Settings

Open Settings from the sidebar’s Settings row, with ⌘, / Ctrl+,, or from the tray icon. It has eight pages.

How Kimochi looks on this computer.

Setting	Default	Notes
Theme	System	System, Light or Dark.
Interface size	Medium	Small, Medium, Large or XL. Scales text, spacing and controls in every window; the Log keeps its own text size.
Sound effects	On	Sounds for scans, buttons, switches and window changes. The speaker in each title bar toggles them too.
Debug overlay	Off	Marks the scanned text boxes over the source and opens the Diagnostics window.
GNOME overlay	—	Linux, GNOME only. See Install on Linux.
Kimochi in Steam	—	Linux with Steam only. See Steam Deck.
Updates	—	Your version, What’s new and Check for updates.
Welcome guide	—	Open runs the welcome guide again.

Where the Log’s lines come from. See Sources and crop and Texthookers and clipboard.

Setting	Default	Notes
Input	Screen	Screen, Quick Shot, Clipboard or WebSocket.
↳ Poll interval (Clipboard)	200 ms	100 ms, 200 ms, 500 ms or 1 s.
↳ WebSocket URL	`ws://localhost:6677`
Switch sessions by window name	On	Each window you read gets its own session.
Accessibility (macOS)	—	Lets a click on your source bring that exact window to the front.
Copy scans to clipboard	Off
Send scans over WebSocket	Off	Hosts a WebSocket server at its URL (`ws://localhost:6677`).

Which engine reads the screen, and what is drawn over your game. See OCR engines, The overlay and Auto OCR.

Setting	Default
Engine	Google Lens
Overlay mode	Off
Group text into regions	Off
Filter out furigana and small text	On, threshold 75%
Scan after a button press	Off, delay 500 ms
Adaptive polling	On
Settle after	2 readings
Give up waiting after	4 seconds
Minimum time between requests	1.2 seconds
Base poll interval	500 ms

How the transcript reads and which lines it keeps. See The Log.

Setting	Default	Notes
Text size	14 px	12–48 px; also A− and A+ in the Log’s footer.
Read-aloud voice / Voice model	Eleven v3	With Kimochi Cloud.
Japanese only	Off
Skip repeats	1	Drop a line that matches any of the last N lines (1–20).
Merge streamed lines	Off	Characters to compare: 4.
Keep at most	5000	Lines per session.
Text replacements	None	Pattern rules applied to incoming lines.
Pause when idle for	60 s	The reading timer (10–600 s).
Reset Log settings	—	Returns every option on the Sources, Log, Dictionary and AI pages to its default, including the DeepL key and the Anki setup. Sessions, lines and text replacements are kept.

The pop-up that shows definitions. See Dictionaries and Anki.

Setting	Default
Engine	Built-in Yomitan
Open … settings	The engine’s own settings page (Yomitan, Hachidori, 10ten).
API address (Yomitan API)	`http://127.0.0.1:19633`
Pop-up size (Yomitan API)	480 × 360
Fetch word audio / Play on lookup / Volume (Yomitan API)	On / On / 90%
Anki (Yomitan API)	Mining off; AnkiConnect at `http://127.0.0.1:8765`

Help with a line you can’t read yet. See Translation and AI.

Setting	Default
Translate with	Automatic (Kimochi cloud with Kimochi Cloud, else your DeepL key)
DeepL API key	Empty; stored locally, never synced
Explain → Configure…	Codex CLI, its default model, the default prompt

Keyboard shortcuts and a game controller. See Keyboard shortcuts and Controller.

Setting	Default
Scan	`⇧⌘8` / `Ctrl+Shift+8`, no gamepad button
Controller menu	`⇧⌘Space` / `Ctrl+Shift+Space`, LS + RS
Enable gamepad support	On
Select / Back / Back (second) / Previous / Next definition	A / B / Y / LB / RB