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I use Minuum and have Swiftkey, although I have to say I never liked it as much as swype or the google keyboard. I used to use Fleksy full-time because it just
by jgon 13y ago
I use Minuum and have Swiftkey, although I have to say I never liked it as much as swype or the google keyboard. I used to use Fleksy full-time because it just seemed way more responsive that Swiftkey and the gesture typing is pretty awesome. The two biggest pros for me are as follows:
1 - Small keyboard makes it hard to look at the keyboard itself as you type forcing me to actually touch type on my phone. This has allowed me to catch way more typos as I write and has also helped my writing as I can focus more on the flow of the words than on the act of typing.
2 - Screen real estate. I know that phone screens are huge, but if you want to write something longer being able to read more of what you have written without having to constantly stop and scroll is great. Responding to emails and incorporating details from prior messages is much, much easier.
Cons:
1 - I find the space gesture to sometimes result in the backspace gesture being selected if I go too quick. Compared to the speed and effortlessness of fleksy this is much more finicky.
2 - The swipe up/down to pick different word corrections from fleksy is not present meaning that choosing a different word completion requires you to leave the "home row" and click on a small target. Way less convenient.
3 - The swiftkey style "start typing and just select completions to finish the sentence" style doesn't really exist, but most of my sentences weren't as canned so I didn't really use this feature.
In summary, I use minuum and like it a lot. At most you've lost like 4-5 bucks or something or like 1/2 of a footlong sub. So you really can't go wrong by just trying it out. I would also recommend fleksy if you don't like minuum as I find both to be better than swiftkey. If minuum could grab some of the fleksy features I mentioned above it would be unstoppable.