Armath Armenian Keyboard · iPhone
Armenian, in a single motion.
Swipe a word or a whole sentence. Get the next word before you type it, and corrections that read the words before them. Armath is built on Armenian text and runs entirely on your device.
This is the Armath keyboard, drawn in your browser and playing by itself. Here it knows only 5,000 words: this is a small demo, not the full Armath Input Intelligence system.
Draw a word across the letters with your finger or mouse, or tap the keys. This small demo knows the 5,000 most frequent words; the keyboard knows 89,790 and reads the sentence.
Why Armath exists
We didn’t add intelligence to a keyboard. We built a keyboard around intelligence. For decades keyboards have been designed to recognise where your fingers land. We asked a different question: what if a keyboard could look beyond the touch, and better recognise the word you meant?
From the Armath manifesto
Fifteen things it does
Scroll through the list or pick a feature: it plays on a drawing of the Armath keyboard exactly as the app lays it out today, with the iPhone-style Armenian layout, the one-key «ու» and the Armenian punctuation keys.
Slide from letter to letter without lifting your finger. Armath reads the path, its shape and the sentence, and offers close alternatives above the keys.
Pass over the space bar between words and keep going. Each word is recognised as you cross Space, and the stroke goes on to the next.
Pick another word from the alternatives and Armath learns it: the same stroke moves your choice up. What it learns stays on this device.
Armath’s own neural language model reads the sentence so far and proposes how it goes on. Only words from its dictionary are ever offered.
A typo is fixed when you press Space, with the words before it in mind. Names, links and rare but correct words are left as you typed them.
When a finished word looks wrong but is too uncertain to change by itself, its corrections appear in red above the keys. One tap fixes it; typing on leaves it alone.
Hold the space bar and slide: the letters fade and the cursor follows your finger, character by character.
Hold delete and slide left: the further you go, the more words are deleted, one for every key. Slide back and the words return.
Hold the comma or the full-stop key for , ՝ ՛ ՞ ՜ ։ in one row. The sign you choose becomes that key’s sign, so the one you use most is a single tap.
The most frequent pair of letters in Armenian is a single key. A tap types «ու»; a hold gives the lone «ւ» for spellings like «եւ».
Hold 123 and digits slide in next to the letters, laid out like the iPhone’s number pad. Type a sum and = writes the answer. Swipe right over the pad to close it.
Hold ⇧ and choose a side: the whole keyboard moves within reach of your thumb, every key included. Choose «Լրիվ» to go back.
The complete set, recently used ones first, categories along the bottom row. Hold a hand to choose its skin tone.
Hold the emoji key and your recent emoji take the place of the keys. Slide onto one and lift your finger. A short tap still opens the full panel.
The default puts the letters where an iPhone user expects them, with comma and full stop at the right of the third row. A setting centres that row between the two keys instead.
The feel of the keys
Much of a keyboard’s character lives in the fraction of a second between a touch and a letter. We studied how the best keyboards handle that moment, measured the iPhone’s own keyboard frame by frame, and brought every press in Armath as close to it as iOS allows. Then we went further, against the accidents that typing on glass still produces.
A finger that lands a little off is not punished for it. You still have a moment to reach the key you meant.
The key responds the instant you touch it, as directly as on the iPhone’s own keyboard. Nothing lags behind your finger.
Fast typing with both thumbs keeps your letters in the order you pressed them.
We studied real typing touch by touch and removed the causes of wrong keys we found. A quick tap stays a tap and does not turn into a stray word.
The technology
Armath Input Intelligence is the engine inside the keyboard. It reads the motion of your finger and the sentence you are writing together, was built for Armenian from its first letter, and runs entirely on your iPhone.
89,790 words gathered from real Armenian writing, and more than 180,000 further word forms recognised when you swipe. Names stay names.
A swipe is decoded from three sources: the path of your finger, neural recognition and the meaning of the sentence. That is how a word, or a whole sentence, is written without lifting a finger.
Armath’s own neural language model learned from hundreds of millions of Armenian words. It suggests the next word and helps pick the right one when you swipe or correct.
A typo is fixed on Space with the words before it in mind. Names, links and rare but correct words stay as you typed them.
Your words and choices are remembered on this device. Learning can be paused, and any word or period of time forgotten.
What you type stays on your device, and there is no advertising. Anything that helps improve Armath, such as swipe samples or diagnostics, is sent only with your permission. You can type even without Full Access.
Neural swipe evidence is powered by FUTO Swipe technology. The dictionary, the matcher, the language model, the corrections and the learning are written and trained by the Armath project. Technologies and licences
In numbers
The language model has about 8.5 million parameters and answers in about a millisecond on an iPhone 12 Pro Max. More than 600 automated tests run on a physical iPhone, not a simulator.
