Updated October 2026 by Kamal Nasir
Charting on a phone means typing drug names and abbreviations that general autocorrect treats as mistakes. The options below fall into three groups: keyboards that add medical spelling, a dictation keyboard tied to a clinical speech platform, and snippet expanders you fill with your own text. Each blurb is drawn from the app's own App Store description.
A keyboard that adds more than 150,000 US or UK medical and pharmaceutical terms to spellcheck on iPhone and iPad, with American and British spellings. It works in apps such as Notes, Mail, Messages, web browsers and EMR apps. App Store
A keyboard that checks medical terminology spelling and grammar as you type, with multiword predictions and the option to add your own frequently used abbreviations to its dictionary. App Store
A dictation keyboard from Dolbey that lets clinicians dictate directly into healthcare apps using the cloud-based Fusion Narrate speech recognition platform. It is available only to registered users of Fusion Narrate or SayIt. App Store
A keyboard that brings your TextExpander snippet library to iPhone and iPad, with fill-ins, swipe typing, autocorrect and snippets shared by your team. It needs a TextExpander account. App Store
A replacement keyboard with autocorrect for 703 drug names, 46 built-in dot phrase templates such as .sbar, and a guard that underlines do-not-use abbreviations. Dictation and clinical calculators come with ChartKey Pro, and the keyboard extension contains no network code. About it ยท App Store
Yes, for a short list. Text Replacement is in Settings, General, Keyboard, and you add each shortcut by hand. A medical keyboard ships with clinical vocabulary and templates, so you do not build the list yourself.
The built-in dictionary is general English, so drug names and clinical abbreviations look like typos to it. A keyboard with a medical dictionary or a protected list of terms leaves them as typed.
Our entry in this category: ChartKey: Medical Keyboard.
Published by Kamal Nasir, the developer of the apps marked Ours. Apps change, so check each one's App Store page for its latest features.