One shape.
More possibilities.
Related letters share a key. Twelve fewer keys make room for a cleaner Arabic typing experience.
The richness of a language.
The simplicity of fewer keys.
An open-source keyboard that blends the beauty of Arabic script with the possibilities of machine learning.
One form. More possibilities.
Arabic letters share something beautiful: a handful of flowing shapes. Dots tell many of those letters apart. But what if your keyboard could understand the difference?
Dotless takes inspiration from older, undotted Arabic writing and brings related letters together on a single key.
Dotless is currently testing traditional statistical n-gram models alongside more advanced neural models to restore letters using context.
Read the storyRelated letters share a key. Twelve fewer keys make room for a cleaner Arabic typing experience.
The iOS app keeps typing habits and personal dictionary data on your phone. Your words belong with you.
Read our privacy policy ↗Arabic is the beginning. We plan to extend support to other languages that share the script, including Farsi, Urdu, Kurdish, Uyghur, and more, In Shaa Allah!
On the horizonIt started with a thought: the ancient Arabs had no need for diacritic marks or dots to decipher the meanings of words, but later generations did.
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