Type Chinese on your Mac in whole sentences.
WowType turns a full sentence of pinyin into Chinese, finds words before you finish a syllable and sees through typing slips. It learns the words you use, and it works entirely on your Mac.
Free and open source · macOS 13.0 or later · Apple silicon and Intel
Whole sentences in one go
Type a full sentence of pinyin without stopping. WowType keeps a few sentence candidates first, then words, then single characters, all in one horizontal bar.
If only the start of a sentence is right, choose that part. The rest of the pinyin stays, and you keep choosing from there.
- xiangquzijieshangban → 想去字节上班
- zhongg → 中国, before you finish the syllable
- bjdx → 北京大学, from initials only
Small typos are fine
WowType recognizes a neighbouring key, two swapped letters, or one letter too many or too few. Input that is already correct is not changed.
- zhognguo → 中国
It learns how you write
WowType remembers the words you choose and the words you often use together, so the next time the right one comes first. Words you stop using fade slowly over about 30 days.
Fuzzy pinyin, double pinyin and more
Settings are in a plain text file and take effect at once.
- Fuzzy pinyin in separate groups, such as z = zh and n = l
- Seven double-pinyin (shuangpin) schemes, including Xiaohe and Ziranma
- Traditional Chinese output
- riqi, shijian and xingqi give today’s date, the time and the weekday; v1+2*3 gives 7
- Emoji suggestions in the candidate bar when you type words like 开心
It stays on your Mac
The dictionary and the word model are inside the app. WowType does not send what you type anywhere, and its log never contains your text.
The app installs itself for your user account. You do not need an administrator password, and you do not need to log out.
Not in the Mac version yet
This first Mac version does not have voice input, translation or the emoji panel of the Linux version. For emoji and symbols, use the macOS Character Viewer: press Control-Command-Space.
Open source
WowType was created by Gloridust for Linux (fcitx5). The Mac version uses the same engine with a native InputMethodKit front end, and it is offered to the original project.
Code: MIT or Apache-2.0. Dictionary: rime-ice, GPL-3.0. Word model: CC BY-SA 4.0.
WowType was created by Gloridust. Code: MIT or Apache-2.0. Dictionary: rime-ice, GPL-3.0. Word model: CC BY-SA 4.0 (LCCC and Chinese Wikipedia). The Mac version is maintained by Panoramic Intelligence and offered to the original project.