Lingua — Conlang Builder
Draw your own script and type it on your iPhone keyboard
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Lingua is a conlang builder for iPhone. Draw your letters with a finger, and the app turns them into a real font and a keyboard you can type with. Build a dictionary, a phonology, and grammar rules that actually conjugate. Post lines in your own script to a timeline where every post carries its letter shapes and a meaning line, so anyone can read it. Widgets put your own numerals and month names on the home screen. Free to start; paid plans add more.
PH · launched Sep 28, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 2 views
Niche: typography and font tools · 123 launches, 7 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- iOS
- Design Tools
- Languages
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More like this: all 123 launches in typography and font tools →
Could you build this?
Partial Generating a custom font file (.ttf/.otf) dynamically from drawn bezier vectors, creating an iOS Custom Keyboard Extension, and building a custom rule-based morphological conjugator involves complex niche domain engineering.
What it would actually take: Requires an iOS app using UIKit/SwiftUI for vector stroke capture, converting rasterized or vector paths into TrueType/OpenType font files using libraries like FreeType or custom OpenType tables. It also demands an iOS Custom Keyboard Extension to install the system font and keyboard layout, paired with a custom rule engine or finite-state transducer for natural language phonology and grammar conjugation.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 622 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #533 of 623 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 326 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Tap My Words · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Fluo · ph · 2026-11-12 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- FUN Keyboard · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Vocab First · ph · 2026-10-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Lock&Learn Spanish · ph · 2026-10-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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