If you were to make a list of the biggest, most platform-defining differences between Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android, one point would be near the top: Android lets you plug third-party keyboards into the operating system, and iOS does not.
On Android, one of the most popular of those alternative keyboards is SwiftKey. And now it’s available for iOS — sort of. It’s part of SwiftKey Note, a free note-taking app for iPhone and iPad which is debuting today.
The app’s keyboard looks like the standard iOS one, but incorporates a bunch of the features which have made SwiftKey successful on Android. As you type a word, three possibilities appear above the keyboard, any one of which you can select with a tap. Once you’ve completed a word, three possibilities for the next word you might want to type appear. And as you use the app, SwiftKey learns about your typing habits, helping its autocorrections to actually be correct and its next-word predictions to be useful.
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