About Scribe - Language Keyboards
Scribe is a pack of iOS and iPadOS keyboards for language learners! It provides features to help users remember grammar rules so they can effectively communicate without ever leaving their keyboard. Included Languages:...
Scribe is a pack of iOS and iPadOS keyboards for language learners! It provides features to help users remember grammar rules so they can effectively communicate without ever leaving their keyboard. Included Languages: French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. Current Features: - The Translate feature can translate single words or phrases from English into the language of the current keyboard. - With the Conjugate feature, a user is presented with the grammar charts for an entered verb instead of the keyboard. Pressing an example in the charts inserts the chosen conjugation into the text field. - The Plural feature allows a user to enter a noun and then insert its plural into the text field. - Scribe further annotates noun genders and preposition cases in the command bar to help users understand the context of what they're typing. Annotations are displayed once a user has typed a given word and pressed space, by pressing the Scribe key while a word is selected as well as under autocompletions and autosuggestions. - For languages with pronoun declension, Scribe also allows for the case annotation to be clicked and then the user can select the pronoun they want based on case, subject and object. Being fully open-source including data from Wikidata, the Scribe team loves to get both feedback and contributions. Please visit us at https://github.com/scribe-org/Scribe-iOS!
Version History Thanks for using Scribe! We update the app regularly to add new keyboards, features and language data. This version includes: New Features - A warning is added to trying to change the app localization if the user only has one language installed on their device (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#481). Localization - Localization strings for English, German, Swedish and Spanish have been added for all remaining app texts (github.com:scribe-org/Scribe-i18n#28). 3.1.1 08/02/2024 Thanks for using Scribe! We update the app regularly to add new keyboards, features and language data. This version includes: New Features - The About tab now includes a link to Scribe's Mastodon account (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#474). Data Added - French: 38 nouns, 1 verb - German: 75 nouns, 3 verbs - Italian: 719 nouns, 5 verbs - Portuguese: 13 nouns, 1 verb - Spanish: 1,299 nouns, 26 verbs - Swedish: 32 nouns, 4 verbs Design Changes - The top right corner of the keyboard installation directions now blinks when the view is clicked on (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#461). - The app hints now appear and disappear with a transition (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#462). - The Installation tab texts were made larger on certain devices to improve readability (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#466). - The reset app hints option in the About tab has an icon so that all menu options now have one (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#475). Localization - The Scribe-i18n (https://github.com/scribe-org/Scribe-i18n) localization process has been fully integrated into the Scribe-iOS workflow. - All strings for the application have been converted over to localizable strings. - Localization is version controlled via Weblate (https://weblate.org) and new texts are added to Scribe-iOS via Git subtrees. - The new menu of the Scribe application has been localized into German, Swedish and Spanish (github:scribe-org/Scribe-i18n#11, github:scribe-org/Scribe-i18n#13). Bug Fixes - The user will no longer click a menu option beneath an app hint as the hints will disappear on scroll (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#465). - The installation app hints tooltip's vertical location is programmatically determined based on if the device has a home button or not (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#467). - Keyboard layouts have been fixed for when the user has disabled accent characters (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#463). - The disable accent characters option has been removed on iPads and will no longer crashes the app settings (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#477). 3.1.0 07/31/2024 Thanks for using Scribe! We update the app regularly to add new keyboards, features and language data. This version includes: New Features - Adds a new menu to the Scribe app allowing users to set their preferences for their respective language keyboards (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#16)! - Users now have easy access to the Scribe GitHub, the Matrix community, rating the app, sending bug reports and emailing the team. - Settings options include: - Allowing the user to add a comma and period to the letter keys (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#196). - Allowing the user to disable emoji autosuggestions and autocompletions (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#310, github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#311). - Allowing the user to disable accented characters on the letter keys (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#339, github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#372). - Menu screens can be swiped between via an implementation using SwipeableTabBarController. - Menu options have descriptions of their functionality listed beneath them (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#330, github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#372). - German indefinite pronouns are now selectable from the case-declension display (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#303). - German imperfect verb conjugations now insert both the auxiliary verb and the past participle with the cursor between them. - Tab and caps lock keys and their functionalities have been added to expanded iPad layouts (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#371). - Users can now swipe between the conjugation and declension views (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#361). - Autocomplete on space when the word is the last one available in the autocompletion lexicon has been disabled (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#305, reverts github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#256). - Missing verb conjugations can be clicked to show information about Wikidata and its relationship to Scribe (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#400). - The user is receives hints about the installation, settings and about tabs when visiting them for the first time (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#329). Data Added - French: 972 nouns, 2 verbs - German: 91,854 nouns, 41 verbs, 5 prepositions - Italian: 50,520 nouns, 7,576 verbs - Portuguese: 2 verbs - Russian: 119 nouns, 3 verbs - Spanish: 22,545 nouns, 2,982 verbs - Swedish: 1,748 nouns, 177 verbs Design