IPA Keyboard

IPA Keyboard Free App

Rated 3.97/5 (164) —  Free Android application by EG Apps

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About IPA Keyboard

IPA Keyboard is the most comprehensive phonetic symbol keyboard around!

- Type IPA for US English for free.
- 300+ IPA extension, obsolete, and non-standard symbols can be unlocked via in-app purchase from the keyboard settings.

Apart from the enormous number of easily accessible symbols, IPA Keyboard has a bunch of other great features:

- Modern, material design theme; looks and feels great for typing.
- Characters are grouped by related shape or sound, so that all of the IPA symbols are easy to find.
- Tabbed keyboards for punctuation, diacritics, tones, and other symbols, separate from the main consonant & vowel keyboard and easy to navigate.
- Alternative symbols show right on the keys. Long-press to reveal. There is also a setting to hide the alternatives and reduce visual clutter.
- Five different keyboard layouts to choose from (QWERTY, AZERTY, Dvorak, Colemak, and a custom phonetic ordering based on the IPA chart).

Great for learners!

IPA Keyboard is the only keyboard that includes a full symbol reference built in. Simply enable the Hint Bar in the app preferences. Tap on any key to reveal the phonetic description of the symbol.

If you would like to support development of IPA Keyboard or my future projects, please consider unlocking the full version!

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Instructions:

1. Install IPA Keyboard from the Play Store.
2. Enable IPA Keyboard from the App Settings (see the Installation section)
3. From any input field, tap the "Keyboard Chooser" icon either at the bottom of the screen or in the notification bar, and select IPA Keyboard.
4. Long press a key to view alternates (double-tap for tone keys).

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Credits:

Edward Greve, Developer
Percy Wong, Linguistic Consultant

How to Download / Install

Download and install IPA Keyboard version 1.0.8 on your Android device!
Downloaded 10,000+ times, content rating: Everyone
Android package: com.edwardgreve.ipakeyboard, download IPA Keyboard.apk

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App History & Updates

What's Changed
Including 60 more characters in the free version.
More downloads  IPA Keyboard reached 10 000 - 50 000 downloads

What are users saying about IPA Keyboard

U70%
by U####:

Hi I don't mean to give such a bad review, just that I can't open the keyboard now that I switched phones. I now have the one plus 5. When I go to the installation section, I see no place to select IPA keyboard. How can I fix this? Thank you.

R70%
by R####:

It doesn't​ work in Qwerty. Upgrade this for better typing. Give pro version for free for best rating. After all it's good.

U70%
by U####:

All the symbols, all the diacritics

U70%
by U####:

makes you pay for every useful symbol

U70%
by U####:

Exactly what I was looking for

U70%
by U####:

Good APP

D70%
by D####:

Good App

U70%
by U####:

Great

Z70%
by Z####:

Really useful for my conlanging! One complaint: I'm not sure if this is just because of the new update but there's a problem with the top row. The characters on the top row don't show the related symbols when you hold down on them and half of the box disappears. Please try and fix that, I need my labialized diacritic!

X70%
by X####:

THIS IS ONLY FOR THE PAID VERSION. I would advise against getting the paid version as the top row on the keyboard becomes basically unusable. This has been the case for a while, sent the Devs an email and have had no response.

U70%
by U####:

Useful, clear and effective as a keyboard. Has everything you need for IPA, including extensions and obselete characters if you pay a small amount, like ʩ, ʧ and ʗ. Has every diacritic you'll ever need to be really pedantic, like ⁿtʰʷɐ̞̃ˑ˨˩˦ʤ.n̰̍. Even has loads of mathematical symbols! Would highly recommend.

X70%
by X####:

Clean minimalistic UI in inoffensive light green, more features than you can shake a stick at, capital letters (in case you want ƱƏꞭ etc), and if paid more modifiers and releases than most would need, even free comes with all the essentials to be a pedantic armchair phoneticist. Not sure how well other devices will support what you write, but hey, this is great. OH - and it tells you what the symbol you just typed was. Great for typing less-rounded close-mid central rounded vowels by trial and error!!

U70%
by U####:

Great app. Does everything I hoped it would. "Doesn't have autocorrect or autocapitalisation" is a hilariously silly complaint. You don't capitalise in IPA typically. And differing accents will pronounce the same words differently so you don't really want autocorrect.

U70%
by U####:

Clearly the best (and, well, only) complete IPA keyboard on the Play Store right now. The problem, though, is that vertain of keys are screwy if they have too many options. No words to describe it, but it's broken. It doesn't appear that the devs will ever fix it. If they do, 5*

U70%
by U####:

Really great, and the paid content is 100% worth it. I do a lot of music transcription and I've found myself more and more going to my phone to type in IPA as opposed to using programs I've spent 20x more for because this is so much easier to use.

Y70%
by Y####:

i really love this keyboard, i use it for conlanging as well. however, like some others, half of the popups on the top row are cut off. its very great otherwise!

U70%
by U####:

There is a mistake in second screen subscript 8 and Can u add the symbol alpha and some other greek symbols like alpha, delta,etc?? Can u remove option of preview of letters while typing? its annoying? And it would really help if u add emojis and place dot and comma in main screen....

U70%
by U####:

Unless the problem with the top row (the character popup is blocked by the app) is corrected, the app is virtually worthless. A waste of $2. Devs - get on this.

U70%
by U####:

The keyboard has bugs. When you want to use the superscript characters, if the letter is on the top row, only the first row characters are shown upon a long press. Sometimes half of them are not even shown.

U70%
by U####:

Good gracious Eddie Spaghetti this is the real deal people. I was typing all sorts of things with this bad boy...

U70%
by U####:

Pretty great, it tells you what the name of each sound is. I only wish you could select the character without having to lift your finger and tap, but that's how worth taking a star over.

O70%
by O####:

its cool but doesnt seem to have autocorrect and doesnt have auto capitalisation. also some bugs and glitches

P70%
by P####:

It's good but not convenient enough . I hope that I can type pʰ tʰ or kʰ at a time

U70%
by U####:

I can't see top row of my keyboard when selecting secondary symbols. Galaxy s8 plus

Z70%
by Z####:

Re: play store goods A complete & total lack n variation ('themes b damnned...2 hell w/customization!') coupled w/marginal instruction not being my preference, i dont mind less of when balanced by more of, irregardless the context. I do, however, take affront by such irksome misrepresentation of an apps non-pro limitations (diminished capacity 2 utilize entire blocks of visible characters due 2 cost requirements) & more than likely will not sample future apps created n ur lab. Prove me wrong. Plz

T70%
by T####:

Great for conlanging.

U70%
by U####:

COULD ADD SOUNDS OF PHONES (PHONEME)

U70%
by U####:

Great! Best ipa keyboard app!

U70%
by U####:

God, do I love this... It only lacks customization.

U70%
by U####:

Everythings seems to be find until you start to write: they ask you to pay.

D70%
by D####:

The option doesn't show on the "change keyboard" . I couldn't even use it

U70%
by U####:

Installation button does not install. Keyboard does not show up when trying to change to it.

Z70%
by Z####:

the ability to add extra diacritics is absolutely top-notch.

U70%
by U####:

A very simple, very complete keyboard and the descriptions are just perfect

D70%
by D####:

really needs the ability to disable the popup on keypress.

M70%
by M####:

Amazing so far!

C70%
by C####:

I love this app.

N70%
by N####:

The best IPA keyboard I have used so far! Thanks for listening! Also thanks for unlocking this: ɲ, I use it a lot in Malay.

I70%
by I####:

Thank you for includinɡ clicksǃ

N70%
by N####:

Great! Best ipa keyboard app!


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