Typewise Custom Keyboard

• Typewise PRO (Monthly) — $1.99/month
• Typewise PRO (Monthly) — $6.99/year ($0.58/mo)
• Typewise PRO (Monthly) — $9.49/year ($0.79/mo)
• Typewise PRO (Monthly) — $9.99/year ($0.83/mo)
• Typewise PRO (Monthly) — $12.49/year ($1.04/mo)
• Typewise PRO (Lifetime) — $24.99

Last verified 6 Aug 2026

• Free to download
• In-app purchases: $1.99 - $24.99 per item

Last verified 31 Aug 2026

3.8 844 ratings · App Store

1. 4/5Much smarter way to type on a touchscreen (+fun idea)

   I was very happy to discover this keyboard, because it actually uses the different gestures a touchscreen has beyond just tap, and puts those gestures to really good use. It also looks cool. However, it still has a couple bugs: >New major one that just started happening: the GUI freezes when switching to and from special characters and emoji, but still types and works (UPDATE: My fault, I forgot to update the app was the problem) >Occationally crashing, causing the phone to kick over to the default keyboard, but also starting back up automatically Basic lacking features: >emoji search >>(But does pin most used) Suggestions: >Move cursor up and down as well as left and right when holding space >A cool way to add a whole other use to the keyboard is AI to perhaps write for you or suggest entire responses >Touchscreen’s first keyboard with customizable buttons and even layout >Fun one: After experiencing the UI freezing, a cool idea came to my head for those who become very used to the keyboard to where they no longer have to look at it to type: A stylistic option to completely remove the button labels, so you just have a pad of hexagons you use to type like an alien who’s too smart for a *labeled* control panel!

   DrQuack1000 · 6 Aug 2026

2. 5/5Great keyboard, well worth paying for the premium

   I've been using Typewise for a couple of years now and will never go back to the original iOS keyboard. Pros: The larger keys, the ability to swipe up for capitals or lowercase, backspace by swiping left, and move the cursor from the keyboard are all features I can't live without now. The auto-complete suggestions are fine and I love that you can long press to remove a word from the dictionary! Stability has generally improved over the years I've used this app, with fewer crashes than when I first began using it. In the beginning, accidentally hitting the spacebar was an annoying issue, but a while back, they made it so that you could move the spacebar down to the bottom which helped a LOT. I was going to add something about the spacebar sensitivity still being wonky. I was having to keep it on high to even have those taps register, and that led to accidental spacebar presses, but I just switched it back down to medium and, wow, I guess they fixed it at some point! Minor issues: I did turn off auto-correct due to some bugginess in certain text fields, but the native iOS keyboard has the same issues. The ease of typing on a larger keyboard makes up for any speed you might lose from turning on auto-correct. Trying to swipe up on certain top row letters, like I or Y, can be hit or miss, so I wish there was more clearance between the top row and the auto-complete bar- there's a lot of real estate at the bottom, they could easily move it down a bit.

   crawreb · 6 Aug 2026

3. 2/5A few big flaws holding this back

   Tucking four symbols used at various frequencies each with different gestures is a weird anti-pattern for simplicity. Vibration as a premium feature is a bummer and to me the only thing premium is worth. The TW logo to the left of the smart bar is not good at all and the premium undo feature is not a suitable substitute. Turning off the smart bar locks you out of being able to undo autocorrect. Words like i'm don't get capitalized and contractions like cant don't get an automatic apostrophe but the word "don't" does. The word i never gets autocapitalized. The word autocorrect, a word used multiple times inside the configuring interface, gets autocorrected to "a incorrect". The word autocorrected gets converted to "a uncorrected". There is only so much more customizability this needs in order to be perfect, and the allure of bigger, harder to mistype keys is not worth the compromises. How do i close this keyboard even? Edit as a response to the developer: I just want the logo to be a little bit smaller. It’s huge. And tapping above the screen doesn’t work sometimes like even editing this review. I still have major problems with the symbols layout and the lack of customizabilty. I still feel as if even after only the changes you’ve mentioned the premium price of the pro features still can’t justify the main selling point - bigger and harder to mistake buttons.

   sharkverse · 6 Aug 2026

4. 3/5So different! But...

   Its so cool to have a new keyboard style, who would dare venture outside of qwerty? I love the concept, but the placements of the keys have me reaching further up and down then ever, now i have 5 rows of letters. I find it harder to hop up and down (as you will need to do with this app) then left and right. Also, the number keys are never going to be used in such an awkward format? Why add the 4 at the end of the row after 123? It’s a totally unnecessary pattern change, kind of like revising the English language from the word “yes” to “yeshk”. But this is where the fun part is of the whole Typewise language, making typing a new thing like driving stick shift for the first time. The K definitely needs to be swapped with the L! Haptic feed back is a little generic as well, where as using the phones native keyboard, there’s a beautiful tapping vibration, here, the vibration is too long. The range in adjusting the strength is wayyyy to large. Just light, med, and strong would do I think. I use this for fun and support for adventurers like Typewise! But in a serious conversation or business email, QWERTY is king. They should have a race from a fast texter vs a fast Typewiser. That would be the showcase of this product. BATTLE ROYALE!

   kohtabear · 6 Aug 2026

5. 1/5Can't Use It

   The keyboard doesn't come up except in the Typewise app. I have an iPhone 13 Pro, my iOS is up to date, and everything is enabled in keyboard settings, but I don't have the option to change to the Typewise keyboard even though it's there on my list of enabled keyboards in the settings app. It just doesn't show up when I press the globe key. Every so often it pops up randomly in a handful of native iOS apps, but does not seem to exist at all anywhere else, including on the home screen. I did get to experiment with it in the app, and even there it was buggy. I selected the Day & Night theme, and it started on the Day setting even though I had dark mode turned on. It never changed to Night even though I toggled dark mode on and off several times. I also got stuck in the tutorial on the slide where it shows you how to delete/redo a line of characters at once. Apparently just following the steps shown isn't enough to go to the next screen, you have to follow the steps shown with absolutely perfect timing, or nothing happens. Ridiculous.

   jaivjrncjabcjqfodkajivke · 6 Aug 2026

3.3 15071 ratings · Google Play

1. 2/5

   lag and also no support for my native language, Greek.

   Alex Gavrilis · 1 Aug 2026

2. 4/5

   It should be possible to resize hexagon keyboard in tablet mode. Direct access to voice input would be nice.

   Alfa Eco · 1 Aug 2026

3. 3/5

   spelling check is not very good. autocorrect. continuously corrects correctly spelled words to wrong ones

   Sebastiaan · 1 Aug 2026

4. 4/5

   I like this app but there's no personalization, just pure color

   Ed Martin Crisostomo · 1 Aug 2026

5. 2/5

   I used to enjoy this keyboard so much because my errors decreased drastically. But I do not know what they changed that now I am not clicking on the right tabs anymore. While writing this text, I did like fifteen mistakes. Although I had the placement locked in my head!! Sadly, changing to something new 😔

   Fanny Esquivel · 1 Aug 2026

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