Wasan (Arabic for the drowsiness just before sleep) is a live Arabic site for reading manga, manhwa and manhua. It carries 40 series and more than 8,500 chapters today, free to read without an account. Behind the reader sit accounts, comments and a chat for every series, paid subscriptions, and an admin panel the team runs it from. Arabic-first and built for the phone.
- Client
- Independent reading platform
- Year
- 2026
- Scope
- Design + Front-end
- Role
- Product design, UI/UX, Full-stack development
- Stack
- Next.js 16, React 19, Hono, PostgreSQL + PgBouncer, pg-boss, Cloudflare R2, Tailwind CSS 4, Docker
Browse the live site.
The real site, open to everyone. Any free chapter reads without an account; signing in adds a library, reading history and your place in every series.
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Featured series, the latest chapters and the community.
Browse
All 40 series, filtered by type, status and genre.
A series
Tower of God: its chapters, rating and chat.
The store
Plus, Pro and Ultra, and the mystery boxes.
Arabic, right to left · 40 series, 8,500+ chapters · Comments and series chat · Email or Google sign-in · Admin panel
Who it's for
Arabic readers, mostly on phones, often late at night.
People who follow manga and manhwa in Arabic and read a few chapters at a time, usually on a phone. They search by the English title they already know, expect to pick up where they stopped, and want to talk about the chapter they just finished.
What it solves
- 01
Arabic, with English titles
The interface is Arabic and right to left, while series keep their English names, isolated so the Arabic around them never reorders. Chapter numbers use Western digits because that's what people type into search, and search takes either language.
- 02
A reader that stays out of the way
The reader keeps your place, fetches the next chapter early and reserves each page's height so nothing jumps while images load. A locked chapter never sends its page images to the browser at all.
- 03
Free to read, paid for by extras
Reading needs no account. Plus, Pro and Ultra subscriptions, from $0.99 to $3.99 a month, add profile flair, and Ultra removes the ads. The odds of everything in a mystery box are written on the box.
- 04
Run by the team, not a developer
Publishing, scheduled releases, translation, imports and moderation all happen in an admin panel. A background worker handles scheduled chapters, notifications and image processing.
What it doesn't solve
- 01
Free reading carries ads
Without Ultra, readers see banner ads and an ad page between chapters. The pages of a chapter are never covered, but the ads are what keep reading free.
- 02
Paying in money isn't instant
Subscriptions paid in coins renew on their own each month. Paying in money goes through a request instead of a card checkout.
- 03
It runs on one server
Images are served straight from Cloudflare R2, but the site, API and database share one 4 GB server. Daily encrypted backups protect the data, not the uptime: if that machine goes down, so does the site.
Design system
- Display
- Readex Pro / Outfit
- Body & UI
- Readex Pro / Outfit
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