About Arabic Keyboard

Most people who need to type a few words of Arabic do not need a permanent keyboard layout. They need to write one message, check one spelling, or fill in one form — often on a computer they do not control, such as a work machine, a library terminal or a shared family laptop.

Installing a system keyboard for that is disproportionate, and on many managed devices it is not even permitted. This site covers that gap: open a page, type, copy, close the tab.

The Latin-to-Arabic converter reads your input greedily, matching the longest pattern first. That is why “sh” becomes ش rather than س followed by ه, and why “kh” becomes خ rather than ك followed by ه.

On top of the letter mapping it applies a handful of rules that reflect how Arabic is actually written: the definite article “al-” becomes ال, a word ending in “-ah” takes ta marbuta ة, and short vowels in the middle of a word are dropped, because Arabic script does not write them. Digits carry the sounds Latin cannot — 3 for ع, 7 for ح, 5 for خ, 9 for ص, 6 for ط and 2 for the hamza.

It will not be right every time. Arabizi has no single standard, and names in particular are hard. The on-screen keyboard is always there to fix individual letters.

There is no server-side processing anywhere in this site. Everything — the keyboard, the converter, the counter — is JavaScript running on your device, which means your text cannot be collected because it is never sent.

The full detail is in the privacy policy.

The site carries advertising, which is what keeps it free and without a sign-up. Ads are placed below the tool rather than around it, so they never get in the way of what you came to do.

If a word transliterates incorrectly, or a letter you need is missing from the keyboard, send an example to hello@example.com. Concrete examples are far more useful than general reports.