Where to Publish Your Webtoon: Canvas and Tapas

You finished your webtoon. The episodes are drawn, the vertical scroll reads clean, and now you need a place to put it in front of readers. The two biggest self-publishing homes for that are WEBTOON Canvas and Tapas. Both let creators post a series for free and build an audience from a standing start, and both are open to work that was made with an AI assist. This post walks through what each platform expects, how you get a finished strip out of AudioProducer and ready to upload, and how to decide which one fits your story.

Can you publish an AI-assisted webtoon?

Short answer: yes, on both platforms, as long as the work is yours to publish. Canvas and Tapas are self-publishing surfaces, which means you upload your own episodes and you are responsible for the rights to what you post. If your art was generated by conditioning on your own drawings or a style you have permission to use, and the script is yours, you are on solid ground. Platform content policies do change, so read the current creator terms on each site before your first upload, especially the sections on ownership and prohibited content.

What neither platform does is care whether a human or a tool drew each panel. They care that the series is complete enough to read, formatted for vertical scroll, and inside their content rules. That is the bar to clear.

Exporting your vertical-scroll strip from AudioProducer

AudioProducer builds the webtoon for you and then hands you a file. The comic studio conditions on the art you bring, keeps your characters consistent across panels, lays out the vertical-scroll strip, and lets you export the finished episode as image files or a print-ready PDF. That exported strip is what you carry to Canvas or Tapas.

One thing worth being clear about, because it trips people up: AudioProducer exports the file, it does not publish or list your webtoon anywhere. There is no button that pushes your episode straight to a platform, and no hosting on our side. You download the strip, then you sign in to Canvas or Tapas yourself and upload it. Think of us as the studio that produces the episode, and the platform as the storefront where readers find it. Keeping those two steps separate is what lets you publish the same episode to more than one place if you want to.

Publishing on WEBTOON Canvas

Canvas is the open, self-publish arm of WEBTOON. Anyone can create a creator account and post a series without an invitation or an approval queue. You set up the series page with a title, genre, thumbnail, and description, then upload episodes as vertical image files. Readers discover Canvas series through search, genre lists, and the recommendation surface once your series starts picking up subscribers and likes.

Monetization on Canvas is tied to eligibility programs that WEBTOON runs, such as ad revenue sharing and its creator reward tiers. The thresholds and payout structure are set by the platform and they get revised, so treat any specific number you read online with caution and check what your own creator dashboard shows for your account. The reliable takeaway is that publishing is free, and earning comes later once a series builds a following.

Publishing on Tapas

Tapas is a self-publishing home for both comics and prose serials, which makes it a natural fit if your project lives in the same universe as a novel or a light novel. You create a series, upload episodes, and choose whether they are free or gated behind the platform's unlock currency. Tapas leans into serialized reading, so a steady episode cadence tends to matter more here than a single big drop.

Its monetization runs through a mix of reader unlocks, tips, and platform programs, and like Canvas the exact terms shift over time. Point yourself at the live Tapas creator page for the current rules on unlocks and payouts rather than trusting a figure from an old forum thread. If you already have a prose audience, Tapas lets your webtoon sit next to that work, which can be a real advantage for cross-discovery.

Sizing, image specs, and episode cadence

Both platforms read vertical, so your export should be a tall strip rather than page spreads. At the time of writing, Canvas asks for images around 800 pixels wide and caps how tall a single image file can be, which means a long episode gets split into several stacked images that scroll as one. Tapas has its own width and file-size guidance. Because these numbers get adjusted, the safe move is to open the upload page on each platform and read the spec it shows you that day, then export from AudioProducer to match.

On cadence, a predictable schedule does more for a new series than raw volume. Readers subscribe when they can trust that the next episode is coming. Pick a rhythm you can sustain, whether that is weekly or every other week, and let AudioProducer produce each episode from your script so the look stays consistent from chapter one onward. If you are still deciding whether a vertical webtoon or a paged print comic is the right container for your story, our guide on print comic book versus webtoon lays out the trade-offs.

New to the whole workflow? Start with how to make a webtoon without drawing, then see how to adapt longer source material in turn your novel into a webtoon and make a webtoon from a light novel. If audio is also on your roadmap, the cornerstone how to make an audiobook with AI covers the same export-then-publish pattern for narrated work.

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