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title: "Pinyin Typist - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store"
description: "**Pīnyīn Typist lets you quickly and easily type Pīnyīn with tone marks while using Apple’s system keyboards, and it lets you benefit from their features, like predictive text, text replacement, etc.,"
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# Pinyin Typist — United States
> Type Pīnyīn with Tone Marks!

![Pinyin Typist App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple126/v4/ee/f5/19/eef51961-9b3d-5f21-9c4d-aa961fa3cd7f/AppIcon-0-1x_U007emarketing-0-7-0-85-220.png/434x0w.png)

**Developer:** [Wayne Wong](https://apptail.io/developer/wayne-wong-kFxb)
**Category:** Productivity
**Rating:** 2.7/5 (7 ratings)
**Price:** $1.99
**Bundle ID:** com.TroubadourWorks.Pinyin-Typist
**Store:** Apple App Store
**Country:** United States
**Version:** 3.10 (released 2023-08-06)
**Original Release:** 2011-06-23
**Languages:** English

**App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id443069995)
**AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/pinyin-typist-rJwe/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/pinyin-typist-rJwe/united-states)

## Pinyin Typist Description
**Pīnyīn Typist lets you quickly and easily type Pīnyīn with tone marks while using Apple’s system keyboards, and it lets you benefit from their features, like predictive text, text replacement, etc., as well as future enhancements. Pīnyīn Typist similarly works with third-party keyboards like Fleksy, etc.**

 (THIS APP IS NOT AN ALTERNATIVE WAY TO TYPE CHINESE CHARACTERS—it supports the standard iOS ways of typing characters.)

Pīnyīn makes reading and writing Mandarin Chinese as quick and easy as it ought to be, and Pīnyīn Typist makes typing real, professional-quality Pīnyīn as quick and easy as *it* ought to be.

Pīnyīn Typist was the first iOS Pīnyīn typing app, and it’s still the best, especially for typing more than a word or two of Pīnyīn.

On the iPad, the iPhone, and the iPod touch, Pīnyīn Typist is *noticeably* the quickest, easiest, most natural, most fun, and most beautifully iOS-native way to type exactly the Pīnyīn you want, with proper tone marks.

Its *nice, big* tone mark, Ü, hyphen, and apostrophe buttons work with *just a simple tap*, using the same rhythm and technique as regular typing.

*It even puts the tone marks over the right vowels for you*, and *it also makes it easy to make corrections to tone marks without backspacing and retyping*.

Pīnyīn Typist turns typing Pīnyīn from a pain into a pleasure.


Pīnyīn Typist launches quickly, so with it on your Apple mobile device, you can quickly and easily type real Pīnyīn text to write down anything you hear or want to say in Mandarin, just about anytime the need arises or inspiration strikes. Pīnyīn Typist is thus a must-have app if you are learning or teaching Mandarin, or if sometimes you want or need to write down Mandarin expressions, but you or the one(s) you’re writing to don’t (or don’t want to have to) know all the Chinese characters involved.

Note that like Chinese Braille (which is based on Pīnyīn), Pīnyīn is a *full writing system* for Mandarin, not just a pronunciation aid. And since, as linguists hold, speech is primary and writing is secondary, it’s good that Pīnyīn just works and lets you focus on speech, on *communicating*.


All the text in the Pīnyīn Typing tab view can be copied with a single tap of the Copy All button, and then pasted in other apps, e.g. Pages, Word, Mail, Twitter, Messages, Drafts, etc. (iOS’s standard copying and pasting methods work too.)

Pīnyīn Typist’s sharing functionality lets you share Pīnyīn, etc. text in the various ways enabled by iOS, including email, Messages, AirDrop, Twitter, etc.


Pīnyīn Typist’s 1,2, and 4 tone buttons can also be used to add tone marks for Cantonese Yale romanization.



*TYPING PĪNYĪN IN PĪNYĪN TYPIST*


Type “a” → tap the 3rd tone button = “ǎ”

Type “ai” → tap the 4th tone button = “ài”
(not “aì”!)

After “āi” or “aì”, tap the 4th tone button = “ài”

Pīnyīn Typist can convert both lowercase and uppercase vowels. All the Pīnyīn Typist toolbar buttons enter typographically correct Unicode characters, making Pīnyīn Typist suitable for typing Pīnyīn for professional uses.

Pīnyīn Typist works well with hardware keyboards. Hardware keyboard shortcuts are now available.



*OTHER FEATURES*

• Pīnyīn Typist can be used in both portrait and landscape orientations.

• The size of the text in the Pīnyīn Typing tab view can be quickly and easily adjusted with a slider—all the better for seeing those little Pīnyīn tone marks.

• The text in the Pīnyīn Typing tab view (and its size) can be saved as a snippet for future use, with a title that you can choose. A snippet can be shared in the various ways enabled by iOS.

