Friday, July 6, 2012

Keymonk Keyboard [Review] : Sweep words with both fingers

There are lots of free and paid Keyboards available for Android. Every keyboard tried to bring some amazing technology OR say feature to make typing fast, fun and easy. Swype was one of its kind Keyboard in early days which bought an innovative way of typing, Users can type words just Sweeping on the Keyboard then there is SwiftKey Keyboard which learns from user and accurately predicts the next word for faster typing. We found Swype best because it provides different ways of typing besides Swyping like type, speak and write but Keymonk Keyboard has taken the Swyping to the next level. In Swype user can Swype using only one finger while in Keymonk Keyboard users can use both the fingers for faster Swype.
Keymonk Keyboard is small in size and upon launching the keyboard we saw a nice and clean layout. Keys are well placed and there is enough space to swype easily.


First we tried the tutorial on how this thing works it gave us a rough idea and then we started. On the first attempt it was confusing because we are so much used to Swype we swyped the entire word using a single finger but the next attempt was good and we managed to use both the finger and found this thing actually works!
We tried typing the same statement with Swype and Keymonk and found Swype better because of accurate prediction while Keymonk still need some work at predicting words because it failed to recognize the swyped word.
As mentioned in the tutorial when a word has repeated alphabets just touch and hold the repeated alphabet and then swype the remaining alphabets, Keymonk Keyboard will automatically predict the word.

What We Like?
Small Size
Clean Layout
Innovative Technology
Faster typing than default Keyboard
Free

What we Dislike?
No Accurate Prediction
Users cannot press and hold a key for Numbers, they must switch the keyboard for typing Numbers.
Words are saved automatically sometime and sometime they don't, no way to save words manually by double tapping the word.
No next word Prediction.
Sometimes Keyboard fails to recognize the word.
No Settings to Tweak the Keyboard.

Keymonk Keyboard is one of its kind Keyboard it took swype to the next level but still it has long way to go to compete with popular keyboards. It seriously need some work and lets hope the future versions will overcome all its drawbacks but its worth a try now!
Download Keymonk Keyboard(click).

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