How to convert Roman Urdu to Urdu
- Type or paste Roman Urdu in the left box, for example "Aap kaise hain?" Press Try an example to see a ready-made greeting.
- Read the Urdu on the right. It updates as you type.
- Check the underlined words. The count under the result tells you how many words were guessed, or that all words were recognised.
- Copy the result or download it as a text file.
- Fix any word by pasting the result into the Urdu keyboard, linked below the result.
How the conversion works
Common words come from a built-in word list covering pronouns, verbs, greetings, numbers and everyday nouns, with the spelling variants people really use: acha, achha and accha all give اچھا, and shukriya and shukria both give شکریہ. Religious phrases such as inshallah, mashallah and alhamdulillah are included too.
Any other word is spelled by rules that follow how Urdu is written:
- Aspirated sounds such as bh, ph, th, dh and chh are written with do-chashmi he: بھ، پھ، تھ، دھ، چھ.
- Short vowels inside a word (a, i, u) are left out, as in normal Urdu writing.
- Long vowels such as aa, ee and oo become ا، ی and و.
- A final e becomes bari ye ے, and endings like -ein and -on get noon ghunna ں.
- Doubled consonants are written once, because Urdu marks doubling with a shadd rather than a second letter.
So "kya haal hai" becomes کیا حال ہے straight from the word list, while an unfamiliar word is built from these rules and underlined for you to check.
Features
- Live conversion as you type, with no button to press.
- Nearly 700 common spellings recognised, including the usual variants.
- Rule-based spelling for every other word.
- Guessed words underlined, with a count of words to check.
- Urdu punctuation added automatically.
- Copy and download in one tap.
- Large Nastaliq display of the result.
Why use Fileora's Roman Urdu converter
Millions of people write Urdu in Latin letters on WhatsApp and social media, and switching to an Urdu keyboard feels slow. This tool lets you keep typing the way you text and still send proper Urdu. Unlike converters that silently guess, it shows you which words to double-check.
It's free, needs no sign-up and works on your phone. Everything runs in your browser, so your messages are never uploaded.
For careful editing, use the Urdu keyboard. To turn your converted text into a picture, try the Urdu font generator. Working with Hindi instead? The Hindi to Roman converter goes the other way, from Devanagari to Latin letters.
Getting the best result
Write each word the most common way, for example "bohat" rather than an unusual spelling. Keep English words to a minimum, or leave them for the Urdu keyboard. A few words are genuinely ambiguous even in the word list: "kam" is given as کم, so if you meant کام, write "kaam".