Changes - iPad keyboards are now more reflective of their system keyboard counterparts for devices above a certain width (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#33, github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#352). - Vertical spacing between keys on iPads has been decreased so that keys are more square and thus more in line with system keyboards. - The border was removed from the Scribe key and command bar so that now only the shadow delineates them (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#423). - The command bar in dark mode is now the same color as the special keys, and minor adjustments to the keyboard colors have been made to account for this (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#441). - In dark mode the icons and buttons are now the CTA orange color text over the same color with a high transparency (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#441). Bug Fixes - The transition from between portrait and landscape mode was dramatically improved (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#25). - Annotations under autosuggestions and autocompletions are no longer distorted during an orientation transition (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#396). - Bugs were fixed that were causing autocompletions to trigger too regularly (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#305). - Fixes a bug where the names from the UI lexicon were not being loaded into the keyboards (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#292, fixes github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#201). 3.0.0 06/16/2024 Scribe is updated regularly to add keyboards, features and language data. This version includes: New Features - Noun genders are now displayed to the user under autosuggestions and autocompletions. - The word that the user is typing is available as an autocompletion in cases where pressing space will insert an autocompletion. - Auto completion and suggestion buttons are deactivated if there is no word being displayed. - Autosuggestions and emoji suggestions are now updated when a user checks the annotation of a word by pressing the Scribe key. - The capitalization of autosuggestions is maintained if the word is capitalized to assure that capitalized nouns are presented properly. Data Added - French: 2 nouns - German: 44 nouns, 1 verb, 20 prepositions - Italian: 2 nouns - Spanish: 350 nouns, 102 verbs - Swedish: 635 nouns, 27 verbs Design Changes - The app text area was made larger and the app text size was increased. - The steps to install the keyboard are no longer underlined to increase readability. Bug Fixes - Fixed a bug where the word "Scribe" was not being added into the nouns by shifting this to Scribe-Data. - Fixed a bug where German contracted prepositions were not being added by shifting this to Scribe-Data. 2.3.0 04/30/2023 Scribe is updated regularly to add keyboards, features and language data. This version includes: New Features - Emoji autocompletions and autosuggestions are now available as the user types. - There are a maximum of two emojis available to select on iPhones and three on iPads. - The user can also repeat emoji autocompletions and autosuggestions. - Emoji autocomplete and autosuggest keywords have also been added as possible autocompletion words. - Added an action to command bar information icon to explain Wikidata and Scribe's relation to it. - Added highlight for autocompletion if it is the word typed. - If a word is the only autosuggestion, hitting the space bar inserts the suggestion. - An undo option is included within autosuggestions if the user does not want the space completion. - Added Demonstrative pronouns to German preposition declension tables. - Added contracted preposition annotation to the German keyboard. - Pressing dash twice now inserts an em dash in the text proxy. Data Added - French: 255 nouns, 1,122 verbs - German: 73,517 nouns, 35 verbs, 3 prepositions - Italian: 23 nouns - Portuguese: 246 nouns, 41 verbs - Russian: 29 nouns, 1 verb, 2 prepositions - Spanish: 11,627 nouns, 792 verbs - Swedish: 1,817 nouns, 80 verbs Design Changes - The Scribe application receives dark mode in this version. - The app icon has been made more modern and glossy and the direct shadow has been removed. - Minor adjustments to the original app screen texts and colors have been made. - The resolution of the Scribe key has been improved. - Scribe blue for dark mode has been made darker to fit the keyboard better. - The app icon, app screen background, and other branding elements have been changed to reflect the change in the dark version of Scribe blue. - The App Store pictures have been updated with a new color scheme to reflect the new dark Scribe blue. - The menu options within the app installation steps have been bolded and underlined. - The return button for the keyboard changes color to blue whenever search is being used in a web browser. - The select keyboard button has been moved to the bottom left most position on iPads. - The gear icon in the top left of the keyboard installation steps is now a more simple version. - iPad application texts were made slightly larger. - Images and videos for 6.7 inch iPhones have been added to the App Store. Localization - The Scribe app has been localized into German for users that have it as their system language. Bug Fixes - Fixed a bug where the keyboard's space bar text would change size while it was showing the language of the keyboard. - Fixed a bug where the colors of Swedish and Russian nouns weren't being displayed because of checking original values rather than their localized equivalents. - Fixed a bug where autocomplete options that should have been upper case would only be capitalized in cases where the prefix was itself upper case. Legal - A German version of the privacy policy was added. - All versions of the privacy policy now note that the English version takes precedence over all others. - The text of the privacy policy was updated slightly for readability. - Information about data from Unicode CLDR for emoji suggestions and completions was added to the privacy policy. 2.2.0 04/19/2023 New Keyboards - Adds a QWERTY keyboard option for French. New Features - The left and right buttons in the conjugation and declination views are disabled now if pressing them will not lead to a change in the view. - Autosuggestions for pronouns have been improved for German, French and Spanish. - The keyboards shift state is disabled by pressing an autocompletion or autosuggestion. - Autocomplete now functions after quotes, slashes and hashtags. - Scribe can now access unordered names in the user's contacts to present them as autocompletions. - The delete button now speeds up as the user holds it. - Typing a period, comma, question mark or exclamation point now removes a space before them if there is one. Data Added Thousands of new French verb conjugations have been added! - French: 134 nouns, 3905 verbs - German: 42 nouns, 15 verbs - Italian: 247 nouns - Portuguese: 15 nouns - Russian: 11 nouns - Spanish: 2472 nouns, 244 verbs - Swedish: 89 nouns Design Changes - The labels for conjugations and declinations have been made darker in dark mode to be more readable. - French keyboards are now named based on their keyboard style. - Keyboards will now display the language followed by "(Scribe)" for a second before showing the language's word for space, similar to the system keyboards. Bug Fixes - The accent character on the French letters keyboard is now the correct character. - Indentation has been removed from all Scribe JSON files to reduce their file size, speed up the load times and mitigate crashes. 