A web or desktop application with features for local management of audio and text material. It also enables online collaboration, and works together with tools like Paratext and Render, providing flexible management of entire audio and audio-text projects.

Learning to read takes books. Learning to read well, and developing a love of reading, takes lots of books. Books at all different skill levels. But how are low-literacy language communities ever to get all those books in their language? They can do it with Bloom.

Enables linguists to be highly productive when building a lexicon and interlinearizing texts. Powerful bulk editing tools can save hours of work. FLEx allows control of which fields and entries show up in a dictionary publication.

Keyman helps you type in over 2000 languages on just about any device — Windows, macOS, Linux, iPhone, iPad, Android tablets and phones, and even instantly in your web browser.

Allows you to input, edit, check, and publish a translation of the Scriptures, based on the original texts (Greek, Hebrew), and modeled on versions in major languages.

An Android app with many of the capabilities of Paratext. Expand the size of a translation team for tasks such as reading, reviewing, and revising of the text, or even for the purpose of creating a back-translation. It can also be helpful where the use of a computer in parts of the language area may be inconvenient or impractical, and for send/receive if your phone can connect to the Internet when your computer cannot. Not a replacement for the full version of Paratext, it provides many helpful features for translation teams around the world.

Create high quality PDFs from your Paratext files for trial publications of Scripture. It has many easily configurable options allowing a whole range of outputs.

Scriptoria helps you publish your Android apps and keep them updated every time the Scripture App Builder software is improved. This includes Scripture apps, dictionary apps and other reader apps.

A dynamic, collaborative reference to the writing systems of the world, with detailed information on scripts, characters, languages - and the remaining needs for supporting them in the computing realm.

Helps you build customized Scripture apps for Android smartphones and tablets. You specify the Scripture files to use, the app name, the fonts, the colors, the audio and the icon. Scripture App Builder will package everything together and build the app for you.

Scripture Earth provides access to Scripture products for thousands of languages around the world, including video, audio, mobile apps, online text, PDFs, and links to purchase printed Bibles and other resources.

Scripture Forge enhances your Paratext project with flexible features for community checking, as well as AI-enabled related-language adaptation suggestions. Natural Language Processing technology learns as you work to provide improved suggestions that reflect your translation decisions.

A collection of Biblical resources chosen specially for Bible Translators by SIL, and offered through partnership as a library in Logos Bible Software.

Webonary gives language groups the ability to publish bilingual or multilingual dictionaries on the web with minimal technical knowledge.

Helps translate texts between related languages (a process called adaptation). Using Adapt It, translators have been able to dramatically reduce the total time spent on their translation projects.

Create colorful and engaging literacy games for a new language in less than one week. These literacy games build spelling skills through increasingly difficult activities. Apps created with Alpha Tiles run on Android devices.

Bloom is used around the world to make new books in local languages, so readers have material to read. In addition to paper and epub, those books can be published to this Android app, the Bloom Reader.

A simple program to view and listen to multimedia books published with the Bloom Editor or downloaded from the Bloom Library.

Helps you compare languages using lexicostatistics and comparative linguistics techniques. It can be used to automate much of the process of comparing word lists from different language varieties.

The Combine is an easy-to-use Rapid Word Collection tool. It facilitates gathering words by semantic domain, along with translations, audio, and notes, to more fully capture form and meaning.

Dekereke is a software aid to phonological analysis. It provides a system for maintaining and processing phonetic / phonological data, and functions for searching and analyzing such data to answer questions about the phonological patterns in a language.

DiagSap is a LingTree-like tool to create Philippine-style word diagrams (DiagSap is short for “diagramang sapin-sapin” which is Tagalog for “layered diagram.”)

Helps you to build customized dictionary apps for Android smartphones and tablets. You specify the lexicon data file to use, the app name, fonts, colors, the audio, illustrations and the icon.

A data management and analysis tool for field linguists. It is especially useful for maintaining lexical data, and for parsing and interlinearizing text, but it can be used to manage virtually any kind of data.

A rule-based machine translation system that is easy to use for ordinary linguists. It leverages FLEx (Fieldworks Language Explorer) and a powerful transfer rule language to give high-quality results. Your project may already have lexicons in FLEx so you have a head start!

A comprehensive list of font development tools developed and used by SIL. These include a script for building composite glyphs in FontLab (FLGlyphBuilder), the command line version of TypeTuner, and other tools.

