Behold the first completely FREE IPA keyboard on the App Store designed for linguists, language learners, and hobbyists.
It is designed to be lightweight and fluid, matching up to the user experience of the system emoji keyboard.
=FEATURES=
- Includes ALL symbols on the newest standard IPA chart (2020 ver.)
- Includes most symbols (the ones available in Unicode) on the newest standard extIPA chart (2016 ver.)
- Symbols are divided into sections just like the IPA chart(-duh!): consonants, non-pulmonic, other symbols, vowels, suprasegmentals, tones and word accents, and diacritics
- Symbols are arranged naturally, with a layout designed for you to find the symbols you want more quickly (especially the vowels, it's cleverly designed to match the layout on the IPA chart)
- Convenient input for "[]", "//", "~", "◌", space, and return on the top of the keyboard
- Completely free, NO ADS
=EXTERNAL LINKS=
For more information on IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet), refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet
The developer, Vince14Genius's GitHub: https://www.github.com/Vince14Genius/
I primarily use this for conlanging but it's great for lots of things. Super intuitive layout, super functional, etc. I have a suggestion though that would make it even better: since I imagine most of us use this app to transcribe mostly one language (at least at a time), be it real or a conlang, It would be nice if you could choose a subset of the characters to appear on a normal sized keyboard, for typing languages, since its unfortunately pretty slow to scroll thru all the characters you don't use for the few you do (which is definitely the only real way to make a keyboard w all the ipa on it and the best choice). If u could add a few options (for people working on a few langs at once) that would be sick too. Not sure how easy or possible that would b to implement but hope something can happen with it :)
Great app, some suggestions
Chespin321
Using this app has been smooth sailing, but I noticed that there aren’t yet symbols for the voiceless/voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant fricatives and the like. You might also consider adding the non-standard stød diacritic for broad Danish transcription.Also, I think it’d be great to implement a push-and-hold feature for high-frequency diacritics. For example, you could press and hold down a vowel in the app to add a nasal diacritic, a consonant to add an aspiration diacritic, and so on. It’d make some of the diacritical symbols on the right side redundant, but it’d also reduce scrolling time. Though I can’t speak to how difficult implementing such a change would be.
If you consider the price (free), this app is perfect
Crawnan
ðɪsʰ æpsʰ ɡɻʷɛɪtIt doesn't just focus on English phonemes -- you can actually type quite a lot and there are even functional diacritics. The app is very sleek and arranges the characters in a sensible manner. There are minimal labels which creates a small initial hurdle, but I appreciate the minimalism now that I am accustomed to the app.The only major criticism I have is that if you try to sandwich a consonant between two dental diacritics (to form an interdental), the app you are using may crash. You can use the advance symbol < ̟> to circumvent this in some cases, but it isn't immediately obvious how one would go about typing a bidental percussive.
Developer Response
Thank you so much for your feedback! extIPA symbols and obsolete symbols will be added next update.
Actual life saver
Cornsnake9876
I’m studying Brahmi, and it’s a very frustrating experience when I have to go find and copy+paste the IPA for sounds. If you can believe it,ɡ̈ or ɡʰ are actually not that easy to find usually! This will definitely help a lot searching that stuff. If any suggestions, the addition of the smaller ɦ would be appreciated, it’s essentially equivalent to ◌̤, and used for some of the Brahmi consonants. (ɡʰ is not actually correct, the IPA for Brahmi gh should be ɡɦ, but with the h sitting higher upʰ, though ɡ̈ is synonymous with that anyways.)
- accessibility and user experience improvements
Version 1.2.2
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Information
Seller
Vincent Cai
Size
1.8 MB
Category
Utilities
Compatibility
Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
Languages
English and 6 more
English, Esperanto, French, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
