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Akkhara vs GoldenDict: catalog facts
Akkhara	GoldenDict
Free Free to use, with optional donations through a tip jar.	Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0 licence.
Windows, Linux, Android, iOS	Windows, macOS, Linux
Fuzzy search tolerates misspellings Searches inside definitions as well as headwords	Reads StarDict, Babylon, Lingvo and Dictd dictionaries Combines offline and online dictionaries in one search
Licensed CC-BY-NC-ND, so not open source Little detail published about which languages and dictionaries are included	Development is slower than the GoldenDict-ng fork No official prebuilt releases on the repository
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Closed source	Open source
License: CC-BY-NC-ND-3.0	License: GPL-3.0
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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