Change the stock Android keyboard for something a bit smarter. One of Android's best and most oft-overlooked features is its ability to switch out the default keyboard for an alternative. These come with extra, innovative features and are a vast improvement on the stock keyboards. There are hundreds on the Play Store, too, and you can change keyboards until you find one you like. With this in mind, we've selected nine of the best keyboards available on Android devices. But before you download them, it's a good idea to work out what sort of typist you are. Some people love swanky swipe interfaces, whereas others feel more comfortable with more tactile traditional keyboards. On top of those are some really odd keyboards which do something a little different. So here are the Top 10 keyboards with their Play Store links.!
10. Adaptxt
Adaptxt is the best and most customizable keyboard in the Android market. It provides word suggestions before you even start typing and learns from your writing style to get smarter and more efficient as you use it.
Not only does it provide language support with 81 dictionaries, it also has 39 industry specific dictionary add ons including Legal, Finance, Medical & more, which makes it a perfect keyboard app for your Android device. You can get the industry specific dictionaries through an in app purchase after downloading the core Adaptxt keyboard app from this page.
Whether you’re a lawyer, IT professional, a doctor or simply a college going student, Adaptxt is for everyone.
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Key Features:
• 81 languages; up to 5 dictionaries can be enabled at once
• 3 different auto correction modes to suit your typing style for the most accurate text entry
• 39 efficient industry-specific dictionary add-ons: business, medicine, law, finance and IT & Telecom
• Keyboard Customization to create your own themes, swap keys, and modify key shape, font style, background picture, colors and height of your keyboard; Keyboard Customization can be purchased from the Adaptxt Store
• Automatic Text Replacement (ATR) to create custom shortcuts
• Clipboard functions - select, cut, copy, paste and navigation keys
• Learn from Facebook and Twitter to allow Adaptxt to adapt to your style and vocabulary
• Share Key to quickly post a message on your social networks from the keyboard.
• Phone keyboard layout (12 key)
• A range of vibrant keyboard themes available for purchase from the Adaptxt Store
• Glide Beta - slide over letters on the keyboard to form words
Play Rating - 4.3
Play Store Link
9. Siine
The Shortcut Keyboard will change your texting life! Its free, ad-free, and top quality. You have to try it out, but its a very cool idea for easier, more fluid messaging.
Have your signatures and frequently used phrases for 1-click easy access.
Customize your keyboard for your style of chatting and texting.
Shortcut Keys is designed for people who spend too much time and effort typing. That means you!
A brilliant clock module makes typing times fast and easy.
Type dates like you do when you book a flight - by clicking a calendar. No need to write everything out. You can even get the calendar module to show you your availability as you type… no need to switch between apps in order to arrange a meet up.
LANGUAGES: English, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, German, Italian, French, Hindi, Turkish, Arabic
Be patient, it takes some time to get used to a new idea like this. So please be generous with stars :)
Install takes several steps - if you've never installed a keyboard app get instructions from www.siine.com/
Siine works with e-mail, Facebook, WhatsApp, chat, Twitter or anywhere you need to type on your phone! Check it out, experiment, and if you enjoy it we love getting some stars and your feedback ;)
Android Versions: 2.3 and up (including 4.2 Jelly Bean)
Siine Features
* Shortcuts - Fully-customizable icons for super-fast shortcuts for greetings such as “Hey man, how’s it going?” to “Cool, talk to you soon”
* A built-in Clock and Calendar lets you text about time and dates easier than ever before!
* Stress Message screen for when you’re in a rush. Text “Sorry, can’t talk now. Call you right back” with only a couple taps of the keyboard.
* Personalized Emoticons - Love Emoticons? Siine lets you create your very own!
* Sexy Delete – Delete text fast with the wiggle of your finger – ohh la la!
Reviews
“Think there’s only one way to type on your phone? Think again.” TechCrunch, October 2011
“Siine's 'emoticons on steroids' inject personality to text-based messages” WiredUK, February 2012
Play Rating - 4.1
Play Store Link
Learn it in a fun and challenging way by playing the game "8pen Wordcup", available for free on the Market.
*Important notice* 8pen will now ask for permission to access the Internet. This is required for the new language pack installation and update mechanism. In no other circumstances will 8pen need access to the Internet.
Note: To all the brave early adopters who purchased the first version of the 8pen in November 2010, send us a mail providing us with your current order number as well as the one from November. We will then offer you a full refund. Thanks again!
Main recent changes:
* Added support for Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish, Icelandic, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Romanian, Croatian, Slovene, Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian
* Full support for Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
* Voice typing for Android >= 4.0: text is now inserted while you speak!
