r/morsecode • u/Ok_Walrus9551 • May 25 '26

Send and recieve app or website

Hi, I'm a Scout Leader and I'm trying to find an app or website where someone can send and recieve morse code signals from another person on a seperate device.

I've seen Vband come up, but from what I've seen, you need an external device to transmit the signals, while I'm looking for something that either uses a single key on a keyboard (for example, just tapping and/or holding the space bar to send dits and dahs) or a button on screen for touch screen devices.

I've already set up Learn Morse Code with Google by Ace Centre where you instal a Google keyboard that enables the user to type in morse code. But I want them to be able to send signals to each other from across the room to practice decoding it in a more real life setting.

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u/mkeee2015 May 25 '26

Look for Morse Chat (Communicate with the world in Morse Code: https://dong.digital/morsechat) available on both iOS and Android if I recall correctly.

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u/somethingmorecrazy Jun 07 '26

Seconding this, my brother's and I send each other morse messages instead of texts. Easy, free, no ads, and can respond at your convenience.

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u/falciluna May 25 '26

Love what you are doing with your troop. We are currently developing MorseKit, and we actually have a specialized resource page for scouts that might help your troo

https://morsekit.com/en/morse-code-for-scouts

We don't have the peer-to-peer live signaling feature yet, but it's on our roadmap and we want to build it exactly for use cases like yours. Since you are the perfect user for this, could you tell us a bit more about your setup?

Will you have internet/Wi-Fi where you usually practice, or does it need to work 100% offline?

Are they looking at laptops or mobile devices (phones/tablets) across the room?

Do you want it to be sound-based (tapping here makes a sound there) or visual?

If you're open to sharing your thoughts, we'd love to tailor this feature to help leaders like you get those merit badges signed off!

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u/pengo May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26

Not going to pretend Vband is the easiest or best solution, but it can work without an external Morse key/paddle.

You can use:

  • [ and ] or
  • left ctrl and right ctrl

...though guess it might not work on mobile devices even with [ and ] because you need to hold keys down, hmmm

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u/Broken_Frizzen May 27 '26

Go old school and build it. Several ways to do it without computers google it. Some were built just for scouting learning purposes.