Typewise Custom Keyboard
Custom large keyboard with keyboard fonts & emojis for big keys & swift typing!
Total ratings
3.44
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Unique hexagonal keyboard layout that some users find easier to type on
- Gesture shortcuts such as swipe up for capitalization and backspace
- Good privacy features
- Larger buttons, which some users appreciate
- Fun and novel design
Cons
- Frequent bugs, including keyboard freezing and glitches that render it unusable
- Poor autocorrect and predictive text functionality, often changing correct words to incorrect ones
- Lack of customization options for key size and layout
- Learning curve is steep, making it difficult for some to adapt
- Redundant features with limited practical use, such as the emoji key placement causing frustration
Most mentioned
- Keyboard bugs and freezing
- Poor autocorrect performance
- Customization limitations
- Unique and novel keyboard design
- Learning curve difficulties
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-11-07 |  | | Have had this keyboard for a while now and grew to really enjoy it. After the last couple updates it's basically unusable now. The keyboard will freeze and stay on screen when it's not supposed to, or just won't open at all. It will be fine for a few uses and then basically brick my phone until I restart it. A real shame because going back to my old keyboard feels awful. |
| 2024-10-13 |  | | Buggy and broken with inferior spell correction. Latest update has resulted in frequent freezing of keyboard within apps, leaving user unable to type. I really wanted to continue using this keyboard for the ingenious layout and gesture shortcuts (delete/undelete, quick capitalization, and cursor scrolling), but the spell correction has always been terrible (changing correct spelling to incorrect words and failing to correct grammar), and the latest bugginess makes this keyboard unusable. |
| 2024-10-08 |  | | The hex keyboard is so much easier to type on than regular rectangle keyboards!I friggin' LOVE that you can swipe up to capitalize a letter, like, it's about time, amirite? I do wish I could make some keys bigger and some smaller, because I often hit certain keys instead of the ones I'm going for, and I wish I could "hold and swipe" to move up and down in a text box, as well as right and left. Man, only 500 chars? Sometimes I wish I could swipe (glide?) to type, but it's not necessary. |
| 2024-10-08 |  | | What I liked was the privacy of the app. Typing accuracy and autocorrect suffered after switching to this app. I attempted the hexagon keyboard for a few months before switching to the traditional but It made my typos much worse. My biggest gripe is what made me switch. A bug prevented the keyboard from switching from numbers to letters, so I got stuck with numbers and there was no way to get back without uninstalling the app! |
| 2024-09-30 |  | | Used for a couple weeks and did get efficient enough at it. I liked the larger buttons. The layout and gesture shortcuts were fine. I did not like how it felt like it took up more space on my screen. There was also no talk to text functionality. I found myself switching back and forth just to use talk to text function. |
| 2024-09-26 |  | | Edit: dropping two stars because over time the auto correct has become a nightmare. It is constantly correcting words that were already correct to random unrelated words. "Talking" to "walking" (it just happened here), "hear" to "Heart" (again) among several others. Tapping the correct word on the bar has not helped. |
| 2024-09-25 |  | | I love the hexagonal keys and layout. Two things caused me to cancel my subscription and move back to SwiftKey: poor presentation of auto-correct suggestions, and lack of true customization. The auto-correct needs to show the suggestions and take into account my current mistakes. The customization needs to be more than just a few alternative static layouts that are not optimized for phone input. I need to be able to change the number, size, location, and function of every key, and have layers. |
| 2024-09-20 |  | | I didn't care about faster typing claims, I like trying out novel tech. I had some fun with Typewise, but after using it for about a month, it started to actually slow down my typing and became inconvenient. I don't think I ever fully got used to the key placements. I tried a typing game to get better. I was still much faster w/ a regular keyboard. While I liked some features like the backspace, I didn't care for swiping up for certain symbols. Also, no GIFs and no searching for specific emoji. |
| 2024-09-12 |  | | it took some getting used to, but im faster at typing now. my fingers instinctually know where all the buttons are. 🏆️ I just wish the predictive text was a little more accurate and a little less finicky along with having emojis as a suggestion (smile, dead, lol, etc), but that's not the worst thing. 🙂 |
| 2024-08-20 |  | | Not as good as Message ease which I used daily for fifteen years. But much better than a regular QWERTY keyboard. Glad to have found it after needing to leave Message ease due to their subscription model for use. Updated review: Lacks necessary customization such as being able to enlarge the size of the keys. Autocorrect was working seamlessly but now autocorrection reverts back after adding punctuation. Promised AI support no longer functions. Regretting purchasing the PRO version. |
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