Simple International Keyboard

3.5
286 reviews
10K+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

This keyboard is created for those who only need a QWERTY keyboard, access to their accented letters, and nothing more.

Launcher icon is not shown for the keyboard (to keep your screen clean). To use the keyboard, you have to:
* Open Language & Input section in your System Settings (differs between phone models)
* Enable the Simple International Keyboard (don't worry, it can't track what you type)
* Switch to Simple International Keyboard from current Input Method (differs between keyboards)
* Optionally disable all other Input Methods to make Simple Keyboard default

Features:
* Small size (<1MB)
* Adjustable keyboard height for more screen space
* Number row
* Swipe space to move pointer
* Custom theme colors
* Minimal permissions (only Vibrate)
* Ads-free
* QWERTY base for all languages

Feature it doesn't have and will never have:
* Emojis
* GIFs
* Spell checker
* Swipe typing
* Support for languages using other than the Latin alphabet

The application is open-source (link at the bottom of the store page). Licensed under Apache License Version 2.

Many people in Europe speak multiple languages. Instead of switching between several keyboard layouts they often prefer to use the English keyboard layout and forgo their national specific accented letters. The result is anything but nice. Some words written without accents have different meaning in some languages, and the overall appearance of the text is sloppy.

Android default English layout offers some accented letters, but not all, and not the ones that are most needed.

For example: in the Hungarian language "ű" (latin small letter u with double acute) is a distinct letter of the alphabet. We cannot replace it with "u" or any other variant of "u", just like you cannot write "a", instead of "z" in your language.

I have already defined similar keyboard layouts for Windows and Linux, and have been using them for a long time. My goal is to have the same for Android, and extend it to support all major languages that use the Latin alphabet.

All layouts are based on the classic English QWERTY layout. Only the additional letters, those that are accessible after long press of the main letter, are different.

If none of the included layouts satisfy your needs, you can buy my Custom International Keyboard instead. It is the same as this one, but I offer to make a custom layout, free of additional charges, for anybody who buys it.
Updated on
Oct 29, 2019

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Ratings and reviews

4.0
278 reviews
Peter Gault
April 9, 2021
The keyboard is great, and I love the keyboards where the app is hidden and you enable it yourself because it won't show in your home page. The keyboard is great, minimal options, and haven't seen any bugs. Only could you add an emojis page? I have to use my default keyboard to type the emojis. A nice thing about the keyboard is that it reminds me of older versions of android when Gboard looked exactly like this. Great app, definitely encourage you to download if you like simple keyboards.
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margaret rosita hector
January 21, 2022
It Looks very Amazing beautiful and brilliant when compared to anything Alike it Looks unique asf will Like it 10x if it had Go instead over enter its a Really Good keyboard otherwise keep trying further and Further to improve such Good work just keep it up Let Nothing or Anyone Discourage you cuz in everything there's Critique regardless of hardwork or how will it's done It's inevitable
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A Google user
September 1, 2023
Not good, weak, poor and racist app. It does not support some popular international languages ​​such as Chinese, Urdu, Bengali, Indonesian, Arabic and Hindi. While there are some languages ​​in this racist app that are not as widespread as Swahili, Vietnamese, Zulu, Malay and Azerbaijani. These supported languages ​​are not spoken by many people even in Europe. There is no need for lying, cheating, fraud and racism.
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Support for new Android versions.