SIL has produced software that enables peoples of the world to use the computer in their mother language.

In order to have a complete index, the whole range of SIL software is covered here, from the state-of-the-art linguistic analysis program to ancient text processing tools that are only of historic interest. Searching for software by linguistic task, interface language, license or operating system can be done through LingTranSoft, which includes all SIL Software, plus other software used to support language development and translation tasks.

Please contact the Language Technology team if you have questions or need assistance.

A separate page lists fonts produced by SIL.

Featured Products



Andika

A sans serif Unicode font designed especially for literacy use and the needs of beginning readers. The focus is on clear letterforms that will not be easily confused with one another.

Awami Nastaliq

Awami Nastaliq is a Nastaliq-style Arabic script font supporting a wide variety of languages of southwest Asia, including but not limited to Urdu. This font is aimed at minority language support. This makes it unique among Nastaliq fonts.

Bloom

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.

FLEx (FieldWorks Language Explorer)

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

Makes it possible for you to type in over 1,000 languages on Windows, iPhone, iPad, Android tablets and phones, and even instantly in your web browser. Keyboards for specific languages can be found on the Keyman site and on scripts.sil.org

Paratext

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.

SayMore

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.

Scripture App Builder

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.

Tagmukay

A high-quality Shifinagh font that supports the Tawallammat dialect of Tamajaq.

Translators Workplace

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



Web Applications

Other Supported Software

SIL International recommends that people use this software to accomplish their language processing tasks. This software is maintained and updated. In addition, technical support may be received from the application developer(s).

Unsupported Software

Unsupported software is available to use on an “as is” basis. The software may be helpful to accomplish tasks for which it was designed. However, due to limited resourcing, SIL will not provide support or bug fixes for the software.