NinType review:
I rarely write app reviews, but I believe this keyboard needs one. It is an excellent and truly revolutionary idea, but it doesnt work nearly as well as it should. When I downloaded this keyboard, it worked well for the first day or two, as I was learning how it worked. But when I got used to using it, a few major problems appeared. The price for this app is $5.79, and right now, it is not worth the price. These are some of the problems Ive been having:
1) The keyboard learns misspelled words without me teaching them to it.
2) Peck typing is nearly impossible, even in peck mode. The keyboard changes the words I type into other words, and in peck mode, there are no spelling suggestions.
3) Often, when I swipe or peck a word on the keyboard, it shows up as the word I want. Then as soon as I hit space, it changes into a misspelled or randomly capitalized word that I did not want. When I press and hold the word in the top bar to correct it, it only shows the word I originally typed about 50% of the time.
4) Swiping words is much more difficult now than it was when I downloaded the keyboard, probably due to learned misspellings.
5) The apostrophe key to the right of the main keyboard does not work 75% of the time.
6) When typing a word, sometimes it will stop accepting keystrokes, even when peck typed. For example, if I type the word, "sometimes", the keyboard will stop at "so", and every letter I type after that will not be recognized. I have to delete the word and type it again for it to work. This does not happen in peck typing mode, but it should not happen in normal mode.
7) There seems to be no obvious way to add custom emojis to the custom emoji keyboard. This is less of a major problem, but should still be addressed.
If these problems were all fixed, this keyboard would definitely be 5/5 stars, and it would be worth twice the current cost. But until then, it is definitely not worth it. This review was typed with the stock iOS keyboard.
J7M about Nintype, v1.9