Tappy: T9, Old Style, Keyboard

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About this app

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⌨️ Tappy Keyboard is for users looking for a big key keyboard, or who want an easy to use keyboard for "fat finger" typing. Tappy includes Type-9 (T9) and Compact Qwerty like layouts, as well as T13 and T13-TE (thumbs edition). Ordinary Qwerty is also included, as well as Qwertz and Azerty variations.

🔮 Tappy Keyboard includes fast text prediction in over 30 languages and variations. The T9 keyboard is non-learning, which ensures text prediction remains consistent, and typing is faster.

🥰 Unlike many other keyboards, Tappy supports all emojis supported by your Android phone — that’s up to 3,633 emojis — organised into nine categories, and with search and history features. Tappy isn’t just another big key keyboard with emoji support added as an afterthought.

🎬 If you love your GIFs and stickers, Tappy uses Giphy to give you access to all the GIFs, stickers, video clips, and text images, that you will ever need. And just as with emojis, search and history features are built right into the keyboard.

🔒 Privacy is a central feature to Tappy. Apart from Giphy search phrases, nothing that you type is stored or transmitted online. Text prediction is processed entirely on your own device.

📝 Other features that Tappy Keyboard provides:
• optionally swipe from the backspace key to delete
• swipe from the space key to move the cursor
• use the shift key to change the case of selected text
• automatic symbol insertion for dictionary words
• clipboard functionality
• choose between multi-tap or text prediction
• a selection of color themes to pick from
• sound and volume control
• optional haptic feedback
• character previews
• quick-period option
• auto-capitalization option
• auto-space option

💬 For help, to find out more about Tappy, or to make feature requests, visit the Tappy Keyboard subreddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/TappyKeyboard/

✨ If you find a feature you want that is not yet available in Tappy Keyboard, please contact me before leaving a review as I might be able to offer a fast turnaround solution. The following features are some of what is being worked on now, or in the near future (in no particular order):
• an option to automatically concatenate dictionary words (compound words). For example: cream + cake = creamcake. Pending investigation.
• advanced backspace functionality.
• shortcuts. For example: ty = thank you.

✅ The following features have been recently added to Tappy Keyboard, most recent first:
• shortcuts for text deletion, cursor movement, and changing case of selected tex
• automatic symbol insertion for dictionary words.
• clipboard functionality.
• import personal dictionaries from Gboard or SwiftKey. Or import a manually prepared word-list.
• emojis can be favorited for quicker access.
• more auto space options added to preferences.
• voice-to-text.
• email addresses can be saved to your personal dictionary.
• add to personal dictionary from the navigation bar.
• input method (multi-tap/prediction) selector button added to navigation bar.

🧪 To join Open Testing, visit https://play.google.com/apps/testing/app.minibytes.keyboard

Ratings and reviews

Hello, I love this app! Great job! However, I'm unable to purchase the full version. My feedback is to change the long press option to keep the selection box open on screen untill a character is chosen vs having to keep my finger on the screen and slide over to the character. Also, check out "go keyboard lite" , it has lots of cool features. That's what I've been using, but I don't like that I can't remove some predictive words or promote other word like but instead of cut.

A decent replacement for the Go SMS keyboard since it stopped working after the latest android update. but definitely not as user friendly or customizable. Wish punctuation had its own bar to the right and that the pop up bar was easier to navigate. Also need continuous delete instead of one letter at a time. I will be using this until the GO SMS Keyboard is fixed. However if we can get the option to quickly switch to QWERTY I would keep this keyboard permanently. Love the dictionary function.

Keyboard layout is not very customisable. The proximity of "next predictive word" key to the space bar in T9 results in frequent mistypes. predictive text is not tolerant to any incorrect letter entries. one incorrect letter and you end up with jtptmmgwa. only few languages available, and all Latin alphabet based, no Cyrillic of any type. this is no Go Keyboard , but still the best functioning T9 available at the moment. wish it was better but there is nothing else available 😒

What's new

Words can now include digits (e.g. MP3);
Better ordering of suggestions when including words from the personal dictionary;
Option added to automatically add unrecognised words to the personal dictionary — this can be disabled in settings;
New layout T9-NCC added, with a narrow control column;
Make display of multi-tap-coundown optional;
Fixed a bug which caused language specific personal dictionaries to hide words in the main dictionary;
Fixed bug when using Tappy in Google Go search.