CLUSTER INPUT-CHINESE-MACOS · 21 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-08-13
Chinese typing input methods
This cluster comprises Chinese input methods for desktop and iOS, covering pinyin, Bopomofo, Boshiamy, voice typing, and mixed Chinese-English entry, with an emphasis on local-first processing and customizability. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from—it predates the index or its members are undated. Traction leaders among these products are TriFecta (21 stars), MSIME-Apple (18 stars), and zhijeida (7 stars).
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 1 unlabelled
Operator · 1 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 1 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 21McBopomofo-Smart0★1 mo—open sourcemacOS input method that provides local-first smart Bopomofo typing with predictive candidate ranking and user learning, without cloud AI.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.