Three familiar layouts
Avro-compatible Phonetic, Probhat, and National—keep the typing habits you already know.
A phonetic Bangla keyboard for iPhone and Mac
Write Bangla. Keep it private.
A privacy-first Bangla keyboard. Normal typing is 100% offline—no typing data is sent to any server, and there is no tracking.
brew tap asifkibria/tap && brew trust asifkibria/tap && brew install --cask abu-sayed
No Full Access needed to type
Free · no account
Abu Sayed
Phoneticoffline
আমার সোনার বাংলা, আমি তোমায় ভালোবাসি
অধিকারঅধিকারীঅধিকাংশঅধিকারে
100% offline typing
Your words. Your control.
No account, ads, or tracking SDKs.
6.5 lakh+
Bangla words
3
Phonetic, Probhat, and National layouts
0
tracking or ads
Keyboard access is not a small permission
Your keyboard sits between you and every word.
Private messages, searches, emails, drafts, addresses, and codes entered in ordinary text fields all pass closest to the keyboard. Before beautiful keys, you need verifiable privacy.
KEYBOARD INPUT SURFACE
SENSITIVE
Private messages and drafts
PRIVATE
Searches, email, and addresses
PERSONAL
OTPs or codes typed in ordinary fields
SECRET
Your language, spelling, and writing habits
IDENTITY
0
Abu Sayed never uploads them
The normal typing path has no networking code, and learning is disabled when the operating system identifies a sensitive field.
Important context: iPhone replaces third-party keyboards with Apple’s system keyboard in secure password fields. Abu Sayed goes further by never learning from password, OTP, or email fields.
Think in Bangla. Write in Bangla.
A keyboard that learns with you—not about you.
Fast suggestions, familiar layouts, and the words you use—all working entirely on your device.
More than 6.5 lakh words
Prefix matching, fuzzy correction, and next-word suggestions—fast, without getting in your way.
Remembers your words—locally
New words and preferred spellings are learned on-device. View or erase learned data from Settings.
One experience from iPhone to Mac
The same typing engine on both platforms: a touch keyboard on iPhone and a system-wide input method on Mac.
Privacy is not a setting
The door to your words. You keep the key.
A keyboard can see what you write. That is why the normal typing path contains no networking code.
Normal typing is fully offline
Keystrokes, suggestions, and learned words are never sent to a server.
No profile is created
No account, advertising, analytics SDK, or behavioral tracking.
You control deletion
View and reset learned words and local data directly from Settings.
Learning stops in sensitive fields
Learning and statistics stop in password, OTP, and email fields on iPhone and iPad, and whenever Secure Input is active on Mac.
Clipboard only when you ask
The clipboard is read only when you open its panel and saved only when you insert an item.
PRIVACY_BOUNDARY / NORMAL_TYPING
● VERIFIED
network_connections ........ 0
keystrokes_uploaded ......... 0 bytes
analytics_endpoints ......... none
learned_words_location ...... this device
Note: Optional Voice Typing may use Apple’s speech service to process audio; Abu Sayed runs no server of its own.
Do not take our word for it. Verify it yourself.
These two-minute checks show that the normal typing path contacts no domain and opens no network connection.
iPHONE / iPAD
- Type with Full Access offGo to Settings → General → Keyboard → Keyboards → Abu Sayed and keep “Allow Full Access” off. Normal typing still works.
- Open the in-app proofIn Abu Sayed, open Settings → Privacy Proof to inspect the binary, sensitive-field, clipboard, and privacy-manifest boundaries.
- Use Apple’s network reportTurn on Settings → Privacy & Security → App Privacy Report, type normally for a while, and check that Abu Sayed has no contacted domains.
MAC
- Watch Activity MonitorOpen its Network tab, filter for “Abu Sayed,” and type in another app. Sent and received network activity stays at zero.
- Inspect live connectionsRun this command while typing. No output is the expected result.
lsof -i -n -P | grep -i 'Abu Sayed' - Inspect linked frameworksCheck the shipping binary for networking frameworks. No output is the expected result.
otool -L "/Library/Input Methods/Abu Sayed.app/Contents/MacOS/Abu Sayed" | grep -Ei 'Network|CFNetwork'
2024
A name and a memory
In memory of those whose sacrifice gives us the courage to speak without fear.
Dedicated to Shaheed Abu Sayed and everyone who sacrificed for a more equitable Bangladesh during the 2024 Quota Reform Movement.
Shaheed Abu Sayed (2001 – 16 July 2024)
Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur
One trusted address
One link.
Two devices.
The right option for your device is shown first. Downloads carry no tracking links.
Choose the device where you want to type.
01 / MAC
Best for this device
Abu Sayed
for Mac
System-wide Bangla typing in every Mac app. The signed and notarized installer is available to download now.
Version 1.2.0 · requires macOS 13 or later · ready to download
02 / iPHONE
Best for this device
Abu Sayed
for iPhone
The private Bangla keyboard for iPhone and iPad, free on the App Store.
Version 1.1.2 · requires iOS 17 or later · ready to download
Move to another device
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Scan the QR, send it to a friend, or copy the link. The same private address presents the right install option on the other device.
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