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Azu
A writing system for learning, typing, and publishing. The mobile keyboard is free, and its toolbar already includes many everyday tools. Try the script on this page. License Azu Canvas when you want a dedicated writing surface. Prices are in USD.
Azu is a writing system capable of writing all languages with their corresponding phonemes in a compact and intuitive way to read.
Learn
Type
Publish
write all languages
Specially suited for Sub-Saharan languages.
Live Preview
Try the Azu view with any text
This preview is free. Type a few words and see how the current Azu font renders them. It does not detect, translate, or correct languages — it keeps your input as normal text.
Output
Access Path
Start with the script
Start free. Type on your phone, try the script here, then license Azu Canvas when you want a dedicated writing surface. Type is included with Canvas.
Type
The toolbar includes many tools you can use without paying.
Use
Tools and references support practical reading and writing.
Publish
Azu Canvas supports documents, books, reports, and design in Azu.
Launch Products
Start free, grow when you need a desk
The mobile keyboard is free on Google Play. License Azu Canvas when you want a dedicated writing surface. hmm is the messenger. Type is included. Prices are in USD.
Mobile
Mobile Keyboard
Free on Google Play. Type every day, learn the script, and use a toolbar of everyday tools. A year code from this site, or Play, unlocks Premium: transliteration, pager, and the writing assistant.
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Launch
Azu Canvas
A dedicated writing surface when you want more than the phone. Azu Tools stays in the background. Linux and Windows are ready. Download is on Google Drive for your profile. Type is included.
Get Canvas Canvas licensingMessenger
hmm
The messenger. Messages, search, notifications, saved posts, groups, calendar, notes, calculator, map, cart, and wallet. Premium adds transliteration, the dictionary, calls in hmm, votes and surveys, and hm. A year code is added at checkout.
hmm on the plans Jobs and pointsSupport
Start with the docs on this site. They cover most questions. Approved buyers also get install notes in Forge.
Partner work
Partners skip desks and plans. After register they download the file assigned to them.
Partner pathhmm
Jobs between businesses and freelancers
A business or entrepreneur posts a job on hmm. A freelancer takes the work. Agreeing the job records the price.
One US dollar is 1,000 points. The person who posts the job pays the price plus a 12% fee. The freelancer’s price is the full amount.
Points are bought in hmm. The buyer pays AZU ACADEMY by card, wallet, or Mobilepay. Those points stay in To send until the buyer sends them to the freelancer’s address. Sent points show as Received.
A mobile-money payout of Received points would be AZU ACADEMY paying the freelancer, from points the buyer already paid for. That payout is not open in hmm yet.
Get Canvas
Linux and Windows are ready
Plans do not pick Linux or Windows. After approval, Forge shows Canvas for your profile on both, plus Azu Tools for each OS. Download the pair that matches this computer, then bind the license.
License
Pick a plan. One key unlocks one workstation. Type is included.
Drive
Forge lists Linux and Windows. Pick the Canvas pack for this computer, then Azu Tools for the same OS.
Azu Tools
Unzip Azu Tools next to Canvas, then run the installer. Writer and ffmpeg go on the desk.
Bind
Paste the key on that workstation. Writing stays locked until bind.
Plans
Canvas on the desk. Keyboard on the phone. hmm for messages.
Canvas is the desk license. The mobile keyboard stays free on Google Play, and a paid Canvas plan can add one-year Premium keyboard codes. hmm is the messenger. A year code for hmm can be added on the same checkout. Prices are in USD.
| Feature | One-time Personal Own | Own or Yearly Pro Linguist, Writer, Creator | Own or Year Business | Own or Year Institution | Own or Year Government |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Azu Canvas and Type | |||||
| Updates | |||||
| Whiteboard animation | |||||
| Multilingual dictionary | |||||
| Future features | |||||
| Writing assistant | |||||
| Staff or desk pack | |||||
| Canvas lab pool | |||||
| Mobile keyboard | |||||
| Feature | Free | Year | Year codes | Faculty codes | Year codes |
| Free keyboard on Google Play | |||||
| Toolbar utilities | |||||
| Year Premium codes for you, staff, or students | |||||
| IPA, Azu, and alphabet transliteration | |||||
| Multilingual dictionary | |||||
| Premium pager | |||||
| Writing assistant | |||||
| Future keyboard features | |||||
| 25% off a Canvas year | |||||
| hmm | |||||
| Feature | Year code | Year code | Year codes | Faculty codes | Year codes |
| Transliteration and IPA | |||||
| Multilingual dictionary | |||||
| Calls in hmm | |||||
| Votes and surveys | |||||
| hm, the writing assistant | |||||
| Choose a Canvas plan | Buy | Choose | Choose | Choose | Choose |
Own keeps today’s desk and updates on those machines. Year can add the writing assistant on Canvas for Pro and the org tiers. A mobile year is Play yearly times those codes, never above the Canvas Year pack. Institution Year is faculty phones, never above half that pack; students keep the free keyboard. 25% off a Canvas year is Pro Year only. Premium pager is on the phone: a Premium member can write anyone; someone without Premium writes back only after a Premium member writes first. Each staff or desk row is a Canvas pack you can count 1–9 times. An hmm year code is added on the checkout and pasted in hmm under Settings, Premium, Enter code.
Subscribers
Open an account when you are ready
Choose a plan above to open the matching form. That form can add a mobile keyboard year. Prices are in USD.
Personal
Pro
Business
Institution
Government
Project Hub
Releases with context
Project Hub opens Azu Forge for releases, documentation, and gated repos. It is not a public GitHub pull-request board.
- Azu Canvas licenses for approved buyers
- Versioned documentation and changelogs
- License and release notes in Forge
- Keyboard source stays private in Forge
azu-canvas
first release
- release Azu Canvas Linux and Windows
- docs install and typing references
- license freemium and buyer files
- notes publishing support
Partners
Manufacturers and vendors
Partners are a collaboration. They skip desks and plans and do not pay. After they register, they download the file assigned to this work.
Contact
Review
Prepare
Support
Grow
About
A practical writing ecosystem
Azu brings the writing system, keyboard, Canvas, documentation, learning material, and project releases into one place.
Azu comes from Afro Zou. Afro refers to Afro Institute, the cultural organisation the founder (SB AG) used to promote this script.
The developed and expanded Azu script is the first digitalisation and innovation on Zou, the existing script developed by Professor Mpele Mvutu from Congo.
The freemium license summary explains the public release approach and the special role of the original Zou work.
Licenses, downloads, and releases stay on azu.ac — this site, your account, and Azu Forge.