u/patern0ster

Hey r/morsecode,

2 weeks ago I shared MorseKit here and got a lot of feedback, some warm, some critical, some pretty pointed. I took notes on all of it and wanted to come back and share the changes we shipped since then, because most of these were directly raised in that thread.

What we changed:

• Fixed audio issues. There were a few cases where the sound wasn't clean or didn't play properly, those are resolved now.
• Fixed timing. The CW timing was off in some places. We went through the generation logic and corrected the ratios across the board. Should be aligned with standard timing now.
• Visual dit/dah representation is now OFF by default. You can still turn it on as an option if you want it as a beginner aid, but the default experience is sound-only, which is what most people in this thread argued for and I think they were right.
• On ads: heads up that you'll see a small number of ads for a short while as we work through some monetization changes.
• Fixed language related errors

What's coming next:

• Receive-only lessons. Some users told us they'd rather not learn the send side by tapping on a touchscreen, which is fair. We're adding a receive only path so you can focus purely on copying.
• Updated tools section. We're refreshing the tooling part of the app, including a flashlight (light signaling) mode and a few more utilities we'll roll out gradually.

I know one update post isn't going to win over anyone who was skeptical, and that's fair. But if you gave feedback in the original thread, your input is in this version of the app. That mattered to me.

Going forward we'll be posting regular dev blogs and product updates over at r/MorseKit so we don't clutter this sub. We might still drop in here for the bigger milestones, but the day to day stuff lives over there. If you want to come hang out, drop feature requests, report bugs, or just share your streaks and progress, you're more than welcome. We'd genuinely love to have you.

You can grab the download links here:

Website
Android
IOS

73 ✋

My great grandfather served in a communications unit during WWI, working with Morse and telegraph. Hearing those stories growing up is probably the reason I got into ham radio in the first place. I made decent progress with the radio side of things, but Morse was different, it really just comes down to repetition and memory and I could never stick with it long enough to get good.

Last year I picked up Spanish on Duolingo and it actually worked on me. The streaks, the tiny lessons, that small sense of accomplishment after each one. At some point I thought, why isn't there something like this for Morse?

So I built the first version just for myself. My co-founder and I already build apps together, and when I showed it to him he liked it too, so we decided to turn it into a real product. We even have a mascot now, his name is Mors 🙂

We're still very early and there are bugs, but we're actively working on it and shipping improvements pretty much every day. Any kind of feedback helps, even the harsh kind, it keeps us going.

The plan is to slowly add more Morse related tools over time, few of them are already inside. Available on both iOS and Android:

Android
IOS
Website

If there's a feature or tool you'd like to see in the app, I'd love to hear it. Thanks alot 🙏