YidShrift
Intelligent Yiddish Keyboard
Free
Built for everyday Yiddish: autocorrect, swipe and phonetic input, everything you need to write Yiddish how you want
New user dictionary, optimized layouts, and more!
YidShrift is the modern Yiddish keyboard for iPhone — built from the ground up to be intuitive and facilitate fast communication.
Whether you use klal Yiddish loytn YIVO orthography, or in heymishe Chasidishe krayzn, YidShrift respects and facilitates saying what you want to say, how you want to say it. No more wrestling with Hebrew autocorrect or digging through long-press menus for ale nekudes.
WHAT'S INSIDE
• Hebrew-script keyboard, optimized for quick Yiddish input
• Smart autocorrect that knows Yiddish — not a Hebrew keyboard with a thesaurus
• Swipe entry (גליטשערײַ) — glide your finger across letters and YidShrift predicts the word
• Customizable keyboard layouts, including "Yiddish-Klal" by Isaac Bleaman and "Yiddish-K" by Larry Kay
• QWERTY entry automatically transliterates romanization into yidishe oysyes.
• Built-in candidate bar with both word suggestions and emoji
• Intuitive orthography settings (YIVO, heymish, and beyond) with fine-grained toggles for various spelling conventions
• "Glitsherayke" — a Swipe-Shpil game for sharpening speed and accuracy. Compete with high scores for a spot on the leaderboard.
WHO IT'S FOR
• Native Yiddish speakers writing to family
• Journalists and academics writing in Yiddish
• Students learning the language
• Anyone who wants to type and chat in Yiddish faster than the system keyboard allows
YidShrift is developed by Loshn Logic, an independent project dedicated to building modern tools for Yiddish.
PRIVACY
Your typed text never leaves your device. The only data we collect is anonymous diagnostic information (crashes, performance metrics) to keep the keyboard fast and stable. No keystrokes, no full sentences, no contact info.
Allow Full Access is optional. Without it: typing works, suggestions work, swipe works. With it: anonymous performance metrics help us improve, and (if you choose) you can submit your scores to the Swipe-Shpil leaderboard.
Questions, feedback, bug reports? Reach us at the Support URL, or use the contact form in the app.
ייִדשריפֿט ווערט אַנטוויקלט פֿון לשון־לאָגיק.
Ratings & Reviews
New in 1.5.5:
– Suggestion bar highlights default correction before you press space
– User dictionary: add words manually by long-press on suggestion bar, or 'More…' settings menu. System automatically learns frequently-typed out-of-vocab words
– New layouts: KORAT and KORAT (Simple); based on classic Yiddish typewriters
– Cyrillic pages! Type Yiddish using Russian or Ukranian orthography
– Expansions and refinements to Roman/Cyrillic 'passthrough' via suggestion bar
– Fixed a bug where long-press letters interrupted compose region
1.5.4
Now available on iPad!
– New customizable row-4 keys (comma, geresh, period). QWERTY page now optional
– Optional auto-space after punctuation
– Expanded Loshn-Koydesh dictionary & disambiguation rules
– Memory and stability improvements
1.5.3
– Fine-tuned the suggestion bar, including Loshn Koydesh words appearing during QWERTY phonetic input
– When the keyboard substitutes a different word, your original spelling stays available for reversion
Swipe-Shpil
– Fixed bugs that disqualified / dropped Swipe-Shpil rounds over 10 words or which included skips/redos
– Fixed a bug that sometimes failed to surface the 'choose your nickname screen'
– Expanded the leaderboard to 10 places
– Fixed an invisible "End Game" button in light mode
The developer, Loshn Logic LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
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Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Loshn Logic LLC
- Size
- 47.9 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 10 more
- English, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Infrequent
Contests
- Copyright
- © 2026 Loshn Logic LLC. All rights reserved.
