August 29, 2025

Draft SMS and iMessage from any computer keyboard

If you're like me, you don't love the ergonomics of writing long text messages on your mobile phone keyboard. What if you could write text messages, both SMS or iMessage, using any computer keyboard? 👀

This little tool does just that: write text messages in this browser window, and it'll generate a QR code which you can scan with your phone camera to send the message. All processing of data occurs within the browser, no other servers involved.

Here’s what the tool looks like, just a simple form and an automatically updating QR code:

If this seems interesting or useful to you, bookmark the page and come back later when you need it: https://sethmlarson.dev/draft-sms-and-imessage-from-any-computer-keyboard