SwiftKey Note app review

Developer: Touch Type Ltd | Download: iOS |
Category: Productivity | Price: Free |

The Note app uses SwiftKey for text input (evidently), with its excellent text-prediction, corrections and formatting functionality. The keyboard's layout itself, however, doesn't differ at all from the stock iOS one, down to the pop-up animation of the key presses, so Apple doesn't have much to hold against the Note app. The only place you'd know you are on SwiftKey, is when the prediction algorithms start labeling words above the keyboard, when text autocorrects with them, or you try to format something via a simple swipe on the left. That one will reveal a few options for writing in bold, italic, aligning and so on, and that's it.

Overall, SwiftKey managed to bring its award-winning keyboard to iOS on the sly, without risking the ire of Apple, yet offering its excellent core services like prediction, formatting and corrections. The partnership with Evernote will ensure a vast user base, too, and soon SwiftKey Note might become your go-to note-taking app on iOS, which is certainly a goal of those two app makers. Unlike the Android version of the keyboard, the app is free for now, so you can head over to iTunes, and grab it to see if it will appeal to you better than the stock iOS keyboard.
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