2.1.0 11/06/2022 New Features: - Scribe now includes a baseline Wikidata and Wikipedia based autocomplete feature. - Suggestions include the next possible noun as well as the most common words in the keyboard language. - Scribe now includes a baseline autosuggest feature that suggests words derived from Wikipedia that most often follow a given word. - Preposition annotations can now be clicked to display a case pronoun display from which pronouns can be selected. - Users are able to select from the display based on subjects and objects to exactly specify which pronoun they need. Data Added: - French: 307 nouns, 39 verbs - German: 282 nouns, 73 verbs - Italian: 4,236 nouns - Portuguese: 64 nouns - Russian: 7 nouns, 1 preposition - Spanish: 1,387 nouns, 9 verbs - Swedish: 702 nouns, 120 verbs Design Changes: - Noun and preposition annotation has been updated to not show the word being annotated. - This saves space above the keyboard for autocomplete and autosuggest. - The annotation colors have been changed to match the new backgrounds. - The delete key features a pressed state style similar to the native keyboard. - New layouts for pronoun declination have been added to the keyboards. - The message indicating that the word isn't in Wikidata now comes with an information icon (action pending). - The App Store images have been updated to reflect the new Wikipedia based autosuggest. - The App Store videos have been updated to reflect the changes for the new version. - iPhone 6.7" images and videos have been added to the App Store. - Other minor changes to images for the App Store. Localization: - Russian keyboard command names and messages were corrected. Legal: - The privacy policy was updated to add information about the Wikipedia text data terms of use. 2.0.0 10/10/2022 Scribe is updated regularly to add keyboards, features and language data. This version includes: New Features - Commands now include a greyed out prompt that tells the user to enter a specific word type. - The return key now changes its icon during commands to make it more apparent as the execution input. - The link to GitHub in the app now goes to the iOS repo instead of the organization. Data Added - French: 141 nouns, 5 verbs - German: 203 nouns, 88 verbs - Italian: 3316 nouns - Portuguese: 3 nouns - Spanish: 2282 nouns, 66 verbs - Swedish: 14 nouns, 114 verbs Design Changes - The content for the App Store images has been centered more exactly. - The App Store images for translation have been changed to reflect the new enter key design. - Key pressed colors have been made darker to be more distinct from base key colors. 1.4.0 07/26/2022 Scribe is updated regularly to add keyboards, features and language data. This version includes: Data Added - French: 160 nouns, 5 verbs - German: 502 nouns, 57 verbs - Italian: 35 nouns - Portuguese: 51 nouns, 14 verbs - Russian: 2 nouns - Spanish: 793 nouns, 174 verbs - Swedish: 8 nouns Bug Fixes - Verb conjugation tables now always return to their base conjugation each time the command is used. Design Changes Scribe's second design sprint with Spencer Arney focussed on the App Store media: - The App Store images have been updated to be more professional and drive discovery. - Some App Store images have been replaced with ones that better show app features. - Section headers for App Store videos have been changed to match the new image style. 1.3.8 06/29/2022 Scribe is updated regularly to add keyboards, features and language data. This version includes: Data Added - French: 34 nouns - German: 56 nouns, 112 verbs - Italian: 24 nouns, 1 verb - Portuguese: 169 nouns, 290 verbs - Russian: 2 nouns - Spanish: 3216 nouns, 267 verbs - Swedish: 287 nouns, 13 verbs Design Changes - Minor update to the command bar border color. Legal - The privacy policy was updated to add the MIT licensed original source code. 1.3.7 05/24/2022 Scribe is updated regularly to add keyboards, features and language data. This version includes: Data Added - French: 220 nouns, 248 verbs - German: 45 nouns, 73 verbs - Italian: 4 nouns - Portuguese: 218 nouns, 1 verb - Spanish: 6650 nouns, 70 verbs - Swedish: 512 nouns, 9 verbs 1.3.6 05/04/2022 Scribe is updated regularly to add keyboards, features and language data. This version includes: Data Added - French: 31 nouns, 2 verbs - German: 53 nouns, 9 verbs - Italian: 1 noun, 1 verb - Portuguese: 9 nouns, 1 verb - Russian: 3 nouns - Spanish: 876 nouns, 1203 verbs - Swedish: 8 nouns, 1 verb Design Changes - Captions and text spacing for App Store images have been updated. - "Not in directory" messages have been changed to "Not in Wikidata" to further signal affiliation with the service. 1.3.5 04/09/2022 Scribe is updated regularly to add keyboards, features and language data. This version includes: Design Changes - Captions for App Store images have been updated. - The App Store description has been updated with a reference to Wikidata. - The open-source images in the App Store has been updated to reference open data and Wikidata. Legal - The privacy policy was updated to reflect the addition of the Wikidata logo into the app. 1.3.4 03/16/2022 Scribe is updated regularly to add keyboards, features and language data. This version includes: Data Added - French: 2 nouns - Portuguese: 2 nouns - Spanish: 3 nouns, 59 verbs Bug Fixes - Key long press for alternate characters has had cancellation removed to avoid buggy performance. 1.3.3 03/14/2022 Scribe is updated regularly to add keyboards, features and language data. This version includes: Data Added - French: 3 nouns - German: 28 nouns - Portuguese: 2 nouns - Spanish: 13 nouns, 66 verbs - Swedish: 1 noun Design Changes - Key alternate views appear more quickly. Bug Fixes - Key long press cancellation was switched from changed to cancel to avoid unnecessary cancels. 1.3.2 03/12/2022 Scribe is updated regularly to add keyboards, features and language data. This version includes: Data Added - French: 32 nouns, 5 verbs - German: 172 nouns, 4 verbs - Italian: 10 nouns, 1 verb - Portuguese: 43 nouns, 1 verb - Russian: 7 nouns - Spanish: 188 nouns, 1,825 verbs - Swedish: 6 nouns Bug Fixes - The alternate characters of apostrophes and quotation marks have been fixed. - Key alternate views now stay if the key is canceled as they were disappearing too easily. - The width of alternate character callouts for certain keys has been fixed for iPhones. 