MBraille

MBraille brings you a mobile braille keyboard.

Category	Price	Seller	Device
Utilities	Free	MPaja Oy	iPhone, iPad, iPod

With the free features you can type, edit and send tweets and text messages using contracted or uncontracted English braille.*

With the full version you can also use braille to

- call contacts or telephone numbers
- send email
- do facebook status updates
- add calendar entries
- fire away internet search engine queries
- the text typed is automatically put to clipboard when you switch apps.
- interact with other 3rd party applications
- check spelling
- save and open text files
- sync to dropbox
- use MBraille as third party keyboard

The keyboard is also available as a separate in-app purchase.

MBraille fully support both iPhone/iPod and iPad

An experienced blind MBraille user can easily surpass the sighted typists using the built in virtual keyboard.

*uncontracted Braille is supported and help is available for Arabic, Croatian, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish

UI and Braille are also supported for Czech, Italian, Portuguese, and Slovakian, only help is still missing.

Braille table support exists also for Afrikaans, Estonian and Romanian. Afrikaans support includes contractions.

MBraille supports iPhones, iPod touches and iPads.

"An iPhone without MBraille, just isn't a fully operational iPhone anymore!" --Cliff Isaksen, Norway

AppleVis granted MBraille and MPaja a Golden Apple, which we accept with deep gratitude:

http://www.applevis.com/blog/accessories/announcing-applevis-golden-apples-2013

Reviews

Wait, but...
Little Blind Girl

Two things: 1: I got this and pressed the keyboard button just to experiment. I placed my fingers, and when I typed it got nothing I typed right. I even tryed different orientations. Nothing worked. 2: Wait so what about braille screen input? That's what I'm writing this review with. It's native, and it actually gets your fingers right. Good idea but it doesn't work very well and it also exsists. Maybe braille screen input didn't exist when you made the app but now it does and it's better. So sorry.

What happened with IOS 13.1?
Deb the pianist

Since I updated to IOS 13.1, this app no longer speaks. I am an experienced Braille user so can still type, but it is harder with no feedback. Please fix it!!!

The first app to offer contracted braille input and keeps getting better!
Turner42

When this app first came out, the developer fairly quickly offered contracted braille. He has continually updated the app, including offering UEB, custom layouts, and many dot commands that allow you to run other apps from within MBraille. One person couldn't get it to work, probably because they didn't read the instructions or turn off tutorial mode. This is far better than Apple's onscreen braille and worth every penny.

Reach into your pocket and pull out $39.99?
Max 71530006

You actually want us to cough up and pay forty dollars just for a braille keyboard? It's just a keyboard. And it used to be thirty. Why don't you get funding for this app or something so we don't have to become poor and pay forty bucks just for a keyboard. All the in app purchases have a very ridiculous price to them. I would rather pay a subscription of five dollars a month than pay forty. Haven't we payed enough for our iOS devices? Seriously. Deleting this rip off of an app until you lower the full price to about five dollars at the maximum. Oh and you know what else? VoiceOver provides a function that allows people to do the exact same thing that your app does, called braille screen input, and it has spell checked check as you edit the text and is completely free. I may have thought about this app in iOS seven when voiceover didn't provide this function, but not now. There's also other apps like flick type keyboard that allow blind people to type just as good as this app. I might get the full version since it allows you to work with third party apps but still. This app remains deleted from my iPad for now.

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Stizzarr

Great idea. However, it is not working. Is anyone else having a problem with this app?

N-Braille
Brl Enthusiast

This app is functional and a definite improvement on the normal IPhone typing interface. It allows for the use of Braille.contractions, greatly speeding up input time. The only Downside is that the clipboard is very difficult to clear, so that could use Improvement.

Fantastic!!!!!
James Chambers 2014

MBraille is a fantastic app. After sending tweets directly from within the app, I decided to take the plunge and purchase the full app. Boy am I glad I did! The ability to type in contracted braille, as well as sending sms, email, facebook posts, google searches and even editing text directly from the app is absolutely awesome. BrailleTouch used to be my go-to app to type in braille, but MBraille has now taken its place. If you have the dollars29.99 to spend, you would not go wrong with a purchase of MBraille. As a side note, this review was typed with MBraille.

Excellent!!!
CSFAM

It is amazing how fast I can type now on my iPhone using MBraille. I'm happy that I decided to pay the pro version. It is worth every penny of it cost. Great job Mpaja. Apple should implement this app as an alternate keyboard.