A free, open-source pie menu launcher for Windows, macOS and Linux
Kando is a free, open-source app launcher built around one idea: the fastest menu is a circle, not a list. Press its shortcut and a ring of icons appears around the cursor, ready to launch apps, open files and links, trigger keyboard shortcuts, paste clipboard snippets or run commands. It works on Windows, macOS and Linux, and it is the third pie menu from German developer Simon Schneegans, after Gnome-Pie and Fly-Pie. The current release is version 3.0.1, published on October 25, 2026.
Radial menus trade reading for remembering: each wedge is a large target radiating from where the cursor already sits, so the hand learns positions (browser at two o'clock, terminal at seven) instead of scanning a list. It is the same approach pro tools like Blender have used for years, here applied to the whole desktop, with per-app menu conditions and a polished editor on top.
In our hands-on test, the example menu opened instantly and every wedge we tried did what it promised; the trade-offs are a heavy Electron footprint (about 580 MB of RAM with the editor and a menu open) and a refusal to start on Linux desktops it does not recognize. Verdict: a delight for stylus, touch and pointer-driven workflows.
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A ring of large, easy-to-hit wedges appears where your pointer already is, so you pick by direction and muscle memory instead of typing.
Apps, files, web links, keyboard shortcuts, clipboard snippets, media keys and shell commands can all live on the same pie, with nested submenus.
Point-and-click, marking gestures, chained turbo mode, or hover-only selection, with a first-run tutorial for each.
Live pie preview, shortcut recorder, themes and sounds; the same shortcut can open different menus depending on the active app.
Yes. Kando is free and open source under the MIT license, with no account, no telemetry and no paid tier.
Windows 10 and 11, macOS 11 or later, and Linux (AppImage, DEB and RPM packages). On Linux, only the desktop environments listed in the official documentation are supported.