GazeWheel

Gazetyping is easier.

A round keyboard for people
who type with the cursor

For those who cannot speak and cannot use their hands. Type with your eyes, a finger, your head or a trackball. Free, runs in the browser, nothing to install.

stable

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The stable version. This is the one for daily use.

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Auto-speak on sentence end, attention chime, conversation mode, mid-text correction, learning from your own texts.

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Why round?

The common on-screen keyboard is a copy of the physical keyboard — a layout created for typing with 8–10 fingers. With a cursor you have one pointer, and speed is decided by how far it has to travel between keys. A circle is the natural shape for that: every key sits close to the center, so the average distance per selection is as short as it gets.

The full alphabet stays on the outer ring, always in the same position. The inner ring shows only the letters likely to come next, large and near the center. The center is a rest zone — a dead area where the cursor can park without triggering anything.

What it does

It adapts to your setup

Everything the app needs from your equipment is cursor movement. If your device only moves the pointer, turn on dwell selection and set the dwell time. If it already clicks by itself (like Tobii Windows Control), keep dwell off so there are no two timers stacked. Wheel size, text size, letter order, contrast, voice and speed are all adjustable:

GazeWheel settings screen: dwell selection, dwell time, wheel size, text size, letter order, contrast, auto-speak, voice and speed

The settings screen (interface currently in Portuguese).

Who it is for

People with ALS, cerebral palsy, high spinal cord injury, brainstem stroke, advanced multiple sclerosis or muscular dystrophy — any situation where speech is gone and hands don't reach the keys.

Also for people temporarily without a voice: intubated or tracheostomized ICU patients can usually move one finger on a screen. This runs on any tablet the hospital already has.

Word prediction is currently in Portuguese.

Privacy

Nothing you write leaves your computer. Learned vocabulary, saved phrases and settings are stored in your own browser, and you can export a backup file at any time. No text is sent to any server.