Traditional T9

4.1
445 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
Sep 24, 2025

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Ratings and reviews

4.0
437 reviews
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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Dimo Karaivanov
September 7, 2025
TT9 can not play sounds. What you are hearing comes from Android, or some other app. As for typing, in Predictive mode, there is a third option--to automatically capitalize words at the beginning of a sentence, proper names etc. To use it, press Shift several times until the language name in the Status Bar becomes capitalized (e.g. "English").
John Muhammad
September 22, 2025
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 .
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MW 92
September 28, 2025
Hello! This app is amazing! It definitely is the most perfect t9 app there is in the play store. However, it would be amazing if you were to add Malay. There already is bahasa Indonesia, but it's missing some words in Malay, and of coupe focuses more on Indonesian vocabulary.
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Dimo Karaivanov
October 5, 2025
Thank you for the kind words! Supporting 40+ languages is quite challenging for a single developer. Many were added thanks to help from native speakers who provided language word lists and resources. I’d love to add Malay too, but I’ll need some help. Please open an issue on GitHub so we can discuss the details.

What’s new

* Fixed the ✱ key not working (a regression from v54.0)
* Fixed not possible to type words such as "peut-être", "bien-être", etc, in French
* Fixed inaccuracies when calculating the MainView size that caused unnecessary blank space below the keys
* Fixed a misspelled menu item in French
* When reordering the punctuation and the special characters, it is now possible to add any Unicode character, including emojis.