IPA Keyboard is a specialized utility designed for typing International Phonetic Alphabet symbols across various languages. It features a material design interface with organized character layouts, including diacritics, tones, and punctuation, to assist users in phonetic transcription.
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The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
For Linguistics students, language learners, and professionals requiring precise phonetic symbol input.
What does it look like?
Key features
Provides free access to US English IPA symbols with an optional in-app purchase to unlock over 300 extension, obsolete, and non-standard symbols.
Offers five distinct layout options including QWERTY, AZERTY, Dvorak, Colemak, and a custom phonetic ordering based on the IPA chart.
Organizes characters by shape or sound and utilizes tabbed keyboards for diacritics, tones, and punctuation to streamline the typing experience.
Supports long-press gestures to reveal alternative symbols on keys, with an optional setting to hide these alternatives to reduce visual clutter.
How much does it cost?
Velocity
Maintenance developmentShow more...
5 versions in history. Development pace: maintenance.
Who built it?
Dawid Pietrala
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English Phonetic Keyboard with IPA symbolsUser Sentiment
What do users think recently?
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
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Competitive landscape for IPA Keyboard: IPA Alphabet
How's the Utilities market?
The rivals identified
By Reeba Sebastian
Both apps compete for mobile keyboard utility, targeting users who require specialized character sets beyond standard QWERTY layouts for language and phonetic transcription.
- Indic Keyboard provides predictive text and smart suggestions for 13 languages, while IPA Keyboard focuses on manual phonetic symbol entry.
- Indic Keyboard uses the default iOS keyboard theme for familiarity, whereas IPA Keyboard utilizes a custom material design interface.
- Indic Keyboard supports automatic English-to-Indic script conversion, a feature absent in the IPA Keyboard manual symbol selection model.
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Key takeaways for IPA Keyboard: IPA Alphabet
Where is it heading?
Bottom line
This app serves as a dedicated tool for phonetic typing, balancing a free core feature set with an expandable library of specialized symbols.
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