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Kando

Learn a language from videos in that language: downloads with yt-dlp, transcribes on your computer with whisper.cpp, translates each line and plays bilingual subtitles.

Completely free
Windows, macOS and Linux
Open source
No account

Official website

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Technical details

Pricing: Completely freeconfirmed by GitHub
License: MIT — Open source (permissive)confirmed by GitHub
Open source: Yes
Commercial use: Yesconfirmed by GitHub
Account required: Noconfirmed by GitHub
Credit card required: Noconfirmed by GitHub
Watermark: Not applicable
Ads: not documented
Platforms: Windows, macOS and LinuxEstablished by Linux: GitHub, Unspecified source · macOS: GitHub, Unspecified source · Windows: Unspecified source
Publisher: yldm-tech
Latest activity: 10 November 2026
Source code: github.com/yldm-tech/Kando

Overview

Kando is a language learning program, available on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Features described on its official website and in its GitHub repository: subtitles, choice of several models and providers, voice input and commands, open-weight models (Llama, Mistral…), keyboard shortcuts.

Services and protocols mentioned: OpenAI.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“Learn a language from videos in that language: downloads with yt-dlp, transcribes on your computer with whisper.cpp, translates each line and plays bilingual subtitles.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
“Kando is an open-source desktop app that transcribes a video on your computer, translates each line with the AI model you choose and plays it with bilingual subtitles.” — official website, 10 November 2026
“Paste a YouTube or Bilibili link, or drop a video file on the window: Kando downloads the video with yt-dlp, transcribes the speech on your own computer with whisper.cpp, translates each line through an…” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
“Settings › Speech Recognition lists seven whisper models, from Tiny (77.7 MB) to Large v3 (3.1 GB), and downloads the one you choose.” — official website, 10 November 2026
“Lines are translated by EveryAPI by default, or by any OpenAI-compatible chat API, with presets for OpenAI, OpenRouter, Groq, DeepSeek, xAI, Mistral, Qwen, Kimi, Zhipu GLM, SiliconFlow, Ollama and LM Studio.” — official website, 10 November 2026
“Keyboard shortcuts” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Kando is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

Open source code
No account needed
Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

Facts collected from Unspecified source (platforms) — 10 November 2026
Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) — 10 November 2026
Last technical check: 10 November 2026
Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub yldm-tech/Kando (MIT)

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