App 03 · iPhone, iPhone Duo, iPad · Coming soon

Tapote

Your iPhone becomes your iPad’s keyboard.

Discover tapote.app ↗ Coming soon to the App Store
The iPad shows a note being written; in front, the iPhone is used as a keyboard with word suggestions.

Behind the app

Tapote

The keyboard you already had in your pocket.

What I saw

The iPad’s on-screen keyboard hides half of what you write. A Bluetooth keyboard is one more thing to buy, charge and carry. Yet we all have an iPhone in our pocket, and we type fast on it.

The angle

Tapote uses a custom keyboard installed on the iPad, an official Apple mechanism. Put the iPhone sideways, type, and the text appears in Notes, Mail, Safari, Messages or any other app, with no copy-paste.

01 Made for thumbs

In landscape, Tapote fills the whole iPhone screen. Big keys that sink under your finger with a light vibration, and a suggestion bar above them that learns your words.

The full-screen Tapote keyboard on an iPhone in landscape, raised keys, the E key pressed.
02 The cursor at your fingertips

Rest two fingers on the keyboard and slide: the cursor moves on the iPad. No more aiming between two letters.

Two fingers slid across the keyboard: the keys fade and the Cursor badge appears.
03 Cut out for iPhone Duo

Opened flat, iPhone Duo becomes a full-size keyboard. And to type with both hands like on a tablet, the keyboard splits in two.

iPhone Duo opened flat, turned into a full-size keyboard.
04 Nothing leaves your hands

A secret key is created on both your devices when you pair them. No one else, not even us, can read what you type. Nothing is stored. And when the iPhone and iPad sit side by side, they talk directly, without going through the internet.

What’s inside

05
Everywhere on the iPadText appears in every app: Notes, Mail, Safari, Messages, Slack…
Full screen in landscapeHeld sideways, the iPhone becomes a large keyboard with wide keys, designed for both thumbs.
Keys you can feelEach key sinks under your finger, with a light vibration.
Two-finger cursorTwo fingers on the keyboard move the iPad’s cursor, line by line if needed.
Suggestions that learnA bar suggests words; autocorrect remembers your own words.
iPhoneiOS 17 or later
iPhone DuoOpened flat, full-size keyboard
iPadiPadOS 17 or later, the device you write on
MacComing later
Price

7 days free.
Then €4.99, once.

Everything unlocked forever, future updates included. No subscription, no ads.

One email, the day it lands on the App Store. Unsubscribe in one click.

Coming soon to the App Store. Price shown for France; it may vary by country.
Designed and built by the studio: research, UX, UI, copy, code. Design lead: Cyril Anne, UI/UX designer for over 11 years.

Compatible with iPhone and iPad on iOS / iPadOS 17 or later. Mac version coming later. iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo are trademarks of Apple Inc. Tapote is an independent app by en biais.