# Keyman

> Social Networking

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id933676545](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id933676545)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id933676545`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc (SIL)
- **Category:** Social Networking
- **Rating:** 3.80 / 5 (71 ratings)
- **Version:** 18.0.251
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-21
- **First published:** 2014-11-12
- **Size:** 20 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-24
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/keyman/id933676545)
- **Website:** [http://keyman.com/iphone-and-ipad/](http://keyman.com/iphone-and-ipad/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://keyman.com/privacy](https://keyman.com/privacy)

## Description

Keyman is a Chrome extension that lets you type in more than 1,700 languages directly in Chrome. Install language keyboards and use them across all websites without changing system settings.

Key features include creating custom keyboards with Keyman Developer, optimized layouts, predictive text, and browser-level support for languages even when sites do not natively display them.

## Rankings

- #165,511 — Overall

## Review summary

Keyman is praised for broad language and script support and a feature-rich experience, especially useful for scholars typing Syriac, Amharic, Latin, and hieroglyphs. However, it faces repeated issues: updates causing crashes or freezes, poor compatibility with external keyboards, inconsistent performance across apps, and privacy concerns over full-access requirements and data transmission. It’s powerful for multilingual typing when it works, but reliability and security handling need significant improvement.

### Pros

- Wide range of languages and scripts supported, including many ancient and minority systems
- Rich feature set that enables typing complex scripts and linguistic varieties
- Valuable for scholarly and linguistic use (e.g., Syriac, Amharic, Latin, hieroglyphs)
- Strong positive user sentiment in some reviews, with praise for overall capability and usefulness

### Cons

- Instability after updates: crashes, freezes, and general unreliability
- Incompatibility with external keyboards (Apple Smart Keyboard and Magic Keyboard)
- Inconsistent functionality across apps, with some apps not showing or responding to the keyboard
- Privacy and data concerns due to full-access permission requirements and claims that keystrokes are transmitted

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