1.3.1 03/10/2022 Scribe is updated regularly to add keyboards, features and language data. This version includes: New Keyboards - Adds an Italian keyboard. Data Added - Italian: 773 nouns, 70 verbs Design Changes - The messages that tell the user a noun is already plural have been translated to the keyboard's language. - The keyboard height has been increased for landscape mode on iPads. - Characters on keys have been made larger so they reflect the system keyboards better. - All letter, number and special keys now pop up after being pressed. - Hold to select characters have been redesigned to reflect the addition of keys popping up. - All App Store media has been redone to reflect these changes. 1.3.0 03/02/2022 Scribe is updated regularly to add keyboards, features and language data. This version includes: Data Added - French: 30 nouns, 1 verb - German: 215 nouns - Portuguese: 66 nouns - Russian: 2 nouns - Spanish: 925 nouns, 19 verbs - Swedish: 10 nouns, 5 verbs New Features - The keyboard switches back to letter keys after all appropriate symbols followed by space. - Scribe commands now accept inputs that are followed by a space in case the user accidentally added one. - Users can now translate pronouns as these were not originally included. Design Changes - The app screen texts are given slightly more room to expand within their fields. - The App Store description has been simplified with bullet points. - The conjugate view right and left buttons have been made wider. Bug Fixes - The Scribe key now switches its icon color with the rest of the keyboard when the user changes color modes. - Annotations are no longer triggered if a user presses space during a command. 1.2.1 02/12/2022 Scribe's first design sprint with the help of Berlin's Spencer Arney! The entire layout of Scribe has been reworked to make the experience more aesthetically appealing while adding functionality through efficient design. We hope you like the result! New Features - Users can now get to Settings by clicking the installation steps in the app screen. - All keyboards now switch to an English keyboard for translation, with this being in preparation for when more languages can be translated from. Design Changes - The logo and icon for Scribe have been reworked to give the app a distinct style. - The app screen has been completely redone to be more appealing. - Keyboard layouts, colors and characters have been changed to match system keyboards. - Translation prompts were changed to be two digit abbreviations of source and target language. - Colors for noun annotation were updated to improve readability. - Noun annotation is now done with a square symbol to represent the gender. - Preposition annotation is now done with a rectangular symbol to represent the case. - Preposition case abbreviations have been changed to match the language of the keyboard. - All App Store media has been redone to reflect these changes. Bug Fixes - The keyboard colors should not switch randomly between light and dark mode now. - Removed an additional character from the Spanish iPad keyboard's special keys. Legal - The privacy policy was updated to reflect the addition of the GitHub, Inc icon into the app. 1.2.0 02/02/2022 Scribe is updated regularly to add new keyboards, features and language data. This version includes: Data Added - French: 11 nouns - German: 152 nouns, 1 verb, 1 preposition - Portuguese: 19 nouns - Spanish: 13 nouns, 6 verbs - Swedish: 68 nouns Design Changes - The text size for the preview bar in landscape mode for phones was made smaller. - The height of the keyboard in landscape mode for phones was made slightly smaller. Bug Fixes - The keyboard colors now update if the user switches between light and dark mode. - Auto-capitalization and switching to the letter keys weren't always triggered after a period. - Shifting orientation from portrait to landscape is now seamless, but landscape to portrait is still a WIP. 1.1.1 01/20/2022 Scribe is updated regularly to add new keyboards, data and features. This version includes: New Keyboards - Adds Russian, French, Portuguese and Swedish keyboards. Data Added - German (Additions): 401 nouns, 78 verbs, corrected many prepositions - French (New keyboard): 15,710 nouns, 1,241 verbs (mostly infinitives), 67,609 translations - Portuguese (New keyboard): 4,530 nouns, 188 verbs, 67,609 translations - Russian (New keyboard): 194,389 nouns, 11 verbs, 12 prepositions, 67,609 translations - Spanish (Additions): 180 nouns, 22 verbs - Swedish (New keyboard): 41,102 nouns, 4,133 verbs, 67,609 translations New Features - Hold-to-select functionality for symbol keys. Design Changes - Improves the display of the caps lock key by making its background the key pressed color. - Updates the App Store images and videos. - Scribe command titles are now in the keyboard language for a more immersive experience. - Translate for Russian switches to an English keyboard. Bug Fixes - German keyboards had the dollar sign shown on the number keys instead of the euro sign. - iPads had a semicolon key that also had apostrophes. - Hold-to-select keys wouldn't return to their original color. - The keyboard wouldn't always be letter keys when switched to. - The double space period shortcut wasn't possible after certain special characters and numbers. - More than one singular gender wasn't being assigned to German nouns in the formatting process. - Removes noun-gender annotation for given names to avoid misgendering people. - Users were not allowed to pass upper-case arguments to translate and conjugate. - The keyboard keys are capitalized if the user deletes at the start of the preview bar. 1.1.0 01/07/2022 -- Features -- Adds comma-space to letter keys functionality. Adds question mark and exclamation point followed by space to capital letter keys functionality. -- Design -- Fixes the display of the system header in the app when the user is in dark mode, as the white text was hard to read. Fixes the display of the scroll bar in the app when the user is in dark mode, as the white bar wasn't visually appealing. The keyboard has been made taller for iPhones to make the buttons larger vertically. More space has been added around the buttons to make them better resemble system keyboard spacing. -- Bug fixes -- Fixes an issue where the select keyboard button wouldn't be able to be long held after an initial button is pressed. Fixes an issue where canceling a command would cause the preview bar to read "Not in directory" on a subsequent command. Fixes an issue where the double space period shortcut is triggered without intent. 1.0.1 12/04/2021 1.0 11/30/2021
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Scribe - Language Keyboards since it was posted on our website on 2025-03-26 11:19:34.
The latest version is 3.1.1 and it was updated on 2026-06-24 10:57:05. See below the changes in each version.
Scribe - Language Keyboards version 3.1.1
Updated At: 2026-06-03
Changes: Version History Thanks for using Scribe! We update the app regularly to add new keyboards, features and language data.
This version includes:
New Features
- A warning is added to trying to change the app localization if the user only has one language installed on their device (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#481).
