iSureType is coming to the App Store

From the beta to the App Store

iSureType, our flagship iOS keyboard, is moving out of Apple TestFlight and toward a public release on the App Store. The beta did its job: testers put the T9 engine, the OCR modes, and the iOS 26 widgets through real daily use, and the build that ships is the build they shaped.

If you joined the early test group, thank you. Nothing you set up goes away. Profiles, custom words, smart phrases, autocorrect pairs, and tab order all live in the active profile, and the App Store build reads the same data the TestFlight build wrote.

What ships

Everything from the beta carries over. iSureType is a system-wide iOS keyboard built around T9-style disambiguation and on-device learning:

• Predictive typing. T9 disambiguation plus contextual suggestions cut the keystrokes per word. In QWERTY mode the literal typing always rides as the first chip, so spelling stays one tap away.
• T9 callouts. Long-press a key, slide to pick the primary or secondary letter for that tuple.
• Smart phrases. Saved-phrase insertion in a single tap.
• Custom autocorrect. Define text-replacement shortcuts (e.g. omw → "On my way!").
• On-device OCR. Apple Vision powers Text and Document modes; on iOS 26+ the wizard upgrades to RecognizeDocumentsRequest, so paragraphs, lists, and tables come out as GitHub-flavored Markdown, exportable to Files, iCloud Drive, or any document provider, with scans able to continue in the background.
• Per-tab Siri shortcuts. "Learn new word" on My Words, "Learn new phrase" on My Phrases, "Scan this" / "OCR" / "Extract text" on the OCR tab, each with alternates so iOS suggests the right one however you ask.
• Omnibus profiles and custom tab order. Preferences and your dictionaries auto-save into the active profile; drag the bottom tabs into any order and they come back on profile switch.
• iOS 26 Liquid Glass widgets. A Clipboard widget surfacing your most recent captures with per-row pin / star / delete and a source-app badge, and a Scan widget exposing all three OCR modes (Text / Document / Business Card) on one tile in three sizes.

Privacy is unchanged

The release does not add a tracking SDK or a cloud account. All learning stays on-device. The keyboard's only network surface is App Group sync between the host app and the keyboard extension, and that is true on the App Store exactly as it was in TestFlight.

Requirements

iSureType needs iOS 18 or later. iOS 26 adds the document-mode OCR upgrade and the Liquid Glass widgets; on iOS 18 through 25 the keyboard and the Text and Business Card OCR modes work, and the iOS 26 extras light up when you update.

When and where

The release is in Apple's review pipeline. We are not naming a date until the listing is approved and live, because that timing is Apple's to confirm, not ours. When the App Store page is up, this post and the showcase entry will carry the link.

The fastest way to hear the moment it lands is the news feed — subscribe in any RSS reader and the App Store post arrives there first. The TestFlight group stays available in the meantime, so there is no gap in access while review runs.

If you build for iOS and want to talk shop about how iSureType is put together, from system extensions and App Group sync to the on-device Vision pipelines, the showcase entry has the technical shape and the contact form reaches us directly.