Kinetica

Releases

• Nov 3, 2026 2.2.1
  Kinetica 2.2.1. Install over 2.2.0; nothing else changes. - Romanian, the tenth language: 45 843 words with OpenSubtitles frequencies, 24 302 word pairs from Tatoeba, and its own board with ă and â on `a`, î on `i`, ș on `s`, ț on `t` - Words are drawn on their base keys and come out with their accents; the older ş and ţ spellings count as ș and ț - If you never picked your languages, Romanian joins the language switch; untick it in Languages - Thanks gabrincu (#46)
• Nov 3, 2026 2.2.0
  Kinetica 2.2.0. Install over 2.1.3 and everything you set up stays: old colours, language switches and sizes carry over as they were. **Look** - A background image under the keyboard (Look and feel > Background image). After the pick, Fit the image shows a frame for portrait and one for landscape: drag to move, pinch to resize. Image opacity and key opacity over the image have their own sliders. The image stays on the phone and is not part of a backup - Colours are typed as `#RRGGBB` or picked: a large swatch, hue, saturation and brightness sliders on gradient tracks, and sixteen swatches. The theme colour and the custom trail colour both use it; a colour picked with the old hue slider stays the same - Key borders, on or off, 1 to 4 dp, in the theme's colour - A swipe shows as a trail, as the keys it crosses lighting up and fading, or both (Look and feel > A swipe shows as) **Keys and layout** - Symbol pages as text (Keys > Symbol pages): each page's three rows, one row a line, keys apart by spaces. Up to 10, 10 and 7 keys, 4 characters a key. The bottom row, the page key and backspace stay where they are; Default brings the built-in rows back (#42)

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  - Landscape keeps its own side and bottom margins, middle row width, handle, bar height and text sizes, started from your portrait values. Size and layout has a Portrait and a Landscape group; the one you are holding opens, and the size picture takes at most half the screen - Landscape: the keyboard reaches into a camera cutout on the short edge, so there is no margin on the camera side only. The keys keep clear of the hole only when it meets them - The landscape suggestion bar goes down to 16 dp **Shortcuts** - Once a held `?123` or spacebar shows its chords, a small drift keeps them. On the spacebar the cursor slide waits until the thumb moves further (Shortcuts and gestures > Spacebar chords allow a small drift, on) **Languages** - One setting for languages in suggestions (Languages): one at a time, mix, or follow the language you type. With both old switches on you get follow, as before - Follow learns each word into the language whose list holds it. A word neither list holds goes where the last word only one list holds went, so the other language's words no longer pile up and climb in the wrong list **Fixes** - Deleting a selection, and the backspace slide, act on what the editor has selected now. Before, a delete could land elsewhere in a paragraph - A spacebar word step starts from where the cursor is now: the first step after a tap in the text no longer lands inside a word - Back at the end of a word, punctuation keeps the word as written; no prediction replaces it
• Oct 28, 2026 2.1.3
  Kinetica 2.1.3. Install over 2.1.2 and everything you set up stays. **Editing** - Backspace undo now reaches past the automatic space: right after a word's space lands, one tap takes back its last tap or swipe together with the space, and the word is not learned (Typing > Backspace undoes the last tap or swipe, off). After any other key, a cursor move or new text, a tap deletes a character as usual - A learned word with capitals inside it stays one word when you tap it in pieces: `Fake`, the automatic space, shift, `CompanyName` gives `FakeCompanyName`. A shift with no learned word to continue still starts a new word, so `is`, shift, `Land` stays two words - Italian: with the cursor inside an elision like `l'al|tro`, the bar offers `altro` and a pick replaces only that part, not `laltro` over the article - A word you backspace into and type again is learned once, and leaves the next-word context while you work on it **Look** - The swipe trail colour setting is honoured: Red, Violet, a custom hue or the theme's colour draw the whole trail in that colour, for both thumbs. Before, every choice cycled like Rainbow (Look and feel > Swipe trail colour)

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  - Rainbow still changes colour per key, and its curve is smoother: a point every 8 ms - Chord keys show a key combination as symbols, so it fits on the key: `⌃⌦`, `⌃⇞`, `⌃⇧←`. Settings still spell it out, `Ctrl+Delete` **Fixed** - Text expansions: the back arrow at the top left leaves the screen, as on every other screen - A tapped word's space is no longer taken back by the other thumb's tap when that thumb's swipe started the next word: `I` + `noticed` no longer gives `Noticed` - A word no longer loses its space and fuses with the next one when the personal dictionary reloads while you type it; the reload waits for the word to end **Internals** - The input service is split by concern into smaller classes; behaviour is unchanged
• Oct 25, 2026 2.1.2
  Kinetica 2.1.2. Install over 2.1 and everything you set up stays. **Suggestions** - After a word, its corrections stay on the left of the bar and the next words fill the rest; one to three of them, two by default (Typing > Next words beside the correction, on). Before, with recent words off, the next words never showed after a word - Long words you have taught the keyboard complete from their first letters: `fakeco` offers `FakeCompanyName` **Editing** - A double tap on shift locks caps at a sentence start too, with no tap to clear the capital first - A tap on backspace can take back the last tap or swipe of the word you are writing, and the bar goes back to what it showed before it (Typing > Backspace undoes the last tap or swipe, off). Holding backspace still deletes letters, and so does a tap once the word is finished - The backspace slide has a distance setting, 20 to 80 per word, and can stop at punctuation, so `example.com/path` goes a piece at a time (Shortcuts and gestures > Swipes and slides; the stop is off)

