Who builds Ezra, and why it is free

Ezra is built by Antenhe Tena. The Windows keyboard, the engine behind it, this site and every sentence on it are the same person’s work. There is no team to escalate to and no support desk — anything you report goes to the person who wrote the thing you are reporting.

That is worth saying plainly rather than dressing up, because it sets what you can expect. Releases come at one person’s pace. It is also why so much of this site is derived from files rather than typed into sentences: a single developer checking their own claims by eye is exactly the arrangement that publishes a wrong one, so the build checks them instead and refuses to finish when they stop being true.

There are 4 finished tools on this site, and every one of them runs in your browser: nothing to install, nothing to sign up for, and no account asked for at any point.

Nothing you write in any of them leaves your device. That is not a policy that could be softened later without the page saying so; it is a property of how these pages are built, and you can watch it hold in your browser’s network panel while you type. The privacy page is the long version, including the one exception — a finished timed test, which sends counting and never a word of your own.

The Windows keyboard is not released. There is no installer to download — not a beta, not an early build behind a form, nothing. The controls that will carry it read “Coming soon” and do nothing, and the waiting list is the only thing this site can honestly offer in their place.

The keyboard itself is built and it runs. What it has not had is a release, and the gap between those two is where most of the remaining work sits.

The aspiration is simple to state: Ezra types wherever Windows lets you type. What has actually been watched happen is narrower — composition was confirmed in seven applications, in one session of testing. Seven is the number this site quotes, and it stays seven until somebody sits down and raises it.

Every keystroke this site states comes out of the keyboard’s own layout table, a copy of which is vendored into this repository and read at build time. The typing demo, the alphabet chart, the social cards and the prose all draw from that one file, so what a page shows you is what the keyboard would commit — not a description of it written beside it.

This is a lesson rather than a design principle. An earlier version of this site wrote its examples out by hand and taught a scheme Ezra does not ship: six of its seven demo words committed something other than what the page displayed. The build now fails instead of publishing that, and refreshing the vendored table is what surfaces a change rather than a reader discovering it under their fingers.

This site carries advertising, and that is the whole of it. The keyboard is free, the tools are free, there is nothing here to buy and no paid tier behind any of it. Adverts cover the hosting so that the thing this site is actually for can stay free to the people who need it most, which is not a trade worth hiding at the bottom of a page.

What that buys the advertiser is the page, not you: adverts go after the content rather than inside a tool, they are never placed beside the typing drill, and pages like this one carry none at all. Nothing you type is ever sent to them — the drill and the tools do not talk to the advertising, and a blocker costs you nothing here. The privacy page names the advertiser, says what it sees, and says what it never will.

An account does exactly one thing: it carries your typing progress between browsers and machines. It is not a gate. Every tool listed above works signed out, and the drill records every finished test either way — to your own browser first, which is the primary copy rather than a cache of something held elsewhere.

So an account is a second copy of scores you already have, kept somewhere they survive a new laptop. Signing out leaves the local history untouched, and your progress page will hand the whole thing back as a file or delete it outright, immediately.