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

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.

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!

I was badly searchin for a T9 predictive type key pad for installing in my new phone as I am extremely used to writing with this predictive t9 key pads since the start of the mobile phone service in india as the basic phones had this feature in all of them and i have been able to write a lot because of this kind of keypad as during writing i just just have to focus on my ideas not on searching letters on? Keypad as I said i am basically addicted to using this type of keypad. Thank you a lot .

What's new

This version fixes several non-critical bugs, introduces optimizations for faster startup and reduced typing lag on low-end devices, and adds a couple of user-requested features.