Mecalin is a modern typing tutor application that helps you learn and improve your touch typing skills through structured lessons. It provides a clean and intuitive interface for practicing typing.
Features include structured lessons, keyboard layout visualization, and progress tracking to help you become a more efficient typist.
Lessons and keyboard layouts are available for US English, Spanish, German, French, Galician, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Brazilian Portuguese. Other system layouts fall back to US English.
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Observed history
| App | Change | Version | When ↓ |
|---|---|---|---|
| updated | 2.0.0 | 23 Sept 2026 |
Upstream releases
Release notes supplied by the developer. These dates are not Flathub package publication times.
2.0.023 Sept 2026
- Focused Mecalin on typing lessons: removed the speed test and the falling keys and scrolling lanes games
- The app now opens directly into the lessons
- Added a lessons welcome page to browse, pick, and resume the current lesson
- Added a first-run welcome carousel and restructured the lessons
- The welcome page shows the active keyboard layout and warns when the system layout isn't supported
- Listed the supported languages in the app metadata
- Added a link to the Keypunch app from the course completion view
- Moved Preferences and About into a primary menu, with standard keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+, and F10)
- Moved lesson selection out of preferences and onto the welcome page
- Switched to Adwaita AboutDialog and PreferencesDialog
- Refreshed the on-screen keyboard styling to use the system font with rounded keys and refined borders
- Completed the UI translations across all supported languages
- Fixed the keyboard and hand widgets not redrawing when the finger-colors setting changes
1.3.014 Sept 2026
- Added German (de) support with QWERTZ (DIN 2137 T1) keyboard layout and full lessons
- Updated dependencies
1.2.014 Aug 2026
- Added Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) support with ABNT2 keyboard layout and lessons
- Updated dependencies
1.1.227 Jul 2026
- Fixed cursor obscuring current letter in lessons
- Added small gap between cursor and current character for better readability
- Updated dependencies