Pilcrow is a keyboard for iPhone and iPad that reads the whole sentence, fixes what you meant and leaves alone what you actually wrote. Forty languages, on the layout your fingers already know.
< 8 in 1,000correctly spelled words changed, in its worst language
Free for three days from your first word. No card, no account.
Can’t wait to see you tonight
Six things it does while you type, played on the keyboard’s own layout. Every result is one the real keyboard writes.
Lumi says yes, see you tomorrow
Kept “Lumi”, fixed “tomorow”. A name it has never seen stays as you wrote it, and a slip doesn’t. Undo a fix once and it never tries it on that word again.
Correctly spelled words changed: fewer than 8 in 1,000, in the worst of its forty languages.
sorry I’m running late will be there in ten mins
Typed in a hurry? The wand weighs every word against the sentence and fixes them all at once. One more tap puts them all back.
Words typed with a genuine slip that come back right: 50–83 %.
Now it takes some time. Can we improve something?
Missed the space bar? It works out where the words end from the sentence, not from one key: here an n and two full stops become spaces.
Time per keystroke on the phone: about 1 ms, so it never lags behind your thumbs.
Please don’t worry
Draw the word and lift. The apostrophe comes with it, and no key was pressed for it. Keep going through the space bar and one gesture writes the next word too.
Swipe works in every language it ships.
Lumi says thanks!
A name from a few lines up comes back after two letters. It keeps your word the second time you write it, and every word it keeps is a line you can delete.
Keystrokes saved by predictions: 35–53 %, depending on the language, before it has learned anything about you.
Eight finished looks, each with a light and a dark form, your own photo behind the keys or inside them, and the letters in any of 23 fonts or 17 styles.
What you type stays plain text, so corrections keep working.
Maya
Is Lumi coming tomorrow?
Lumi says yes, see you tomorrow
The Pilcrow keyboard, drawn to its own measurements.
It keeps Apple’s layout and feel, and changes the parts of typing people complain about.
Undo a correction once, with backspace or the undo chip, and it is never applied to that word again. Not just for this message: for good.
When it does correct, the word you actually typed stays in the suggestion bar, one tap away. Names you type every day stay names, because your contacts are consulted on the phone and copied nowhere.
Enable both. It tells them apart word by word, so there’s no globe key mid-sentence, and each one types on the layout your fingers already know. Forty languages so far.
Skipped an accent? It puts it back 73–96 % of the time, depending on the language, and where both spellings are real words, the words around it decide.
It keeps only what you write, and only on this phone. This is when something becomes a thing it remembers:
Each one is a line you can open from the keyboard itself, and delete, block or edit. Apple’s keyboard gives you one button: erase everything.
The keyboard has no networking code at all, so there’s nothing to switch off and nothing to take on trust. No account, no cloud, no analytics, no ads.
Only the app goes online: to download languages, check for a newer version, verify a purchase, and send feedback you write yourself.
iOS shows every third-party keyboard the same Full Access warning. For Pilcrow the switch adds haptics, the clipboard and the word list in the app; corrections, predictions, learning and every language work with it off. What Full Access means.
Eight finished looks, each with a light and a dark form. Or your own photo behind the keys or inside them, and the letters in any of 23 fonts or 17 styles.
What you type stays plain text, so corrections keep working. How themes work.
Every figure comes from replaying held-out text through the shipped keyboard, one language at a time. Where languages differ you get the whole range, worst end first.
The first four run from the worst language to the best, measured with every feature on, on text the keyboard never saw while it was built. The last two are measured on the keyboard itself, the same in every language.
Everything is on for three days from your first word. No card, no account.
Then buy it once, or monthly if you’d rather. The App Store shows the price in your currency, and nothing charges at the end of the free days.
If you don’t buy, it keeps typing, with gentle corrections in your main language. Predictions, swipe, learning and most themes wait for the unlock, and nothing it learned is deleted.
Pilcrow: Spell Check Keyboard
For iPhone and iPad, iOS 17 or later
Download on theApp StoreFree for three days from your first word
No. The keyboard has no networking code at all, so there’s nothing to switch off and nothing to take on trust. No account, no cloud, no analytics, no ads. Only the app goes online: to download languages, check for a newer version, verify a purchase, and send feedback you write yourself.
Nothing for three days from your first word, with everything on. No card, no account. Then buy it once, or monthly if you’d rather. The App Store shows the price in your currency, and nothing charges at the end of the free days.
iOS always uses its own keyboard in password and phone-number fields, and some apps allow only Apple’s. The Pilcrow app has a page that lists every case and how to switch back. The full list.
Yes: behind the keys, inside each key, or under frosted-glass keys. You pick it with the system photo picker, and it never leaves your phone. Keyboard colours on iPhone.
Styled typing writes Unicode characters, so they show up in any app that shows text. It’s off unless you turn it on, and corrections, suggestions, learning and swipe pause while it is. Screen readers may read styled letters oddly, so keep plain text for anything important. How they work.
It consults them so a name you type every day stops being corrected into something else. Nothing is copied anywhere, and the keyboard couldn’t send it if it tried.
Small language models that run on your phone: one predicts the next word, others decide what to correct. Nothing is sent away to be guessed at, and they answer in about a millisecond.
Yes, on iOS and iPadOS 17 or later, including a split layout on iPad that puts every letter within reach of a thumb. On iPhone Duo it draws the keyboard Apple’s draws in each pose: closed, open, and split for two thumbs when open sideways. Pilcrow on iPhone Duo, in pictures.
The pilcrow, ¶, is the mark that has stood for a paragraph since the Middle Ages. It’s a character you type, and it’s about writing. That seemed right.
Free for three days from your first word. No card, no account.
Download on theApp Store
