Konyomi pricing and facts

You give Kon a story in prose. Kon plans it as manga and draws it with AI models. You do not write a prompt for each panel.

1. Your story. Paste it, upload it as a .txt file, or talk an idea through with Kon until Kon writes a manuscript.
2. Preparation. Kon reads the text once. It lists the characters, the places and the objects, and splits the story into chapters at natural breaks.
3. Cast. You pick an art style. Kon draws each main character once, before any page exists.
4. Chapters. Kon plans each chapter as pages, rows and panels, and writes the balloons from your text.
5. Drawing. Kon draws every panel with the cast drawings as references. A chapter takes about 10 minutes.
6. Reading. Read the chapter, change any balloon, draw a panel again, then keep it private, share its link or publish it.

Use text that you wrote or have the right to adapt. A light novel or web novel by someone else needs the permission of its author before you publish a manga of it.

Kon reads a story in the language you wrote it in, plans the balloons in that language and keeps the lines of your characters as written. The buttons and menus of the app are in English.

Ten art styles: Shōnen action, Shōjo romance, Seinen, Webtoon, Painterly, Retro anime, Chibi, Noir, Classic comic and Superhero. One style applies to the whole story. The AI comic generator page shows a sample of each.

Pages read left to right, like an English-language comic. Right-to-left pages and vertical webtoon strips are not available yet.

Konyomi has two currencies. Gems pay for the steps in which Kon prepares, writes or draws. Coins unlock later chapters of stories that other people published. Konyomi shows the price before each paid step. Prices are in US dollars, before tax.

Chapter 1 of every published story is free to read. Each later chapter costs 5 coins to unlock, and it stays unlocked. Your own stories cost no coins. Coins cannot pay for drawing. Changing the words in a balloon is free. Gems and coins never expire, and neither can be exchanged for money. The coins that readers spend do not pay the author at this time.

• Signing in with Google, and the free tools on this site, which need no account.
• 30 coins for reading when you first sign in.
• 5 more coins each day. You claim them once per calendar day, in UTC.
• Launch offer, while it lasts: the first 75 new accounts get 70 gems at their first sign-in. That pays for about 10 messages to Kon, the manuscript (5 gems), the preparation (20) and 3 main character portraits (10 each). Accounts made before the offer started do not get these gems.

Drawing a chapter costs 100 gems, so it needs a gem pack. A step that fails on Konyomi's side does not use your gems twice.

Dodo Payments sells the gem packs and coin packs as the merchant of record. It takes the payment, adds the tax that applies where you live and sends the invoice.

You can ask for a refund within 14 days of a purchase if you used none of the gems or coins of that pack. Write to contact@konyomi.com. The terms describe the other cases.

The Konyomi terms say that your story stays yours, and so does the manga that Kon makes from it. You allow Konyomi to store the story, to send it to the AI models that make the manga, and to show the manga to the people you share it with.

AI models made the drawings. The law of your country decides which rights exist in them, and Konyomi cannot promise that a drawing is unlike every other drawing. The terms say nothing specific about commercial use, so check the law where you live before you sell a book.

• A story is private until you share it. Nobody else can open a private story.
• You choose between private, a link and public. Konyomi reviews a story before it becomes public. Until then, only people with the link can read it.
• Readers of a shared story see its title, its published chapters, your username and your name. Your email address is never shown.
• A public story can appear in search engines. You can unpublish at any time. A copy of a drawing can stay readable at its address for up to one day after that.
• Konyomi studies the requests that Kon sends to AI models, and the drawings, to improve Kon. It may license these records to other companies, such as AI researchers. A record can contain text and drawings from your stories. It never holds your name, your email address or your account ID.

The terms and the privacy page give the full rules.