Make an AI webtoon —
a real vertical episode, ready for the scroll.

An AI webtoon generator turns a written story into vertical-scroll episodes composed for a phone — not comic pages cropped tall. Here's what a real one looks like, what the export actually contains, and what an episode honestly costs.

Try it free — no account See pricing

The free preview draws a cover and the first unit of your own story.

A real generated vertical webtoon unit: on a rainy evening, Mina hurries into an office elevator where Dohyun makes room — the opening of Fourteenth Floor

One real generated unit — 800×1280, composed for the scroll.

Try it now

Type a story. Watch it scroll.

Free, no account: describe a story and a character, and get a generated cover and first vertical unit in about a minute or two. If you like what you see, an account continues the same episode.

1Tell your story

2Your character— name them, then add a photo, a description, or both

3Language & length

LanguageStory length

4Pick the look— the same samples as in the studio

Free: the cover and page 1 of your story. No account needed. One preview per visitor.

How it works

Four steps, and none of them is drawing

This is the exact order of the create flow. You make the choices; the studio composes the scroll.

1
Pick webtoon, pick a look
Choose the vertical format, then one of 21 drawing styles — the webtoon-native looks below, or any of the others.
2
Set length and language
Anywhere from 4 to 400 vertical units, with dialogue lettered in whichever of the 60+ languages your readers speak.
3
Build your cast
Up to six characters, each with a locked reference sheet. Every unit in the episode is drawn from those sheets.
4
Tell the story and generate
Write your premise, then generate. Units arrive composed and lettered; if one isn't right, redo that unit — the rest of the episode doesn't move.

The format

A webtoon is a format, not a crop

What separates a webtoon from a comic isn't the art — it's that the spacing and reveals are timed to the reader's scroll. A page-based comic re-cut into a tall strip gets this wrong, because its beats were composed for a page-turn, not a thumb. Below is the same workshop scene built both ways: the page thinks in a grid; the strip thinks in a scroll.

A scene composed as a printed comic page: a classic panel grid with beats arranged for a page-turn — Composed as a pagegrid logic

The identical scene recomposed as a true vertical webtoon strip: full-width panels flowing top to bottom, paced for scrolling — Composed for the scrollscroll logic

The numbers under the craft

TaleFolio generates webtoon stories natively as 800×1280 px units — which is exactly WEBTOON Canvas's per-image cap, on purpose. Each unit carries 1 to 4 full-width panels, paced by the story: a quiet beat gets one tall panel and room to breathe; a conversation gets three tight ones. Speech bubbles are placed for vertical reading flow during generation, and because the canvas is 800px wide, the type runs larger relative to the frame than on a print page — built for a phone held at arm's length.

The strip beside this shows the pacing at work: two tight dialogue panels, a full breath of empty space at the scene change, then one wide, quiet panel. That gap isn't wasted pixels — it's the webtoon's equivalent of a page-turn.

A vertical webtoon strip demonstrating scroll pacing: two tightly-spaced dialogue panels, a large empty scene-transition gap, then one wide quiet panel of the rainy building facade — Pacing, drawngaps are beats

Consistency

The cast survives the episode

If you've tried this with an image generator, you know the failure: the face that opened the episode is a stranger by the third panel. That's not bad luck — a single-image tool has no memory between generations, so every panel is a fresh guess at your words. Here, each character gets a locked reference sheet before the first unit is drawn, and every unit after is drawn from the sheets. The full recipe for writing characters that stay consistent lives on our comic generator page; below is what it looks like in vertical.

Fourteenth Floor unit 1: Mina hurries into the elevator on a rainy evening; Dohyun makes room — Unit 1same cast

Fourteenth Floor unit 2: the elevator stalls between floors in flickering amber emergency light — same two faces — Unit 2same cast

Fourteenth Floor unit 3: the two sit on the elevator floor sharing a coffee as the doors finally open — still unmistakably the same people — Unit 3same cast

Three consecutive units of Fourteenth Floor. Follow her ash-lavender hair; follow his charcoal suit. The lighting swings from lobby white to emergency amber — the faces don't.

Export

What you download uploads to Canvas — as-is

Most tools stop at "here are your images." A webtoon export has an exact shape, so here is exactly what you get:

your-episode.zip
├── 001.jpg   ← the cover
├── 002.jpg   ← unit 1    each file exactly 800 × 1280 px
├── 003.jpg   ← unit 2    JPEG quality 90, ~150–400 KB
└── …            sequential, in reading order

Those numbers aren't arbitrary: WEBTOON Canvas accepts images up to 800px wide, 1280px tall, and 2MB each — and every file in the export sits inside all three limits. No external slicing, no resizing, no image editor. A 10-unit episode is a ZIP of 11 JPGs you can upload to Canvas directly.

Stories run up to 400 units. Canvas caps a single episode upload at 100 images, so a longer story uploads as multiple episodes — one per ~99 units — which is how serialized webtoons publish anyway.

