Odia Typing Online – ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଟାଇପିଂ

Updated 26 October 2026

Type Odia with the keyboard you already have

Notelo is a free online Odia notepad. Type each word the way it sounds, in English letters, and it appears in Odia script as you type. You don't need an Odia keyboard, extra software or a special font. It runs in any modern browser on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone.

The writing area is large on purpose. Odia letters have vowel signs above, below and beside them, and they are hard to read at small sizes. Here the text starts at 30 pixels, and you can make it bigger from the settings.

How to type in Odia, in three steps

1. Click in the notepad and type a word in Roman letters, for example namaskAra.
2. Watch it turn into Odia as you type. A small box under the word shows the letters you typed so far. Backspace removes one Roman letter at a time, so a mistake costs one key. Esc puts the word back in English, which is handy for names and English words in the middle of Odia text.
3. Press space to start the next word. When you're done, copy the note, download it as a text file, or simply leave it: notes save themselves as you type.

Press Ctrl+M at any time to switch between Odia and English typing.

Four rules cover almost every word

Odia has more letters than English, so a few English letters do double duty. Once you know these four rules you can type any word from its sound.

• Capitals give the hard letters. Lowercase t d n give ତ ଦ ନ; capital T D N give the murdhanya letters ଟ ଡ ଣ. In the same way, sh is ଶ and Sh is ଷ.
• Capitals make vowels long. ki is କି and kI is କୀ; ku is କୁ and kU is କୂ; A gives the sign କା.
• Add h for the breathy letter. k → କ, kh → ଖ; d → ଦ, dh → ଧ.
• End the word with its vowel. Every Odia consonant carries an “a” sound, so type it: rAma gives ରାମ. Without the final a, Notelo writes the word the Sanskrit way with a halanta (ରାମ୍). If you write everyday Odia and never want that, turn off Sanskrit word endings in the settings.

Two consonants in a row join on their own: shAnti → ଶାନ୍ତି, dharma → ଧର୍ମ, chandra → ଚନ୍ଦ୍ର. The full key list is on the Odia ITRANS chart, and every letter with its English sound is on the Odia alphabet chart. If you're new to this, the practice lessons take about ten minutes.

Speak instead of typing

Tap the microphone and speak Odia, and your words are written into the note in Odia script wherever your browser's speech service understands Odia (try Chrome). You can also speak Sanskrit or Hindi and have it written in Odia script, which is useful for shlokas and bhajans and works in Chrome, Safari and usually Edge. Read more about Odia voice typing.

Made for Sanskritised Odia

Many Odia texts, from prayer books to letters, mix in Sanskrit words, and these need letters everyday keyboards leave out. Notelo types all of them: saMskRta → ସଂସ୍କୃତ, namaH → ନମଃ, so.aham → ସୋଽହମ୍, || → ॥. If you paste Sanskrit written in Devanagari, it is written in Odia script. See Sanskrit in Odia script for every mark and its key.

Everything in the notepad

• A full-screen writing area with ruled lines and text size from 18 to 72 pixels.
• Four Odia fonts from Google Fonts: Noto Sans, Noto Serif, Anek Odia and Baloo Bhaina.
• As many notes as you like, with search that understands both Roman and Odia.
• Copy, download as .txt, or share from your phone.
• Dark mode, focus mode and keyboard shortcuts.
• Works offline after the first visit, and installs like an app on Android and iPhone.
• No account, no ads, and nothing you write leaves your device.

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