Getting started
Mohyeong is a manga reader for Android. You install extensions, which are small scripts that teach the app how to read a particular website. Then you browse those sites, add what you want to your library, and read.
Three things need setting up once, and the app walks you through them the first time it opens:
- Pick a storage folderWhere downloads and backups live. This is the only step you cannot skip.
- Grant permissionsNotifications for update and download progress, and an exemption from battery optimisation so long downloads are not killed. Both optional.
- Guides and restoreA link back here, and a way to restore an existing backup if you are coming from another install.
Once that is done the app has no sources yet. Head to Browse and add an extension.
Installing
- Download the APKFrom the Releases page.
- Allow your browser to install appsSettings, Apps, Special app access, Install unknown apps. Enable it for whatever you downloaded with.
- Open the file and installAndroid 7.0 or newer.
Storage folder
Mohyeong asks for one folder and keeps everything of yours inside it: chapter downloads, automatic backups, and the local source if you use one. You choose it during setup and can change it later in Settings, Data and storage.
Pick a folder you will recognise later, for example Documents/Mohyeong. A dedicated folder is easier to back up and easier to delete.
Extensions
An extension is a small JavaScript file that knows how to read one website: where the popular list is, how a chapter page is laid out, where the images are. One extension equals one source.
This is not the same mechanism Mihon uses. Mihon extensions are Android APKs installed through the system; Mohyeong's are scripts the app runs itself. Mihon extension APKs will not work here.
Manage them under Browse, Extensions: add one from a file, see what is installed, check for updates, or remove one. Removing an extension does not remove anything from your library, but entries from that source will not load until it is back.
Sources
Browse lists everything you can read from, each row wearing that site's own logo. Tap one to open its catalogue: Popular, Latest, and Search, with whatever filters that site offers.
The pin on the right keeps a source at the top of the list. The funnel in the header hides sources you never use, and the search icon runs one query across every installed source at once, one row of results per source, so a slow site never holds up a fast one.
Home
The first tab is built around reading position rather than around what you own, because the question a library app actually has to answer is what is next and where was I.
It has three parts: a rotating hero showing the series you are furthest through, Continue with what you are part way into and the position you left it at, and Tonight.
Tonight
Tonight is the updates surface. There is no separate Updates tab; this is it, and it carries the whole job: every chapter that has arrived, newest first, grouped by day.
From its header you can refresh the whole library, filter to unread or bookmarked, hide muted scanlators, search, and open Upcoming. Long press a row to select, then mark read or bookmark in bulk. Pull down to refresh.
Library
Everything you have added, as a grid of covers with an unread count. The header names the shelf and counts what is waiting on it.
Sort, filter and the number of columns live in Settings, Library, along with how often the app checks for new chapters and which categories it checks. Long press a cover to select and act on several entries at once.
Categories
Shelves for your library. A category can sit inside another one, so you can keep Reading, Reading / Weekly and Reading / On hold without three flat names that only look related.
Manage them in Settings, Library, Categories: create, rename, reorder by dragging, set a parent, delete. Dragging only reorders within one parent group, so a drag can never silently reparent something.
Reader
Tap the middle of the page to show or hide the controls. The edges turn pages, and which edge does what depends on the reading mode.
| Mode | Behaviour |
|---|---|
| Paged (left to right) | Western order |
| Paged (right to left) | Manga order |
| Paged (vertical) | Top to bottom, one page at a time |
| Long strip | Continuous scroll, no gaps between pages |
| Long strip with gaps | Continuous scroll, pages separated |
| Default | Whatever the global setting says |
Mode can be set globally in Settings, Reader or per series from the reader's own settings sheet, which is where per series wins. That sheet also holds scale, rotation, background, crop borders, and the colour filter and brightness controls.
Settings, Reader additionally covers full screen, keeping the screen on, page number display, double tap zoom, tap zones and whether to invert them, and the flash on page change used to reduce ghosting on e ink.
Downloads
Download a chapter from a series page, or in bulk from the selection bar. The queue lives in More, Download queue, where you can pause, resume, reorder and cancel.
Settings, Downloads decides how much happens on its own: download new chapters as they arrive, restricted to chosen categories, and whether to delete a chapter once it has been read. Bookmarked chapters can be excluded from that deletion, which is the setting people usually want and rarely find.
Upcoming
A calendar of predicted release dates for series in your library, reachable from Tonight. A ring marks today and a dot under a date means something is expected then; tap a marked day to jump the list to it.
These are predictions, not announcements. The app measures how often a series has actually been updating and projects the next one, so a series only appears here once a library update has run and there is enough history to guess from. Irregular series will be wrong, and that is expected.