Also available per story: Tapas, GlobalComix, and Kindle-ready exports, plus PDF and CBZ.

Pricing

What an episode actually costs

There's no free tier here — what's free is the preview: a cover and the first unit of your own story. After that, the math is flat: every generated unit costs 100 coins, whatever the style or language.

Checked arithmetic: a 40–60-panel episode is roughly 16–20 units — 1,600 to 2,000 coins, about one Starter month ($9.99).

Plan	Price / month	Coins	≈ Episodes like that
Starter	$9.99	2,000	1 per month
Plus	$24.99	7,000	3–4 per month
Pro	$59.99	20,000	10+ per month

Didn't like unit 14? Redo unit 14 — 100 coins, and the other units don't move. Full details on the pricing page. Cancel anytime.

An honest page

AI and the webtoon world

The question webtoon creators actually ask first: does WEBTOON allow AI-generated comics? As of September 2026, WEBTOON Canvas has no published platform-wide ban on AI-generated comics and no labeling requirement — but that is not a guarantee of acceptance, and WEBTOON's contests have separately prohibited generative-AI entries. Check the current Canvas terms and any contest rules before you publish; policies in this space change.

And to be plain about who this tool is for: the person with a story and no forty hours a week per episode — not a replacement for the drawn path. Drawing a webtoon by hand in a tool like Clip Studio is a real craft, and the artists doing it weekly have our respect. If your goal is single vertical images rather than episodes, free image generators do that job; and for publishing mechanics and platform strategy, the platforms' own resources are the authority.

Assessed September 2026.

Languages

Lettered for the scroll, in 60+ languages

Dialogue is placed and lettered while the units are generated — and because a webtoon's canvas is 800px wide, the type runs larger relative to the frame than it would on a print page. Write in the language you think in, publish in the one your readers scroll in. The unit beside this is Fourteenth Floor's opening, lettered natively in Korean.

The same elevator scene lettered natively in Korean — identical characters, Hangul dialogue in the speech bubbles — 한국어native lettering

Styles

Webtoon-native looks — and 18 more

Three styles were built for the vertical format: Romance Webtoon (the luminous, rim-lit look of the hit romance serials), Dark Fantasy Webtoon (jewel-toned darkness cut by radiant glow), and Dark Webtoon (drained ash tones for horror and dread). All 21 styles work in vertical, plus custom style descriptions — and style changes how units are drawn, never who your characters are.

Romance Webtoon drawing style sample — Romance Webtoon

Dark Fantasy Webtoon drawing style sample — Dark Fantasy Webtoon

Dark Webtoon drawing style sample — Dark Webtoon

Questions webtoon creators actually ask

Can AI make a real vertical webtoon, not just tall images?

Yes — here, webtoon isn't a crop. Stories are composed natively as 800×1280 vertical units with 1–4 full-width panels each, spacing paced to the scroll, and speech bubbles placed for vertical reading flow during generation.

Is the export ready to upload to WEBTOON Canvas?

Yes, as-is. You download a ZIP of sequentially numbered JPGs — cover first, then every unit in reading order — each exactly 800×1280 pixels and well under Canvas's 2MB-per-image cap. No external slicing or resizing needed. Tapas, GlobalComix, Kindle, PDF, and CBZ exports are also available.

Does WEBTOON allow AI-generated comics on Canvas?

As of September 2026, Canvas has no published platform-wide ban on AI-generated comics and no labeling requirement — but WEBTOON's contests have separately prohibited generative-AI entries, and acceptance is never guaranteed. Check the current Canvas terms and contest rules before publishing.

What does one episode actually cost?

Every unit costs a flat 100 coins. A 40–60-panel episode is roughly 16–20 units — 1,600 to 2,000 coins, about one Starter month at $9.99. Plus ($24.99, 7,000 coins) covers 3–4 episodes of that size per month.

Will my characters stay consistent?

Within an episode, yes — and that's shown on this page, not just claimed. Each character gets a locked reference sheet before the first unit is drawn, and every unit is generated from those sheets, so the cast holds from the opening panel to the last.

Can I make a webtoon without knowing how to draw?

Yes. You describe the story and the cast in words (or start a character from a photo); the composition, panels, pacing, and lettering are drawn for you. What you bring is the story.

What's actually free?

The preview — a generated cover and the first vertical unit of your own story, no account needed. Finished episodes cost coins; plans start at $9.99/month.

How long can a story run?

From 4 to 400 vertical units. WEBTOON Canvas caps a single episode upload at 100 images, so longer stories upload as multiple episodes — roughly one per 99 units — which is how serialized webtoons publish anyway.

Is this for making webtoons, or for becoming a webtoon creator?

This page is the making side: story in, vertical episode out. Becoming a creator — cadence, buffers, monetization, growing on Canvas — is a different journey, and worth researching on the platforms' own resources; a dedicated guide is planned here too.

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