Wurstfinger vs Tapeze (Typing)

Wurstfinger - The Keyboard for Fat Fingers Tired of typos? Wurstfinger is a privacy-conscious keyboard with large keys and swipe gestures. Based on the proven MessagEase layout, it replaces the cramped QWERTY grid with a 3x3 layout optimized for thumb typing. Unlike mainstream keyboards, Wurstfinger doesn't rely on invasive word prediction - instead, it achieves accuracy through ergonomic design. Large, well-spaced keys mean fewer missed taps, and the gesture system lets you access all characters without hunting for tiny buttons. FEATURES: • Large 3x3 Key Grid - Optimized for thumbs, not precision pointers • Swipe Gestures - Access 8 additional characters per key by swiping • 26 Keyboard Layouts - Arabic, Croatian, English, Estonian-Finnish, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese (Hiragana), Japanese (Katakana), Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Spanish-Catalan, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Ukrainian, Urdu, and Vietnamese (with Telex input) • Compose Rules - Create accents through combinations (e.g. ' + a = á) • Circular Gestures - Draw a circle for uppercase letters • Cursor Control - Drag on the space bar to move the cursor, drag on the delete key to erase continuously • Haptic Feedback - Customizable vibration intensity • Fully Adjustable - Scale keyboard size to your preference PRIVACY FIRST: • No data collection • No network access • No word prediction tracking • All processing happens locally on your device Wurstfinger requires training - expect a few days to build muscle memory. But once you've crossed that threshold, you'll never want to go back to a standard keyboard. The gestures become second nature, and you'll type faster and with fewer errors than ever before. Your fingers will thank you!

Tapeze is a compact gesture keyboard. Nine large keys hold the most common letters. Everything else — the rest of the alphabet, numbers, symbols and punctuation — lives in short swipes from those same nine keys. Because the keys are large, you hit them without looking. Because every swipe starts from a key you already know, the layout becomes muscle memory instead of a hunt. HOW IT WORKS • Tap a key to type the letter in its centre • Swipe from a key toward a neighbouring letter to type it • Swipe out and back for a capital • Draw a small circle on a key for its capital • Sweep sideways across three keys for a space, downward to delete • Swipe up from the space strip to reveal the symbols BUILT AROUND YOUR THUMBS Space and delete have no dedicated keys. They are full-width strips along the bottom and top edges, so they sit under your thumb wherever your hand rests. Swipe along the delete strip to remove a whole word; swipe along the space strip to move the cursor a character at a time. CAPITALS THAT BEHAVE Sentences capitalise themselves — at the start of a document, after a new line, and once a sentence ends. Any gesture the keyboard reads as a capital resolves to a letter, so a rounded stroke never leaves a stray symbol behind. MAKE IT YOURS Resize the keyboard, move the controls to either side, hide the on-key labels once you have learned the layout, and switch the gesture trail on or off. PRIVACY Tapeze does not collect your data. What you type is not recorded, not stored and not sent anywhere. Full Access is required so the keyboard can read the layout settings you choose in the app and paste from the clipboard — nothing leaves your device.