Graffiti Pro for Android

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About this app

Download Graffiti™ - The Keyboard Replacement for Android that uses the stroke-based handwriting recognition system text input system made popular by Palm™ PDAs running PalmOS™.

Features:
-Replaces the Default Keyboard for Android
-Stroke-based text input - Uses the Graffiti™ alphabet text input method
-Easy to Learn
- Speeds up text input with Auto-Capitalization and Word Learning
-English and Japanese language support
-Faster and More Accurate that On-Screen Typing
-Advertisement Free

Graffiti™ is a replacement for the built-in on-screen keyboard, also called an input method. With Graffiti, you no longer type but you draw Graffiti characters with your finger or a compatible stylus. Graffiti characters are mostly single-stroke drawings that closely match the usual alphabet, but are simplified to make entry faster and easier. For example, the letter "A" is entered with a stroke that looks like an upside-down "V", saving time that you do not need to cross the "A" in the middle. Same for the letter "T", which is entered almost like a "7".

There are text and numeric input areas, improving the recognition of your input. Strokes drawn in the text area will only be interpreted as letters; strokes in the numeric area will be interpreted as numbers .

If you were a user of a PalmOS based PDA in the past, this will all be very familiar to you as the input method used by those devices was a stylus drawing Graffiti strokes in an input area at the bottom of the display. But even if you were not a Graffiti user before, you should give it a try now if you find that the on-screen keyboard doesn't suit your input style.

Don't know the Graffiti alphabet? After installing and enabling Graffiti, just draw a stroke up from the Graffiti input area into the main display area and the help screen appears. Tap to switch between the six stroke help screens.

Questions? Please see the FAQ at our website.

Ratings and reviews

Compared to regular Grafitti, the surface area of the writing area is much larger. I dont know whether it would be practical on a small phone. You would need to get the regular Grafitti. Grafitti is one of the great input inventions of tech. It's up there with the keyboard. It might be a little slower than gboard, but youll catch the errors faster. You can look at the words as you type, so you can correct them right away. You can look someone in the eye while you are taking notes. Fantastic.

Absolutely indispensible for quickly entering certain special characters which are otherwise buried or unavailable on other keyboards. There are still a couple clunky aspects, and it's not as fast as swipe-based typing for normal prose, but it’s the best experience for entering passwords by a wide margin. It may best be used alongside a more conventional keyboard. But it also makes a good primary text entry method, very similar in ease to handwriting. I used Graffiti Pro to write this review.

It's easy to start using it, being very familiar with the Palm. But it's not very configurable and not at all easy to switch to other Keyboards. For most Keyboards I can do something as simple as a long press on the space bar bring up a list of my other Keyboards, like Gboard, Samsung Keyboard, Gboard Ukrainian, Gboard German. With Graffiti you need to go into Android settings and deselect Graffiti from the list of keyboards. It's impossible to set the on-screen size, and it's HUGE!

What’s new

[2023/06/20 v2.0.2]
Small fix.

[2023/04/07 v2.0.1]
Support dark mode.

[2023/03/17 v2.0.0]
Now compatible with Android 13.

[2016/03/15 v1.0.5]
fixed the issue unable to translate to kanji

[2016/02/03 v1.0.4]
Fixed an install issue (Can't install the app, error code: -103)

[2016/01/29 v1.0.3]
High resolution support.