Localization
- Localization strings for English, German, Swedish and Spanish have been added for all remaining app texts (github.com:scribe-org/Scribe-i18n#28). 3.1.1 08/02/2024 Thanks for using Scribe! We update the app regularly to add new keyboards, features and language data.
This version includes:
New Features
- The About tab now includes a link to Scribe's Mastodon account (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#474).
Data Added
- French: 38 nouns, 1 verb
- German: 75 nouns, 3 verbs
- Italian: 719 nouns, 5 verbs
- Portuguese: 13 nouns, 1 verb
- Spanish: 1,299 nouns, 26 verbs
- Swedish: 32 nouns, 4 verbs
Design Changes
- The top right corner of the keyboard installation directions now blinks when the view is clicked on (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#461).
- The app hints now appear and disappear with a transition (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#462).
- The Installation tab texts were made larger on certain devices to improve readability (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#466).
- The reset app hints option in the About tab has an icon so that all menu options now have one (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#475).
Localization
- The Scribe-i18n (https://github.com/scribe-org/Scribe-i18n) localization process has been fully integrated into the Scribe-iOS workflow.
- All strings for the application have been converted over to localizable strings.
- Localization is version controlled via Weblate (https://weblate.org) and new texts are added to Scribe-iOS via Git subtrees.
- The new menu of the Scribe application has been localized into German, Swedish and Spanish (github:scribe-org/Scribe-i18n#11, github:scribe-org/Scribe-i18n#13).
Bug Fixes
- The user will no longer click a menu option beneath an app hint as the hints will disappear on scroll (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#465).
- The installation app hints tooltip's vertical location is programmatically determined based on if the device has a home button or not (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#467).
- Keyboard layouts have been fixed for when the user has disabled accent characters (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#463).
- The disable accent characters option has been removed on iPads and will no longer crashes the app settings (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#477). 3.1.0 07/31/2024 Thanks for using Scribe! We update the app regularly to add new keyboards, features and language data.
This version includes:
New Features
- Adds a new menu to the Scribe app allowing users to set their preferences for their respective language keyboards (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#16)!
- Users now have easy access to the Scribe GitHub, the Matrix community, rating the app, sending bug reports and emailing the team.
- Settings options include:
- Allowing the user to add a comma and period to the letter keys (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#196).
- Allowing the user to disable emoji autosuggestions and autocompletions (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#310, github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#311).
- Allowing the user to disable accented characters on the letter keys (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#339, github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#372).
- Menu screens can be swiped between via an implementation using SwipeableTabBarController.
- Menu options have descriptions of their functionality listed beneath them (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#330, github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#372).
- German indefinite pronouns are now selectable from the case-declension display (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#303).
- German imperfect verb conjugations now insert both the auxiliary verb and the past participle with the cursor between them.
- Tab and caps lock keys and their functionalities have been added to expanded iPad layouts (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#371).
- Users can now swipe between the conjugation and declension views (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#361).
- Autocomplete on space when the word is the last one available in the autocompletion lexicon has been disabled (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#305, reverts github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#256).
- Missing verb conjugations can be clicked to show information about Wikidata and its relationship to Scribe (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#400).
- The user is receives hints about the installation, settings and about tabs when visiting them for the first time (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#329).
Data Added
- French: 972 nouns, 2 verbs
- German: 91,854 nouns, 41 verbs, 5 prepositions
- Italian: 50,520 nouns, 7,576 verbs
- Portuguese: 2 verbs
- Russian: 119 nouns, 3 verbs
- Spanish: 22,545 nouns, 2,982 verbs
- Swedish: 1,748 nouns, 177 verbs
Design Changes
- iPad keyboards are now more reflective of their system keyboard counterparts for devices above a certain width (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#33, github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#352).
- Vertical spacing between keys on iPads has been decreased so that keys are more square and thus more in line with system keyboards.
- The border was removed from the Scribe key and command bar so that now only the shadow delineates them (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#423).
- The command bar in dark mode is now the same color as the special keys, and minor adjustments to the keyboard colors have been made to account for this (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#441).
- In dark mode the icons and buttons are now the CTA orange color text over the same color with a high transparency (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#441).
Bug Fixes
- The transition from between portrait and landscape mode was dramatically improved (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#25).
- Annotations under autosuggestions and autocompletions are no longer distorted during an orientation transition (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#396).
- Bugs were fixed that were causing autocompletions to trigger too regularly (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#305).
- Fixes a bug where the names from the UI lexicon were not being loaded into the keyboards (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#292, fixes github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#201). 3.0.0 06/16/2024 Scribe is updated regularly to add keyboards, features and language data.
This version includes:
New Features
- Noun genders are now displayed to the user under autosuggestions and autocompletions.
- The word that the user is typing is available as an autocompletion in cases where pressing space will insert an autocompletion.
- Auto completion and suggestion buttons are deactivated if there is no word being displayed.
- Autosuggestions and emoji suggestions are now updated when a user checks the annotation of a word by pressing the Scribe key.
- The capitalization of autosuggestions is maintained if the word is capitalized to assure that capitalized nouns are presented properly.
Data Added
- French: 2 nouns
- German: 44 nouns, 1 verb, 20 prepositions
- Italian: 2 nouns
- Spanish: 350 nouns, 102 verbs
- Swedish: 635 nouns, 27 verbs
Design Changes
- The app text area was made larger and the app text size was increased.
- The steps to install the keyboard are no longer underlined to increase readability.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug where the word "Scribe" was not being added into the nouns by shifting this to Scribe-Data.
- Fixed a bug where German contracted prepositions were not being added by shifting this to Scribe-Data. 2.3.0 04/30/2023 Scribe is updated regularly to add keyboards, features and language data.
