SwiftKey Flow now rivals Swype, AND continues to make use of SwiftKey's stellar predictive text engine. While SwifKey is not without bugs, the company still seems to be innovating, whereas Swype has grown arrogant, stagnant, and virtually deaf to user feedback.
For example, after months of complaints by countless users, Swype still fails to obey one of its own central settings, namely automatic word spacing. Instead, despite the setting, it runs words together when entering text in ordinary text fields. SwiftKey does not have this problem.
A Swype bug which users have also complained about for months often causes Swype to type ".com" instead of a comma when swiping the comma button.
Swype fails to utilize Android's native user dictionary, so that if you delete Sype or change versions, let alone switch keyboards, you do not get the benefit of the words you've painstakingly added. And pathetically, Swype doesn't even allow dictionary sharing across native Swype and Swype beta.
And at least on my Verizon Galaxy SIII, Swype beta sits alongside newly native Swype, apparently interfering, because it often hangs, freezes, or crashes, requiring removal of the battery just to reboot the phone.
A company as deaf as Swype (Nuance) to user feedback should be stripped of support until it gets the message. One has to wonder why they even waste users' time luring them to contribute feedback and ideas to their forums.
For example, after months of complaints by countless users, Swype still fails to obey one of its own central settings, namely automatic word spacing. Instead, despite the setting, it runs words together when entering text in ordinary text fields. SwiftKey does not have this problem.
A Swype bug which users have also complained about for months often causes Swype to type ".com" instead of a comma when swiping the comma button.
Swype fails to utilize Android's native user dictionary, so that if you delete Sype or change versions, let alone switch keyboards, you do not get the benefit of the words you've painstakingly added. And pathetically, Swype doesn't even allow dictionary sharing across native Swype and Swype beta.
And at least on my Verizon Galaxy SIII, Swype beta sits alongside newly native Swype, apparently interfering, because it often hangs, freezes, or crashes, requiring removal of the battery just to reboot the phone.
A company as deaf as Swype (Nuance) to user feedback should be stripped of support until it gets the message. One has to wonder why they even waste users' time luring them to contribute feedback and ideas to their forums.
