Thumb-Key
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Thumb-Key is a privacy-conscious smart keyboard, made specifically for your thumbs.
It features a 3x3 grid layout, and uses swipes for the less common letters. Its easy to learn, and designed for fast typing speeds.
Instead of relying on profit-driven, privacy-offending word and sentence prediction for accuracy, as do most popular phone keyboards like Gboard and Swiftkey, Thumb-Key uses large keys with predictable positions, to prevent your eyes from hunting and pecking for letters.
As the key positions get ingrained into your muscle memory, eventually you'll be able to approximate the fast speeds of touch-typing, your eyes never having to leave the text edit area.
This project is a follow-up to the now unmaintained (and closed-source) , which is its main inspiration.
It features a 3x3 grid layout, and uses swipes for the less common letters. Its easy to learn, and designed for fast typing speeds.
Instead of relying on profit-driven, privacy-offending word and sentence prediction for accuracy, as do most popular phone keyboards like Gboard and Swiftkey, Thumb-Key uses large keys with predictable positions, to prevent your eyes from hunting and pecking for letters.
As the key positions get ingrained into your muscle memory, eventually you'll be able to approximate the fast speeds of touch-typing, your eyes never having to leave the text edit area.
This project is a follow-up to the now unmaintained (and closed-source) , which is its main inspiration.
A privacy-conscious keyboard made for your thumbs.
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Aug 10, 2026
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Ratings and reviews
46 reviews
Skyler Madison
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February 25, 2024
I've used Messagease for 16+ years now. But now that it's gone to a subscription model, I abandoned it completely. I tried a variety of other keyboards... but nothing could compare. After googling for a while, I found thumb-key. It has the same key configuration, but the letter, are arranged differently. I was so pleased to see that I could arrange the keys to be the same as messageease, in the settings. So... I didn't need to have a learning curve. There are minor differences, most good
30 people found this review helpful
Calvin Me
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August 28, 2023
Great keyboard! Still learning it but I love the split keyboard and featurefull without feeling bloated. Would love a transparent setting and a floating setting so I can type higher up and see the whole screen. Autocorrect words to choose from would be great too! still 10/10 for doing exactly what it needs. Honestly needs to be advertised more as im lucky I found it.
7 people found this review helpful
Dustin Krumm
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March 21, 2026
i have used this format for 10+ years & love it, but this ap disappeared twice in the last 2 days requiring a reinstall & reconfiguration, both times.
1 person found this review helpful
What’s new
https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key/blob/main/RELEASES.md
