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

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