Swiftkey vs Swype: Which one is better and what are the advantages over one another?

[Ledsteplin]

Been using Swype since 2011 on and off. I've tried all the popular keyboards available and found Swype to be the fastest keyboard for one handed use. Swiftkey is the fastest for two handed use.



I can pull off 65-70 WPM one handed with Swype, one handed:
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As compared to which other keyboard's WPM? Does Swype have the option to remove a predictive word from the predictive dictionary? SwiftKey has that option. Try long pressing on a word and see if it offers that option. Here it is in SwiftKey:



Sent from my ancient but trustworthy iPhone 5

 

[Scorpion667]

Swype has the same word removal method.

I've tried:
Google keyboard
Samsung keyboard
Touchpal
Swiftkey
Swype

I've owned way too many Android phones that's why I'm pretty familiar with those.

Swiftkey is impressive in that, I can type cohesive sentences while ridiculously drunk, and I'm not even close to hitting the correct keys. Their engine is really good. It looks at your tap in relation to your previous taps and kinda maps out the word that way.

Swiftkey flow has an unacceptable flaw in my view in that after I swipe a word it doesn't give me a list of which words it thinks I tried to put down, but rather tries to guess my next word. I then have to backspace and retry the word, extremely annoying. But the actually Flow engine is pretty good, just they are stubborn about that feature. It's key.

At the end of the day you can't go wrong with either keyboard. Unless you're a die hard Swype fan like myself (I literally learned how to type on smartphones only using Swype) probably best to grab Swiftkey as it's free.

 

[david9962000]

After trying a few, TouchPal is best.

 

[Ledsteplin]

Swiftkey vs Swype: Which one is better and what are the advantages over one a...

Swype has the same word removal method.

I've tried:
Google keyboard
Samsung keyboard
Touchpal
Swiftkey
Swype

I've owned way too many Android phones that's why I'm pretty familiar with those.

Swiftkey is impressive in that, I can type cohesive sentences while ridiculously drunk, and I'm not even close to hitting the correct keys. Their engine is really good. It looks at your tap in relation to your previous taps and kinda maps out the word that way.

Swiftkey flow has an unacceptable flaw in my view in that after I swipe a word it doesn't give me a list of which words it thinks I tried to put down, but rather tries to guess my next word. I then have to backspace and retry the word, extremely annoying. But the actually Flow engine is pretty good, just they are stubborn about that feature. It's key.

At the end of the day you can't go wrong with either keyboard. Unless you're a die hard Swype fan like myself (I literally learned how to type on smartphones only using Swype) probably best to grab Swiftkey as it's free.

I don't use Swype. I have tried it but I can't see under my finger at what letter I'm on. I've gotten pretty good at predictive typing. I wonder why the stock keyboard has no word removal feature?


Sent from my ancient but trustworthy iPhone 5

 

[TripleOne]

As compared to which other keyboard's WPM? Does Swype have the option to remove a predictive word from the predictive dictionary? SwiftKey has that option. Try long pressing on a word and see if it offers that option. Here it is in SwiftKey:
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Sent from my ancient but trustworthy iPhone 5

Is that the iMore app? if so, how did you changed it to a black theme? It looks really nice!

 

[WeAreAllUnique]

Swype still can't be used on the lockscreen when replying to notifications. I thought they would have fixed this by now.


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[iJedi]

I tried to like Swiftkey but the swipe accuracy when compared with Swype was just abysmal. I don't need predictive text, personally so it's Swype all the way. Worth the $0.99 imho.

 

[SynSixx Snow]

The lag is present if you're on iOS 8 because in all honesty, your phone (All 4S models) do not have the proper hardware to really run iOS 8 well. Much like the 4 can't do iOS 7.1.2 or the 3GS with iOS 6.1.3 to it's optimal potential. The lag is there because the phone doesn't have the power to process the OS along with everything that's loading in most all applications. I have every iPhone made thus far except the 6 and 6+ and all of them are on their latest softwares. The 4 does a terrible job at handling 7.1.2..kinda sad because of how beastly the phone was when it came out. But I digress, the 4S and honestly the 5 and 5C don't really have the hardware to move fluidly in iOS 8+. The 4S handles better being jailbroken on 7.1.2 for a Swype integrated keyboard (That's still pushing the processor quite a bit though).