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Manga reader and community website

MangaDex

MangaDex is a popular manga reader and community website focused on user-submitted manga, manhwa, and manhua entries, multilingual chapters, scanlation groups, and reading tools.

Core use
MangaDex lets readers browse manga, manhwa, and manhua entries, read available chapters, follow titles, and manage reading activity.
Community focus
The site is closely tied to scanlation groups, user uploads, multilingual chapter listings, title metadata, comments, and community moderation.
API access
MangaDex publishes API documentation for developers building projects that credit MangaDex and follow its usage rules.
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What MangaDex is

MangaDex is a manga reader, catalog, and community website for manga, manhwa, and manhua. On MangaDex, readers can search titles, browse chapters in different languages, follow series, view group and author information, and use a web reader built around high-quality images.

Reader and library workflow

The site centers on reading and keeping track of series. A title page can gather descriptions, tags, authors, artists, covers, chapter lists, language filters, and related discussion. Logged-in users can follow titles, organize reading status, and return to updates without searching from scratch each time.

Fan translations and official context

MangaDex is strongly associated with fan translations, often called scanlations, and its own developer blog describes the platform as free and ad-free for fan-translations of manga, manhwa, and manhua. Readers still need to understand that user-submitted chapters are different from licensed official releases, and official sources should be supported when available.

Languages, groups, and metadata

A major part of the MangaDex experience is multilingual organization. The same series can have chapters in several languages, multiple scanlation groups, alternate titles, tags, demographic labels, reading directions, and publication status fields. That structure helps readers compare releases while keeping group and language context visible.

API and third-party tools

MangaDex provides public API documentation for projects that follow its rules, including crediting MangaDex and scanlation groups when chapter reading is involved. The API helps developers build readers, trackers, search tools, and other interfaces around MangaDex data, but those projects must respect content-removal requests and usage limits.

Why it matters

Manga discovery is fragmented across publishers, regions, fan communities, apps, and languages. MangaDex matters because it gives many readers a shared catalog and reader interface where metadata, translation activity, and community discussion can sit near each other. That makes it influential in how online manga fandom finds and follows series.

Limits and cautions

MangaDex should not be treated as a guarantee of legal availability, completeness, or official publisher approval. Chapters can be removed, metadata can change, regional access can differ, and third-party tools may break when the API or rules change. Readers should support official releases where possible and be careful with account security in unofficial apps.

WHOIS domain data

Data pulled: May 19, 2026View current WHOIS record

Domain
mangadex.org
IP address
45.129.229.2
Registrar
easyDNS Technologies Inc.
WHOIS server
whois.easydns.com
Referral URL
http://www.easydns.com
Created
February 22, 2018
Updated
October 6, 2023
Expires
February 22, 2027
Nameservers
ns1.mangadex.org (45.129.229.13); ns2.mangadex.org (45.129.229.14)
Domain status
clientTransferProhibited; clientUpdateProhibited
Contact privacy
Registrant contact is listed as Contact Privacy through MyPrivacy.net Ltd., with address, phone, fax, and email redacted.