Meet SwiftKey 3 – our best keyboard yet

Been using this keyboard since the first one came out.. couldnt imagine using my smartphone without it. Looking forward to your future progress.

can I install the play store version on top of the beta, and simply uninstall the beta afterwards? or will it replace the beta? will it keep the settings etc. from the beta version?

I’ve been using the excellent Swiftkey 3 Beta for a awhile. Do I need to buy this version or the beta will expire and become unusable? I don’t mind paying for an excellent product, just curious. Thanks

Brilliant! Great to see the Swiftkey 3 getting released, and really classy to let the ones who purchased X get the free upgrade!

Fine things come true!
But is there a way to import/export settings and predictions?

Thanks anyway for the great work!

Unfortunately it is still not possible to undo completion, like if you type “foo” and space changes it to “bar”, but you really want “foo” back: with Swiftkey you have to delete and re-type the whole word.
With Swype, it is possible to select the word and have the original as an option in the word list.

This feature wish is in your “feedback forum” since a while already.

Haha, thanks Charlie.
I got my German accented characters back now. I guess an app update should trigger an auto update of the used languages.

OMG… get yourself a Google plus button… that’s all I can say.

Hello.

Both SwiftKey 3 Keyboard and Tablet are compatible with Galaxy Nexus. If I buy the tablet version only, are the Keyboard Layouts also included or do I have to buy both versions?

Thank you for your answer!

Swiftkey Team:

I opened this and it appears the hardware keyboard bug where caps lock is enabled with one press, same with scroll lock on symbols, has not been addressed. Any plans to fix this as this makes this version not usable for me? I hope so as I really like your app.

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Congratulations to the team! Saw the positive review in ‘AllThingsD’:
http://allthingsd.com/20120621/swiftkey-keyboard-for-android-gets-smarter/?refcat=news

Previously, when I long-pressed on the period key, I could lift my finger and select a punctuation mark. Now, I have to long-press, and hold, then slide my finger up to the right punctuation mark. Is there a way to get the old behavior back?

In previous version by holding down the bottom left key I would get a selection of smileys, but that option is no longer there. Missing it.

Anyone else having problems with it picking up, “I’m”. It’s like it won’t learn that one word and it’s driving me NUTS.

Guys!! What have you done! The new SK3 is terrible!!
When writing English without punctuation, the predictor doesn’t add it!
For example – writing ‘you’re’ mid-sentance i type ‘youre’. The predictor offers me: youre your or Youre. Terrible!
I also have French and German keyboards active, and i no longer get special characters with long press e.g. long press ‘s’ to get ‘ß’!
How can I downgrade?

The one change that really bugs me (and it irritates the hell out of me) is that I can not swipe left from the delete key and just have it continue to delete until I stop it. This was a feature I used all the time on Swiftkey X and am sad to see it go.

please change google voice to ICS google voice. this will make your keyboard complete

and what is up with “update language manually ” from the hidden menu ? so you upgrade the application from the market, bother to show the annoying new version popup, yet can’t trigger the automatic language update, that’s really … like giving you a new car but hey you got to make your own copy of the key

I miss the previous version. I was really used to it the way it was and would like an option to continue using it the way it was.

I preferred the smaller spacebar.
I liked the ?/! button.

I can’t remember anything else right now, but at half a day’s use, I can say that I would really like to have it back the way it was. this new version is driving me crazy. very frustrating.

Swiftkey proponent, all the way, but give me the choice of layouts. Android is all about choice, which is why I switched back to it from an iPhone – Swiftkey could/should offer choices, too, maybe?

I can’t believe Chinese is not available. You are missing something very big here and giving your competitors time to catch up. It’s been so long since you are working on cones input. Common guys.

I ‘ve been using Swiftkey3 on my Galaxy S3 phone for about 2 weeks. I’m more careful than speedy when it comes to my key entry. The UI is excellent compared to the stock keyboard user experience. The predictive word management is decent. It does improve with use. Sure wish a spell checker was available. A struggle I have is when the period (located to the right of the space bar) is entered unintentionally. This happens to me with every 2nd or 3rd word I enter. It adds a space and starts the next letter as a CAP, which is expected, but it’s a PITA to edit/correct. I love the hold down for ?,!. It would be an improvement for me if I the key “hold-down” function would be the only way to select “.” for the key next to the space bar, or possibly make the period key next to the space bar less sensitive. I continue to try to modify my typing for avoiding going near the period key, but it is easier said than done! Last, when I go back to edit a word, the predictive word suggestions are offered, but if I select a predictive choice at this stage, it inserts the new word while the existing word remains rather than being replaced as if I was creating the word for the first time. This again is a PITA to edit after the fact. Takes a long team to cursor over to the old letters and backspace over them. I love the arrow keys! Awesome. Please let me know if there is a way to get around my period miss-entry challenge.

Well, just gave up on Swift in favor of go Keyboard. They got nice option to disable predictions. Sorry i haven’t tried that 1 first and thought a payed 1 is better.

HI,

I’m using a Samsung S2 phone, and when using the keyboard to text, the word suggestions cover up the “Send” button when the phone is on it’s side. Is there a setting to change this?

Swiftkey 3 is one of the best programs I’ve ever seen on any platform, absolutely amazing. I downloaded the demo on my Galaxy s2 and no more than ten minutes later I bought the full version.

Very good job !!

thanks //Kenneth

Hi guys. After switching from iPhone to a Galaxy S3, I was shocked at how bad the stock keyboard was at auto correct compared to the iPhone’s. After trying out a few of the other popular Android keyboards, SwiftKey came out tops – even better than on the iPhone, no exaggeration.

I am disappointed however, that there is no Chinese keyboard support at all – not even very basic support. I am a native English speaker, and use mainly English – SwiftKey has that covered. I don’t require the Chinese keyboard to be comprehensive – just a good phrase list to speed up pinyin input, and self-learning of the most commonly used words is sufficient. I have a feeling that the majority of your “Chinese as a second language” users have this same basic requirement. I don’t need anything too fancy like in Sogou (I think the most popular Chinese keyboard on Android?). Sogou has terrible English support anyway.

I am currently using Smart Keyboard because they have Chinese support. English keyboard is definitely not as good as SwiftKey, but it is the most reasonable of the lot which supports both languages.

All I have to say is – release a Chinese keyboard already!! Once you do that, I’m going back to SwiftKey for sure – and I’m sure a lot of others will too!

Regards,
Leo

Excellent job!

I write in Spanish and after using SwiftKey 3 (since its release) in my Galaxy SII, I have three unique, but important suggestions:

1. – Revise / add Spanish words stressed (accented) on the antepenultimate syllable. It seems that the dictionary was developed by people from Argentina who does not use these words very often. It is recommended to verify them against the dictionary from RAE or add an option to edit the words that the program is learning and having stored. I suggest adding the option that the program can learn from text files. These files could be shared by users. As small dictionaries with correctly spelled words.

2. – When you start to type in, and need to correct/change/add a word, that word would become the first choice for replacement or suggestion.

3. – When you go through the text with the cursor and stand in a corrected/changed/added word, the program must respect what is written. Currently, the program place as first option to substitute a different word (the original). If you do not pay attention and hit the space bar, the program replace what was written with the suggestion. So, you have to correct the word again.

Best Regards to you all.

When is 日本語

When is support for Japanese/日本語 coming?

Can you add maltese language in swiftkey. (Malta is an EU country)

Thanks!