Keyman Alternatives

Keyman is described as 'With keyboards for over 2000 languages, Keyman lets you type in your language anywhere. You can create your own keyboards with Keyman Developer. Keyman is completely free and open source, and runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS and web' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are four alternatives to Keyman for Windows and Android. The best Keyman alternative is Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator, which is free. Other great apps like Keyman are PolyglotKeyboard, Uosk and Sinhala Keyhelp.

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    Offers tools for building custom keyboard layouts, editing existing setups, and supporting multilingual input locales. Compatible with Windows 2000 to Windows 7, including 64-bit platforms, and enables packaging for easy installation on multiple machines.

    16 Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator is the most popular Windows alternative to Keyman.

    • Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator is the most popular free alternative to Keyman.

    • Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator is Free and ProprietaryKeyman is Free and Open Source
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    A PC and Android application allowing to type characters not found on ordinary keyboards. Focused mainly on African languages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
     
    • PolyglotKeyboard is the most popular Android alternative to Keyman.

    • PolyglotKeyboard is Free and ProprietaryKeyman is Free and Open Source
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    Uosk is a light tool that opens any ASCII, ANSI, UTF-8 and UTF-16 text file and converts words (e.g. separated by spaces) into buttons. Clicking one button the text snippet is pasted into any text editor (Notepad, WordPad, MS Office, OpenOffice...).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Uosk is the most popular Open Source alternative to Keyman.

    • Uosk is Free and Open SourceKeyman is also Free and Open Source
    • Uosk is LightweightKeyman is not according to our users
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    Sinhala KeyHelp runs in the background and handles modifiers (pillam) according to the characters as you type to give you a smooth writing experience. Sinhala KeyHelp works on any application such as Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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