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After experiencing Nintype on iOS many years ago, I can't use any other swipe keyboard anymore. I'm stuck using the stock keyboard for typing, and sometimes (rarely) swiping a word or two when I din't have two hands available. Swiping (with one finger) when holding my phone with both hands just feels unnatural and sluggish. I wish Apple had just bought/sherlocked Nintype and integrated it into the stock keyboard.

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Omg I was using that too! I was actually wondering whether FUTO had any features that supported typing one word with multiple concurrent (or not) swipes. I guess it does not but dang what a blast from the past. I had forgotten the app name too! Was using it since before Apple started actually allowing third party keyboards officially

Heliboard on f-droid does two thumb swiping!

Looks like they are working on multi-finger swipe for the keyboard, the library seems to support it [0].

> The library also supports recognizing two-finger simultaneous swipe input through the SwipeEngine::recognize_multi method.

[0]: https://gitlab.futo.org/keyboard/swipe-library#inputs

Completely agree! The author made a buggy android port of nintype (called keyboard 69) that I used for years. The UX was incredible, and every swipe system I've tried since feels downright clumsy by comparison. Two finger swipe is peak ergonomics, but unfortunately I think it's an innovation that's simply too niche.

I used nintype and keyboard69 for years, heliboard on f-droid supports two thumb swiping and works very well ! Not as good as nintype but extremely useful

Never heard of that one before, so I looked it up & watched a demo vid.

Aieeee!

I don't think I could ever learn to use that. I am from the 1990s fast-T9 entry era, and my thumb dexterity is poor. (And I'm left-handed with a badly-damaged right hand.)

I think this is a text entry method solely or primarily for the 2-thumb console-gamepad generation. (I find gamepads really hard to use, too. Give me a joystick, or mouse+WASD.)

Heliboard (f-droid) supports two thumb swipe! Not as good as nintype but works very well

Yes! Nintype is incredible and is the only reason I refuse to upgrade my phone.

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