Unicode Pad Pro with keyboards

This is an edited review, up from one star to 4. The implementation of the app is, let’s say, laconic. You pretty much have to figure it out UNLESS you discover (which I did in a promptly replied-to email to the developer) that “About Unicode Pro” at the very bottom left of what is functionally the home screen, is also where the documentation hides!! That too is laconic but using it, if you have a clue about unicode at all (and if not, why are you buying this app?) you can do pretty wonderful things. I have to transliterate Middle Eastern Languages, and with Unicode Pro, some time and some patience, I am now able to enter all the characters I need (and more!) via a custom keyboard. Since I also use a hardware keyboard, this means I can have the transliteration keyboard open on the screen, and type normally until I need some weird character or other, and then, boom! Brilliant! Five stars when the documentation is labeled “Help” or something similarly obvious. But an elegant little app, on the whole, and invaluable to me.

Like your app. Like the favorites too. Just thought of a new symbol you can add to your app. — title: Hidden= a box where you can install a hidden message or picture in your app or in Parentheses. By pressing the middle of the parentheses or brackets the hidden picture appears. Or put in a dot in the box or brackets telling you have a hidden message. If it is text, it will speak the message in English or any language in the box or? Like those emoji characters, but I don’t know what they mean: captions please. Keep adding...

If you are at all interested in working with fonts, get this app. Unicode Pad Pro is one of those powerful apps without any equal or alternative, one which fundamentally enhances the basic use of iOS. The character lookup is powerful. But it’s the ability to customize each key of the keyboards which makes this app absolutely nonpareil. When paired with a font installation tool such as FondFont, one is able to load custom fonts into iOS for any range or use. The exceedingly small selection of default keyboard languages in iOS is scandalous. I request the Unicode Pad Pro dev to please consider allowing for customizing dictionaries for the keyboards, so that keyboards spellcheck input into any language. Some lookup window would be helpful for larger sets, too, such as in CJKVZ IMEs. Also, the shift case in each keyboard no longer allows for caps lock. This makes things difficult for those of us using each subkeyboard. Please allow for caps lock? A marvellous app. iOS would be diminished in power without UPP.

I’ve been typing Hebrew in Windows and eventually found the IOS Hebrew keyboard, but IOS doesn’t offer vowels or cantillation marks. Unicode Pro offers a Complete Hebrew keyboard that you can download and install. You need a font that has all those marks; Times New Roman and Arial work, but other fonts may or may not have the marks, and other fonts may or may not position them correctly. But now I can type Hebrew on an IOS device with no compromises, and I venture to say I can use other languages and writing systems too; and I can make custom keyboard arrangements when I want. I’m utterly delighted.

This is a great app, especially using the custom keyboard. It’s the only app I’ve found that does that. There is a bit of a bug though, I have an iPhone X Max, and when I click on the globe icon to switch over to my custom keyboards, the positioning of the entire keyboard is offset to the right by about 10%. There are 7 columns of buttons on a custom keyboard, and when the app glitches and shifts to the right, the furthers column (#7) is no longer visible on the screen. I’d love an update that resolved that. That’s really my only issue with the app, otherwise it’s amazing and really is a step above any other unicode app. Oh, actually one more request regarding the custom keyboards... Is there a way you have a custom keyboard with a more natural button layout like a standard keyboard? I’d love to be able to have a custom keyboard in standard “qwerty” style! Thanks!