Traditional T9

3.9
399 reviews
50K+
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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
Aug 31, 2025

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Ratings and reviews

3.9
394 reviews
Kimberly Porladie
July 29, 2025
this is good the one thing that's not good is the location of the mic it should be listed on the top it would definitely be easier to reach and almost everyone uses the mic! you also have to press and hold it and it doesn't last that long you can let go after it says speak but if you pause for a Split Second it stops working and you have to hit it again
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Dimo Karaivanov
August 9, 2025
Voice input is not handled by TT9 but directly by Android. Unfortunately, there is nothing I can do to adjust the wait time when you make a pause. Please, see if there are any settings for that in Android Settings under "Sound" or "Microphone".
Marlena Legault-Monton
September 4, 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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Fili
August 22, 2025
Great app. Easy to swap between languages. I only wish you could slot in your own selection of emojis to pick from, but it has a nice selection. Edit: My bad, I guess I should have read the manual 😅 Certainly no complaints on my behalf anymore
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Dimo Karaivanov
August 22, 2025
You can add your own emojis just like you can add words - just copy them into any text field, then press the "+" button. After that, you'll be able to type them using 1-1-3.

What’s new

v53.0 fixes several severe bugs, brings usability enhancements, and language improvements, including removing more English slurs, adding missing two-letter Vietnamese words, and adding new Japanese words for counting time, and adding new Italian words.