This version includes:
New Features
- Emoji autocompletions and autosuggestions are now available as the user types.
- There are a maximum of two emojis available to select on iPhones and three on iPads.
- The user can also repeat emoji autocompletions and autosuggestions.
- Emoji autocomplete and autosuggest keywords have also been added as possible autocompletion words.
- Added an action to command bar information icon to explain Wikidata and Scribe's relation to it.
- Added highlight for autocompletion if it is the word typed.
- If a word is the only autosuggestion, hitting the space bar inserts the suggestion.
- An undo option is included within autosuggestions if the user does not want the space completion.
- Added Demonstrative pronouns to German preposition declension tables.
- Added contracted preposition annotation to the German keyboard.
- Pressing dash twice now inserts an em dash in the text proxy.
Data Added
- French: 255 nouns, 1,122 verbs
- German: 73,517 nouns, 35 verbs, 3 prepositions
- Italian: 23 nouns
- Portuguese: 246 nouns, 41 verbs
- Russian: 29 nouns, 1 verb, 2 prepositions
- Spanish: 11,627 nouns, 792 verbs
- Swedish: 1,817 nouns, 80 verbs
Design Changes
- The Scribe application receives dark mode in this version.
- The app icon has been made more modern and glossy and the direct shadow has been removed.
- Minor adjustments to the original app screen texts and colors have been made.
- The resolution of the Scribe key has been improved.
- Scribe blue for dark mode has been made darker to fit the keyboard better.
- The app icon, app screen background, and other branding elements have been changed to reflect the change in the dark version of Scribe blue.
- The App Store pictures have been updated with a new color scheme to reflect the new dark Scribe blue.
- The menu options within the app installation steps have been bolded and underlined.
- The return button for the keyboard changes color to blue whenever search is being used in a web browser.
- The select keyboard button has been moved to the bottom left most position on iPads.
- The gear icon in the top left of the keyboard installation steps is now a more simple version.
- iPad application texts were made slightly larger.
- Images and videos for 6.7 inch iPhones have been added to the App Store.
Localization
- The Scribe app has been localized into German for users that have it as their system language.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug where the keyboard's space bar text would change size while it was showing the language of the keyboard.
- Fixed a bug where the colors of Swedish and Russian nouns weren't being displayed because of checking original values rather than their localized equivalents.
- Fixed a bug where autocomplete options that should have been upper case would only be capitalized in cases where the prefix was itself upper case.
Legal
- A German version of the privacy policy was added.
- All versions of the privacy policy now note that the English version takes precedence over all others.
- The text of the privacy policy was updated slightly for readability.
- Information about data from Unicode CLDR for emoji suggestions and completions was added to the privacy policy. 2.2.0 04/19/2023 New Keyboards
- Adds a QWERTY keyboard option for French.
New Features
- The left and right buttons in the conjugation and declination views are disabled now if pressing them will not lead to a change in the view.
- Autosuggestions for pronouns have been improved for German, French and Spanish.
- The keyboards shift state is disabled by pressing an autocompletion or autosuggestion.
- Autocomplete now functions after quotes, slashes and hashtags.
- Scribe can now access unordered names in the user's contacts to present them as autocompletions.
- The delete button now speeds up as the user holds it.
- Typing a period, comma, question mark or exclamation point now removes a space before them if there is one.
Data Added
Thousands of new French verb conjugations have been added!
- French: 134 nouns, 3905 verbs
- German: 42 nouns, 15 verbs
- Italian: 247 nouns
- Portuguese: 15 nouns
- Russian: 11 nouns
- Spanish: 2472 nouns, 244 verbs
- Swedish: 89 nouns
Design Changes
- The labels for conjugations and declinations have been made darker in dark mode to be more readable.
- French keyboards are now named based on their keyboard style.
- Keyboards will now display the language followed by "(Scribe)" for a second before showing the language's word for space, similar to the system keyboards.
Bug Fixes
- The accent character on the French letters keyboard is now the correct character.
- Indentation has been removed from all Scribe JSON files to reduce their file size, speed up the load times and mitigate crashes. 2.1.0 11/06/2022 New Features:
- Scribe now includes a baseline Wikidata and Wikipedia based autocomplete feature.
- Suggestions include the next possible noun as well as the most common words in the keyboard language.
- Scribe now includes a baseline autosuggest feature that suggests words derived from Wikipedia that most often follow a given word.
- Preposition annotations can now be clicked to display a case pronoun display from which pronouns can be selected.
- Users are able to select from the display based on subjects and objects to exactly specify which pronoun they need.
Data Added:
- French: 307 nouns, 39 verbs
- German: 282 nouns, 73 verbs
- Italian: 4,236 nouns
- Portuguese: 64 nouns
- Russian: 7 nouns, 1 preposition
- Spanish: 1,387 nouns, 9 verbs
- Swedish: 702 nouns, 120 verbs
Design Changes:
- Noun and preposition annotation has been updated to not show the word being annotated.
- This saves space above the keyboard for autocomplete and autosuggest.
- The annotation colors have been changed to match the new backgrounds.
- The delete key features a pressed state style similar to the native keyboard.
- New layouts for pronoun declination have been added to the keyboards.
- The message indicating that the word isn't in Wikidata now comes with an information icon (action pending).
- The App Store images have been updated to reflect the new Wikipedia based autosuggest.
- The App Store videos have been updated to reflect the changes for the new version.
- iPhone 6.7" images and videos have been added to the App Store.
- Other minor changes to images for the App Store.
Localization:
- Russian keyboard command names and messages were corrected.
Legal:
- The privacy policy was updated to add information about the Wikipedia text data terms of use. 2.0.0 10/10/2022 Scribe is updated regularly to add keyboards, features and language data.
This version includes:
New Features
- Commands now include a greyed out prompt that tells the user to enter a specific word type.