• An optional Night Theme is available.

• Different fonts can be selected for the text in the Pīnyīn Typing tab view.



*PĪNYĪN TEXT WITH FORMATTING*

Pīnyīn Typist produces Unicode plain text, which can be used to produce Markdown, HTML, CSS, etc. code. When such code is rendered in supporting environments, formatting can be seen that’s like the formatting seen in web pages.

## Pinyin Typist Screenshots
- [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource126/v4/a0/3f/f1/a03ff18e-1065-92bc-8466-73639c38ab10/1bc05a83-d756-4c8a-b562-7d0c0da8e0e2_ss1.png/1242x2208.png)
- [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource126/v4/f6/0f/eb/f60feb4b-f3ec-e7e8-fce4-3b34d8177b4a/4ba39837-cde9-48fc-8223-a45bb9b86950_ss2.png/1242x2208.png)
- [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource116/v4/63/08/39/63083929-8d0a-d050-cc91-4725cfb56feb/aa12e0d6-68e4-4f73-b840-64f2795ae6b5_ss3.png/1242x2208.png)
- [Screenshot 4](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource126/v4/f6/58/96/f658961b-38f2-921b-27e7-e070c343b287/ad46bb84-daaa-4f9b-9077-1644bbc7c81d_ss4.png/2208x1242.png)
- [Screenshot 5](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource126/v4/77/1a/df/771adf92-512e-35b4-d711-503ee8e569ad/6174e22c-91ce-4093-a75c-f4229742f1f3_ss5.png/1242x2208.png)
- [Screenshot 6](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource116/v4/67/56/db/6756dbf6-06f7-c6b8-85bc-ffe9cb15979a/038eb270-262d-4422-af94-95f059bb7789_ss6.png/1242x2208.png)
- [Screenshot 7](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource126/v4/00/20/a8/0020a89c-7554-00e9-46aa-9a5922e1a940/7b38f34b-a1eb-4ada-9717-f7e968db16ec_ss7.png/1242x2208.png)

## Pinyin Typist Rating Breakdown in United States
- 5 stars: 2 (29%)
- 4 stars: 0 (0%)
- 3 stars: 2 (29%)
- 2 stars: 0 (0%)
- 1 stars: 3 (43%)

## Pinyin Typist Reviews in United States

### ***-- "Being able to directly get Hanzi using pinyin keyboard with Typist?"
This does what it is described to do, but having the ability to see the suggested Hanzi would be so awesome! When I type in this app using the iOS pinyin keyboard I am able to get the tone marks but it replaces the entire pinyin word with just the tonal character. Is there any way to force it to just replace the single character ?
-- the51flash, 2025-07-21

### ***** "Very helpful!!"
We are new to Chinese and this is an absolutely fantastic tool.  Thank you so much for all the hard work  and thought that went into this to make it so useful!
-- bgietler, 2017-08-13

### ***** "Excellent Tool!"
I have used this app for many years. In spite of being able to read many characters I still find this to be a needed tool now and then. But especially in the beginning of studying Chinese it was invaluable.
-- ChasTH, 2017-07-30

### *---- "Cheated"
Bad app.  I thought it will translate into Chinese characters once you type in pinyin, but no, it merely puts intonation on your pinyin.  Useless.  Feels cheated!
-- Vg93sdf, 2017-02-12

### ****- "Nicely done!"
Great application for typing PinYin. A very useful tool for those learning Chinese. It would be better  if, when using an external keyboard, a person could choose the diacritical mark from the keyboard's number pad instead of from the device's screen.
-- OutsideTheBox130, 2014-08-29

### ***** "Great job"
Looks better than ever on iOS 7! Would highly recommend to others interested in Chinese language.
-- Dragons arecute555, 2014-07-27

### ***** "At last!"
This is what I have been searching for! It is a fantastic app that makes it easy to type pinyin notes for the study articles, and then copy and paste directly into the notes on the PDF pinyin downloads....thanks a lot, and I'll be spreading the word to all my friends!  Daphne Butler
-- Daphne Butler, 2012-05-22

### ***** "great app for typing pinyin on my ipad"
This is a great app if you want to type your own Pinyin words. It's really easy to use and you can set the correct tones right at your fingertips. I would recommend this to anyone who is learning Mandarin Chinese.
-- Garycy, 2011-10-12

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## Pinyin Typist Store Rankings
| Chart | Country | Category | Rank |
|-------|---------|----------|------|
| Top Paid | Vietnam | Productivity | #207 |
| Top Paid | Lebanon | Productivity | #237 |
| Top Paid | Indonesia | Productivity | #247 |

## Pinyin Typist Discovered Keywords
- pinyin typist

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