MessagEase Keyboard Reviews – Page 5
5/5 rating based on 64 reviews. Read all reviews for MessagEase Keyboard for iPhone.
MessagEase Keyboard is free iOS app published by Exideas
King
Masoud Agha
This is the best keyboard when you need it its there for you. very convenient Masoud
New Generation of Keyboard!
DaraGolbon
This is amazing! I'm sure most of the people will swotch to this smart keyboard! It's very easy to learn, look at me! I am typing this with MessagEase! Thank you for this inovative touch screen!
Always a MUST HAVE app on any new device!
pike942
For text entry, MessagEase CAN'T be beat! And this app just keeps getting better!
Awesome keyboard!
BezT.
What a great keyboard! At first I was a little unsure because of the totally unique interface. But it was super easy to learn and the free included games really helped. I've become an expert in no time and really love how simple, smart and easy this keyboard is to use. I wish I found it sooner. I definitely recommend it.
A keyboard built for screens
Yev3
The two biggest reasons I love this keyboard are 1) the ability to finally type quickly with one hand, and 2) the fact that it solves the phone/tablet typing problem without relying on autocorrect algorithms the way other keyboards do. I am so grateful that something this well-designed is being offered for free. It's probably unlike any keyboard you've ever used before, so download and give the tutorial games a try. Use it enough to grow comfortable with it, and you may find yourself leaving the normal keyboard behind entirely. A bit of background: I discovered MessagEase years ago when I was looking for an on-screen input method for my first tablet PC. The brilliantly optimized alphabet layout won me over, and when I got my first iPhone I was delighted to find they offered it as a free stand-alone note-taking App. Now that Apple is allowing system-wide third-party keyboards, I am thrilled to be able to use my iPhone the way I've always wanted to. Thanks to both companies for making this possible. :-)
Ok
Dj Gonzo Keys
Alright...I do love this keyboard. But if you have been using this on a droid device like I have for the past few years...it's not the same experience by a long shot. So many gestures are missing. Most importantly the ability to quickly select all, copy and paste. Try it for yourself, but the lack of an immense amount of customizability that I am used to from messagease on droid really kind of ruins it for me.
I can't function without this keyboard
Eberns
It takes a bit of effort to learn this keyboard, but it's well worth it. It makes so much better use of the space available on a smartphone screen than QWERTY does. It also makes numbers and special characters much more readily available. When this app first became available for iphone, there were some bugs. At times I would have a field to type in, but no keyboard would appear. That was the main reason I held off reviewing the app. I've had no problem now for many months, though. I don't know why the problems disappeared -- upgrades to iOS? -- but I can now recommend the Messagease keyboard without hesitation. If you're letting someone else input something on your phone, the QWERTY keyboard is always available to switch to.
Worthy of an iOS HoF Innovation Award
TunaFish#5
If there were such a possibility, I would nominate MessagEase to the iOS Hall of Fame for Innovative User Interface. For a company that's cultivated it's reputation for innovation so effectively, Apple's text interface is remarkably pedestrian. Occasionally in past years, I've searched & found only a handful of projects that have stepped up to fill in this gap. Among that handful, MessagEase is unquestionably the leader, and perhaps the only practical survivor today. Nowadays, as the iOS keyboard provides predictive completion with autocorrection (PC/AC), and because MessagEase seems unavailable to take advantage of this native facility, I truthfully find it harder to favor MessagEase over iOS' built-in keyboard. If the decision was between MessagEase & iOS keyboard, either both with or both *without* PC/AC, I would go with MessagEase any day of the week. As it is, though, I usually use the keyboard to take advantage of PC/AC (while longing for the MessagEase interface.) I still prefer MessagEase in situations where I have only 1 hand available to hold the phone & type. As MessagEase requires a certain level of familiarity to use effectively, I keep my skills up by using it for text entry that will not be too lengthy. Should the MessagEase developer(s) become able either to tie in iOS' PC/AC facility (Why should you hold back here, Cupertino?), or develop their own version of it (ugh! Why reinvent that wheel?) then I would happily use MessagEase nearly 100% of the time. Lesser Notes, in no particular order: • For all fanatic outliners & indenters out there: MessagEase seems to be the *only* way to enter a tab character in iOS. Also, a proper bullet (and many other symbols) is only 1 stroke away; so much better than 3 keyboard taps! • For those english writers who have frequent need to write foreign or special characters, MessagEase' support for extended characters is very extensive & fairly intuitive, once you've gotten familiarized with the scheme. • MessagEase' built-in training game is very effective teacher. (since I trained, they've added 2 more games, for a total of 3 now.) • Be aware that by installing MessagEase, the iOS user adds it as a new "keyboard" that can be dynamically switched in & out in (nearly?) every text input situation. Meaning, it's fast & easy to change between any MessagEase' keypads & the iOS built-in keyboards you've installed. (I don't know if iOS ever commits the user to 1 input mode without giving the opportunity to change to another. • Also provides cursor motion via the keypad, by character and by word, singly & repeatedly. • Southpaws: MessagEase is adaptable to those who thumb leftly. It doesn't provide a mirror-image stroke map (which -- from a purity standpoint -- I think it really ought to, to provide left-handers the same advantages in efficiency developed for right-handers) but it does permit the user to shift its keypad to the right or left side of the screen, which is much more than other interfaces afford.
Nice potential
Jason6210001000
I see some great potential with this app to speed up typing. What's slowly my transition is the letter layout on the keyboard makes no sense. I would think they'd either find a similar qwerty layout or just straight alphabetical so I could find letters more quickly. I don't want to play games like I did back in high school to relearn typing.