Helps you produce a high-quality dramatized audio recording of Scripture.

A package that can be used to create smart fonts" capable of displaying writing systems with most complex behaviors."

Convert Unicode USFM files, unzipped ETEN DBL bundles, or USFX files to produce HTML, EPUB3 files, Crosswire Sword Project modules, Microsoft Word XML, PDF files, or other formats.

Bible recording made easy! HearThis provides a do-it-yourself alternative for communities wanting to get translated scripture text into their own language.

A web based tool for learning to recognize, transcribe, and produce the sounds of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). An earlier version of this is available as a download for Windows.

Various apps, fonts, and resources to help transcribe IPA symbols on your devices.

Keyboard App Builder helps you to build customized keyboard apps for Android smartphones and tablets. This allows users to type in their language within other apps such as Gmail, Facebook and WhatsApp. The App Builder creates APK files that can be installed on Android devices.  

Keyman Developer is the most powerful tool for creating keyboard layouts for any popular platform for any language around the world. Build keyboards layouts for desktop, web, tablet and phone. Optimise your keyboards for each platform, including touch-and-hold keys and alternative layers.

A tool that lets you describe a linguistic tree and produce a graphic image of it. LingTree Helper can make the job easier.

A tool to document, organize, and consultant check transcriptions of oral Bible stories. It can do for story telling teams what Paratext is doing for translators.  

The Parser and Writer for Syntax (PAWS) has two purposes. The Writer produces about a 100 page long rough draft of a grammar of the syntax of your language, based on the answers to the questions in each section of PAWS. The draft can be in English, French, and/or Spanish. The Parser produces all the files needed for using the PC-PATR syntactic parser for parsing and disambiguation within FieldWorks Language Explorer. For both the Writer and the Parser, we expect PAWS to cover about 80% of what a specific language needs.

Automatically charts the sounds in phonetic data and helps a user discover and test the phonology rules of sound in a language.

Design primers faster and smarter with PrimerPrep! This powerful tool analyzes your language data to recommend the best letter-teaching sequence, offers ready-to-use example words for each step, and ensures your lessons use only letters already taught. Say goodbye to guesswork and hello to confident, efficient primer creation!

Making good primers requires much work: listing words according to the letters they contain, and keeping track of which letters have been taught so far. PrimerPro does this for you, making it easy to create primers that follow sound teaching principles. When you put lots of care into developing a primer, learning to read is easier for the learner.

Publishing Assistant equips Bible typesetters to create high-quality print layouts from Paratext projects through integration with Adobe’s powerful InDesign page layout application. It transforms Paratext project texts into fully styled Adobe InDesign documents.

Make customized apps for Android and iOS smartphones and tablets. Apps can be picture books, health and community development materials, song books, illustrated stories and libraries of easy-to-read books for new readers. Apps can have synchronized text and audio, highlighting each phrase as it is read. The app menus, icon, splash screen and colors can all be customized for your language and culture.

Recording speakers of the world’s languages is fun and rewarding, but keeping all the resulting files and meta data organized? Converting files to archive formats? Transcription? Painful. That's why we built SayMore – to make common Language Documentation tasks fun and to keep you productive.

Provides tools through which you can change the encoding, font, and/or script of text in documents. Works with Microsoft Word and other Office documents, XML documents, and SFM text and lexicon documents.

Create and share sign language video dictionaries with SooSL™. Search signs by handshape, location, movement, or gloss. Include glosses in multiple written languages, distinguish senses, indicate dialects and word classes, and add example sentences and comments. Compatible with any sign language.

Story Producer app enables local-language speakers to make oral translations of nicely illustrated Bible stories and most Bloom books. Then with essentially one tap the app creates local videos they can share with their community. All on a basic Android phone.

A Paratext plug-in to suggest translations of comprehension questions, to prepare for community checking.

This tool allows you to download customized versions of popular SIL fonts. You can select alternate glyphs and other optional features to be the defaults for your new font.

A Unicode Keyboard Layout Editor for macOS versions 10.2 and later.

Produce linguistic documents with at least five outputs, all from the same source document: Web pages, PDF, Microsoft Word, Open Office Writer, and ePUB. It automatically numbers sections and examples and keeps track of section references, citation references, and glosses/abbreviations.