Type Nine vs MessagEase Keyboard

Type Nine brings classic T9-style typing to your iPhone with a retro phone keyboard built for fast, private, one-handed texting. Remember when texting felt simple? Type Nine reimagines the old-school phone keypad for modern iPhone users — combining the familiar 3x4 T9 keyboard layout with smart predictions, swipe gestures, personalization, themes, and privacy-first design. Whether you miss classic phone texting, want a simpler iPhone keyboard, prefer one-handed typing, or just want something different from the standard touchscreen keyboard, Type Nine gives you a clean, fast, nostalgic way to type. WHY PEOPLE LOVE TYPE NINE • Classic T9-style keyboard layout Type with a familiar phone keypad inspired by the keyboards many of us grew up with. • Fast one-handed typing The compact keypad layout makes it easy to text with one hand, whether you are walking, commuting, holding coffee, or multitasking. • Smart word predictions Type Nine suggests words as you type, helping you write faster with fewer taps. • Automatic language detection Type Nine can suggest words from multiple languages at the same time, so you do not need to constantly switch keyboards while typing. • Swipe typing with a keypad Type Nine combines a classic keypad layout with swipe-style movement for a modern typing experience. • Personal word learning When you manually type a word that is not in the dictionary, Type Nine can remember it and adapt to the words you use most. • Private by design Type Nine does not collect your personal data. Your typing stays yours. • VoiceOver support Type Nine was built with accessibility in mind and can be a helpful alternative keyboard for VoiceOver users. • Custom themes and colors Personalize your keyboard with different visual styles and make your iPhone feel more like your own. • Emojis, cursor movement, deletion, and more Type Nine includes the everyday keyboard tools you expect, rebuilt around a simple keypad experience. A RETRO KEYBOARD FOR MODERN TEXTING Type Nine is more than a nostalgia app. It is a practical alternative iPhone keyboard for people who want a faster, simpler, more personal way to text. Use Type Nine for: • Text messages • iMessage • WhatsApp • Telegram • Notes • Email • Social apps • Everyday typing across your iPhone OLD-SCHOOL FEEL. NEW-SCHOOL EASE. Type Nine gives you the feeling of classic phone texting with the flexibility of a modern iPhone keyboard. It is ideal for people who: • Miss old phone keyboards • Want a retro keyboard for iPhone • Prefer T9-style typing • Like one-handed texting • Want a simpler keyboard layout • Care about privacy • Want a keyboard that feels different • Use multiple languages • Want customizable themes • Prefer a keypad over a full QWERTY layout TEXT LIKE IT’S FUN AGAIN Typing on a phone used to feel simple, fast, and satisfying. Type Nine brings that feeling back — with a modern keyboard experience designed for today’s iPhone. Download Type Nine and bring back the classic T9 keyboard experience. BASIC IS BACK

MessagEase is an alternative, non-QWERTY keyboard for your iPhone and iPad. Created based on years of scientific research in user interface, MessagEase is designed and optimized for use on a touchscreen device. MessagEase is a patented, innovative design different from the antiquated QWERTY keyboard. If you believe that every keyboard must be QWERTY-like, then MessagEase is not what you are looking for. But if you are open to new ideas and up for experiencing a completely new way of writing you will be pleasantly surprised at how well, how precisely, and how fast you can enter text with MessagEase. Our current champion’s speed is 87 WPM— that's 87 Words Per Minute! Most people don't type nearly that fast with ten fingers! MessagEase essentially has 9 large keys with an optimized letter assignment to maximize your speed, increase your accuracy, and ease your writing. Since MessagEase is very different, you must spend a few minutes to get used to it. We have included several learning games to help you learn the new, innovative pattern of MessagEase—and you’ll save hours by texting and writing faster. With MessagEase you enter letters and characters with either a tap, or a drag (slide): taps for the most common characters and directional drag for the rest. Please watch the video, or see the section Essential MessagEase, to learn more. MessagEase's design is based on sound user-interface principles such as the Fitts' Law; it uses letter frequency and di-gram data to optimally place the characters on a keyboard with fewer, larger keys. That’s why the letter positions are non-QWERTY! If you are interested to learn more about the scientific details behind the design of MessagEase, please see this paper: http://www.exideas.com/ME/ICMI2003Paper.pdf We have lots of videos to help you become familiar with MessagEase quickly. Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3D3f3GWTSg There are many more on our YouTube channel. http://www.youtube.com/user/messagease Please also note that you can change the keyboard size by dragging up or down on the Globe Button. You can also reshape and recolor the keyboard in various ways. See Settings for details. MessagEase for iPhone & iPad has specific keyboards designed for the following languages: (These keyboards can also be used to enter text for many other languages) - English - Arabic - Azerbaiani - Danish - Dutch - Esperanto - Finnish - French - German - Greek - Hebrew - Hungarian - Japanese Hiragana - Japanese Katakana - Italian - Norwegian - Polish - Portuguese - Russian - Spanish - Swedish - Turkish - Urdu If you like MessagEase, please tell others about it, and please make sure to rate and comment about it on App Store. Please email us if you encounter any issue. Thank you!