Kinda – Cultural Translation & Context

AI cultural translation in Chrome’s side panel — register, gender, idioms, Why, optional Arabic dialect. 21 languages. No account.

Kinda — Cultural Translation & Context You know that feeling when Google Translate makes you sound like a robot who just learned to speak? Yeah. Kinda fixes that. Every translator gives you the words. Kinda gives you the voice — the one your friend, your coworker, or that person you just met would actually recognize as you. Because "technically correct" and "sounds like a human" are not the same thing, and everyone who's ever sent a translated message that landed weird already knows it. Here's what that actually means: 🎯 It knows the difference between tu and vous. Between tú and usted. Between du and Sie. Not by guessing — by asking who you're talking to, once, and remembering. 🎯 It gets gender right. Tell Kinda who's speaking and who's listening, and every agreement, ending, and pronoun lines up — automatically, in every language that needs it. 🎯 It doesn't translate idioms — it replaces them. "Break a leg" doesn't become four random foreign words. It becomes whatever a native speaker would actually say in that moment. 🎯 It shows its work. Click any translation and Kinda explains — in plain language — exactly why it phrased things that way. Register, address form, tone, all of it. 🎯 It has a tone dial, not just an on/off switch. Too formal? Too casual? Nudge it, phrase by phrase, and watch it rewrite live — no retyping, no starting over. Where it lives: Chrome's side panel, right next to whatever you're reading or writing. Type it, paste it, or just select text on any page and right-click. Alt+K and it's there. 21 languages, from Arabic (with actual dialect selection — MSA, Egyptian, Levantine, Gulf, Maghrebi, your call) to Japanese keigo to Hindi's address levels — the nuance most translators flatten into nothing. The app itself speaks six languages — English, Français, Español, Português, Deutsch, 日本語 — so it doesn't just translate for you, it works in your language too. No account. No email. No sign-up wall before you even try it. Kinda identifies your install with an anonymous ID, keeps your profile and history in your own browser, and only sends translation text to our server and Anthropic's AI — never stored, never sold. Full details in the privacy policy. Free: 20 translations a day, 11 languages. Pro: unlimited translations, all 21 languages, multiple profiles, real history that doesn't vanish at midnight. ℹ️ Note: Pro upgrades are temporarily paused while billing is being finalized. All core translation features are fully available on the free tier. Translations are generated by AI (Anthropic's Claude). It's very good. It's not infallible — for anything high-stakes, give it a once-over before you hit send. Questions, feedback, or just want to say hi: support@trykinda.com