Comments on: SwiftKey Flow Beta Now Open

By: Jim Jones

Jim Jones — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:49:00 +0000

I just downloaded Swiftkey Flow. Its seems pretty legit. I just wish you guys can provide a fix for swiping left to delete word. I know its still in the beta phase and you got a some bugs to fix but I like the Flow a lot.

I have one important question though. Will the paid customers be able to use this for free when its released? I really don’t want to have to pay for this app again. Please let us know. Thanks.

By: christopher Trappett

christopher Trappett — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:09:00 +0000

I’m loving this SwiftKey Flow! It predicts my words and spelling far better than any other keyboard I’ve ever used. And I like the style of the keyboard as well…

By: trapchan

trapchan — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 05:27:00 +0000

Tried this today, using Rapid mode, this is my feedback (as a long time Swype user).

Compared to Swype this keyboard lacks many convenient things:

1. You can’t swype “?” symbol which is used very frequently. And it needs 2 keystroke to type “?” symbol, really counter productive.

2.You can’t manually add new words, with Bahasa Indonesia dictionary, I tried to type “yok”, but it always insert “tim” and why didn’t it learn that I want to type “yok”, it keep typing “tim” instead. And as many people pointed, you have no way to choose which word that you want to type. On Swype, after you type, you still have words suggestion on the top, and if the typed word is wrong, you can choose from the top. Here, you have nothing only the next predicted word. The point is, “it’s really difficult to correct the mistaken word”.

3. Really, you should replace the emoticon key with newline key. newline is used more frequently compared to emoticon. To enter a newline you need to hold emoticon key then press newline, again counter productive.

4. And I thought Swype already resource hungry since it always hog around 14mb even if it’s not used, but Flow it hog 30mb of memory, wtf …

Those come from a few minutes trying Flow, maybe there’s some feature I didn’t know yet.

By: bratan

bratan — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:41:00 +0000

Flow is great but there are two big issues.
First, the keyboard needs to have an option where you can decide if you want a new word to be added in the dictionary. If I “brothaaaaaa” it will add it to the dictionary even though I have only wanted to use it once for a certain message. It should pup up a prompt “do you want to add brothaaaaaa to the dictionary”
Second, I am also having the issued of trying to type “too” instead of “to” like many others. Circling around “o” doesn’t really work well. It works flawlessly on swype keyboard though.
If those two things are polished up, then it would be a killer keyboard.

By: Le Fronc

Le Fronc — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 07:08:00 +0000

I found a problem with Swiftkey flow using CoPilot (9.3.0.173)!
When i want to navigate to a destination I can only type the first letter of the city.
Try to enter the second character of the city name replaces the first one!
So I can always enter the first letter….

Using Copilot I always have switch to the standard keyboard.

By: Fady Ghaly

Fady Ghaly — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 21:28:00 +0000

When will you release the final version??
It’s amazing as it is now

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 02:38:00 +0000

Can we get swiping and predictions in more fields? I’ve been wishing for this in Snapchat for some time now! Thanks, and excellent work on the apps!

By: Eric Kruis

Eric Kruis — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:52:00 +0000

In Dutch, when I try to swype the word “ik” (which means “I”), it is replaced by the word “je” (which means “you”) most of the time. Strange, and if you don’t pay attention it results in strange and unwanted text.

By: Matthew Haist

Matthew Haist — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:10:00 +0000

how do you NOT chose the word swift key “picked” there are a number of times it got it wrong..soooo wrong and swift key auto inserts the word i dont want.

By: Mel

Mel — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:54:00 +0000

Sure wish the auto-capitalization would get fixed. I’m getting really tired of having to manually fix the word “I” every time I type it. It hasn’t worked correctly a single time so far.