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Typewise Keyboard 3.0 — The privacy-friendly, free Gboard alternative
With Typewise you make 4X fewer typos and enjoy 100% privacy.
🤖 AI-powered Autocorrection (beats Gboard and SwiftKey)
⏪ Undo Button: easily adjust corrections
💬 Automatic Language Detection: no need to switch manually
🔒 Offline Mode: maximum data protection
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Chris Messina
Top Hunter
If this is a Gboard alternative, where's the support for emoji search, GIFs, and web and YouTube search? This is a swipe-keyboard, sure — but it's not a Gboard alternative.
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@chrismessina great to re-connect! Emoji search is on our short-term roadmap, in terms of search, fair point, but there we'd want to collaborate with a privacy-friendly search engine. For GIFs we are in discussions with GIPHY but are wondering whether users don't rather use the app's built-in GIF functionality? Most social media apps and messengers have that, so not sure how much value it adds on the keyboard (but immediately requires internet access). What's your view?
@chrismessina Agree, Chris. But Gboard doesn't have the great honeycomb keys! I think it's just an MVP for now.
On the other hand, any Google product always respects and supports Cyrillic languages - here we don`t see it. I
Will give this a try, good luck! If it supported Hebrew I could get rid of Google's keyboard.
@guy looking forward to your thoughts! Hebrew has already been requested by our users :-) https://suggestions.typewise.app...
I really feel like moving to a dictation based option is the most reasonable option. When is the plan to add support for voice-to-text?
@ericsr we have a research-collaboration with ETH Zurich, one of Europe's leading tech institutes. We're currently investigating with the team whether we build a privacy-friendly, on-device voice tech ourselves or leverage existing solutions and plug it in. The keyboard should definitely also inform the voice-to-text engine how the user spells certain words/phrases (e.g. names outside of a standard dictionary) or support when the audio input is unclear...
Hi Product Hunters!
David here again to let you know about our newest product, Typewise 3.0. We have developed a new Autocorrection AI together with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Over the last few months, we’ve worked hard to develop the world’s best Autocorrection, with special focus on typing in multiple languages, incl. regional dialects (such as Swiss German). Isn’t it annoying when you are just trying to get your point across, but the autocorrection of a “normal” keyboard keeps “correcting” that word you want to “duck” 😉 With Typewise 3.0, our Autocorrection is equipped to handle your lingo too!
Besides, we’ve thought of the most common issues we encounter every day when typing on a smartphone:
🤖Unlike standard keyboards, Typewise learns and remembers your individual slang or terminology that you use at work
⏪In case you disagree with the Autocorrection, you can easily adjust corrections with a tap on our unique Undo Button
💬Good news for those who speak multiple languages: Typewise automatically detects and switches to the right language, this feature is currently available in 40+ languages
🔒Typewise doesn’t transmit any typing data, the keyboard is sandboxed. For privacy lovers, we even have an Offline Mode that severs any internet connection completely
We’d love to hear your feedback so far, so please share your thoughts with us!
Cheers,
David
@kissu_io You're right, here's our explanation. In short: don’t worry, your data is safe. We don’t and won’t collect any data from the keyboard. To offer new features and further improve our app, we are now adding an internet connection to the app (only the app, which is technically a separate entity from the keyboard). This allows us to improve your typing experience while fully protecting the privacy of what you type.
Some people don’t like tracking at all, even if it’s only to identify issues in the tutorial. We respect that. That’s why we offer a setting called "Offline Mode" that switches off any internet connection altogether, .
An additional security layer is provided by "Typewise Offline Keyboard", which doesn't need "internet access" permission at all. While "Typewise Custom Keyboard" will get optional online features in the future, this offline version will remain offline, although without the features that require an internet connection.
Isn't all keyboards work offline? I think you are talking about AI.
Anyway, looks amazing. I will have to give a try.
@knilkantha we mean the app as a whole, including the AI. Most keyboards have internet access (see the permissions they use), which even can't be switched off. While our app itself also has internet access, it can be turned off (Offline Mode), and the keyboard itself is completely sandboxed (incl. the AI). More information can be found here: https://medium.com/startup-grind...
@davideberle Thank you for awesome product. I just installed it in my phone.
to be honest, I had to set back to traditional keyboard after giving some try on hexagonal keyboard.
I am heavily missing clipboard history feature that many other keyboard has.
Also, I would like to see Nepali language in keyboard selection.
I didn't have good experience while typing in Roman Nepali. I had to switch to other keyword to prevent the auto correction.
@knilkantha yes we offer both layouts, depending on your preference. We currently don't support Nepali language, so I guess the keyboard was set to English and you typed Nepali words which then got autocorrected to English? In that case I agree it wouldn't work well. We will add new languages in the future, incl. Nepali :-)
@sam_rojas We use swipes for capitalizing, deleting, restoring. According to a recent Uni Cambridge study with 37,000 smartphone users, two-thumb typing is significantly faster than one-finger, and 74% of people use two thumbs. Hence we focused on this use case first, but we might add swipe/glide-typing in the future. More info here: https://userinterfaces.aalto.fi/...
Congratulations! You have managed to make something dangerously innovative. The honeycomb key design is glorious. It is a portal to a next-generation interfaces!
The tutorial is the best I have ever seen. Performing missions is super-fun. Surprisingly, the app even has a built-in Typing game - that's awesome!
Pros: Innovative Honeycomb design; clean UI; innovative typing UX (hold+swipe, delete, undelete), cool branding, Typo game, Tutorial.
Cons: lagging at low-end phones (e.g Samsung J-series), lagging the first-time tutorial, Ux is too heavy for an average (90%) users. No Cyrillic support (Russian, Ukrainian)
Great and innovative stuff you do. Keep up going!
@stanui thanks a lot for your detailed review, highly appreciate it! We will have a look at your issues, those shouldn't be the case! What do you mean by "UX is too heavy"? Cyrillic is on the list, many users have requested this :-) In case you're open to join our Beta community and actively shape our product with your feedback, please drop me a line at david.eberle@typewise.app
Though the hexagonal layout takes a little getting used to, Typewise is an great app. It is privacy friendly and has a wonderful team behind it. Moreover, once you get used to the layout, it is faster than normal typing. Would recommend giving it a try at the very least.
@vicksu thanks for the flowers! we obviously work hard on making it better still, and also getting down that learning curve so that more people can enjoy the benefits!
It looks... interesting actualy! :o I've never thought there could be a better type of keyboard than qwerty. Surly gonna give it a try, cause it looks promising. I'll let you know whats up as soon as I got some feedback!
@wekh awesome! depending on how you feel with the layout, you can revert back to the traditional layout but still enjoy benefits incl. delete/restore gestures, multi-lang capability, privacy, autocorrect undo, etc.
Like privacy and AI suggestions:)
I would like classic keyboard so addon for standard ios keyboard will be great for me.
Congrats guys!
@rtkirill thanks! There is the option to switch to the traditional layout, in case you mean that by 'classic keyboard'... :)
Finally a real innovation where there had not been much for decades. it was long due. Live long our fingers!
