LangPanda's language support falls into two groups, both with real dictionaries rather than generic machine translation.
The 12 featured languages
get the deepest treatment, including curated show recommendations inside the product: Japanese (with pitch-accent notation — dots rendered inline on words), Mandarin Chinese (with color-coded tones on pinyin), Korean, English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese (Brazilian), Italian, Thai, Vietnamese, and Russian.
The other 24 supported languages
all with native dictionaries: Arabic, Cantonese (with jyutping tone coloring), Albanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Khmer, Lao, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, and Ukrainian.
What "native dictionaries" means in practice:
clicking a word gives you the dictionary entry — reading, definition, frequency rank, and for grammar-heavy languages, conjugation information — not just a translation of the sentence. For Japanese, Mandarin, and Cantonese, LangPanda adds the phonetic layers (pitch accent, tones) that most competitors skip; that focus reflects the founder's own background learning Asian languages.
Which languages is LangPanda strongest for?
Japanese, Mandarin, Korean, and Cantonese, where the tone/pitch tooling has no real equivalent in Language Reactor or Trancy. For European languages, all three tools are closer — the deciding factors become platform coverage and the Anki workflow. Comparison: Best Subtitle Tools.
Learning a language not on this list?
Trancy translates on more sites with a free tier (though with a shallower learning toolkit), and italki has tutors in 150+ languages for anything subtitle tools don't cover.