Version 2.3 Features and Fixes

• Notarized by Apple for distribution as an "identified developer" account.
• IPA font coverage indicated in font menu.
• Dark Mode compatible — tested primarily on macOS 10.15 Catalina.
• Working Sparkle auto-update capability.

Download

Download IPA Palette 2.3.2 (2.2M).
Reading the Documentation is highly recommended.
Source code can be found on GitHub.

Previous version compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 and earlier (but with auto-update broken):
Download the previous IPA Palette 2.2.1 (3.2M).
For Mac OS X 10.2-10.4:
Download the previous IPA Palette 2.0 (1.3M).
Download the previous IPA Palette 1.0 (629K).

What Folks Are Saying

• IPA Palette does exactly what a linguist would want, exactly the way a linguist would want it. It's a beautiful piece of work.
  — M.D.
• I have a great appreciation for the computer programmers that see a need and go all the way to meet it.
  — A.W.
• How the heck did you finally come up with an IPA system that actually WORKS?  You're a genius! Thank you!
  — K.S.
• DUDE! You rock. Thanks so much for putting that together. It is MIRACULOUS!
  — C.J.
• ...lovely little unit it is too, takes a lot of the blood sweat & tears out of the task of transcription.
  — C.H.
• I'm taking my first linguistics course and hit a serious note-taking roadblock when we started to use IPA. I take my notes on my Mac laptop and just couldn't keep up the insert->character->etc routine fast enough to catch what my prof. was talking about. Enter IPA Palette.
  — L.G.
• I want to thank you very much for that software I was waiting for for quite a long time.
  — B.S.
• just a word of thanks for a very nice ipa input device.... your palette has a made an odious task much more manageable.
  — S.W.
• Hey, THANK YOU so much for creating this incredibly useful tool.
  — D.M.
• Thanks again for the great tool. It is very helpful.
  — T.R.