Zman Zoo
10 months ago
It is pretty functional for my needs, I can control how it predicts, use shortcuts for text in on my clipboard, there are alot of settings to enjoy, 1 thing that maybe could be worked on is hitting a navigation button if my finger goes too low on spacebar, my fat fingers tend to do it. Anyways good app, no fluff and no useless "features"
Averil Marie
11 months ago
I love the fact that you can customize your key board just the way you want it and for any season. The keyboard "learns" how you talk and suggests words and phrases you frequently use. I love the swipping action that almost always accurately types the word you want. It also comes with so many features including translation! I highly recommend!
Meowface 64
10 months ago
I like this app a lot! it's easy to use with no ads to get in the way of using it. I only wish there were an easier to access 10 key in english. I have to use the latin alphabet option on the japanese keyboard. Edit: going from previous rating to two stars because of the forced ai tab. Let me turn it off!!!
Matthew T. Price
11 months ago
Used to be great, but now it copies random urls from my screen (super creepy this is even possible) and puts those in the suggestion bar instead of, you know, suggesting the next word. Even when I start typing, the suggested url remains. This worse than useless, it's actively detrimental to typing. I don't want this feature, and I can't find a setting to turn it off.
Tripper Angel
11 months ago
I've been using this keyboard for years (at least 8). Anytime I get a new device, this is one of the first thing I get installed. My only issue is the newest update. It added bing search. Where I'm trying to search through Google for something, it will pop up bing results which at times, will block the Google responses which makes me accidently click on the bing search and tries to open Bing. I cannot stand Bing, do not want it at all on my device, is there a way to turn off that feature?
Jack
11 months ago
There are things that could be improved, as sometimes when you tap into a text box and the kbd comes up it takes up all the screen space limiting the viewable text in the text box. Not sure exactly how to approach that issue but I am sure with some thought and ingenuity issues like this can be improved upon. I really love that you can have the directional keys show on the kbd. They help to mitigate some of the mapping issues with cursor placement, especially when the text box space is limited.
JLC
11 months ago
This is definitely the best keyboard available right now. It has the same features as any other keyboard (ex. text translation), but it has speed and efficiency that, in my opinion, no other keyboard can compete with. If that wasn't good enough, it also has various AI capabilities. Although the current copilot features are great, I think that they should be expanded on. For example, a feature where copilot could trace the origins of videos and images would be cool (if that's possible).
Sandi Marie
10 months ago
I haven't updated my review since (2018?), so, I'm doing that now. I have an iPhone and an Android phone that replaced my landline. This keyboard is so awesome to me that with every upgrade that I do with my phones, I absolutely make sure that I have this keyboard available for me to use immediately. There's many advantages to using this keyboard, and, I like that you can customize the look of the keyboard itself. For example, my keypad is purple. There's other options, but, that's my favorite.
Mark Collins
11 months ago
The keyboard layout is quite nice. However, autocorrect is way too aggressive. Regularly "corrects" things are not wrong. There is no way to tone it down/change the settings. Only options are on/off. Even went to support page-other people saying the same, and official comments from Microsoft are dismissive of the issue. To Microsoft's response: 100% not helpful. You clearly didn't actually read my review.
Justin Spurgeon
10 months ago
Still the best keyboard app by a wide margin, but lately has a lot of annoying habits, such as making unnecessary corrections to words I did not misspell, which completely change the meaning of sentences. Conversely, it also has a habit of letting severe typos slide without correcting them, and then seemingly having no clue what I meant to type, even if a typo is just one letter off from what I meant.
J.D. (ACE7F22)
11 months ago
I've been using "SwiftKey Keyboard" since about 2010, back in my first smartphone. Never even considered switching, as the app only got better, smarter, and more useful. That is, until Microsoft took over. First the clipboard goes away, then bloat ware gets added, and even the heat map is gone. My typing has noticeable gotten worse, frustratingly so. I hate to say it, but this app is garbage now. Used to be one of my must haves.
Tim Atwater
10 months ago
Update May 2024. No better. Not bad overall because it can memorize small phrases but word prediction spotty. Gboard might be slightly better at predictions but not good at memorizing phrases. Now includes access to Bing AI right in the keyboard, haven't had a chance to try that out much yet. Also word predictions are pushed in too fast and as a lot of them are inaccurate, input should be slowed down a little, make it adjustable. Same with the glide, it's too easy to initiate by accident.
Taylor Brown
10 months ago
This is the best keyboard I've ever used. The first thing i do on a new phone is download this. Set it up exactly as I need it. I do seem to remember there was a autocorrect dictionary that would automatically change words like teh to the but I don't see that anymore... However, removing predictions is HUGE and all the other features are perfect.
Stephen Archey
10 months ago
I've had this for years (the SwiftKey Keyboard before the introduction of AI) as it's been the only keyboard app I've ever used on this phone, which is 5 or 6 years old. Super simple, super intuitive, and I've never have any issues with it, or at least none major enough for me to even remember). P.S.: This is the only Microsoft created app/item that I use nowadays, after the way that Microsoft Support did me dirty, however, that's a whole 'nother discussion that ain't nobody got time for.
Tyler Gamber
10 months ago
The autocorrect is frustrating and beyond atrocious, like embarrassingly bad. Sometimes features like copy/paste don't really work right. The customization and interface is good though. If only it was enough to make up for how spectacularly bad the autocorrect is. Half the time the keyboard doesn't even pop up anymore. I have to go into my settings and change keyboards and hope that it will work when I switch back to it. It usually doesn't for a few attempts.
Fox Cole
10 months ago
Overall good app. I enjoy the speed of swiping to type, but the app gets it wrong much of the time. I feel that when I'm swiping a word very specifically and slowly, the app should register the exact letters input, and not make assumptions. Now it's capitalizing nouns in the middle of sentences. I will not disable auto capitalization. I want that after punctuation. I do not want it in the middle of a sentence. That needs to be fixed.
Steve Koenemann
10 months ago
I have used this program for years, well before Microsoft bought. It used to work great, but has become less and less accurate with its predictions. Ever sense Microsoft added "AI" into this app, it's become nearly unusable. Sometimes it's substituted predictions make the text nearly unreadable. It has started suggesting and allowing nonsense. You would think after years of use they would know my writing well... even without AI... not the case, at all. Hopefully, I can find something that works.
sarah lane
11 months ago
Clipboard is terrible. I use it constantly. Multiple times a day I have to clear all the clips. I have to clear them 1 by 1! Also a huge "sync" banner is constantly on the clip board. I can barely see anything without dismissing it. Next time, it's right back! I know about auto delete. That is CRAZY. There is no option to stop that either. If I had relied on this app I would have lost a lot. It's hard to remember to click the 📍 when I copy something on my way to my desk. Then later it's gone.
Aleksander Kanevsky
11 months ago
Pros: Very intuitive with predictions. Cons: A lot of times can't drag cursor from word to word and line to line, starts moving sporadically on its own. The worst part is when you type a long text and at some point have to highlight part of it, Swift stops responding. You have to discard the entire work and retype it all over again. P. S. Definitely has improved over the years
Joe
11 months ago
This app fell from grace after the Microsoft acquisition. Accuracy is noticeably far worse than it used to be and there's no indication that the app is "learning" your texting style at all. I constantly have to fight against the autocorrect for words that it assumes don't exist (they do, so its dictionary is also out of date). Ultimately the only major plus side is the swipe function, but beyond that I don't see a justification. I'm already switching to G-board.