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Kid3

Kid3 is an audio tagging program, available on Windows, macOS, Linux and Android: lyrics display, playlists, data import and export.

  • Completely free
  • Windows, macOS, Linux and Android
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Kid3 is an audio tagging program, available on Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.

Features described in its Flathub listing, on its official website and in its Debian package description: lyrics display, playlists, data import and export.

File formats mentioned: MP3, FLAC, OGG, OPUS, WAV, AAC and MP4.

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
  • “Kid3 - Audio Tagger If you want to easily tag multiple MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, Monkey” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Synchronized lyrics can be edited, imported and exported to LRC Karaoke files.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Generate playlist files” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “Import and export album data” — Debian, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Kid3 is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-2.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • No advertising
  • Commercial use allowed

About

With Kid3, an audio tag editor, you can edit tags in MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, DSF, FLAC, Opus, MPC, APE, MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV, AIFF and tracker files. All frames in the ID3 tags of MP3 files can be edited, and it is possible to convert between ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4. Synchronized lyrics can be edited, imported and exported to LRC Karaoke files. The tags of multiple files can be set together. It is possible to generate tags from file names or the contents of other tag fields and to generate file names from tags and rename folders from tags. Automatic case conversion and string replacement help to keep tags consistent. Album data can be imported from gnudb.org, MusicBrainz, Discogs, Amazon; automatic batch import is available for multiple folders. It is also possible to export data and generate play lists. Kid3 uses the KDE Frameworks. Users of other desktop environments may prefer Kid3-qt instead, which is without KDE dependencies.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Unspecified source (platforms) —
  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from F-Droid (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, ads, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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