A NEW CHAPTER FOR ARABIC TYPING

Arabic,
reimagined.

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.

Explore the letter families
DOTLESS IN ACTION

See it in motion.

Open source iOS Alpha
A FAMILIAR SHAPE. A NEW PERSPECTIVE.

One form. More possibilities.

Rooted in history. Built for what’s next.
12fewer keys.
A little breathing room.
Context-aware.
Thoughtfully simple.
Open by design.
Made to be explored.
A familiar script.
A fresh perspective. ↓
01 / THE IDEA

Arabic typing,
with fewer keys.

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.

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18 BASE CHARACTERS02 / 18
ENTERED BASEٮCOMPATIBLE RESTORED LETTERSب ت ث
02 / THE FEATURES

What Dotless
offers.

SIMPLER BY NATURE

One shape.
More possibilities.

Related letters share a key. Twelve fewer keys make room for a cleaner Arabic typing experience.

PRIVACY, IN PRINCIPLE

Your words
stay yours.

The iOS app keeps typing habits and personal dictionary data on your phone. Your words belong with you.

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AN OPEN HORIZON

One idea.
Many languages.

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 horizon
03 / CONTRIBUTORS

The people
behind Dotless.

It 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.

01

Ammar Elbasheer

02

Awwab Ali Azam

03

Awwab Ahmed

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