Nintype

I previously found Nintype to be a pretty problematic recommendation. It had amazing features I couldn't live without (two-finger typing is the baseline and that's still more than any other keyboard offers me), but it was slow in mysterious ways and even less stable than it is now in others. This version, submitted to Apple one or two years ago, finally fixes that. Yes, it leaves you with a keyboard that crashes occasionally (requiring you to switch back and/or reload it using a system input field like notes or the spotlight search) and has an intimidating canyon of options hidden away for the power users. But that canyon of options is also its biggest strength, alongside endless custom color schemes (including gradients, basic background patterns, a large number of individually customizable color fields all using RGB inputs and a mess of flashy, optional effects like jiggling and input wind and rainbow colors), huge amounts of customization available for inputs and shortcuts on keys, vital and/or random utilities and cute bonuses, just an incredible amount. Assuming it's still $5, that's absolutely worth it. Put some time, effort and input into Nintype, and it will reward you like no other iOS keyboard can. ...I mean, unless you're into visual gif selection rather than saving and pasting the links from a shortcut, or some other specific function that another keyboard is dedicated to, I guess. And unless Apple screws everything up again. But hey, updating iOS when it isn't strictly needed or strongly community-tested is a bad idea anyway!

This keyboard is still one of, if not the quickest keyboard application you will ever use. With that being said, Apple has given this keyboard some difficult times regarding stability. So many issues that the developer doesn’t seem interested in continuing development until these issues are fixed. It’s a shame because it really is a wonderful piece of tech for any phone to have despite the price tag on it. I personally have been having a fine time using it with iOS 11 with minimal crashing issues but some people may have differing experiences.

This poor app and developer has had issues with this app. It’s kinda awesome in what it does, but it froze constantly, pushing ppl away from it - this wasn’t because the developer was a poor one, apple has issues that they couldn’t figure out with third party keyboards. I’m not going to lie - when you download this app, its honestly frustrating as hell because of the learning curve and making it learn how you type, but after a while it is much better and your speed will increase considerably. I bought this a long time ago, so I’m not sure of the current cost, but the one draw back I think I can think of is that you others using your phone with struggle hardcore with using it because it is such a specialized keyboard. Because of this, I still keep my ios keyboard installed so that if somebody else is typing for me they can. Now if apple would allow for the third party apps to use Siri when you truly need to speak your text, I’d love this even more than I already do. For the user that was having trouble typing when the dictionary didn’t have a word, you enable peck mode and then favorite it by force pressing on the word. When you do this, it adds it for the future and you’re good to go for the next time. Final thing is to make sure you back up your words semi regularly because you don’t accidentally to lose all your stuff - what I do is put my stuff in a note and save it in icloud.