Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Global




dotSwitcher is described as 'Simple keyboard layout switcher. As lightweight as you can easily ensure it doesn't contain any spyware, even if you're not a programming guru' and is a keyboard layout switcher in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to dotSwitcher for Windows, Mac, Linux and Adobe Flash Player. The best dotSwitcher alternative is Mahou, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like dotSwitcher are Caramba Switcher, Punto Switcher, SimpleSwitcher and LangOver.




Caramba Switcher is a Windows application that automatically corrects keyboard layout when you are typing in English and Russian. If you start typing in wrong layout, Caramba Switcher will automatically fix it.

Punto Switcher allows easy change keyboard layout for text that was just input automatically or by pressing a hotkey.


SimpleSwitcher is a program for quickly correcting the layout of typed text in Windows.

Have you ever tried to type in one language but the result was in another? Annoying, eh?!




Low-level keyboard switcher (runs as a daemon, no GUI interface) that allows you to bind single key (including modifier keys such as Ctrl, Fn, and CapsLock) to a language.
A lightweight Bash-based tool that automatically converts text between two keyboard layouts — for example, between Russian and English.




K-Switch is a keyboard layout corrector for Windows 10 and 11. It watches what you type and, when a word comes out as gibberish in the current layout, rewrites it in the correct one and leaves the layout on the language it corrected to, so the next word is already right.



A local Windows utility that automatically or manually fixes text typed in the wrong Ukrainian, English, or Russian keyboard layout.



FlicKey is a tiny macOS menu-bar app that fixes wrong-keyboard-layout typing and auto-manages your input language per app and per website.

The easiest way to type foreign characters and IPA phonetic symbols on your Windows PC.

CursorLang is a lightweight, non-intrusive Windows utility that displays your active keyboard layout right where you type — next to the text caret or mouse cursor.