* Improved fluidity and responsiveness
* Improved suggestions and dictionaries
* A new paradigm for word selection
* Arrow gestures
* Tap to edit
* Cut and paste using swipe gestures
* Three numeric keyboards
* New guides and FAQ
* Long-press button actions
* Fully customizable smileys
* Fine-grained feedback
* More center sizes
* Force lowercase
10. Adaptxt
Adaptxt is the best and most customizable keyboard in the Android market. It provides word suggestions before you even start typing and learns from your writing style to get smarter and more efficient as you use it.
Not only does it provide language support with 81 dictionaries, it also has 39 industry specific dictionary add ons including Legal, Finance, Medical & more, which makes it a perfect keyboard app for your Android device. You can get the industry specific dictionaries through an in app purchase after downloading the core Adaptxt keyboard app from this page.
Whether you’re a lawyer, IT professional, a doctor or simply a college going student, Adaptxt is for everyone.
# # # #
Key Features:
• 81 languages; up to 5 dictionaries can be enabled at once
• 3 different auto correction modes to suit your typing style for the most accurate text entry
• 39 efficient industry-specific dictionary add-ons: business, medicine, law, finance and IT & Telecom
• Keyboard Customization to create your own themes, swap keys, and modify key shape, font style, background picture, colors and height of your keyboard; Keyboard Customization can be purchased from the Adaptxt Store
• Automatic Text Replacement (ATR) to create custom shortcuts
• Clipboard functions - select, cut, copy, paste and navigation keys
• Learn from Facebook and Twitter to allow Adaptxt to adapt to your style and vocabulary
• Share Key to quickly post a message on your social networks from the keyboard.
• Phone keyboard layout (12 key)
• A range of vibrant keyboard themes available for purchase from the Adaptxt Store
• Glide Beta - slide over letters on the keyboard to form words
Play Rating - 4.3
Play Store Link
9. Siine
The Shortcut Keyboard will change your texting life! Its free, ad-free, and top quality. You have to try it out, but its a very cool idea for easier, more fluid messaging.
Have your signatures and frequently used phrases for 1-click easy access.
Customize your keyboard for your style of chatting and texting.
Shortcut Keys is designed for people who spend too much time and effort typing. That means you!
A brilliant clock module makes typing times fast and easy.
Type dates like you do when you book a flight - by clicking a calendar. No need to write everything out. You can even get the calendar module to show you your availability as you type… no need to switch between apps in order to arrange a meet up.
LANGUAGES: English, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, German, Italian, French, Hindi, Turkish, Arabic
Be patient, it takes some time to get used to a new idea like this. So please be generous with stars :)
Install takes several steps - if you've never installed a keyboard app get instructions from www.siine.com/
Siine works with e-mail, Facebook, WhatsApp, chat, Twitter or anywhere you need to type on your phone! Check it out, experiment, and if you enjoy it we love getting some stars and your feedback ;)
Android Versions: 2.3 and up (including 4.2 Jelly Bean)
Siine Features
* Shortcuts - Fully-customizable icons for super-fast shortcuts for greetings such as “Hey man, how’s it going?” to “Cool, talk to you soon”
* A built-in Clock and Calendar lets you text about time and dates easier than ever before!
* Stress Message screen for when you’re in a rush. Text “Sorry, can’t talk now. Call you right back” with only a couple taps of the keyboard.
* Personalized Emoticons - Love Emoticons? Siine lets you create your very own!
* Sexy Delete – Delete text fast with the wiggle of your finger – ohh la la!
Reviews
“Think there’s only one way to type on your phone? Think again.” TechCrunch, October 2011
“Siine's 'emoticons on steroids' inject personality to text-based messages” WiredUK, February 2012
Play Rating - 4.1
Play Store Link
8. 8pen
The 8pen is a new way of writing on mobile devices. It is natural, fast, and just feels right.Learn it in a fun and challenging way by playing the game "8pen Wordcup", available for free on the Market.
*Important notice* 8pen will now ask for permission to access the Internet. This is required for the new language pack installation and update mechanism. In no other circumstances will 8pen need access to the Internet.
Note: To all the brave early adopters who purchased the first version of the 8pen in November 2010, send us a mail providing us with your current order number as well as the one from November. We will then offer you a full refund. Thanks again!
Main recent changes:
* Added support for Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish, Icelandic, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Romanian, Croatian, Slovene, Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian
* Full support for Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
* Voice typing for Android >= 4.0: text is now inserted while you speak!