Privacy
A keyboard sees everything. That is exactly why Armath was built so that it does not need to send anything anywhere.
No network code, no ads, no third-party trackers. It works the same in airplane mode.
The words you use, the alternatives you pick and the corrections you undo are kept on your iPhone and nowhere else.
Pause learning, forget one word, forget a period of time or everything, from the app’s Settings.
Nothing is learned in passwords, one-time codes, card numbers, usernames, e-mail addresses, phone numbers or addresses.
Armath Full is bought from Apple’s App Store. Armath never sees your payment details, your name or your Apple Account.
Armath Full
Everything that makes typing Armenian easier is free. Swipe, the number pad, deleting word by word and recent emoji are Armath Full, and you can try them for a week first.
How the free week works
The App Store shows each price in your own currency. Subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel them in your Apple Account settings; the free week renews nothing.
Developing our swipe is developing the Armenian language.
Armath is made by an independent project in Armenia. Every purchase pays for more of what makes Armenian easier to write: better recognition, more words, more testing with native speakers. Ways to support the project →
Made for Armenian
An alphabet of more than sixteen centuries deserves the same smart keyboard that English has. Apple’s own keyboard gives Armenian only the keys.
| For Armenian | iOS keyboard | Armath |
|---|---|---|
| Autocorrection | — | ✓ |
| Next-word prediction | — | ✓ |
| Swipe typing | — | ✓ |
| A whole sentence in one stroke | — | ✓ |
Apple’s iOS Feature Availability page lists Armenian among the keyboard languages, but not under Autocorrection, Predictive Typing or QuickPath.
The Armenian full stop «։», «՝», the stress «՛», the question «՞» and the exclamation «՜» are where you need them, not hidden in a symbols page.
The most frequent letter pair of the language takes one tap. The lone «ւ» and «և» are there too.
Places, people and brands keep their capital letters, a lowercase name is not “corrected”, and the names you use are learned.
Armath writes Eastern Armenian in the spelling used in Armenia today. Western Armenian and the classical spelling are not covered yet; we say so rather than pretend.
Stories
The history of Armath Input Intelligence, the method behind it, what it means for Armenian, and how you can help.
From an idea to a language model of its own.
5 min readRules written before results, and test texts read once.
3 min readWe measured the iPhone’s own keyboard frame by frame. What came of it is something you feel in every press.
2 min readAn alphabet of sixteen centuries, and the phone that made it the slow way to write.
6 min readWhy Armenian is written in Latin and Cyrillic letters, and how to give it back its own.
4 min readFive concrete ways to help, and why each one matters for Armenian.
5 min readSupport the project
Global companies build keyboards for the largest languages first. Armenian has a few million speakers, a script of its own and very little software built for it. Armath is one project trying to change that, and it can only go as far as its users take it.
The most direct way to fund the work. Start with the free week.
Optional and off by default: your strokes teach Armath to read Armenian better. You send the file yourself.
Native speakers: proofread our texts, try new versions, tell us where Armath gets your language wrong.
A teacher, a parent, a friend abroad who writes Armenian in Latin letters.
Questions
Armath Armenian Keyboard is coming to the App Store for iPhone (iOS 17 or later). This page will link to it the day it is there.
Typing, corrections at the space bar, next-word suggestions, spelling hints, emoji, punctuation menus and one-handed mode are free. Swipe, the number pad, deleting word by word and recent emoji are part of Armath Full. Start the free week in the app: for seven days they are open, and nothing is charged or renewed automatically.
No. What you type stays on your device, and the keyboard contains no network code or advertising. What it learns stays on your device too. The keyboard itself sends nothing. The Armath app sends a diagnostics report, without any text, only if you turn on its switch in Settings, and a purchase of Armath Full is handled by Apple’s App Store.
iOS gives a keyboard haptic feedback, and lets it share settings and learning with its app, only with Full Access. Typing, suggestions and sound work without it. Full Access does not make Armath send anything.
Eastern Armenian, in the spelling used in Armenia today, on an iPhone-style Armenian layout (with a centred variant in Settings). Western Armenian and the classical spelling are not supported yet.
Yes. In the app’s Settings you can pause learning, forget a single word, forget a period of time or everything. Nothing is learned in password, one-time-code or card fields.
Not yet. The first version is for iPhone; Armath will come to iPad once it has been tested there.
Choose Armath Full, share your swipe samples if you wish, proofread or test as a native speaker, or tell someone who writes Armenian. All the ways to support Armath.
Armath Armenian Keyboard for iPhone. Typing is free; Armath Full starts with a free week.