Tracking
Mohyeong can push your progress to an external tracker. Sign in under Settings, Tracking, then link an individual series from its details page.
| Tracker | Sign in with |
|---|---|
| AniList | Account authorisation in a browser |
| MyAnimeList | Account authorisation in a browser |
| Kitsu | Email and password |
| MangaUpdates | Username and password |
| Shikimori | Account authorisation in a browser |
| Komga, Suwayomi | Server address and credentials |
Linking is per series and nothing is sent until you link one. Progress is pushed as you read; you can also set status, score and dates by hand from the tracking sheet.
Local source
Read files already on the device. Point the local source at a folder and every subfolder becomes a series.
Mohyeong/local/
Series name/
Chapter 1.cbz
Chapter 2.cbz
cover.jpgEach chapter is one .cbz or .zip archive, or a folder of images. RAR and CBR are not supported. A file named cover beside the chapters is used as the series cover; otherwise the first image of the first chapter is.
Chapter 2 sorts before Chapter 10 even though the text does not.Migrating sources
When a site dies or a better one appears, migration moves your entries across without losing what you have read.
- Browse, MigrateLists every source you have favourites on, with a count.
- Pick the source you are leavingThen select the entries to move, or all of them.
- Choose the destinationThe app searches the sources you allow and shows what it thinks matches. Confirm each one.
- Choose what carries overChapters read, categories, tracking. Optionally delete the old entry.
Backup and restore
Settings, Data and storage, Backup writes a single file containing your library, categories, reading history, chapter states, tracking links and per source settings. It does not contain downloaded images.
Automatic backups can be scheduled, with a limit on how many are kept. Restoring merges into what is already there rather than replacing it.
Sync
Sync keeps two devices agreeing about the same library. Backup is a file you keep; sync is a conversation between installs. Set it up in Settings, Data and storage, Sync.
| Backend | You provide |
|---|---|
| SyncYomi | Server address and API key |
| WebDAV | URL, username, password |
| Google Drive | Account authorisation |
| Dropbox | Account authorisation |
Choose what takes part: library, categories, chapters, history, tracking. Sync can run on app start and on a schedule.
Merging is per row and by timestamp, so the most recently changed version of each entry wins rather than the whole of whichever device synced last. Removing something is recorded as an act with its own timestamp, so an entry you delete on one device does not come back from the other.
Security
Settings, Security can require your device lock to open the app, with a delay so switching apps for a moment does not lock you out. There is also an option to hide the app's contents in the recent apps switcher.
Incognito mode stops the app recording history while it is on. It is a toggle rather than a mode you can forget you are in: while it is active the app says so.
Appearance
Mohyeong is built dark. There is no light theme and no follow the system option, because there is nothing behind them: the whole interface is designed against a black ground with drifting aurora light, and a light variant would be a different application rather than a different setting. Rather than ship switches that move nothing, the settings are not there.
What Settings, Appearance does hold is the relative date format used across history and updates.
Troubleshooting
A source shows nothing, or fails to load
Open the site in a browser first. If it is down or has moved domain, the extension cannot help. If the site loads in a browser but not in the app, it is likely a Cloudflare check; open the source once from Browse so the challenge can be solved, then try again.
A source has no logo, just a letter
The logo is fetched from the site itself, once. Sites behind a check can fail the first attempt and are retried within the hour. Some sites genuinely publish no icon at all, and those keep the letter permanently.
Covers load but pages do not
Usually the site rate limiting a burst of image requests. Wait, then retry the chapter. Downloading the chapter first is more reliable than reading it live on sites that do this often.
Library updates find nothing new
Check Settings, Library: updates can be restricted to certain categories, skipped for completed series, or limited to Wi-Fi and to charging. An update that is skipped is not an update that failed.
Downloads stop when the screen is off
Grant the battery optimisation exemption offered during setup, or in Settings, Advanced. Without it Android is free to kill long downloads.
The app asks for the storage folder again
The permission Android grants for a folder can be revoked if the folder is deleted, renamed, or lives on removed external storage. Pick it again.
FAQ
Can I use my Mihon extensions?
No. Mihon extensions are Android APKs; Mohyeong's are JavaScript files it runs itself. They are not interchangeable in either direction.
Can I restore a Mihon backup?
The backup format is compatible, so the library, categories, history and chapter states come across. What cannot come across is the sources: a Mihon backup refers to Mihon extensions, and you will need the matching Mohyeong extension for each source before those entries load.
Can I run Mihon and Mohyeong together?
Yes. Different package names, separate libraries, separate storage.
Where is the Updates tab?
It is Tonight, on Home. It does everything the separate tab did: refresh, filters, day grouping, search, bulk selection.
Why is there no light theme?
See Appearance. Briefly: there is nothing behind the switch, and a switch that moves nothing is worse than no switch.
Is this endorsed by the Mihon team?
No. Mohyeong is an independent project that follows Mihon's behaviour closely. Do not take problems here to them.