diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 6af25fa..2a1bf4e 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ fixtures/** filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
 
 # The manual's pictures live in LFS for the same reason the models do: a
 # screenshot or a GIF changes wholesale when the interface it shows changes,
-# and every re-recording would otherwise stay in every clone for good. CI's
-# pulls exclude the directory; nothing built or tested reads it.
+# and every re-recording would otherwise stay in every clone for good. The
+# desktop and benchmark legs exclude the directory, since nothing they build
+# or test reads it; the Android and Windows legs fetch it, because the APK
+# and the installer carry the manual (docs/manual/index.html) with its
+# pictures, and their packagers refuse a pointer.
 docs/manual/media/** filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/build-and-test.yml b/.gitea/workflows/build-and-test.yml
index 14fabf6..80a287b 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/build-and-test.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/build-and-test.yml
@@ -100,7 +100,9 @@ jobs:
             | while read -r key; do git config --local --unset-all "$key"; done || true
           git config --local lfs.url \
             "https://x-access-token:${LFS_TOKEN}@gitea.tourolle.paris/dtourolle/DarkRoom.git/info/lfs"
-          git lfs pull --exclude="fixtures/**,docs/manual/media/**"
+          # The manual's pictures too: the APK carries the manual, and
+          # assemble-apk.sh refuses a pointer where a picture should be.
+          git lfs pull --exclude="fixtures/**"
           ls -lR models/
 
       - name: Cache cargo
@@ -227,7 +229,9 @@ jobs:
             | while read -r key; do git config --local --unset-all "$key"; done || true
           git config --local lfs.url \
             "https://x-access-token:${LFS_TOKEN}@gitea.tourolle.paris/dtourolle/DarkRoom.git/info/lfs"
-          git lfs pull --exclude="fixtures/**,docs/manual/media/**"
+          # The manual's pictures too: the APK carries the manual, and
+          # assemble-apk.sh refuses a pointer where a picture should be.
+          git lfs pull --exclude="fixtures/**"
           ls -lR models/
 
       - name: Cache cargo
@@ -420,7 +424,9 @@ jobs:
             | while read -r key; do git config --local --unset-all "$key"; done || true
           git config --local lfs.url \
             "https://x-access-token:${LFS_TOKEN}@gitea.tourolle.paris/dtourolle/DarkRoom.git/info/lfs"
-          git lfs pull --exclude="fixtures/**,docs/manual/media/**"
+          # The manual's pictures too: the installer carries the manual, and
+          # package.sh refuses a pointer where a picture should be.
+          git lfs pull --exclude="fixtures/**"
           ls -l models/face models/scene
 
       - name: Cache cargo
@@ -474,6 +480,11 @@ jobs:
           WANT=$(find models/face models/scene models/inpaint -maxdepth 1 -type f ! -name README.md | wc -l)
           GOT=$(ls "$INST/models" | wc -l)
           [ "$GOT" = "$WANT" ] || { echo "FAIL: expected $WANT model files, installed $GOT"; exit 1; }
+          # The manual, and every picture it shows, counted the same way.
+          [ -f "$INST/manual/index.html" ] || { echo "FAIL: no manual installed"; exit 1; }
+          WANT=$(ls docs/manual/media | wc -l)
+          GOT=$(ls "$INST/manual/media" | wc -l)
+          [ "$GOT" = "$WANT" ] || { echo "FAIL: expected $WANT manual pictures, installed $GOT"; exit 1; }
           wine reg query 'HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\DarkRoom' 2>/dev/null \
             | grep -q DisplayVersion || { echo "FAIL: no uninstall registry key"; exit 1; }
           wine "$INST/darkroom.exe" --version 2>/dev/null | grep -q '^darkroom-desktop ' \
diff --git a/docker/android/assemble-apk.sh b/docker/android/assemble-apk.sh
index c0f6db9..1261abc 100755
--- a/docker/android/assemble-apk.sh
+++ b/docker/android/assemble-apk.sh
@@ -332,6 +332,29 @@ else
     echo "    assets: no models found (face indexing and the scene tab will be off on the device)"
 fi
 
+# The manual: the rendered page and its pictures, read in place by
+# ManualActivity's WebView as file:///android_asset/manual/index.html. Not
+# unpacked like the models: a WebView reads an asset straight out of the APK,
+# and relative links to media/ resolve inside the same asset tree, so the page
+# costs no first-launch copy and no second copy on /data.
+#
+# About 27 MB, stored below like the models — a GIF or PNG is already
+# compressed, and deflating it again buys nothing. The pictures are LFS
+# objects, and unlike a missing model a pointer would not fail loudly: it
+# ships as a manual full of broken images. So it stops the build here.
+rm -rf "${OUT}/staging/assets/manual"
+mkdir -p "${OUT}/staging/assets/manual/media"
+cp "${REPO}/docs/manual/index.html" "${OUT}/staging/assets/manual/"
+for f in "${REPO}/docs/manual/media"/*; do
+    if head -c 40 "${f}" | grep -q '^version https://git-lfs'; then
+        echo "error: $(basename "${f}") is an LFS pointer, not a picture." >&2
+        echo "       run: git lfs pull --include='docs/manual/media/**'" >&2
+        exit 1
+    fi
+    cp "${f}" "${OUT}/staging/assets/manual/media/"
+done
+echo "    manual: index.html and $(ls "${OUT}/staging/assets/manual/media" | wc -l) picture(s), $(du -sh "${OUT}/staging/assets/manual" | cut -f1)"
+
 # -0 "" stores the .so without compression so Android can mmap it directly
 # (extractNativeLibs=false territory); for a 37 MB library that also keeps
 # install times sane.
diff --git a/docker/windows/package.sh b/docker/windows/package.sh
index ebe3766..d3a3045 100755
--- a/docker/windows/package.sh
+++ b/docker/windows/package.sh
@@ -69,6 +69,23 @@ for dir in face scene inpaint; do
 done
 echo "==> staged $(ls "${STAGE}/models" | wc -l) model file(s)"
 
