MBraille26.3.1 - App Store

MBraille: Braille-First Notetaker for iPhone and iPad

MBraille turns your iPhone or iPad into a braille-first workspace for writing, editing, and everyday tasks. More than a keyboard, it combines fast touchscreen braille entry with navigation, editing, commands, and file tools for users who want an efficient eyes-free workflow.

Write with a customizable 6-dot layout, hear immediate speech feedback, and control the app with short gestures. MBraille supports both contracted and uncontracted braille in many languages, so you can work the way you already know.

Key features:

- Fast touchscreen braille input with customizable dot positions
- Designed for VoiceOver and supports self-voicing when VoiceOver is off
- Rich editing with cursor movement, read-back, selection, copy, cut, paste, undo, erase, and search
- Notes, saved files, bookmarks, command history, and quick navigation
- Command mode for messages, phone calls, email, calendar events, web search, opening apps, file management, and help
- On-device voice dictation
- Aliases and gesture bindings for repeated phrases and frequent commands
- Cloud sync for MBraille files with Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive
- One-handed mode and external keyboard support
- Speech feedback by character, word, sentence, and more

MBraille is built for real daily use: taking notes, writing messages, managing files, launching actions, and staying in braille from start to finish. If you want a braille-first notetaker and Swiss army knife for iPhone or iPad, MBraille gives you speed, control, and flexibility in one app.

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Version History ## Fixes

- Swapped up/down direction when using away layout, it was incorrect.
- Made restoring the legacy purchase more robust 26.3.1 Jul 22 # Version 26.3.0

## New features

- Added away layout, can be activated in settings
- Grade 2 Braille for Hungarian
- Allow search in AI command to ground the results and have recent events available
- Google Drive access regression fixed

## Fixes

- Uppercasing accented characters was broken on iOS devices. Android and Desktop were not affected.
- Setting to open MBraille directly to braille keyboard, bypassing the menu, was not working.
- AI command issues fixed. 26.3.0 Jul 4 ## Fixes

- iOS restore purchases fix
- iOS dot layout reset fix. On some devices the dot layout would spontaneously reset.
- All mail addresses were not correctly recognized, if there was a subdomain, that would fail.
- Improved announcements when in list selector.
- Enable File sharing on iOS
- Fix opening file as read-only
- Added FaceTime Audio (ft) and FaceTime Video (ftv) support for iOS
- Fixed whatsapp + contact message for iOS
- Fixed selection first/last line of the text. 26.2.1 Jun 11 What's New in This Version

MBraille has grown far beyond the original keyboard-focused version. This update adds major new tools for braille-first writing and everyday work:

- One-handed braille keyboard mode with dedicated calibration and gestures
- External keyboard mode with support for braille keyboards and Bluetooth keyboards
- Bookmarks, named bookmarks, text search, and richer editing and navigation
- Spelling help with suggestions and a user dictionary
- Expanded command tools, including app launching and Fantastical support
- Natural-language calendar entry creation
- On-device voice dictation
- AI assistant support from the braille command interface
- Cloud sync for MBraille files and aliases with Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive

This version also modernizes gestures, adds a scrub gesture for going back, and includes built-in access to release notes from within the app. 26.1.0 May 27 Dropbox fixes. Adds support for # character in UEB and Afrikaans. 4.11 03/18/2021 Bugfixes for iOS 14. 4.10 10/14/2020 Corrections for French Braille users.
Small bug fixes. 4.9 03/08/2020 bug fixes and improvements 4.8.1 02/15/2020 Fixes for self voicing.
Support for contracted braille in French and German.
Portuguese help. Bug fixes. 4.8 02/11/2020 Backspace announcement fixes for non-English punctuation. 4.7.3 12/06/2019 Backspace announcement fixes for non-English punctuation. 4.7.2 12/02/2019 Fixes DuckDuckGo and Start Page dot commands for legacy English braille when using contractions (dot ddge, dot spage)
Translation fixes for non-English braille. 4.7.1 11/23/2019 Performance improvements and bug fixes.
New dot commands ddgo and spage to perform searches with DuckDuckGo and StartPage. 4.7 11/10/2019 Dropbox authentication fix. Correctly announce accented characters when previewing by character. 4.6.1 11/03/2019 UEB fixes.
Alias command fixes: Fixed a regression when alias.mb was stored in Dropbox. Unicode alias definitions also work again.
Danish braille fixes. 4.6 11/02/2019 Vastly improved self voicing. In order to hear MBraille as 3rd party keyboard in iOS 13.1 when VoiceOver is running, the self voicing must be turned on in the settings.
You can adjust self-voicing voice and speed with dot commands. If you use MBraille as 3rd party keyboard, it is recommended to reboot your phone after installation. And do not forget to turn on full access in phone Settings-> General-> Keyboards-> MBraille.

Other improvements:
Better support for voicing emoticons, such as :) ;) :D
Some UEB fixes. Other internal fixes to keep up with latest iOS development tools and version and to enable easier maintenance in the future. 4.5 10/23/2019 UEB fixes, Drafts 5 support, iOS 12 tested.
.da now uses Drafts 5, .da4 is still available. Original Drafts is no longer supported. 4.4 10/17/2018 Fixed opening of https links with .web command.
UEB and Afrikaans contraction fixes. 4.3 02/17/2018 Fixed third party keyboard bug affecting iPads 4.2 12/12/2017 iPhone X custom keyboard fix. Also some UEB corrections and documentation fixes. 4.1 11/22/2017 1. New smart layout which adapts to your fingers. This makes different display sizes more usable and replaces the old table layout.
2. Afrikaans braille support, including contractions.
3. Fantastical calendar support via dot commands
4. Small UEB and bug fixes. 4.0 10/27/2017 Fixes self voicing for MBraille App. Some UEB contraction fixes. 3.8 07/31/2017 Stability release for fixing crashes with MBraille as third party keyboard. 3.7.4 05/24/2017 Few UEB contraction fixes. 3.7.3 05/10/2017 UEB contractions announcements improved. 3.7.2 04/25/2017