type a slash.get an image.
Turtle is the open-source AI keyboard that turns any text field into a generator. Type /cap a samurai cat and a custom image lands in your composer in ~1.5 seconds. Text commands come next.
Seven steps to drop one image in the chat. The moment's already gone.
Stop. Open Midjourney or ChatGPT. Type the prompt. Wait. Long-press. Save. Switch back. Attach. By then the group chat has moved on three messages. The friction tax kills the long tail of small daily wins — birthday cards, stickers, the perfect reply meme.
Turtle removes the tax. The keyboard is the universal layer above every app.
A keyboard the platforms can't ship.
Apple's keyboard pushes Apple Intelligence. Gboard pushes Gemini. They will never route to whichever model is best. We will. That's the whole point.
Slash. Picture. Send.
Type /cap inside any text field — WhatsApp, iMessage, Tinder, Gmail — and a custom image lands in your composer in under two seconds. No app switching, no screenshot dance.
Every image model. One keyboard.
Flux Schnell for speed, Flux Pro for the polished hero shot, SDXL for stylised stuff. We route each prompt to the model that's actually best at it. You don't pick. Unless you want to.
Open source. Audit the keys.
The keyboard is MIT-licensed and on GitHub. Full Access scares you? Read the source. Or fork it. Trust is built, not declared.
2-second images, then everything else.
v1 ships /cap — images in ~1.5s, into your chat. Text commands (/fix, /tone, /reply, /tl) follow once the image loop feels truly instant. We'd rather ship one thing that flies than five that limp.
Six image commands at launch. Text right after.
v1 is laser-focused on pictures: prompt, sticker, edit, avatar, scene, meme — all invoked by typing /, or tapping the Quick Panel (double-tap space). Text commands ship once the image loop is bulletproof.
Custom image from any prompt, ~1.5s, into the chat.
Transparent-bg sticker, sized for iMessage + WhatsApp.
Drop an image, describe the change. Edits in place.
Restyle your selfie — anime, oil paint, pixel, 3D.
Combine subject + setting into one staged image.
Meme template + AI-written caption, ready to paste.
The moment doesn't die wait for a context switch.
The group chat is moving. Your reply needs to land in the next 8 seconds. You type /cap a samurai cat. Two seconds later, image is on the clipboard. Paste. Send. Status acquired.
Free forever. Pro if you want the good stuff.
- /20 images/day
- /Flux Schnell (~1.5s)
- //cap, /sticker, /meme, /edit
- /Small watermark
- /Free forever
- /Unlimited images
- /Flux Pro, SDXL, Ideogram
- /No watermark
- /Priority queue
- /Custom image commands
- /Everything in Pro
- /Bring your own API keys
- /Cross-device sync
- /First access when text commands ship
- /We charge zero margin on inference
The skeptical questions.
The ones we'd ask too. The honest answers.
Wait, isn't a third-party keyboard sketchy?+
Reasonable concern. That's exactly why the keyboard is open source. You can read every line that touches your text — and we never log anything outside of slash commands. The closed part is the routing backend; the surface that sees your typing is fully auditable.
Why can't Apple or Google just build this?+
They can build an AI keyboard. They can't build a model-agnostic one — Apple's keyboard exists to push Apple Intelligence; Gboard exists to push Gemini. The whole point of Turtle is that it routes to whichever model is actually best, and that's structurally off-limits for the platforms.
How fast is fast?+
Target end-to-end: under 2 seconds for /cap, measured from the last keystroke to the image sitting in your composer. The latency budget is the product. If we can't hit that, it doesn't ship — which is exactly why text commands aren't in v1 yet.
Do I have to pay?+
Free tier covers 20 images per day on Flux Schnell. Pro ($4.99/mo) unlocks premium image models (Flux Pro, SDXL, Ideogram for text-in-image), no watermark, priority queue, and custom commands. Pro+ lets you bring your own keys.