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कहो Say it. Kaho listens.

A tool to help you learn and to think.

Read PDFs and EPUBs, write notes that draw their own diagrams, ask about the page you are on, and run your terminals and remote machines beside them. Speak to it naturally. A native, GPU-accelerated app with top-notch performance.

EPUB from Standard Ebooks Mermaid mind maps LaTeX math, live Your library in the sidebar
Kaho
Kaho in reader mode: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland open as an EPUB with its painted cover of red toadstools, beside Markdown notes with a mind map, a refraction diagram and Snell's law typeset as math.
01 · Read

Every page, sharp at every zoom.

Open a 500-page textbook or a whole shelf of novels. PDFs stay crisp at any zoom, and EPUBs are typeset by Kaho's own layout engine, with the book's fonts, illustrations and covers intact.

  • Reader mode clears away every bar and button, leaving only the page.
  • Split the window to keep the book, your notes and a terminal side by side.
  • Comics, scans and images open in the same reader.
.pdf.epub.md.cbz.djvu.tiff.svg.dot
Higher Math.pdf
A page of a mathematics textbook about parabolas, rendered crisply in Kaho's reader mode.
Alice in Wonderland.epub
A page of the Standard Ebooks edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: John Tenniel's White Rabbit above the text, with the jar labelled Orange Marmalade set in small capitals.
02 · Shelves

A library on the first launch.

Kaho ships with shelves you can open from the sidebar: public-domain classics from Standard Ebooks, Hindi literature in Kaho Editions, and NCERT textbooks for every class. One click and you are reading.

Covers and editions by Standard Ebooks, dedicated to the public domain.

03 · Textbooks

Every CBSE textbook, class 1 to 12.

The Textbooks shelf carries NCERT's books for every class from 1 to 12 and every subject: Mathematics, Science, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Hindi, English, Sanskrit, History, Economics and more, in English and Hindi editions. Open a chapter, read it, and ask Kaho to explain any page.

249 booksthe NCERT textbooks CBSE schools use
Class 1–12every class, every subject
Two languagesEnglish and Hindi editions

Textbooks courtesy of NCERT, the National Council of Educational Research and Training.

NCERT Mathematics textbook for class 1: Joyful Mathematics
Class 1Mathematics
NCERT Hindi textbook for class 2: Sarangi
Class 2Hindi
NCERT The World Around Us textbook for class 3: Our Wondrous World
Class 3The World Around Us
NCERT English textbook for class 4: Santoor
Class 4English
NCERT Mathematics textbook for class 5: Maths Mela
Class 5Mathematics
NCERT Science textbook for class 6: Curiosity
Class 6Science
NCERT Hindi textbook for class 7: Malhar
Class 7Hindi
NCERT Mathematics textbook for class 8: Ganita Prakash
Class 8Mathematics
NCERT Science textbook for class 9: Exploration
Class 9Science
NCERT English textbook for class 10: First Flight
Class 10English
NCERT Physics textbook for class 11: Part I
Class 11Physics
NCERT Biology textbook for class 12: Biology
Class 12Biology
04 · Write

Notes that draw.

Kaho is a Markdown editor where a fenced block becomes a picture. Sketch an idea as a Mermaid mind map, lay out a process with Graphviz, drop in hand-written SVG, and write the equation underneath. It renders as you type.

Mermaidmind maps, flows, timelines, Sankey
Graphvizdot graphs laid out for you
SVGlive vector art, inline
LaTeXinline and display math
how_light_travels.md
A Markdown note in Kaho with a Mermaid mind map about light, Snell's law as display math, and an SVG refraction diagram.
how_light_travels.md
Further down the same note: an SVG diagram of light bending between air and water, and a Graphviz graph explaining why paths far from the least-time path cancel.
05 · Ask

Ask about the page you're on.

Stuck on a figure? Ask. Kaho's assistant reads what you are reading and answers right beside it, with the mathematics typeset properly, not flattened into plain text.

You: Explain Figure 1.4.7 on this page: why do the two parabolas have their vertex at x = 3?
  • Answers are grounded in the open document, page and figure.
  • Replies are Markdown, so they can carry equations, tables and diagrams.
AI Chat
A textbook page on the left and Kaho's AI chat on the right, explaining with typeset equations why both parabolas in the figure have their vertex at x equals 3.
06 · Speak

Just say what you want.

Kaho means “say it” in Hindi. Press a shortcut and talk the way you would to a person beside you. Kaho opens the book, arranges the panes, starts the terminal or answers the question, and shows you what it heard.

⇧⌘Spaceand speak
Open the Sonnets I downloaded yesterday.open_document · Shakespeare_Sonnets.pdf
Put a terminal next to it.open_terminal · split right
What is the volta in sonnet eighteen?answer · beside the page
07 · Drawn on the GPU

Fast because every pixel is the GPU's job.

Kaho has no web view underneath. Text, pages, diagrams and every bit of interface are drawn by the graphics card, so a shelf of thousands of pages, a terminal stream and a live treemap all stay smooth.

GPU textglyphs drawn as vector curves, crisp at any zoom
One canvasdocuments, terminal and UI in a single renderer
NativemacOS, Windows and Linux
Disk usage · ~
Kaho's live disk treemap of a home folder full of literature: Shakespeare, Dickens, Tolkien, the Brontës and more, each folder sized by the space it takes.
08 · Terminal

A GPU-accelerated terminal, built in.

A real shell lives in a pane right next to your reading. Colours, Unicode and fast scrollback, drawn by the same renderer as everything else, so you never leave the page to run a command.

ada@kaho ~ % tree -C Shakespeare
Terminal
A typeset edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets beside Kaho's terminal, which lists folder sizes and a colour tree of the Shakespeare folder.
09 · Machines

Every machine on your tailnet, one click away.

Kaho has Tailscale built in. It finds the machines on your tailnet and connects to them over SSH. Open a terminal on any of them, or browse and read their files graphically, as if they sat on your own desk.

  • Remote terminals in a pane, beside your local documents.
  • Remote folders, PDFs and notes open in the same reader.
  • Your saved hosts and SSH config sit alongside your Tailscale peers.
studio-mac macOS · files 100.84.12.7 lab-linux Linux · terminal 100.97.3.41 home-server Linux · library 100.71.40.9 ada@lab-linux ~ $ Kaho

Read. Write. Ask. Say it.

Kaho runs natively on macOS, Windows and Linux.