Write Search
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About this app
One hand. One letter. Done.
Write Search finds the person or the app you want without typing and without scrolling.
Draw a letter on the screen with your thumb. The list shrinks. Draw
another. You are usually there by the second or third letter.
Everything you touch sits in the lower half of the screen, so the whole thing
works one-handed — on the bus, with a bag in the other hand, walking the dog.
WHAT IT DOES
• Write, don't type. Draw letters with your thumb or a stylus. No tiny
keyboard, no autocorrect.
• Contacts and apps in one search. Write "ma" and get Matt, Martin and Maps.
• Call, text, WhatsApp or email from the row itself. It remembers the number
or address you usually use for that person.
• Your regulars come first. The people and apps you open most rise to the top.
• Your language. Keep up to three handwriting packs installed, downloaded when you want them.
• Light, dark, or follow your phone.
• A short tutorial the first time you open it, and you can replay it any time
from settings.
GOOD FOR
• Long contact lists
• Big phones and short thumbs
• Anyone who finds an on-screen keyboard fiddly
PRIVATE BY DEFAULT
Nothing you search leaves your phone.
• Your contacts are read so they can be searched, and kept only on the device.
• Your app list is read so apps can be found by name. It stays here too.
• Your handwriting is read on the phone itself, so it works with no signal and
no stroke is ever sent anywhere.
• Android's cloud backup is switched off, so none of it reaches Google Drive.
Write Search is free, with one small banner ad. The advertising ID is the only thing that leaves the device, and in the EEA and UK you are asked before any ad loads.
Permissions: Contacts, so it can search them. Phone, so a call starts on the
first tap. Both are explained before they are asked for, and the app still
works if you say no.
Write Search finds the person or the app you want without typing and without scrolling.
Draw a letter on the screen with your thumb. The list shrinks. Draw
another. You are usually there by the second or third letter.
Everything you touch sits in the lower half of the screen, so the whole thing
works one-handed — on the bus, with a bag in the other hand, walking the dog.
WHAT IT DOES
• Write, don't type. Draw letters with your thumb or a stylus. No tiny
keyboard, no autocorrect.
• Contacts and apps in one search. Write "ma" and get Matt, Martin and Maps.
• Call, text, WhatsApp or email from the row itself. It remembers the number
or address you usually use for that person.
• Your regulars come first. The people and apps you open most rise to the top.
• Your language. Keep up to three handwriting packs installed, downloaded when you want them.
• Light, dark, or follow your phone.
• A short tutorial the first time you open it, and you can replay it any time
from settings.
GOOD FOR
• Long contact lists
• Big phones and short thumbs
• Anyone who finds an on-screen keyboard fiddly
PRIVATE BY DEFAULT
Nothing you search leaves your phone.
• Your contacts are read so they can be searched, and kept only on the device.
• Your app list is read so apps can be found by name. It stays here too.
• Your handwriting is read on the phone itself, so it works with no signal and
no stroke is ever sent anywhere.
• Android's cloud backup is switched off, so none of it reaches Google Drive.
Write Search is free, with one small banner ad. The advertising ID is the only thing that leaves the device, and in the EEA and UK you are asked before any ad loads.
Permissions: Contacts, so it can search them. Phone, so a call starts on the
first tap. Both are explained before they are asked for, and the app still
works if you say no.
Find any contact or app with one hand. Just write a letter on the screen.
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What’s new
- New UI
- New home screen widget that shows your top contacts
- New Quick Settings tile that opens the app
- Can open on your phone's favourites
- Search now finds people by phone number, nickname and workplace
- Chat on Telegram from a contact
- Hides buttons for apps you don't have installed
- New flat app icon in the new colours
- New swipe gesture
- New home screen widget that shows your top contacts
- New Quick Settings tile that opens the app
- Can open on your phone's favourites
- Search now finds people by phone number, nickname and workplace
- Chat on Telegram from a contact
- Hides buttons for apps you don't have installed
- New flat app icon in the new colours
- New swipe gesture
