Thumb-Key
Thumb-Key is a privacy-conscious smart keyboard, made specifically for your thumbs.
Features
- Dark Mode
- Privacy focused
- Lightweight
- Swipe Typing
Thumb-Key News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
- forcemajore liked Thumb-Key
marcomandy added Thumb-Key as alternative to tOndO keyboard- Wireball reviewed Thumb-Key
Lightweight, open-source, and actively maintained. A nice alternative to MessagEase
- Wireball liked Thumb-Key
POX added Thumb-Key as alternative to Brailliac: Braille Keyboard
POX added Thumb-Key as alternative to SMT Simple Keyboard- aseixas liked Thumb-Key
Thumb-Key information
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- 1,001 Stars
- 210 Forks
- 33 Open Issues
- Updated Oct 14, 2024
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.
Said about Thumb-Key as an alternative
Better layout for typing on a handheld device.
Functionally pretty much the same keyboard. Lacks some things like making your own layout. Has options to make it look nearly identical.
It supports the anihortes layout, doesn't require any permissions, and is open source (and actively maintained).
Comments and Reviews
Lightweight, open-source, and actively maintained. A nice alternative to MessagEase