Matnsaz is the easiest-to-use, and most advanced, Urdu keyboard for iPhone and iPad.
- A breakthrough new keyboard layout, using nearly half of the letter keys on other Urdu keyboards
- See the shape that letters will take as you type
- A state-of-the-art autocorrect system that learned from the language of Urdu scholars
This app was designed by studying the Urdu language deeply. We paid attention to details:
- When using Nastaliq script on your device, the keyboard will also display characters in Nastaliq
- A soft space key allows you to stop letters from joining without entering a space, an important tradition in Urdu writing
- Necessary diacritics (airāb) are added automatically, others can be added manually
- If you use the wrong letter or Unicode character, Mantsaz intelligently replaces it with the right character automatically
Additional features:
- Use alternate layouts: alphabetical, or based on the English keyboard
- Dark mode support
- Perfectly aligned icons and design to fit into iOS
This app makes typing in Urdu a joy. Their urdu specific layout combined with autocorrect accuracy makes it super easy for everyone. All other keyboards (including default Urdu keyboard) have some sort of a compromise and dont support autocorrect.
Great idea but…
voldygoldy
I love the idea of the letter arrangement based on the shape and being able to select the dots by long pressing or the auto-correct choosing the right word for you but that doesn’t give you the word you want most of the time. It seems like the prediction model isn’t context aware (or at least doesn’t do a good job of it) and just looks for the most common word based on the shape. Improvement on this is likely going to take time but just having an undo capability (by a swipe or backspace etc.) or the ability to have the auto-correct turn off is going to be a great addition.
Excellent UX design and predictions!
qtariq14
This keyboard has been designed with painstaking attention to detail and is a breeze to use. The predictions are excellent and significantly reduce the time to type out a sentence compared to the existing urdu keyboards out there.
The best Urdu keyboard for iOS
jinglebeller345
Title says it all. It’s (almost) everything you want in a keyboard, but in Urdu. Truth be told nothing even comes close in terms of UI, text prediction and usability.
- Suggestions are now shown when beginning to type new words, or when a word is selected and needs to be corrected.
- Fixed a bug where keys on the edges of the screen were not immediately responsive.
- Fixed a bug where contextual text labels on keys incorrectly displayed medial forms.
- Fixed a bug where typing a soft-space (zero-width non-joiner) would cause a crash.
- Performance improvements that should make the keyboard more responsive. For nerds, we did this by removing unnecessary thread locking, changing Array creations to Sets to avoid O(N) array reads, and avoided heap allocations during recommendation scoring.
- Fixed a bug where typing a soft-space (zero-width non-joiner) would cause a crash.
- Fixed bug where typing would be disabled in test view after changing settings
- Fixed bug where a keystroke may be missed
Version 1.8.2
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