Nintype App Reviews

It worked OK for a few minutes while I did the tutorial on my iPhone5S. Now all of the letters have turned into dots and I cant get them back. Even tried restarting the phone. Sometimes the keyboard disappears all together.

It was definitely a little difficult to get used to, but after an hour of texting Im already so much better. I tried Swype and Swiftkey, and thought they were alright, still eventually using the iOS keyboard at the end of the day though. Nintype is incredibly well thought out, full of neat features, and very efficient (and fun) to use. Definitely worth the $4.99

Lots of glitches, crashes and bugs. A lot of unintuitive gestures and horrible word prediction.

Not worth the money, I felt I had to work to teach this stupid keyboard how to spell what I was trying to type, and iOS is glitchy as hell with installed keyboards. I regret buying this app.

First off nobody ever really needs to type this fast in normal life. But to each their own. Typing graphics are really cool to look at while typing. But gets too much after a few days, you do have the option to turn off the animation. Takes some adjusting. I have to think how to swipe/tap each word to learn how to do it fast. one can really fly with this keyboard tho. Its like it just knows what youre trying to type. There are times I just lazily swiped my fingers and It just got the word I wanted. If you can truly master this keyboard you will be a typing God!!! You also have to be patient and add all the words it hasnt used yet. Its great for fast style typing but native keyboard still better in autocorrecting for me. Ill keep this keyboard for a bit more but I think the novelty will wear off in a month.

On my iPhone 5, typing using the slide gestures took way more effort and thinking than simply typing normally. I tried it for about a week and didnt see much improvement. The autocomplete is very poor compared to the one on the regular keyboard, which is especially needed if you want to be sliding around the keyboard. Also, the emoji conversion needs more words for it to be practical (eg the poo emoji doesnt come up with the word poop) There are some nice features, but overall its quite cluttered and the learning curve is just too steep. There are many features that all collide with each other, making for a very confusing and frustrating experience. I realize that there was a lot of work put into this keyboard, but it seems too expensive for a product that is so difficult to use.

Paid for this keyboard love the idea and use of it needs an update to adapt to all uses. Cant type review with it

At first I was disappointed and skeptical, but having used this keyboard for a total of 26 hours, Im really happy. The learning curve is a tad steep, but once you know the settings and how to turn off animations, youre pretty good to go. Its fast, its accurate, and best of all, you can use it in landscape mode. Swipe or tap to your hearts content. This keyboard got me to finally delete fleksy and swiftkey. Its just that good.

Great concept and lots of work went into this keyboard. It just is very buggy. Doesnt always load, crashes, gives an empty box, and some words it takes much longer to put together versus the stock keyboard that apple gives you.

This keyboard is an amazing way to type once you get used to it. Not only does it allow a lot of customization, but this update fixed most of the bugs that were present with the first release. It is my only keyboard now. I love it! I would definitely recommend this keyboard to anyone. The only downside is that you have to adjust to it.

I would buy an app like this for 2 dollars but 5 dollars is to much I got a gift card saw an add and decided to buy it. It looked much better in the add than it did when your using it hard to write run on words and was overall so hard to understand but it still is better than some other apps out there so I give it three stars

Not worth the money, try swiftkey that do the same for free..

By far the best 3rd party Keyboard for iOS 8 by far. Very customizable and fun to use.

1) When the keyboard doesnt understand the word youre typing, it _really_ has no freaking clue and punishes you for it. And by that, I mean you will swipe out the full word, receive only the first few letters and nothing else. Then you will spend your time backspacing invisible characters, pretty much clearing the entire word. Trying to correct that woes typically results in frustration as you continue to swipe characters it will simply given up on. Alternatively, it may decide when the word you type is close but not close enough for the word suggestions, your only recourse is to retype the whole thing. And if _that_ fails more than once, you have to peck mode the thing which is tapping it out like the conventional iOS keyboard and, by then, any and all word-per-minute gains have been crushed. If it only plagued the occasional word the keyboard had not seen, that would be one thing, but this happens repeatedly with all too common and previously typed words greater than six letters. 2) The options menu fancy and borrows heavily from Hipjot but the problem remains the same between the two apps: both Hipjot and Nintype boast tons of options and those menus are entirely unsuited for it. One has to drill down two or three categories to change an option which have minimal explanation and then, once picked, you are unceremoniously kicked, forcing you to repeat the steps if you had another setting youd like to adjust even in the same category. A full screen closes-only-when-you-tap-the-close-button sheet would be greatly appreciated and would allow a goodly portion of the guides on reddit to be placed in-app instead of constantly having to reference the site on another device (or torment yourself switching between the browser and the app) while you try to figure out how to modify a specific behaviour or, more importantly, modifies the behaviour in the way you had hoped. I want to like the thing but it is not a very kind keyboard and when Im typing faster with the stock keyboard months later.. well, ones milage may vary. When the swiping works though (as in, the aforementioned does not happen), its a great feeling.

Trying to swipe type with one hand is next to impossible, the predictive nature is poor at best and the keyboard frequently tries to give you a "wrong key combo" x when you try to add plural or possessive to nouns. This keyboard is trying to do too much still and needs to back down to improve the user experience. Every once in a while I check back to see how this keyboard is. Its getting better but just not good enough yet.

Its just not there. Really cool idea; especially on the iPhone 6+ with two-handed swiping. Ultimately its just not good enough bough and ends up being frustrating.

This app is great and quite well done once you learn the keyboard. People who say its broken just didnt take the time to learn it. There is a tutorial that lets you practice over and over and is ten times better then regular swype because u can use two fingers. The only thing thats annoying is that Apple doesnt let it be the main keyboard every time and switches back which is frustrating but manageable.

Great keyboard very innovative just needs some updates for issues . So much to learn and when you do it works amazing

Definitely the best keyboard on the store bar none. Accuracy is better than the stock keyboard. This is a power user board that rewards practice and patience with lightning fast keyboarding and excellent accuracy. The learning curve is significant, but not punishingly so. It is well worth the investment of time. Start out conservatively. Use taps and only gradually incorporate the sliding. The board is supremely customizable, and allows the use of shortcut keys like no other. I have modified it to type an em-dash (―) simply by pressing and holding the M key. One problem: the board learns new words quickly, which means that every time you make a mistake that mistake gets added as new vocabulary term which seems (although I have no evidence other than my own perception) to affect accuracy over the long term. This can be remedied by periodically cleaning up the keyboard dictionary and removing these junk words. Lastly, the developer has implemented several brilliant features that really make it easy to go back over your text and correct any errors. Tap the word and then slide up or down to select the correct word. No other onscreen keyboard offers this kind of power and youll quickly become dependant on these time saving features.

Listened to the positive reviews while ignoring the negative ones. Big mistake. The keyboard is buggy, setting it in one place doesnt set it in another, for example using it in the notes app doesnt make it appear in messages, Safari etc you have to set it up in each app. The typing experience in dismal, doesnt get most of ur words, the two finger swiping is just bad and not intuitive at all. The developer needs to update this, look at swype keyboard to see how its done. Dont buy!