Bangla Keyboard & AI Notes

This is a narrowly scoped app that does two jobs: get Bangla text into any iOS text field, and let you capture Bangla notes without typing. The keyboard half is the mature piece — Avro-style phonetic input, a fixed layout option, and AI word suggestions with auto-correct. The notes half leans on three specific features that general note apps rarely do well for Bangla: voice-to-text dictation, an OCR scanner that reads Bangla out of images and printed documents, and an AI writing assistant that drafts or extends Bangla content. Strengths are concentrated. If your work involves digitizing printed Bangla — class notes, book excerpts, forms — the OCR scanner saves you from retyping. If you write long Bangla passages, dictation gets you there faster than phonetic typing. And because the keyboard is a system keyboard, it follows you into WhatsApp, Mail, and Safari rather than being locked inside one app. Weaknesses are equally clear and mostly about data movement. Notes are stored on the device, with no documented cloud sync across devices. That means switching phones requires manual transfer, and a lost phone risks the notes with it. There is no collaboration, no team sharing, and no API or SDK for developers. The app is iPhone and iPad only — Android and web users are out. The free tier is a genuine trial of the keyboard but withholds the AI features and caps notes storage, so the OCR and dictation that justify the app are paywalled. The site does not spell out what the AI runs on, so we cannot say whether suggestions and dictation work offline. Where it fits: individual Bengali speakers on Apple hardware who want one app instead of a keyboard plus a notes app plus a separate scanner. Students, journalists, and professionals drafting Bangla content on iOS are the natural fit. Where it does not: anyone on Android, anyone who needs notes shared across a team or synced between an iPhone and an iPad without manual steps, and developers looking to build on top of it. Compare against Gboard plus Google Keep if you are cross-platform, and against Apple Notes if organization depth matters more than built-in OCR and Bangla dictation.