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What Keyboard are you using?

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I go back and forth between SwiftKey and Kii. SwiftKey is by far the better keyboard for accuracy/predicting/built-in words but Kii has better customization (layout/sizes/skins/emoji add ons). If they could be combined into one keyboard it would be perfect.

(voted for SK 'cause Kii isn't even a choice. :p )
 
SwiftKey is where it's at. The only thing that makes SwiftKey better than all the others is that it learns from your habits and there is no need to add words to a dictionary. Once you type a word once, it's added to the Flow library, so next time you want to type it you can use the Flow feature to do so. It also learns from Facebook, Twitter, and sms. It's all around beast.

For example, if you have a word that you type a lot, like for instance 'shit', once you type it one time, it will assume you're typing it any time after that so you don't have to have it come up as 'shot' or 'sit' and then select it from the predictions. I use it, and only it :)
 
Stuntman said:
SwiftKey has been more practical (unless one-handed) and faster. Swype is way more fun to use. It's cool to show it off to people who have never seen gesture typing before.
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Depends. I tried swiftkey and I found it hard to teach it new words, unlike swype. Since my language isn't part of the given dictionaries, plus the fact that English words are common in the local vocabulary, using swype allows me to use the English language setting plus hundreds of words I taught it to predict, essentially teaching it a whole new language.

This I think would be true for many countries.

Also, Swiftkey has a huge headstart in terms of Play Store exposure, having been available for years, thus acquiring the best seller status. Swype has only been available for a couple of months. Before it was a beta app available only from the Nuance website.

SwoRNLeaDejZ said:
SwiftKey is where it's at. The only thing that makes SwiftKey better than all the others is that it learns from your habits and there is no need to add words to a dictionary. Once you type a word once, it's added to the Flow library, so next time you want to type it you can use the Flow feature to do so. It also learns from Facebook, Twitter, and sms. It's all around beast.

For example, if you have a word that you type a lot, like for instance 'shit', once you type it one time, it will assume you're typing it any time after that so you don't have to have it come up as 'shot' or 'sit' and then select it from the predictions. I use it, and only it :)
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I found it harder to teach it non English words. I type a word a couple of times and sometimes it still won't get predicted. If you say Swiftkey is like this now, I might give it another try. I would have loved it for my tab.


Another great thing about swype is the ability to sync dictionaries between devices. Can swiftkey do that?
 
chanchan05 said:
Depends. I tried swiftkey and I found it hard to teach it new words, unlike swype. Since my language isn't part of the given dictionaries, plus the fact that English words are common in the local vocabulary, using swype allows me to use the English language setting plus hundreds of words I taught it to predict, essentially teaching it a whole new language.

This I think would be true for many countries.

Also, Swiftkey has a huge headstart in terms of Play Store exposure, having been available for years, thus acquiring the best seller status. Swype has only been available for a couple of months. Before it was a beta app available only from the Nuance website.



I found it harder to teach it non English words. I type a word a couple of times and sometimes it still won't get predicted. If you say Swiftkey is like this now, I might give it another try. I would have loved it for my tab.


Another great thing about swype is the ability to sync dictionaries between devices. Can swiftkey do that?
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Not sure if you know, but SwiftKey can run up to 4 dictionaries at once.
 
SwoRNLeaDejZ said:
Not sure if you know, but SwiftKey can run up to 4 dictionaries at once.
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My native language isn't one of the available dictionaries for Swiftkey. I'm testing it again now. Seems to be able to learn faster than before, but I still don't find the symbol placements very intuitive.

Edit: is it just me or I fail to see the difference between SwiftKey and SwiftKey tablet in my phone?
 
I just gave up Switftkey for the stock Google one (4.3). Just as good predictions and accuracy, do why use a third-party?
 
I'm using stock/UI straight. I've tried almost every other keyboards, and for the obvious reasons(:))...i always come back to this awesome keyboard.
 
chanchan05 said:
Another great thing about swype is the ability to sync dictionaries between devices. Can swiftkey do that?
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The current beta of SwiftKey includes Cloud Sync. I think the beta went public about 2 weeks ago. No word on how long the beta will last or if this will be a part of free to current SwiftKey users - I assume it will be.
 
chanchan05 said:
I found it harder to teach it non English words. I type a word a couple of times and sometimes it still won't get predicted. If you say Swiftkey is like this now, I might give it another try. I would have loved it for my tab.
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It seems to pick up words that I type that are non-words like acronyms and it remembers it.

Another great thing about swype is the ability to sync dictionaries between devices. Can swiftkey do that?
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Not sure about that. I don't use SwiftKey on my tablet because I have a keyboard dock.
 
After a few days if testing, I can say that I hardly find anything about Swiftkey that puts it over Swype. But that is also saying that Swype really doesn't have anything to offer over Swiftkey either. Swiftkey does have a split landscape keyboard option, unlike Swype, but it also costs more than 3x as Swype, so unless you really need that option and consider the price difference worth it, go Swiftkey.
 
When it predicts a word that u don't want, just tap and hold that word delete option will appear. =) plus it gets better and better the more you use it
SwiftKey is the best keyboard I've ever used
 
Anas javaid said:
When it predicts a word that u don't want, just tap and hold that word delete option will appear. =) plus it gets better and better the more you use it
SwiftKey is the best keyboard I've ever used
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While not an advertised feature, Swype also gets better with continued use.

With further testing, it appears that I likee Swype on my phone since the key and symbol placements make better sense for me on one handed usage, allowing me to text faster using swiping technology. However, on my Tab, I prefer Swiftkey because the symbol placement peculiarities are irrelevant and the keys allow for faster tap typing in landscape mode.

One question, I can't seem to find an edit mode for Swiftkey similar to Swype's: a view where there are available cut, paste and copy buttons on the keyboard, among other features. On Swype this is accessible by swiping from the Swype key to the symbols key.
 
chanchan05 said:
One question, I can't seem to find an edit mode for Swiftkey similar to Swype's: a view where there are available cut, paste and copy buttons on the keyboard, among other features. On Swype this is accessible by swiping from the Swype key to the symbols key.
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Just do a long tap in the text area and you get the copy and paste options.
 
chevanlol360 said:
I really thought that google keyboard would be winning this one lol
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Well, the four that have more than one vote are a given for first through fourth. But I thought it would be SwiftKey slightly but definitely in first.

And more people would call you out for not having Kii
 
chevanlol360 said:
I really thought that google keyboard would be winning this one lol
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I was using the Google keyboard in place of Swype for my portrait keyboard for a while. Both have some flaws. I liked the Google keyboard because it has a slighly better layout for symbols and punctuation and Swype has an annoying flaw that resets caps lock sometime. I recently switched back to Swype because I felt that the auto-correct/text prediction just wasn't as good as Swype.
 
chevanlol360 said:
I really thought that google keyboard would be winning this one lol
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Google keyboard is "late" to the sliding typing party. Once people have picked a keyboard they like, it takes a lot to get them to switch to a new one. All the layouts are slightly different and it's annoying to break habits.

I loved Swiftkey but decided to try and use all stock Android stuff whenever I could just... well, just because. It's been a month of the Google Keyboard and I still quickly hit the microphone button on it when I want a comma.....

Other than that, I love the Google Keyboard.
 
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