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Thumb-Key

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

It features a 3x3 grid layout, as many older phones had, and uses swipes for the less common letters. Initial testing shows that you can reach ~25 words per minute after a day of use.

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.

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Thumb-key is great! Thanks for an open source alternative to messagease. One question I have - what is the reason for requiring internet permission? Is it possible to build the apk without this?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's just to fetch the Changelog. There's probably a way to generate one tho and bundle it in, so remove the need for that perm. Open up an issue on the github and I can work on it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

K that one's released now. 2.6.13