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Okay, I was dubious about this one. Ive just put it through some paces and am impressed indeed. It auto-capitalizes sentences after a period. You swipe your fingers across the keyboard to the letters that form your word -- no individual tapping, altough thats possible too. It uses prediction to fill in the word by default and was accurate almost all the time. At the same time it generates a list of alternative words so if the program misses, its easy enough to pick the correct one. I wasnt even particularly accurate with my swiping and it did a good job of getting the right word. Words with double-letters, e.g. keep, no need to linger on the e key, just go to the next letter right away, e.g. p and it correctly guesses the word. Minor quibble: Didnt correctly capitalize the word Im. Not a deal killer. Also, does it learn new words or can its dictionary be edited in some manner? Dont know yet, but so far, Im impressed.

I had to switch from ShapeWriter because it was no longer supported after upgrade to iOS5, so Ive had to adjust to differences between this app and SW. Overall, this app does a better job of recognizing words on the first "guess". Having to type space after each word is an adjustment, and I find it counterintuitive that you *dont* type space if you type punctuation. I also wish that double tapping space left a period, as with the typing input in other apps. I also find capitalization of proper nouns etc. is difficult. But overall, a solid contender.

Its awesome to be able to just slide between the letters To write Something its much faster!

SMS just got easier. Ive only been using this for the day, but it hasnt made an error yet. With apples keyboard Im always making corrections. Always. I can save frequently used, and send it right to my SMS without a copy/paste action. Just choose the contact to send it to. Its a little slow on the delete action, but Im not wiping out an entire sentence as the delete speed picks up. Keep up the good work. This is my new favorite app.

I would recommend to update the icon, visually and its quality, since its not optimized for retina display. The icon itself is too simple and not attractive.

Wow! Im really liking this app so far. It has so much potential. Accuracy is incredible, but the back-spacing in quick keyboard mode is very disappointing and is very non-intuitive. IMO Whole words should be erased instead of single letters. Im really hoping that the functionality errors with the quick keyboard could be fixed soon, and am really looking forward to some new features! (Especially since I actually paid for the app) Overall 4 stars for incredible accuracy, 1 star off: for the keyboards backspacing and some glitches. looking forward to future updates. Please keep on working with this app! Update: Great theres new word recognition capabilities.

User friendly unlike other similar swipe keyboards. And most importantly it is more accurate than other similar apps.

Just on English !!!! No accents

I love thumbslide. Its on my bottom toolbar now. Please build in support for French. I only write English 50% of the time.

I just tried this and got it working well right away. At first I was making loopy arcs, but I quickly realized that you need to go directly (in a straight line) to the next letter you want. As long as I do that, it works perfectly. Even when Im sloppy, it guesses well. I used it to send texts and emails, no problems with the interface and I like that its built in so (unlike some of the other apps) you dont have to copy and paste.

Use it every single day! Thx!

This app would be better if you could access the keyboard when in messages. If it was like emoji where you could add it to your international keyboards that would make it better

Being used as a separate app, its a bit of a juggle to write, copy & paste, but for longer messages its really much faster than the standard clicking…

My fingers are too big for the IPHONEs keyboard and its been awkward for me to manipulate the copy and save feature in the IPHONEs NOTES, this app levels the playing field for me and gives me a tool to minimize my struggle with keyboards, I still have lots to learn about this app but Im learning more with each effort on their keyboard as my finger "slides" to each subsequent letter in a word. Great how the whole keyboard switches into lower or upper case mode; How a single command saves all my text for copying and pasting. A very interesting app!

I am not sure whats the difference between free and paid versions but i am very pleased this app is available. I Got the paid version just on principal. This is the most efficient way to write with a virtual keyboard; but probably only If the writer is a touch typist not a hunt and pecker... Thank you!

It really makes typing easy and I hope it will be Apples native inputting method. This app should be in the top 10.

I like this App but sometimes it freeze.

Easy to use, and works flawlessly. Well done - and thank you!!

Very usefull

I love the way it works. I didnt think apple had something like this.