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Thumb-Key

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Thumb-Key is a privacy-conscious smart keyboard, made specifically for your thumbs.

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  • FreeOpen Source

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Country of Origin

  • International

Platforms

  • Android
  • F-Droid
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Properties

  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Dark Mode
  2.  Swipe Typing

 Tags

  • virtual-keyboard

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Thumb-Key information

  • Developed by

    Dessalines
  • Licensing

    Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Free product.
  • Alternatives

    42 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Category

OS & Utilities

GitHub repository

  •  1,193 Stars
  •  260 Forks
  •  32 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jun 16, 2025 
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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about Thumb-Key, and it has gotten 5 likes

Thumb-Key was added to AlternativeTo by Paul on Jul 7, 2023 and this page was last updated Jul 7, 2023.

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Top Positive Comment
Wireball
Feb 8, 2024
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Lightweight, open-source, and actively maintained. A nice alternative to MessagEase

What is Thumb-Key?

Thumb-Key is a privacy-conscious smart keyboard, made specifically for your thumbs.

It features a 3x3 grid layout, and uses swipes for the less common letters. Its easy to learn, and designed for fast typing speeds.

Instead of relying on profit-driven, privacy-offending word and sentence prediction for accuracy, as do most popular phone keyboards like Gboard and Swiftkey, Thumb-Key uses large keys with predictable positions, to prevent your eyes from hunting and pecking for letters.

As the key positions get ingrained into your muscle memory, eventually you'll be able to appromixate the fast speeds of touch-typing, your eyes never having to leave the text edit area.

This project is a follow-up to the now unmaintained (and closed-source) MessageEase Keyboard, which is its main inspiration.