+# The manual: the rendered page and its pictures, beside the executable where
+# dr_ui::manual looks on Windows (dr_plat::system_data_dirs is the exe's own
+# directory there). The pictures are LFS objects; a pointer is ~130 bytes of
+# text that every browser draws as a broken image, so refuse it here rather
+# than ship a manual with no pictures in it.
+mkdir -p "${STAGE}/manual/media"
+cp "${REPO}/docs/manual/index.html" "${STAGE}/manual/"
+for f in "${REPO}/docs/manual/media"/*; do
+    if head -c 40 "${f}" | grep -q '^version https://git-lfs'; then
+        echo "error: $(basename "${f}") is an LFS pointer, not a picture." >&2
+        echo "       run: git lfs pull --include='docs/manual/media/**'" >&2
+        exit 1
+    fi
+    cp "${f}" "${STAGE}/manual/media/"
+done
+echo "==> staged the manual and $(ls "${STAGE}/manual/media" | wc -l) picture(s)"
+
 # One installer in the output directory, the one just built. The directory
 # is cached between CI runs, so after a version bump a glob over it would find
 # two and the smoke test would hand Wine both names as one path.
diff --git a/docs/dev/windows.md b/docs/dev/windows.md
index e25604d..b61fa7c 100644
--- a/docs/dev/windows.md
+++ b/docs/dev/windows.md
@@ -285,6 +285,8 @@ $LOCALAPPDATA\Programs\DarkRoom\
     scrfd_500m_640.int8.onnx   scrfd_2.5g_640.int8.onnx   scrfd_10g_640.int8.onnx
     yolo26s-sem-ade20k.onnx   yolo26s-sem-ade20k.classes.json   categories.txt
     migan-512.onnx
+  manual\
+    index.html   media\   (the rendered manual and its pictures)
   LICENSE
   uninstall.exe
 ```
diff --git a/packaging/PKGBUILD b/packaging/PKGBUILD
index 81880a0..cfe45db 100644
--- a/packaging/PKGBUILD
+++ b/packaging/PKGBUILD
@@ -59,6 +59,21 @@ package() {
 
     install -Dm644 "README.md" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}/README.md"
 
+    # The manual: the rendered page and its pictures, where the app's Help
+    # opens it (dr_ui::manual, through dr_plat::system_data_dirs). Offline by
+    # design — the help sheet's "See it" links land here, on a machine that
+    # may have no network. The pictures are in LFS like the models, and a
+    # pointer shipped in their place is a manual of broken images, so the
+    # same refusal applies.
+    install -Dm644 "docs/manual/index.html" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/darkroom/manual/index.html"
+    for _f in docs/manual/media/*; do
+        if head -c 40 "${_f}" | grep -q '^version https://git-lfs'; then
+            echo "error: $(basename "${_f}") is an LFS pointer, not a picture — run: git lfs pull" >&2
+            return 1
+        fi
+        install -Dm644 "${_f}" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/darkroom/manual/media/$(basename "${_f}")"
+    done
+
     # The face models, into the last directory the app searches. A pair the
     # user placed in their own data directory outranks these, so installing
     # them cannot override a deliberate choice of weights.
diff --git a/packaging/windows/darkroom.nsi b/packaging/windows/darkroom.nsi
index 05c97d8..e84952d 100644
--- a/packaging/windows/darkroom.nsi
+++ b/packaging/windows/darkroom.nsi
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@
 ;
 ;   makensis -DVERSION=0.12.0 -DSTAGE=/path/to/staging -DOUT=/path/to/setup.exe darkroom.nsi
 ;
-; STAGE holds exactly what §5.2 installs: darkroom.exe, models\ and LICENSE.
+; STAGE holds exactly what §5.2 installs: darkroom.exe, models\, manual\ and
+; LICENSE.
 ; package.sh assembles it and applies the LFS-pointer guard before this runs.
 
 ; A 64-bit installer, not NSIS's default 32-bit stub. The application is
@@ -76,6 +77,13 @@ Section "DarkRoom" SecMain
   SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\models"
   File /r "${STAGE}\models\*"
 
+  ; The manual and its pictures, opened by Help and by the help sheet's
+  ; "See it" links (dr_ui::manual). Beside the executable for the same reason
+  ; the models are: it is the one directory the application can find without
+  ; asking the registry.
+  SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\manual"
+  File /r "${STAGE}\manual\*"
+
   WriteUninstaller "$INSTDIR\uninstall.exe"
 
   ; Add/Remove Programs. HKCU, to match the per-user install.
@@ -114,6 +122,7 @@ Section "Uninstall"
   Delete "$INSTDIR\LICENSE"
   Delete "$INSTDIR\uninstall.exe"
   RMDir /r "$INSTDIR\models"
+  RMDir /r "$INSTDIR\manual"
   RMDir "$INSTDIR"
 
   Delete "$SMPROGRAMS\${NAME}\${NAME}.lnk"