# Panda Zhuyin — Bopomofo & Taiwanese Hokkien > Bopomofo & Taiwanese Hokkien (iPhone/iPad app by TZUYUAN YIN.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/panda-zhuyin/id6761426494 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [TZUYUAN YIN](https://appshunter.io/developer/1889551000) - Category: Utilities - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 107 MB - Languages: American English, Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan) - Released: 2026-04-15 - Data updated: 2026-08-20 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/panda-zhuyin/id6761426494/reviews.md ## What is Panda Zhuyin? Panda Zhuyin — steady bopomofo and Taiwanese typing. A keyboard that packs 37 bopomofo symbols into a few large keys: tap for the center, flick four directions for the rest. Every key is "center + four directions" — wherever you tap or flick, you get one definite sound. Inspired by Japanese flick keyboards. Initials on the left, medials in the middle, finals on the right — following bopomofo's own structural grouping, so there is nothing new to memorize. Mandarin only uses 412 actual syllables, so impossible combinations are grayed out. Each key big enough you won't tap the wrong one. New in 2.0: Taiwanese Hokkien keyboard · Type Taiwanese with extended phonetic symbols: all 7 tones, entering tones, and nasalized finals · Taiwanese lexicon cross-checked from four public dictionary sources · Custom dictionary now supports a Taiwanese category with auto-inferred readings · Romanization lookup panel: per-syllable cards mapping phonetic symbols to Tai-lo and POJ · Select any text and replace it with its romanization · Learn as you type: per-key labels show Hanyu Pinyin on Mandarin keys, Tai-lo or POJ on Taiwanese keys New English and symbol keyboards · Standard QWERTY layout; swipe down on a key to type uppercase; European accented letters included · Halfwidth and fullwidth symbol layouts redesigned; punctuation commits directly Make the keyboard yours · Theme editor: colors, fonts, opacity, borders, and backgrounds (solid, gradient, or photo) · Five built-in fonts with continuous weight adjustment · Glass finish: translucent keys with a subtle edge highlight, tuned for light and dark Features · Open-source Homa composer for more accurate long-sentence conversion · Custom dictionary + auto-learning (fact, not prediction) · iCloud Sync (opt-in) mirrors to your own private iCloud space — never through any panda-zhuyin server · Candidate tabs: frequency / single characters / symbols · Emoji candidates and symbol dictionary · Chinese numeral and date-time input · Spacebar long-press cursor glide · One-handed mode and landscape layout · Full VoiceOver support across the keyboard · Extended bopomofo (opt-in) for Old Mandarin Privacy · No outbound network calls — the keyboard is fully offline · Your input never leaves your device · Auto-learning data stays local · "Allow Full Access" is used only for haptic feedback (an Apple platform requirement); no data is transmitted either way About the subscription (Panda Supporter) Core typing is free forever. Supporter is an auto-renewable subscription (NT$30/month or NT$290/year) that unlocks appearance extras: featured effect themes, font switching, glass-finish color sets, and background gradients. Cancel anytime in Manage Subscriptions. Terms: https://erikyin.net/panda-zhuyin/terms.html Privacy: https://erikyin.net/panda-zhuyin/privacy.html Who this is not for (honestly) · You type comfortably on the built-in bopomofo keyboard — it may already be enough · You want cloud AI prediction — Gboard or SwiftKey fits better · You don't type bopomofo or Taiwanese Requires iOS 18 or later. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | 請貓熊喝茶 | $0.99 | one-time | | 請貓熊吃便當 | $4.99 | one-time | | 請貓熊吃飯糰 | $1.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 2.5.0 — 2026-08-19 Panda Zhuyin 2.5.0 Typing initials only · When you type just the initials, mid-sentence positions used to accept only a handful of characters, so the result often read oddly. Every character can take part now, and the natural phrasing comes first in the candidate bar · Press a single key on its own and the first candidate follows everyday speech, not written-text frequency · The neutral-tone key at the end of a sentence now leads with the particles that belong there, and characters after common connectives are picked for how they read together · Names and terms you added yourself now show up in whole-sentence candidates, even from initials or untoned input · Long initial-only strings respond about ten times faster per key, with the same candidates Learning and candidate order · A combination you picked segment by segment really does move to the front when you type it again, initials included · A character you once picked on its own is no longer pushed into the tail of a combination you never demonstrated · Rare words no longer hold the front spot on length alone; when two parses have the same word count, the one that reads better wins Themes and appearance (Supporter subscription; typing features stay free) · Four new featured themes, each with a light and a dark version. One of them outlines every key in a color set by its phonetic role · The glass finish was rebuilt: translucent keys with an edge highlight, the same look across iOS versions, and no flicker when you switch. "Liquid Glass" is now called "Glass Finish" · The three original packs get brighter dark-mode accents and text tinted to each pack · The built-in pixel font is now GNU Unifont with Taiwan-standard forms: 16x16, full strokes, look-alike characters easier to tell apart, and far fewer missing characters in Taiwanese Taiwanese · The 170 loanwords in the Ministry of Education dictionary appendix, most of them without a Han spelling, can now be typed as phonetic symbols and are marked in the candidate bar; 87 come with a matching emoji · Variant Han spellings now follow the Ministry dictionary, with its readings and sources added, so candidate order tracks the dictionary · Selecting text shows the standard reading again: alternate, colloquial, and regional-accent readings all sort after it, and the choice no longer changes between keyboard launches · The annotation in the candidate bar follows the notation you chose Fixes · Two words could not produce their emoji since 2.0.0 - fixed · Taiwanese: typing without tone marks no longer leaves entering-tone words unreachable · The Han tab of the Taiwanese lookup follows your theme font and text size ### 2.4.3 — 2026-08-18 Panda Zhuyin 2.4.3 Taiwanese phonetic notation · New "Notation" setting: the same sound has two accepted spellings - the Ministry of Education standard and the conventional one - and you can now pick which the keyboard shows · After you first enable the Taiwanese keyboard, a card asks how you pronounce a familiar dish name and sets the notation from your answer; the conventional spelling stays the default, so nothing changes on upgrade · You can also switch notation straight from the keyboard's floating menu while typing · The lexicon was regenerated against the Ministry standard, fixing candidate ordering for a number of words Taiwanese lexicon · Regional pronunciations from the Ministry dictionary's variant readings are now available for candidate selection: 255 more words and 173 more single characters · Local variant word forms from the Ministry dictionary's vocabulary comparison tables join the lexicon (1,703 more entries), and per-character accent readings now carry over to related words (4,405 more readings) · Added key entries for phonetic symbol combinations that previously could not be typed Glide Input · Direction hints on rime keys became edge bands: directions that continue the current syllable show a long band, directions that start a new one shrink to a small dot - so you can tell at a glance which way composes · When the base symbol dims, the directions that still compose stay legible Simplified output · New "Simplified output" setting: committed Mandarin text is converted to Simplified character forms, with the candidate bar matching; character forms only, vocabulary is unchanged, and Taiwanese mode is unaffected. Also switchable from the keyboard's floating menu Fixes · Sentence composition now prefers complete words: when a proper word exists, the top candidate is no longer a fragmented string of high-frequency single characters · Long-press "Forget" now truly works on composed sentences: after forgetting a wrong composition the correct one returns immediately, and forgetting an unlearned default composition no longer changes the candidates · Learning mode: for medial-plus-rime combinations formed by glide input, the pinyin / romanization label now comes from the official rime tables, correcting spellings that were previously built by concatenating each symbol's own spelling (10 in Hanyu Pinyin, 12 in Peh-oe-ji) · The what's-new card shown on first launch after updating no longer appears as the full onboarding tour ### 2.3.0 — 2026-08-02 Panda Zhuyin 2.3.0 Glide Input (early access) · A new way to type medials: flick a rime key up, down, or sideways to compose the medial and the rime in one gesture - no more aiming inside a pop-up pad · The shift key now flips key faces one tap at a time: tap once, type the variant, and it flips back automatically; Taiwanese nasalized and voiced variants now go through it · Classic input stays the default - turn on "Glide Input" in Settings to try it, and switch back anytime · The keyboard menu and in-app cards will guide you through the change; the manual and its demo animations follow whichever mode you choose Taiwanese input · Lexicon cleanup: removed a small set of entries with invalid syllables for cleaner candidates ### 2.2.1 — 2026-07-31 Panda Zhuyin 2.2.1 Taiwanese Text Lookup · Fixed the disappearing paste button: when Full Access is off, a settings guide with a shortcut replaces the button; when the system paste control fails to render, an alternative paste method takes over · Multi-line pastes keep their line structure - poetry and similar text no longer collapse into one oversized card that runs off screen, and blank lines are preserved Full-width symbol page · Restored the operators: asterisk, plus, and equals · Symbols that gave up their key are still reachable from the candidate row · Unified behavior across all keys: punctuation now goes through candidates before being committed · Added a half-width underscore candidate, so file names and code-style naming no longer require switching to the half-width page · Circled numbers now cover 0 through 20 Mandarin input · Added 783 rare characters, including Japanese joyo and jinmeiyo kanji ### 2.2.0 — 2026-07-25 Panda Zhuyin 2.2.0 Taiwanese Text Lookup (formerly Romanization Lookup) · Upgraded into a full conversion tool: paste Tai-lo, POJ, mixed script, or Han characters - the content type is detected automatically and converted both ways · Now accepts extended Bopomofo input; the phonetic tab shows romanization and extended Bopomofo side by side · Conversion results appear as word cards: swap words, split into characters, and adjust readings for heteronyms and variant pronunciations Taiwanese Hokkien input · Entering-tone tolerance: tones 4 and 8 are now interchangeable, so a mis-typed tone no longer blocks input · Completed the entering-tone cycle on initial transform keys, with dimmed feedback for the default state · Expanded vocabulary: alternate readings and academic terminology from Ministry of Education dictionaries, plus a 1928 botanical glossary; common-word ranking fixes Stability · Fixed several vocabulary-learning issues: forgotten words no longer come back, and learning no longer disrupts word selection · Fixed stutter on long input and a crash in the reading tab with many entries · Completed English localization of the keyboard interface ## Related topics [panda zhuyin](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/panda-zhuyin) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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