Windows
64-bit Windows. The installer sets everything up; the portable version runs without installing.
Ekushe Next একুশে নেক্সট
Type Bangla the way it sounds.
Write ami banglay gan gai and get আমি বাংলায় গান গাই। Ekushe Next is a Bangla keyboard for your computer and your Android phone, with a spell checker, a Bijoy converter and more built in.
Free and open source. No account, no ads, and it works offline.
Download Ekushe Next See what it can do
For Windows, macOS, Linux and Android. Beta.
Ekushe Studio
Typing works in every app. Studio is where the rest lives: a writing pad, help with conjuncts, a spell checker, the converter and more. These are real screens from the current beta.
Writing pad
Type bhalobas and pick from the words that match. Under the words: the conjuncts you could mean, quick ways to write numbers, dates and taka, and a copy button for anywhere else.
Old Bijoy text, readable again
Text typed in Bijoy looks like nonsense anywhere without its fonts. Ekushe turns it into real Bangla that every phone, browser and search engine understands.
Bijoy (SutonnyMJ), as other apps show it
Avwg evsjvq Mvb MvB| evsjv‡`k Avgvi ^‡`k|
Unicode, after Ekushe
আমি বাংলায় গান গাই। বাংলাদেশ আমার স্বদেশ।
On your Android phone, too
The same phonetic typing as a keyboard for every app, with suggestions above the keys, letters on long-press, emoji and themes. Press EN and it hands you to Gboard for English; one tap brings you back.
Themes named for Bangladesh
Flame trees, the Padma, water lilies, kash flowers. Or the colours of your phone, or your own photo.
Plus an emoji panel, a Bangla number row, and a setup screen that walks you through turning it on.
Everything it does
Made for people who write Bangla every day: at work, at school, in messages and in books.
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Phonetic typing
Write Bangla as it sounds. A smart mode offers the best dictionary words first; a plain mode types exactly what you wrote. If you know Avro, you already know it.
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Fixed layouts, and your own
Probhat, National, Bornona and Munir Optima come with it. Add any layout file, or build your own key by key and try it before you save. On Android tablets too.
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Spell check
Checks spelling against the Bangla Academy's rules and offers the right word beside the wrong one.
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Bijoy converter
Bijoy to Unicode and back, for a line or a whole Word file, from Studio, or by selecting text in any app and pressing Ctrl Alt C on Windows.
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Bangla from pictures
Photos, screenshots, scans and PDFs of printed Bangla become text you can edit, read on your own computer.
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Voice typing experimental
On Windows, speak Bangla and see it typed, with the words appearing as you talk. It runs on your computer, not in the cloud.
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Shortcuts that save typing
Type
;ajfor today's date,;barfor the weekday and;bongabdofor the date in the Bangla calendar. Bangla digits and the taka sign are a key away. -
Switch your way
Double-tap Shift to go between Bangla and English, or pick another way in Settings. Or use the menu by the clock.
Your words stay with you
- Works offline
- Typing, spell check, pictures and voice all run on your own device.
- No account
- Install it and start typing. There's nothing to sign up for and no ads.
- Nothing sent unless you choose
- Reporting a problem, or lending your voice to make voice typing better, is always a button you press.
- Open source
- The code is public under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. Read it, build it or help improve it.
Download Ekushe Next
Free for every device. Ekushe Next is in beta: it works well every day, and it's still getting better.
macOS
Install the package, then turn on Ekushe under System Settings › Keyboard › Input Sources.
Linux
AppImage for any distribution, or a package for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and Red Hat.
Android
Phones and tablets. Allow installing from your browser when it asks, then follow the setup screen.
iPhone and iPad
Coming soon.
The full guide
How to set it up on each device, every shortcut, and answers to common questions, in Bangla and English.
Older versions and what changed are on the releases page.
Help Ekushe grow
Ekushe Next is free and has no ads. Tell a friend who writes Bangla, report what doesn't work, or support the work.