Urai
Tamil Text Convertor
Free
Urai writes Tamil in three scripts, and converts freely between them.
உரை — the Tamil word for text, and for the commentary tradition that ran alongside it for two thousand years.
THREE SCRIPTS, ONE TEXT
• Modern Tamil — the script in use today
• Tamili — Tamil Brahmi, the script of the Sangam-era potsherds and cave inscriptions at Keezhadi, Kodumanal and Arikamedu
• Latin transliteration — an ISO 15919-inspired romanisation
Pick a script from the tab strip and your text is converted into it. There is no separate convert step, and no guessing about what you meant to type: the tab says which script you are writing, so every conversion runs in a known direction.
CONVERSIONS THAT COME BACK INTACT
Tamil to Tamili and back returns exactly what you started with. So does Tamil to transliteration and back — including the word-final pulli, which is where most converters quietly lose a letter. Move between all three as often as you like; the text does not decay.
BUILT FOR THE SCRIPT
• Tamil, Tamili and Latin each rendered in a font chosen for it
• Adjustable size and line spacing, because Tamil needs more leading than Latin does
• Live counts — characters, words, lines, paragraphs — counted as letters rather than as Unicode scalars
• Your text is saved automatically and restored when you return
• Copy the whole buffer, or share it anywhere the system can send text
FOR WHOM
For anyone reading Tamil epigraphy, teaching or studying the history of the script, setting a name or an inscription in Tamil Brahmi, or simply curious about how Tamil was written two thousand years ago.
Urai is a text editor first. It collects no data, contains no advertising, and requires no account.
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- iPhone Duo: open the device and the editor splits in two — your text on the left, the same text in another script on the right. Pick the script with the tabs above the right-hand pane.
- A Done button above the keyboard, and you can now drag down on the text to put the keyboard away.
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Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Muthelilan Nedumaran
- Size
- 996.4 KB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Murasu Systems Sdn Bhd