Dashtoon alternatives for making your own comics

Dashtoon’s Create page, checked on 26 October 2026, says Dashtoon Studio shut down on 15 August 2026 and is no longer available, and that creation continues on Frameo, which Dashtoon describes as its platform for AI video and short drama. That is about making comics. The reading side is still there: dashtoon.com lists comics to read and links its iPhone and Android apps.

So this page is for people who made comics, or meant to, and want to keep making comics rather than video. If you only read on Dashtoon, nothing on its site says that has changed; see Comicpix vs Dashtoon for the difference between reading and making.

How this list is ordered

By how much of the making you control, most first: studios where you build and edit panels at the top, a done-for-you maker at the bottom. The order is about fit for someone leaving a creation tool, not about quality, and there are no ratings. Comicpix is last because it is the least like a studio.

LlamaGen: a full studio

LlamaGen says it creates the entire comic, webtoon, manhwa or manga for you from a prompt, a character description, an image or a story idea, and then lets you edit panel images, dialogue and page layouts. It has a free plan, monthly plans and one-time credit packs, an iPhone app and an Android APK. Of the tools here, it is the one that names webtoons and manhwa as outputs. Read Comicpix vs LlamaGen for the two side by side.

Anifusion: manga pages, panel by panel

Anifusion turns a story into manga pages with built-in layouts, reusable character sheets, speech bubbles and a canvas for painting and inpainting. It lists manga fonts and vertical text, a free plan and two paid plans with commercial use included. Its FAQ says it supports desktop only for now, so it fits if you draft on a computer.

Yume Comic: type a story, get panels

Yume Comic describes itself as an AI comic maker from text to panels. You write a few lines about your characters and what happens; it says the characters stay consistent across the story, and it can export a vertical strip for reading on a phone, which is the closest thing on this list to a scrolling episode. Its free plan is small and the Pro plans are weekly or monthly.

AI Comic Factory: open source

AI Comic Factory makes comic panels from one prompt with a language model and an image model. The code is open source under Apache-2.0 and a demo runs as a Hugging Face Space, but the code repository is archived. It suits tinkering, not an ongoing series.

Comicpix: a comic starring someone real

Comicpix is a different kind of tool: not a studio for your series, but a maker for one comic in which you, a friend, a partner or a pet is the main character. Pick a style, such as manhwa, anime or romance, add a photo and a name, and choose a ready story or write a few sentences. The cover is drawn in about a minute and the preview is free; a monthly plan unlocks every page, read online or as a PDF.

It draws pages, not vertical-scroll webtoon strips, and it does not let you edit panels or speech balloons. If you were drawn to Dashtoon by manhwa romance, the photo to manhwa page shows the style with a couple as the leads.

Frameo is where Dashtoon’s Create page sends Studio users. Dashtoon describes it as a platform for AI video and short drama, not comics, so it isn’t in the table above. If moving from comics to short video suits you, it is the official path; if you want to keep making comics, the tools above are built for that. For every comic tool side by side, see AI comic makers compared.