TypeSmart 2.0 Keyboard App for Android Review
If typing on your mobile phone keyboard is quite a frequent an exercise every day, perhaps this one will be of interest to you: TypeSmart 2.0 Keyboard for Android. If to believe its makers, the app help you type at least 25% faster that your current keyboard. You can get TypeSmart Keyboard Android app for $2.99 from Google Play Store. The app is also available in a free 30 days trial version.
TypeSmart Keyboard App Features
While typing is also about practice, TypeSmart Keyboard app for Android offers six cool features that no other keyboard apps offer. Among its features, the first one of note is the slide out number pad. You just got to swipe up to reveal the number row. If the phone’s display is small, still there is separate number pad like in the stock keyboard. The second cool feature of TypeSmart Keyboard for Android is Psychic suggestion. Unlike the regular keyboard apps, TypeSmart Keyboard predicts the next two words you’re going to type. For example, if you intend to type ‘How are you?’, as soon as you type ‘How a’, ‘are you’ appears in the suggestion area. However, the app does not seem to learn from your typing history.
The ‘password checker’ feature comes handy if you’re typing the password of your account in some website or app. As you type your password, the letters immediately changes into asterisk. Just before submitting, you can hit the ‘check password’ above the keyboard to see if the typed password was correct. Further, you can customize the ‘any key’ to be one of six different functions: smiley menu, cursor controls, voice input, language, translator, or settings. In fact, you can set it to represent two functions at a time: one accessible from a single tap and the other through long press. You can also have all of these functions open by long pressing the return key.
TypeSmart Keyboard Android app also let you customize the size of the keyboards independently for portrait and landscape modes. Lastly, the app comes with lots of themes that you can use to customize your keyboard. Another useful feature is the ability to add shortcuts. For regularly typed words/phrases, you can set a shortcut word or even a letter so that typing it brings up the intended word among the suggestions. TypeSmart Keyboard is compatible with phones and tablets that you don’t have to buy a separate version for both. As of now, the app supports English, Spanish, German, and French.
Conclusion
TypeSmart Keyboard app for Android is a decent keyboard replacement application that you would come to love. It offers some cool features that you can’t find in the stock keyboard utility. The psychic suggestion and password checker are two standout features among those, so is the ability to add shortcuts. Multi-language support comes handy. Verdict: Worth checking out if you’re in the lookout for a feature-rich keyboard app.
Category: Android Apps