- The return key now changes its icon during commands to make it more apparent as the execution input.
- The link to GitHub in the app now goes to the iOS repo instead of the organization.
Data Added
- French: 141 nouns, 5 verbs
- German: 203 nouns, 88 verbs
- Italian: 3316 nouns
- Portuguese: 3 nouns
- Spanish: 2282 nouns, 66 verbs
- Swedish: 14 nouns, 114 verbs
Design Changes
- The content for the App Store images has been centered more exactly.
- The App Store images for translation have been changed to reflect the new enter key design.
- Key pressed colors have been made darker to be more distinct from base key colors. 1.4.0 07/26/2022 Scribe is updated regularly to add keyboards, features and language data.
This version includes:
Data Added
- French: 160 nouns, 5 verbs
- German: 502 nouns, 57 verbs
- Italian: 35 nouns
- Portuguese: 51 nouns, 14 verbs
- Russian: 2 nouns
- Spanish: 793 nouns, 174 verbs
- Swedish: 8 nouns
Bug Fixes
- Verb conjugation tables now always return to their base conjugation each time the command is used.
Design Changes
Scribe's second design sprint with Spencer Arney focussed on the App Store media:
- The App Store images have been updated to be more professional and drive discovery.
- Some App Store images have been replaced with ones that better show app features.
- Section headers for App Store videos have been changed to match the new image style. 1.3.8 06/29/2022 Scribe is updated regularly to add keyboards, features and language data.
This version includes:
Data Added
- French: 34 nouns
- German: 56 nouns, 112 verbs
- Italian: 24 nouns, 1 verb
- Portuguese: 169 nouns, 290 verbs
- Russian: 2 nouns
- Spanish: 3216 nouns, 267 verbs
- Swedish: 287 nouns, 13 verbs
Design Changes
- Minor update to the command bar border color.
Legal
- The privacy policy was updated to add the MIT licensed original source code. 1.3.7 05/24/2022 Scribe is updated regularly to add keyboards, features and language data.
This version includes:
Data Added
- French: 220 nouns, 248 verbs
- German: 45 nouns, 73 verbs
- Italian: 4 nouns
- Portuguese: 218 nouns, 1 verb
- Spanish: 6650 nouns, 70 verbs
- Swedish: 512 nouns, 9 verbs 1.3.6 05/04/2022 Scribe is updated regularly to add keyboards, features and language data.
This version includes:
Data Added
- French: 31 nouns, 2 verbs
- German: 53 nouns, 9 verbs
- Italian: 1 noun, 1 verb
- Portuguese: 9 nouns, 1 verb
- Russian: 3 nouns
- Spanish: 876 nouns, 1203 verbs
- Swedish: 8 nouns, 1 verb
Design Changes
- Captions and text spacing for App Store images have been updated.
- "Not in directory" messages have been changed to "Not in Wikidata" to further signal affiliation with the service. 1.3.5 04/09/2022 Scribe is updated regularly to add keyboards, features and language data.
This version includes:
Design Changes
- Captions for App Store images have been updated.
- The App Store description has been updated with a reference to Wikidata.
- The open-source images in the App Store has been updated to reference open data and Wikidata.
Legal
- The privacy policy was updated to reflect the addition of the Wikidata logo into the app. 1.3.4 03/16/2022 Scribe is updated regularly to add keyboards, features and language data.
This version includes:
Data Added
- French: 2 nouns
- Portuguese: 2 nouns
- Spanish: 3 nouns, 59 verbs
Bug Fixes
- Key long press for alternate characters has had cancellation removed to avoid buggy performance. 1.3.3 03/14/2022 Scribe is updated regularly to add keyboards, features and language data.
This version includes:
Data Added
- French: 3 nouns
- German: 28 nouns
- Portuguese: 2 nouns
- Spanish: 13 nouns, 66 verbs
- Swedish: 1 noun
Design Changes
- Key alternate views appear more quickly.
Bug Fixes
- Key long press cancellation was switched from changed to cancel to avoid unnecessary cancels. 1.3.2 03/12/2022 Scribe is updated regularly to add keyboards, features and language data.
This version includes:
Data Added
- French: 32 nouns, 5 verbs
- German: 172 nouns, 4 verbs
- Italian: 10 nouns, 1 verb
- Portuguese: 43 nouns, 1 verb
- Russian: 7 nouns
- Spanish: 188 nouns, 1,825 verbs
- Swedish: 6 nouns
Bug Fixes
- The alternate characters of apostrophes and quotation marks have been fixed.
- Key alternate views now stay if the key is canceled as they were disappearing too easily.
- The width of alternate character callouts for certain keys has been fixed for iPhones. 1.3.1 03/10/2022 Scribe is updated regularly to add keyboards, features and language data.
This version includes:
New Keyboards
- Adds an Italian keyboard.
Data Added
- Italian: 773 nouns, 70 verbs
Design Changes
- The messages that tell the user a noun is already plural have been translated to the keyboard's language.
- The keyboard height has been increased for landscape mode on iPads.
- Characters on keys have been made larger so they reflect the system keyboards better.
- All letter, number and special keys now pop up after being pressed.
- Hold to select characters have been redesigned to reflect the addition of keys popping up.
- All App Store media has been redone to reflect these changes. 1.3.0 03/02/2022 Scribe is updated regularly to add keyboards, features and language data.
This version includes:
Data Added
- French: 30 nouns, 1 verb
- German: 215 nouns
- Portuguese: 66 nouns
- Russian: 2 nouns
- Spanish: 925 nouns, 19 verbs
- Swedish: 10 nouns, 5 verbs
New Features
- The keyboard switches back to letter keys after all appropriate symbols followed by space.
- Scribe commands now accept inputs that are followed by a space in case the user accidentally added one.
