sWIFTKEY Free
Helping to clean up smartphone errors
A favorite third-party keyboard app is SwiftKey.
It deals with one of the biggest problems with typing on a touch screen: mistakes. SwiftKey autocorrects them.
But that's just the start.
As any smartphone user knows, autocorrect can mangle what you are trying to type even further.
SwiftKey uses artificial intelligence to learn about your writing style over time, building up an understanding of the words you like to use. So when you are typing a long message, the app can usually do a good job of correcting typos you make because it can guess the word you intended to use.
SwiftKey also suggests the words you may want to type next so they can be entered with a single keystroke. SwiftKey can even learn your slang and emoji habits.
The app does a good job of detecting which language you are using, automatically switching its correction of typos even if you switch languages midmessage (a common weak point of other keyboards' autocorrect systems, as bilingual typists know well).
The app supports glide typing, and it is quite customizable, so that its layout can be changed to a split keyboard, for example, or the background color can be changed.
