Traditional T9

3.9
491 reviews
50K+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

TT9 is a 12-key T9 keyboard for devices with a hardware numpad. It supports predictive text typing in 40+ languages, configurable hotkeys, text editing with undo/redo, and an on-screen keypad that can turn your smartphone into a Nokia from the 2000s. And, best of all, it doesn't spy on you!

This is a modernized version of the Traditional T9 Keypad IME by Lee Massi (Clam-), with many new features and languages.

Supported languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Simplified Chinese (Pinyin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati (phonetic), Hebrew, Hindi (phonetic), Hinglish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese (Romaji), Kiswahili, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (European and Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic) Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Moroccan Tamazight (Latin and Tifinagh), Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Yiddish.

Philosophy:
- No ads, no premium or paid features. It's all free.
- No spying, no tracking, no telemetry or reports. No nothing!
- No unnecessary bells or whistles. It only does its job, typing.
- The Full version operates entirely offline with no Internet permission. The Lite version connects only when downloading dictionaries from GitHub and when the voice input is active.
- Open-source, so you can verify all the above yourself.
- Created with help from the entire community.
- Things it will (probably) never have: QWERTY layout, swipe-typing, GIFs and stickers, backgrounds or other customizations. "It can be any color you like, as long as it is black."
- Not intended as a clone of Sony Ericsson, Nokia C2, Samsung, Touchpal, etc. It is understandable to miss your favorite old phone or keyboard app, but TT9 has its own unique design, inspired by the Nokia 3310 and 6303i. While it captures the feel of the classics, it offers its own experience and won’t replicate any device exactly.

Thank you for understanding, and enjoy TT9!

Please report bugs and start discussion only on GitHub: https://github.com/sspanak/tt9/issues
Updated on
11 Nov 2025

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Ratings and reviews

3.9
484 reviews
Marlena Legault-Monton
4 September 2025
Keyboard is good and intuitive, with some little things that aren't ideal but are workable (ex. you can only choose between all caps or all miniscule). My one main issue with it is that you can't turn off the key tones in the settings on CatS22; in order to silence them, you have to also silence the ringtone of your phone. Otherwise, solid.
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Dimo Karaivanov
7 September 2025
TT9 can not play sounds. What you are hearing comes from Android, or some other app. As for typing, in Predictive mode, there is a third option--to automatically capitalize words at the beginning of a sentence, proper names etc. To use it, press Shift several times until the language name in the Status Bar becomes capitalized (e.g. "English").
Davide Lovato
19 November 2025
I believe you are in good faith, but could you give your users a bit more details on the data you collect? Android pops out a spooky message that the app (potentially) could collect data on every word I type, including my credit card etc. A bit more context would put any concerns at ease.
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Dimo Karaivanov
20 November 2025
I understand the concern. This warning appears for all third-party keyboards, not only TT9. Rest assured it does not collect or send any data—everything you type stays on your device. Only voice input is processed by the Android system. But if you don’t use it, you’re completely safe. See Settings -> Privacy Policy for full details.
Luk Ahmad
28 October 2025
I love the app so far. Can I suggest something? can I have in ABC mode, three different modes like ABC, Abc & abc instead of just ABC and abc. Because I dislike it, when I wanna write a name like "John", type the uppercase letter J and set the lower case to type letter o, it turns the uppercase J to the lower case immediately, I have to wait, it makes the typing slow. If you can somehow make it similar to how old Nokia phones works, I think it would be better. Thanks!
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Dimo Karaivanov
4 November 2025
Thanks for the suggestion. A few other users have recently requested the same feature. If it turns out to be popular, I’ll definitely consider adding it in a future update.

What's new

- startup crash fix