Moocat Keyboard is an AI keyboard app for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision, released by developer 根 张. It aims to integrate AI capabilities into the everyday typing process, providing intelligent assistance in scenarios such as chatting, writing, translation, and content polishing, improving typing efficiency and text quality.
Purpose Moocat Keyboard is mainly used for everyday text input scenarios, covering office communication, study and creation, traveling abroad, and daily life. It helps users reply to emails and messages faster, optimize business expression, assist with papers, assignments, and note-taking, perform instant multilingual translation, and post social media content, etc.
Main capabilities
- AI smart suggestions: provide content suggestions, grammar optimization, and expression polishing in real time during typing.
- Smart replies: generate suitable reply suggestions based on the current chat content.
- AI translation: supports real-time multilingual translation; type in one language and convert it to the target language.
- Text polishing: optimize grammar and expression.
- Input schemes: supports full pinyin, double pinyin (Xiaohe double pinyin, Ziranma, Microsoft double pinyin, Sogou double pinyin), nine-key grid, and 17-key shuffled double pinyin. Double pinyin and full pinyin share the same dictionary and learning records.
- Built-in keyboard calculator: enter an expression in the input field (such as 36+4), and the result is displayed immediately at the top of the candidate bar; tap once to append "=result"; supports the four arithmetic operations, parentheses, decimals, and percentages, and can be turned on or off in settings.
- Personalized keyboard: adjustable keyboard height, adjustable key font weight, adjustable candidate font size, optional number row for the 26-key layout, intelligent highlighting of the primary key with customizable color, and uppercase display support for letter keys.
- One-handed input mode: supports left-hand and right-hand one-handed input.
- Traditional Chinese input: supports Traditional Chinese input.
- Cat companion: a fun feature that adds enjoyment to typing.
- English input candidate word prediction.
- Custom symbol list: the 17-key shuffled double pinyin and the nine-key grid letter panel share the same custom symbol list.
- Public API interface: one-click connection to the world, and supports custom AI configuration, with the new AI service deepseek.
How to use Users can download Moocat Keyboard from the App Store and set it as the system keyboard after installation. Specific setting paths include "Settings → Keyboard Settings → Pinyin Scheme" to switch double pinyin schemes, and "Settings → Keyboard Settings → Keyboard Height" to adjust keyboard height. The app supports automatic adaptation to the safe height of different device models.
Applicable scenarios
- Office communication: quickly reply to emails and messages, optimize business expression, and improve daily office efficiency.
- Study and creation: Assists with writing papers, homework, and notes, optimizes grammar and expression, and inspires writing ideas.
- Traveling abroad: instant multilingual translation, making it easy to communicate with people from different countries and regions.
- Daily life: social chatting, posting social media content, and recording inspiration and memos.
Restrictions The app requires iPhone with iOS 17.2 or later, iPad with iPadOS 17.2 or later, Mac with macOS 14.2 or later and an Apple M1 chip or newer, and Apple Vision with visionOS 1.1 or later. The app is free to download but includes in-app purchases and subscriptions, with subscription prices of US$89.99 per year, US$49.99 per half year, and US$7.99 per month. Some in-app purchases and subscriptions can be shared with family through Family Sharing. The age rating is 4+. According to the developer, the app does not collect any data, runs purely locally, and input content is not uploaded or connected to the internet. The app supports dark mode. Other specific restrictions are not yet provided.