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  **Fields and links** - In a web address or an email field the period's corner shows `.com`; hold it for `.com`, `.net` and `.org`, written straight onto the name before it (Typing > Keys that fit the field, on) - Clean links: tracking parameters like `utm_source`, `fbclid` or YouTube's `si` come out of a link, everything else stays as written. As an action for a chord, an edge swipe or an expansion, on the link before the cursor or on a selection, and on the keyboard's own paste (Typing > Clean links when pasting, off). The app's own paste menu is never changed **Shortcuts** - A space inside an expansion trigger is now an error under the field, with a Remove spaces button beside Cancel. A space at either end is still trimmed on save **Fixed** - Next words on an empty bar go once you type a punctuation mark - A word written with capitals inside it, like `FakeCompanyName`, is learned with them at a sentence start too - A word the automatic space committed, then typed on into a longer word, is no longer learned: `Fake` then `CompanyName` no longer teaches `Fake` - Italian: an elision reopened after a pause learns the word after the apostrophe, `altro`, and no longer `l'altro` as a new word - With the numbers row on, a glide that rises into the digits and comes back down across letters is a word, not the top-row key's symbol. Thanks to lurebat
• Oct 14, 2026 2.1.0
  Kinetica 2.1. Install over 2.0 and everything you set up stays. **Editing** - Swipe shift up for ABC, right for Abc, down for abc; hold it for the menu as before. The swipes are edge swipes, so they can be changed - Keys that fit the field: @ on the comma in an email field, / with : in a web address, no capital at their start (Typing, on) - Number pad in number, phone and date fields (Typing, off) - A new field opens on the letters, wherever the last one was left (Typing, on) - In a chat box, Hold enter to send writes a new line on the tap and sends on the hold (Typing, off) - Names you write with a capital, like `Dennis` or `GitHub`, are learned with it; writing one in lowercase over the capital takes it back - Blocking a word deletes it too, when it is the word you just wrote (Typing > Learning, off)

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  **Suggestions** - Suggestion text at 150% by default, from 60 to 180% (Typing > Suggestion bar) - Compact suggestions: words side by side with a small gap, more on a page (on) - Recent words have their own text size, and their swipe direction can be reversed - A band on the bar shows the wait before an automatic space (Typing > Spacing, on) **Shortcuts** - Hold ?123 or the spacebar still and each key shows its chord (Shortcuts and gestures, on); the ?123 menu then sits on the spacebar, clear of them - Expansion triggers: exact, ignore case, or carry the case (`Andor` gives `And/or`), on the Text expansions screen - A shortcut name works in every long-press list, the comma, period and enter keys included, and the list help names them all - Number-row digits take long-press lists **Keys and layout** - One-handed for the left hand (Size and layout) - An unfolded phone or a tablet held upright uses the landscape arrangement (Size and layout, on) - The symbol pages line up with the letters; slide right on their page key for the number pad - Hide accented letters keeps the letters of your enabled languages, so Polish keeps ą on the English keys - A thumb resting on the keys, a third finger while both thumbs draw, and a number-row digit brushed mid-swipe type nothing **Languages** - Hebrew: backspace in the same place as on the English keyboard, thanks to lurebat - The English keyboard offers all nine Polish letters - Capitalized words, German nouns among them, now gain weight as you use them **Fixed** - The autospace delay is counted from the lift, so a short delay is as short as it says - A word written before `:` or `!` no longer gets a space in front of it; the marks are a list you can edit (Typing > Spacing > No space before) - Moving the cursor back into a sentence after a full stop no longer capitalizes the next letter - The shortcut row no longer blinks while you backspace into a word - The space under the keys takes the keyboard's colour - The period key's setting showed the comma's options - With the numbers row on, the top row's up-swipes work again - A long-press menu as wide as the screen could close and reopen the keyboard - An error while decoding a word no longer closes the keyboard
• Oct 5, 2026 2.0.0
  Kinetica 2.0. Install over 1.1.2 and everything you set up stays. **Two thumbs** - Each thumb is read with its own cursor, so a word can pass back and forth between them in any order; many more two-thumb words come out right the first time - One tap can stand for a doubled letter (`tutti`, `ottima`) - Practise two thumbs: five words drawn over the keyboard, thumb by thumb (Learn Kinetica, also on the start screen) **Suggestions** - Next-word suggestions while nothing is typed (Typing, on) - Recent words: the last two words stay on the bar with the words they beat; tap or swipe to swap (Typing > Suggestion bar, off)

