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Murasu Anjal
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Free | keyboards · input methods · core fonts | Free |
| Personal (Upgrade) | requires an existing licence | 20 SGD, paid once |
| Personal (New Purchase) | one person · non-commercial use only · one licence key per machine · learning prediction · personal wordlist editor · eight keyboard layouts · text-to-speech · Brahmi script output | 40 SGD, paid once |
| Premium (Sidegrade) | requires an existing Anjal 12 Personal licence | 40 SGD, paid once |
| Premium (Upgrade) | requires an existing licence | 60 SGD, paid once |
| Premium (New Purchase) | everything in Personal · premium typefaces with matched Latin · new premium fonts while the licence is valid · eight keyboard layouts · macOS Universal Binary · Windows ARM64 and x64 · text-to-speech · Brahmi script · organisations request a quotation from support | 80 SGD, paid once |
As anjal.net lists them, read 14 Nov 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Facts from Murasu Anjal's own pages
- Dictionaries
- Dictionary Manager includes the Madras Tamil Lexicon of about 64,000 words, adds Pal’s Tamil–Tamil dictionary in paid versions, and also shows results from Sorkuvai and Wikipedia. · guide.anjal.net, 14 Nov 2026
- Fonts by licence
- Free includes a small set of everyday and teaching fonts, Personal adds about twenty redesigned classic families, and Premium adds new Version 12 display typefaces. · guide.anjal.net, 14 Nov 2026
- Founded
- 1985 · anjal.net, 19 Oct 2026
- Free versus paid
- The free licence covers everyday Tamil typing, while Personal and Premium add the extended font library, the predictive text engine, and the dictionary manager. · anjal.net, 14 Nov 2026
- Headquarters
- Klang, Malaysia; Singapore · anjal.net, 19 Oct 2026
- Keyboard layouts
- Version 12 supports nine layouts: Anjal, Tamil99, Murasu-7, Murasu-6, Old Typewriter, New Typewriter, Murasu Bamini, TN Typewriter, and Inscript Tamil. · guide.anjal.net, 14 Nov 2026
- Learned words
- The private wordlist of words it learns stays on the user’s computer, is never shared, and can be exported to another computer. · guide.anjal.net, 14 Nov 2026
- Legacy documents
- Converting pre-Unicode Tamil requires a Personal or Premium licence, and the File Converter reads Word .docx and plain text and recognises encodings including TSCII, TAB, TAM, Anjal, and Mylai. · guide.anjal.net, 14 Nov 2026
- Origin
- Muthu Nedumaran began the software in 1985 as a hobby on a personal computer running MS-DOS 3.1. · anjal.net, 14 Nov 2026
- Privacy
- The privacy policy is published by Murasu Systems Sdn Bhd and Grow Momentum (S) Pte Ltd and says they follow Malaysia’s Personal Data Protection Act 2010 and Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act 2012. · anjal.net, 14 Nov 2026
- Purpose
- Murasu Anjal is an intelligent Tamil text input system for Windows and macOS, with keyboards, input methods, and a font library for writing Tamil. · anjal.net, 14 Nov 2026
- Schools
- Malaysia’s Ministry of Education standardised it for all 523 Tamil schools in 2002 and 2003, and it still serves as the official Tamil input method for Singapore’s Ministry of Education schools and offices after installation in 2009. · anjal.net, 14 Nov 2026
- Support
- Installation, use, and payment questions go by email to [email protected], and the contact page lists phones in Malaysia and Singapore. · anjal.net, 14 Nov 2026
- System requirements
- Version 12.1.11, dated 8 October 2026, needs Windows 11 or macOS 14.0 or later, with separate installers for each. · anjal.net, 14 Nov 2026
- Text to speech
- Solvan reads pasted Tamil aloud with the text-to-speech voices installed on the operating system. · guide.anjal.net, 14 Nov 2026
- Where it works
- It is a standards-compliant Text Service input method on Windows and macOS, and its Unicode fonts display Tamil in any app that supports Unicode Tamil. · guide.anjal.net, 14 Nov 2026
- Who it is for
- The Personal edition is described for educators, authors, and anyone who writes Tamil regularly, and it is limited to non-commercial use. · store.anjal.net, 14 Nov 2026
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