Flow

Peter Eastman

About this app

Flow is an on-screen keyboard that enables exceptionally fast text input on your phone. It combines many different features to improve typing speed:

- Enter each word in a single gesture. Touch the first letter, move your finger smoothly from one key to the next, and lift it when you reach the end of the word. Spaces between words are inserted automatically.

- The keyboard layout is optimized by analyzing common patterns in English words. The QWERTY layout used by most keyboards was designed for typing with two hands, and it's a terrible layout for on-screen use. The Flow layout is optimized so common words can be entered with the shortest, smoothest path possible.

- Keys are large and evenly spaced for improved accuracy.

- The most common punctuation symbols are directly available without needing a modifier key.

- Double letters are recognized automatically. You don't need to "scribble over" them like with Swype.

- When a word is recognized, it flashes briefly on top of the keyboard. You don't need to move your eyes away from the keyboard to verify it.

- Long-press any key for a selection of alternate characters.

- Supports voice input.

- Supports English (American and British), French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Try Flow today and start improving your typing speed - guaranteed, or your money back! (How many other free keyboards dare to promise THAT?) And please send feedback so we can continue to improve Flow. Suggestions and bug reports are always welcome. Flow is an open source project.

Ratings and reviews

Really great layout and much more accurate swipe-to-text entry than any of the other keyboards since Swype+Dragon. There's a small learning curve but the tutorial is very easy and helpful and even not knowing where things were it was still as accurate as the qwerty layout in Yandex or Gboard. The customization options are limited, but it doesn't really need much because it's quite simple and efficient. Not many emojis 💔 but most messaging apps have those built in anyways.

After getting used to the layout of Flow keyboard, I find that the normal qwerty layout for phones is very poor choice for swiping. Flow layout makes more sense for swiping input. There is just one issue that needs to be fixed. There is no auto spacing when swiping in any browsers address bar, and no this is not a feature, no one is manually typing url addresses in their browsers address bar, people just use them to either goggle something or search for a bookmark. If this one issue is fixed I would use this keyboard daily, but as things stand it makes googling things in my phone browser too hard

GREAT APP! Game changer for 1 handed/1 thumb use: ALL other kybrds now feel slow, inefficient, clumsy. BUT try it on weekend: FLOW is confusing the first couple of hours & U MUST READ THE MANUAL & TAKE SHORT INTERACTIVE TUTORIAL: U will B SO RICHLY rewarded with speed & MUCH lower typo/error rates, thx 2 ingenious keypad layout; alt/special char's found by press of visually (looks like it) or functionaly similar key. Shortly after U start using FLOW layout, QUERTY seems impossiblly inefficient.

What's new

Bug fixes.