UVieKey

Fast, lightweight, and accurate Vietnamese keyboard for macOS, powered by the engine uvie-rs.

Features

• Telex & VNI: complete support for both popular typing styles.
• New tone mark placement standard: hoas → hoá (optional).
• Relaxed coda abbreviation: g → ng, h → nh — type đạg instead of đặng, nhah instead of nhạnh (optional).
• Automatically capitalize the beginning of sentences after .!? (optional).
• Remember language per app: automatically turn Vietnamese on/off for each application.
• Automatically turn off when detecting a non-Latin keyboard (Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Russian...).
• Macro: shortcut typing, for example mk → mình không.
• Fn tap toggle: quickly press Fn to switch between English/Vietnamese and allows customization.
• AX mode: works in Spotlight and secure text fields.
• Check for updates: automatically check and install updates easily with one click.
• No Dock icon: only appears on the menu bar.
• Login with the system
• Popover: quickly toggle features on the menu bar.
• Error diagnosis: Run diagnostics and send error reports using logs for developers to improve user experience.

Performance

• DMG: 2.7MB (release pipeline, universal with auto-update)
• RAM: ~40 MB (when opening the Setting window), ~20 MB (when running in the background)
• CPU: ~0.3% when typing
• Speed: 0.3ms per keystroke