole page.
3. Pick an engine. Start with the first suggested engine. No match? Try the next one before you change the crop.

Which engine works for which image?

Each engine indexes different things, so the best one depends on your picture. This is the order MangaTrace suggests:

SauceNAO and IQDB are built for anime and manga art. Google Lens, Yandex and Bing search the whole web, so they also find store pages, wikis and fan posts that name the series. That is why a colour panel often does better on Lens, while a scanned black-and-white page does better on SauceNAO.

For webtoon strips, the manhwa finder starts with the colour engines for you. The Google Lens vs SauceNAO comparison shows where each one wins.

What MangaTrace can't do

MangaTrace has no manga database of its own. It prepares your image and passes it on, so a match depends on the engines. Very new chapters, rare one-shots and heavily edited images can miss everywhere. When that happens, say what you remember instead: genre, setting, what the main character looks like. Find a manga by description turns that into filters and searches AniList.

Engines can also return reupload sites. Use them only to get the name, then check the title on AniList and read it on an official platform.

Your image stays with you

Cropping happens on your device. Nothing is uploaded until you tap an engine, and then the image goes straight from your browser to that engine, not to us. We keep no images and use cookie-less analytics. The privacy policy lists every data flow.

Is it from an anime, not a manga?

A wide, colourful frame with subtitles is usually an anime scene. Our sister site AniTrace finds the anime and episode from a screenshot.

Guides for harder searches

• Find a manga from a picture: The full method, from cropping the panel to reading the results.
• SauceNAO alternatives: Which engine to use when SauceNAO is not enough, with a comparison table.
• SauceNAO not working: Daily limit, no results and low similarity, explained and fixed.
• Manga from TikTok or Instagram: Get a clean frame from an edit and turn it into a title.
• Reverse image search on phone: iPhone and Android steps, from screenshot to title.
• Find a manga by its cover: Covers, spines and photos of physical volumes.
• Manga vs manhwa vs manhua: Tell them apart from one page, and why it changes how you search.
• Google Lens vs SauceNAO: Same panels, two engines: where each one wins.

Built by Tahir Nazir. Read how MangaTrace works.