Ezhuthola: Malayalam Keyboard

Type Malayalam the way you text: in Manglish. Type ente keralam and get എന്റെ കേരളം.

Ezhuthola (എഴുത്തോല, the palm-leaf manuscript) is a free, open-source Malayalam keyboard. It asks for no permissions at all, not even internet, so nothing you type ever leaves your phone. No ads, no accounts, no tracking.

Malayalam (Manglish)

• Type in English letters and get Malayalam: njan → ഞാൻ, adipoli → അടിപൊളി
• Its own transliteration engine, written from scratch
• Word suggestions ranked by how often Malayalam words are really used
• Word forms with endings: keralathil → കേരളത്തിൽ
• Learns your words: the spellings you pick come first next time
• English words in Malayalam mode are written the Malayali way: four → ഫോർ, station → സ്റ്റേഷൻ

English

• Word suggestions and completion
• Autocorrect, with backspace to undo it
• Knows chat words like bro, tbh and ngl, and leaves your Manglish alone
• A Missing words list in settings shows words it doesn't know yet, so you can add them

Stickers

• Make your own from a photo: trace, magic wand, eraser and shapes, with a white border
• Or big Malayalam text stickers in four Malayalam fonts
• Add stickers you already have: pictures, or .wastickers packs
• Sent as real stickers in WhatsApp, made and kept on your phone

Everything else

• One tap on the yellow ola key switches between Malayalam and English
• Emoji search in English, Manglish and Malayalam: love, chiri, sneham, ചിരി
• Clipboard history: tap to paste, hold to pin. Passwords and OTPs are never saved
• Themes: Numio, Black & White, Light, Blue Night, or your own photo
• Number hints on the top row, ₹ on both symbol pages

Word data: FrequencyWords by Hermit Dave (CC BY-SA 4.0), based on OpenSubtitles. Emoji names and keywords: Unicode CLDR and Unicode Emoji data (Unicode License v3). English pronunciations: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD). Sticker fonts: Baloo Chettan 2, Manjari, Gayathri and Chilanka (SIL Open Font License).

Part of Numio, small honest apps made by a Keralite: https://getnumio.org

- Keyboard height setting
- Slide on space to move the cursor
- Slide left from backspace to delete words
- Hold a letter for accents, including Spanish ñ ¿ ¡
- Font styles (Bold, Script, Tiny and more), can be turned off
- Decoration symbols page (✿ on the symbols keys)
- Row of recent emojis, can be turned off
- Leaf key turns a typed English word into Malayalam
- Copied text chip hides after pasting