Traditional T9

Dimo Karaivanov

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

Ratings and reviews

Brilliant app, I've been typing on my cat s22, and it's as simple and functional as can be. The special key customization 🐢, the voice to text, and keyboard modes are great. Switching languages is quick and easy. The Spanish mode works as well as the English. The biggest thing I want is customizable key sounds, but that could be out of the scope of this app. I've been using this for 2 months. Using the time it took to type these words, my WPM on here is about 9.5 🌝

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.

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.

What's new

- updated Help
- corrected a couple of translations
- attempted to fix the overlap between the navigation bar and key block on Samsung device with Android 15+
- fixed a rare crash when loading suggestions
- significantly reduced the lag when accepting suggestions
- added a "Double-Tap to Resize" setting
- added a couple of new English and Bulgarian words