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  - A tapped word with one stray or one missing letter is offered on the bar, never changed for you - When a gesture fits nothing well, the bar still offers the closest words to pick - After the retype button, the bar offers what else the gesture could have been - Ranks show only while you slide a word (Typing > Suggestion bar, on); one tier per step, and any word can be blocked in a few steps - A blocked word is never offered again and never learned back **Editing** - Tap inside a word and the bar offers alternatives for the whole word, first the ones it had when you wrote it - Backspace right after an autocorrect puts back what you typed - Hold shift over selected text for abc, Abc or ABC - Enter searches, sends or goes where the app asks for it, and says which; hold it for a new line (Typing, on) - Tidy spaces: never two in a row, none before a closing quote or bracket (Typing > Spacing, off) **Shortcuts** - A chord's trigger is ?123 or the spacebar, chosen per chord; language switch and peck-type are ordinary chords you can change or remove - Chords, edge swipes and long-press lists work on any key: digits, punctuation, other alphabets. The key is typed, not picked - Ctrl + key in one choice: type the key under it (a, c, v, Del); expansions can press one too - New targets: Tab, Esc, forward Delete, Home, End, the arrows, Page up and down, Backspace, a one-shot Ctrl - Shortcut choices have short names: Ctrl, Tab, Del, Up arrow, Page up - A text expansion can have several targets, offered on the bar - Choose and order the shortcuts of the bar and of the ?123 menu on one screen - Next word, recent words, numbers row, tidy spaces and words per minute can be switched from the keyboard **Keys and layout** - Numbers row above the letters; the keyboard grows so the letters keep their size (Keys, off) - Middle row width: spreads a s d f g h j k l toward the edges, for hands used to Nintype (Size and layout, 0%) - Landscape: its own height, split to the edges, centred or full width - Long-press menus as a row or a 3x3, 4x3 or 5x3 grid, with the letter under your thumb - Edit each letter's list; Default fills in every enabled language's accents; a shortcut in a list runs it (`:paste`) - Hold a letter's menu still to open its list in settings (Keys > Long-press menus, off) - Words per minute on the spacebar (Keys, off) - A live picture of the keyboard's size in Size and layout **Languages** - Russian, Ukrainian, Hebrew and Arabic, experimental, each with its own keyboard - Follow the language I type: up to three languages decode as equals, the one you are typing weighs most (Languages > More language options, off, experimental) - With Mix enabled languages on, a word only another enabled language holds commits itself when the active one finds nothing close, and a word both hold is learned into the language you were writing - A spelling with the accents left off is corrected (`pojsc` to `pójść`, `perche` to `perché`) in every accented language; real pairs like `ze` and `że` both stay - An imported AOSP list no longer brings back spellings without their accents - Android's keyboard picker shows only the enabled languages (Android 14 and later) **Settings** - A shorter tree: a dozen rows, the finer settings one level down; Backup on its own screen; Dictionary languages folded and alphabetical - Learn Kinetica: the two-thumb practice, then short tips from the basics up; a tip opens its setting - Settings in Italian, chosen by the phone's language or per app on Android 13 and later. Translations are welcome: CONTRIBUTING.md says how - The learned-words list says what its numbers mean, and can raise a word - A backup restore shows its progress and is all or nothing, even if the app is closed - Contribute: a Ko-fi link. Still no network permission **Fixed** - `e.g.` became `e.G.` with sentence capitals on - I'm, I've and I'd kept a lowercase i - `è` was not offered beside `e` with English active - Learned word pairs with accented words were never used - Retype did nothing after a word with no alternatives, and the rejected word kept its weight - The expansion trigger field took the keyboard's own space and refused to save - A chord letter was lost when ?123 was released first - A cursor placed inside a word could be ignored after some edits The APK is about 12.9 MB, up from 9.7 MB, for four more languages.
• Sep 26, 2026 1.1.2
  - Shortcuts in the suggestion bar when there is nothing to suggest, and a separate set in the ?123 hold menu (Size and keys) - Text expansions: type a trigger, fire Expand from an edge swipe or a ?123 chord (Gestures and chords > Text expansions). Expansions chain, and can write the date or the time, press enter or copy the line - Change the case of a word, including the one the cursor is inside, from the shift key's menu - Autospace sliders down to 10 ms, long-press down to 25 ms - Edge swipes no longer fire from inside a swiped word - Top-row digits on the key corners by default, so an up-swipe types 1 to 0 - Each suggestion gets the width its word needs - With Mix enabled languages on, a tapped word can come from your second language and is learned there - A suggestion list stays pickable after a word could not be decoded - Option to keep the language you chose when Android switches keyboards (Typing and predictions)

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  - Fixed: a tap on the correction strip could be lost - Fixed: picking Norwegian in Android's keyboard switcher
• Sep 11, 2026 1.1.0
• Aug 27, 2026 1.0.4
• Aug 26, 2026 1.0.3