The long-hold delete isn't quite as bad as I expected. I've gotten used to it.
The word recognition is nowhere near as good as Swype. Swype was especially good at dealing with mistakes.
And that leads to, by far, my greatest irritation: Only three guesses. I'm sure if they allowed more, my word would show up more often. As it is, I have to retry a lot. And, I defy anyone to swipe the word "suck" on Swiftkey. Can't be done. There are a few other words where I've put in ten or fifteen attempts before concluding that they're impossible.
Another minor annoyance is that the layout of the symbols page of the keyboard is different than the superscript on the regular keys page. The symbols are so small on the regular keys that they're very difficult to read. And, since the symbols page is different, I can't use that to help me memorize the ones I need.
And, a few other irritations. I don't like where they put ?. And, the word "was" is annoyingly difficult. It comes out as "w" too easily.
A brief review after a few months of use.
The long-hold delete isn't quite as bad as I expected. I've gotten used to it.
The word recognition is nowhere near as good as Swype. Swype was especially good at dealing with mistakes.
And that leads to, by far, my greatest irritation: Only three guesses. I'm sure if they allowed more, my word would show up more often. As it is, I have to retry a lot. And, I defy anyone to swipe the word "suck" on Swiftkey. Can't be done. There are a few other words where I've put in ten or fifteen attempts before concluding that they're impossible.
Another minor annoyance is that the layout of the symbols page of the keyboard is different than the superscript on the regular keys page. The symbols are so small on the regular keys that they're very difficult to read. And, since the symbols page is different, I can't use that to help me memorize the ones I need.
And, a few other irritations. I don't like where they put ?. And, the word "was" is annoyingly difficult. It comes out as "w" too easily.
I rate Swiftkey as barely Good Enough.