* Improved fluidity and responsiveness
* Improved suggestions and dictionaries
* A new paradigm for word selection
* Arrow gestures
* Tap to edit
* Cut and paste using swipe gestures
* Three numeric keyboards
* New guides and FAQ
* Long-press button actions
* Fully customizable smileys
* Fine-grained feedback
* More center sizes
* Force lowercase
7. Thumb Keyboard
Most customizable keyboard in the Play store for Phone, Tablet and Phablet. Packed with a lot of features you won't find on any other keyboard.
"Thumb Keyboard takes customization to next level" (Laptop Magazine)
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DESCRIPTION
Thumb Keyboard for Android™ is a keyboard with many, advanced customization options that allows the user to adjust it to his or her preferences. This groundbreaking keyboard introduces a lot of innovations. Besides a standard layout it has a new (patent pending) "split" layout for tablets and phones that makes thumb typing more natural and comfortable. It also introduces a lot of useful and advanced functions that will improve your productivity and makes typing on your mobile device more fun and comfortable.
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SOME QUOTES FROM MAGAZINES AND AROUND THE INTERNET
#2 in this years (2012) top 10 "indispensable Android apps list" of ZDNet's TechRepublic
"Thumb Keyboard makes two handed typing a breeze" "An epic win for tablet typing" (Android Police)
"Thumb Keyboard – The First Universally Functional Keyboard" (Android Guys)
"Optimierte Layouts für Phone und Tablet - Test: GUT" (Android Magazin)
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FEATURES
FLEXIBLE KEYBOARD LAYOUTS
• Full featured standard layouts
• Split layouts for tablets and large screen devices: Better accessible keys for thumb-typing on large and small tablets and 4"+ phones
• Special tailored layouts for phones, 5" 'phablets', 7" tablets and 9-10" tablets
• Option to select separate layouts for portrait and landscape
• One-handed operation mode for large-screen phones
No more unnatural stretching or juggling with your tablet or phone…
STATE OF THE ART KEYBOARD TECHNOLOGY
• Continuous Voice Recognition (Android 4.x): real time voice recognition using the latest Google Voice typing service
• Multi-touch
• Variable key spacing
• Long press symbols and characters (customizable)
• Auto-correction
• Auto-correction feedback in text to reduce errors caused by unnoticed auto corrections (Android 4.x)
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Text to speech feedback
• Voice input (Non Continuous for Android 2.2 and higher)
• Bigram word prediction (predict word based on previous word - for Android 2.3 and higher.)
• Swipe gesture support
• Adjustable keyclick volume
• User dictionary
• 3D "coverflow" theme browser with 25+ themes
FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE
• Option to change the long press symbols on the letter keys!
• Save much used phrases and enter with a touch of a button
• 25+ Themes
• User definable auto text substitutions (For example: thx -> thanks etc)
• Optional user customizable key row
• Change colors and size of keys, font etc.
• Customizable background (choose your own image)
• Full color customization!
6. A.I.Type Keyboard
So, what makes A.I.type Keyboards ‘ONE OF THE BEST’?
* It’s smart! The keyboard suggests your next word, completes your current word and corrects your typos based on the context of what you are writing.
* It gets smarter! As you type, the keyboard learns your common words, phrases and style, and improves its text prediction accordingly. We call it – MyType.
* It’s accurate! You don’t have to be very precise with the keys you hit. Even if you miss keys frequently, the keyboard will understand and correct you.
* It’s cool! You can change colors, themes, background images, fonts! You can resize the keyboard by dragging the resize key! You can make you keyboard look exactly like iPhone4, Windows Phone 7 or ICS (and more!)…It has lots of FREE Skins for you to choose from.
* It is totally customizable! You can control just about anything and every behavior. You can edit and store your own shortcuts for you to use while typing. You also can download Emoji for FREE !
* It’s efficient! You have navigation buttons, you can undo and redo your changes, copy, cut and paste from the keyboard and more.
*It’s easy to use! Drag it all the way down to expose the screen, and back up. Just swipe your finger up to get a numeric / navigation / symbols row! Another swipe – eliminate it!
* It supports so many languages! The keyboard has over 35 keyboard layouts, and other than in English, text prediction is provided in Spanish, German, French, Italian, Arabic, Russian, Dutch, Korean, Greek, Swedish, Polish and Hebrew.
* It’s safe! A.I.type never collects, analyzes or sends your personal information, passwords, credit card numbers etc. Text stays encrypted and private.
* It warns you when it corrects your text! Get a visual indication before auto-correction is applied, and a beep after the correction.
Woah that's a whole lot of keyboards and yes, these five were awesome. But, wait! There are more five. Click here for the TOP 5.
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