- Users can now translate pronouns as these were not originally included.
Design Changes
- The app screen texts are given slightly more room to expand within their fields.
- The App Store description has been simplified with bullet points.
- The conjugate view right and left buttons have been made wider.
Bug Fixes
- The Scribe key now switches its icon color with the rest of the keyboard when the user changes color modes.
- Annotations are no longer triggered if a user presses space during a command. 1.2.1 02/12/2022 Scribe's first design sprint with the help of Berlin's Spencer Arney!
The entire layout of Scribe has been reworked to make the experience more aesthetically appealing while adding functionality through efficient design. We hope you like the result!
New Features
- Users can now get to Settings by clicking the installation steps in the app screen.
- All keyboards now switch to an English keyboard for translation, with this being in preparation for when more languages can be translated from.
Design Changes
- The logo and icon for Scribe have been reworked to give the app a distinct style.
- The app screen has been completely redone to be more appealing.
- Keyboard layouts, colors and characters have been changed to match system keyboards.
- Translation prompts were changed to be two digit abbreviations of source and target language.
- Colors for noun annotation were updated to improve readability.
- Noun annotation is now done with a square symbol to represent the gender.
- Preposition annotation is now done with a rectangular symbol to represent the case.
- Preposition case abbreviations have been changed to match the language of the keyboard.
- All App Store media has been redone to reflect these changes.
Bug Fixes
- The keyboard colors should not switch randomly between light and dark mode now.
- Removed an additional character from the Spanish iPad keyboard's special keys.
Legal
- The privacy policy was updated to reflect the addition of the GitHub, Inc icon into the app. 1.2.0 02/02/2022 Scribe is updated regularly to add new keyboards, features and language data.
This version includes:
Data Added
- French: 11 nouns
- German: 152 nouns, 1 verb, 1 preposition
- Portuguese: 19 nouns
- Spanish: 13 nouns, 6 verbs
- Swedish: 68 nouns
Design Changes
- The text size for the preview bar in landscape mode for phones was made smaller.
- The height of the keyboard in landscape mode for phones was made slightly smaller.
Bug Fixes
- The keyboard colors now update if the user switches between light and dark mode.
- Auto-capitalization and switching to the letter keys weren't always triggered after a period.
- Shifting orientation from portrait to landscape is now seamless, but landscape to portrait is still a WIP. 1.1.1 01/20/2022 Scribe is updated regularly to add new keyboards, data and features.
This version includes:
New Keyboards
- Adds Russian, French, Portuguese and Swedish keyboards.
Data Added
- German (Additions): 401 nouns, 78 verbs, corrected many prepositions
- French (New keyboard): 15,710 nouns, 1,241 verbs (mostly infinitives), 67,609 translations
- Portuguese (New keyboard): 4,530 nouns, 188 verbs, 67,609 translations
- Russian (New keyboard): 194,389 nouns, 11 verbs, 12 prepositions, 67,609 translations
- Spanish (Additions): 180 nouns, 22 verbs
- Swedish (New keyboard): 41,102 nouns, 4,133 verbs, 67,609 translations
New Features
- Hold-to-select functionality for symbol keys.
Design Changes
- Improves the display of the caps lock key by making its background the key pressed color.
- Updates the App Store images and videos.
- Scribe command titles are now in the keyboard language for a more immersive experience.
- Translate for Russian switches to an English keyboard.
Bug Fixes
- German keyboards had the dollar sign shown on the number keys instead of the euro sign.
- iPads had a semicolon key that also had apostrophes.
- Hold-to-select keys wouldn't return to their original color.
- The keyboard wouldn't always be letter keys when switched to.
- The double space period shortcut wasn't possible after certain special characters and numbers.
- More than one singular gender wasn't being assigned to German nouns in the formatting process.
- Removes noun-gender annotation for given names to avoid misgendering people.
- Users were not allowed to pass upper-case arguments to translate and conjugate.
- The keyboard keys are capitalized if the user deletes at the start of the preview bar. 1.1.0 01/07/2022 -- Features --
Adds comma-space to letter keys functionality.
Adds question mark and exclamation point followed by space to capital letter keys functionality.
-- Design --
Fixes the display of the system header in the app when the user is in dark mode, as the white text was hard to read.
Fixes the display of the scroll bar in the app when the user is in dark mode, as the white bar wasn't visually appealing.
The keyboard has been made taller for iPhones to make the buttons larger vertically.
More space has been added around the buttons to make them better resemble system keyboard spacing.
-- Bug fixes --
Fixes an issue where the select keyboard button wouldn't be able to be long held after an initial button is pressed.
Fixes an issue where canceling a command would cause the preview bar to read "Not in directory" on a subsequent command.
Fixes an issue where the double space period shortcut is triggered without intent. 1.0.1 12/04/2021 1.0 11/30/2021
Scribe - Language Keyboards version 3.1.1
Updated At: 2024-08-02
Changes: Aug 2, 2024
Version 3.1.1
Thanks for using Scribe! We update the app regularly to add new keyboards, features and language data.
This version includes:
New Features
- A warning is added to trying to change the app localization if the user only has one language installed on their device (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#481).
Localization
- Localization strings for English, German, Swedish and Spanish have been added for all remaining app texts (github.com:scribe-org/Scribe-i18n#28).
Scribe - Language Keyboards version 3.1.1
Updated At: 2024-08-02
Changes: Thanks for using Scribe! We update the app regularly to add new keyboards, features and language data.
This version includes:
New Features
- A warning is added to trying to change the app localization if the user only has one language installed on their device (github:scribe-org/Scribe-iOS#481).
Localization
- Localization strings for English, German, Swedish and Spanish have been added for all remaining app texts (github.com:scribe-org/Scribe-i18n#28).
