Swype vs. Shapewritter

Matter of preference. Use what you like.

Well aside from neither being on the marketplace anymore...

Nope, was pulled in June.

I found the Shapewriter beta apk (attached) and have been using it since late yesterday. Honestly, I do prefer it now over Swype. The keys aren't as close together so I make fewer mistakes, if you notice that it input a wrong word after you've already passed it, you can click back on the word and the suggestions for that word will reappear in the suggestion box, the suggestion box runs horizontal across the top of the keyboard, out of the way, as opposed to popping up in the middle of the screen, and it has a built-in smiley button. And you can make swipe commands, like hitting the SW button then c-u-t will cut text and SW-p-a-s-t-e will paste it. It has built-in languages (not all are active right now, as its in beta state still). And although there's no microphone button on the keyboard, hitting menu will bring one up so you can use voice-to-text.

Overall, it just seems to be working better for me than Swype, which is saying a lot cuz I loved Swype.

I tried every keyboard and the most accurate , fastest for me is ShapeWriter... swype. Slide it.. better keyboard,swiftkey none of these are as good as ShapeWriter, but that is my opinion.. it offers easy correction in that once you check spelling you can click on a word to change it..everyone is different, try them all and see which is most accurate for you...

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I just tried ShapeWriter for the first time, and it seems very strict to me. With Swype, I can usually fly around the keyboard extremely quickly and it almost always gets the word right if I was remotely close to hitting the letters, especially on longer words. With ShapeWriter, I feel like I have to take care to hit every letter exactly otherwise it will mess up (and automatically adding double letters makes even more potential options as to what I might have written, so I find that more of an annoyance than benefit). I think I'll stick with Swype.

Weird. You guys must swipe differently than I do. I'm actually finding it faster, with fewer mistakes, on Shapewriter. Probably cuz you guys have fatter fingers than me.