Typewise Custom Keyboard

I was very happy to discover this keyboard, because it actually uses the different gestures a touchscreen has beyond just tap, and puts those gestures to really good use. It also looks cool. However, it still has a couple bugs: >New major one that just started happening: the GUI freezes when switching to and from special characters and emoji, but still types and works (UPDATE: My fault, I forgot to update the app was the problem) >Occationally crashing, causing the phone to kick over to the default keyboard, but also starting back up automatically Basic lacking features: >emoji search >>(But does pin most used) Suggestions: >Move cursor up and down as well as left and right when holding space >A cool way to add a whole other use to the keyboard is AI to perhaps write for you or suggest entire responses >Touchscreen’s first keyboard with customizable buttons and even layout >Fun one: After experiencing the UI freezing, a cool idea came to my head for those who become very used to the keyboard to where they no longer have to look at it to type: A stylistic option to completely remove the button labels, so you just have a pad of hexagons you use to type like an alien who’s too smart for a *labeled* control panel!

I've been using Typewise for a couple of years now and will never go back to the original iOS keyboard. Pros: The larger keys, the ability to swipe up for capitals or lowercase, backspace by swiping left, and move the cursor from the keyboard are all features I can't live without now. The auto-complete suggestions are fine and I love that you can long press to remove a word from the dictionary! Stability has generally improved over the years I've used this app, with fewer crashes than when I first began using it. In the beginning, accidentally hitting the spacebar was an annoying issue, but a while back, they made it so that you could move the spacebar down to the bottom which helped a LOT. I was going to add something about the spacebar sensitivity still being wonky. I was having to keep it on high to even have those taps register, and that led to accidental spacebar presses, but I just switched it back down to medium and, wow, I guess they fixed it at some point! Minor issues: I did turn off auto-correct due to some bugginess in certain text fields, but the native iOS keyboard has the same issues. The ease of typing on a larger keyboard makes up for any speed you might lose from turning on auto-correct. Trying to swipe up on certain top row letters, like I or Y, can be hit or miss, so I wish there was more clearance between the top row and the auto-complete bar- there's a lot of real estate at the bottom, they could easily move it down a bit.

Tucking four symbols used at various frequencies each with different gestures is a weird anti-pattern for simplicity. Vibration as a premium feature is a bummer and to me the only thing premium is worth. The TW logo to the left of the smart bar is not good at all and the premium undo feature is not a suitable substitute. Turning off the smart bar locks you out of being able to undo autocorrect. Words like i'm don't get capitalized and contractions like cant don't get an automatic apostrophe but the word "don't" does. The word i never gets autocapitalized. The word autocorrect, a word used multiple times inside the configuring interface, gets autocorrected to "a incorrect". The word autocorrected gets converted to "a uncorrected". There is only so much more customizability this needs in order to be perfect, and the allure of bigger, harder to mistype keys is not worth the compromises. How do i close this keyboard even? Edit as a response to the developer: I just want the logo to be a little bit smaller. It’s huge. And tapping above the screen doesn’t work sometimes like even editing this review. I still have major problems with the symbols layout and the lack of customizabilty. I still feel as if even after only the changes you’ve mentioned the premium price of the pro features still can’t justify the main selling point - bigger and harder to mistake buttons.