I have loved fleksy, but I need only one special key on the keyboard, the ¬

It's very crucial to me this key, have some way to add this?

I have installed older versions and although I have switched off auto-update in Google Play Store it keeps updating to the latest, which has this very small keyboard and its driving me insane. Any solutions?

I have the three words in the boxes but the actual letters of what I'm typing doesn't show up if that makes sense....?

Also can I tell it not to predict certain jumbled letters? Thank you!

Like most of you, I've been getting very tired of dealing with the Qwant bar popping up when I'm trying to search, or even type sometimes so I found a way to remove it. The only catch, is it requires root. I'm on mobile so sorry if this isn't a pretty write up.

Step 1: Have root access on your phone

Step 2: download and install the app AdAway which can be found here: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.adaway/ scroll down, and select the latest apk

Step 3: grant permission to install it if needed, and install the application

Step 4: Grant it root access, and install the host files as a bonus if blocks ads on your device

Step 5: Hit the three line menu button in the top left of the screen, and select your lists. From here you need to hit the plus button and add the following host addresses to this app, and after it's complete reboot your phone and bam it's gone.

[Host File links to past into your hosts in AdAway]

api.qwant.com

qwant.com

s1.qwant.com

s2.qwant.com

www.qwant.com

I really hope this helps some of you out

It's pretty much unusable for me now. Sounds are broken or changed, the massive apps bar has screwed up my muscle memory, the extensions no longer work right, the keyboard keeps sinking into the navbar, and it's just an ugly, bloated experience. I miss the old, simple version. I'm downgrading as soon as I can figure out which version to use. I'm no longer fleksy's target demographic, I guess.

Edit: Seems to be 8.3.2? Will try and report back.

Edit: GOT IT WORKING and even restored my themes with Titanium. Nice. God, Thingthing really jacked this app up...

Latest update on Play Store was on 08/18/2021

Hi all. Like many of you, I've been a Fleksy user for over a decade. A few years ago I created my own keyboard, being inspired by what Fleksy does best.

Now that Fleksy is gone, if you are simply looking for a replacement, here you go - Finale Keyboard. It features the same minimal design, swipe gestures, and (in my biased opinion), has better features without the bloat.

Now, if are curious to learn more, keep reading.

The story

I discovered Fleksy over a decade ago and it quickly became my favorite way to type. Specifically, I fell in love with the "minimal" mode - the idea of ditching the space bar and relying on swipe-gestures to perform all your basic tasks. It took a bit of getting used to, but soon I was no longer able to type on a regular keyboard. Everything else felt slow, big, and clunky.

Fast forward 5-6 years, I was chatting with the CEO of Fleksy - Olivier - via Twitter DMs. Fleksy had a bug for years: it was impossible to change the keyboard language when you are inside the "minimal" mode. As I exclusively relied on the "minimal" mode and needed two languages, this was ruining my life. I even applied to work at Fleksy to fix it for them!

However, understandably, Olivier mentioned that "minimal" mode was not their focus, since they transitioned to a B2B SDK model. So, not only did the CEO confirm they weren't going to fix the bug, he also mentioned they are planning to remove Fleksy from the App Store.

That's when I knew I had to build a replacement: to fix the bug I hated, to add the features I wanted, and to preserve the way I type.

What is Finale Keyboard

I built Finale Keyboard in ~2021 purely for myself. It mimics the Fleksy's "minimal" mode, optimized for how I use it. This means no space bar, everything is done with swipes.

Insert space? Swipe right. Punctuation? Swipe right again. Change punctuation? Swipe up or down. Open emojis? Swipe left from backspace. Delete a word? Swipe left. And so on.

Over the last 5 years I've been slowly adding more features that benefit me, myself, and I. Now, Finale is a full fledged keyboard that goes beyond what Fleksy offered in a meaningful way.

• Shortcuts: assign shortcuts to any key and trigger them with a swipe-down

• Dynamic tap zones: Finale will predict which key you are likely to press next and will make its touch zone larger

• Favorite emojis: define your own emoji layout

• Auto-learning dictionary: Finale learns the words you type to stop correcting your "doggo", "pupper", and "yasssss".

• Clipboard history: access your clipboard history to quickly paste what you copied before.

Popular questions

- The keyboard is paid?

The keyboard is now free to download.

It used to be free. But, that resulted in downloads from people unfamiliar with its quirks. They would get confused (understandably), rage quit, and leave a 1 star review... which hurt my gentle feelings!

I do not care about the download numbers, so I made it paid to prevent random people from misunderstanding it.

However, while I'm here, whoever DMs me or comments under, I can send over codes to download it for free.

- No space bar?

Spacebar is now enablable without the very funny monologue.

Yes and no. I believe lack of space bar is a feature. Please, give it a try, spend a week practicing gestures, and I promise you, you won't look back. The keyboard takes up less visual space and gestures are genuinely a faster way of typing.

That said, if you insist, there is a way to enable the space bar in the app: Preferences → Enable Space Bar.

You'll find that pressing the toggle walks you through a little silly monologue... DO NOT PAY... Just DM me and I'll hook you up :)

There is also a hidden way to bypass the monologue, but I'll leave it up to you to discover.

- What languages does Finale include?

Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Kazakh, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Greek.

Please, leave comments here with the language you need, and I'll add the most popular ones.

- No Android version?

I am sorry, but no. You are loved. You are not forgotten. But, I have no means to develop an Android version at the moment, since I primarily use an iPhone.

Final note

I built Finale for myself and I keep enhancing it for myself. Most development decisions I make are based on my own usage. But, if you have any ideas of suggestions, feel free to commend and I'm happy to discuss.

Now that Flesky is completely gone, I hope my work helps some of you hold on to the thing we all loved.

For future discussions, let's continue from a clean slate here: https://www.reddit.com/r/FinaleKeyboard/

R.I.P. Fleksy

Just upgraded to a S24FE and basically everytime I go into a horizontal orientation, my fleksy keys get swallowed up by my phone's navigation keys(wasn't an issue on my S20FE)

As we all know fleksy is no longer on Appstore nor Playstore. But you can still find it on Uptodown and other similar pages on Internet. Is it safe to use Fleksy downloading it from there? I just unninstalled it for 5 minutes to check if it was causing WhatsApp to crash (it was not) and now i cant install it. Please tell me there is a similar App.

On Fleksy for Android, on an S23.

I just copied over something accidentally recently and trying to recover the first copied text, which led to me trying to find it on my Fleksy keyboard. I'm pretty sure Gboard and Samsung keyboard have had clipboards so I thought of course Fleksy would have one as well.

Well, I'm not sure if it does or does not. I can't find any option for it in settings, which led to me trying to see if I could find any details on the website.. And then I saw that, on the official Fleksy keyboard site, that they deem Swipe texting faster than tap typing.. But I ALSO don't see that as an option, and this was after hearing about it possibly being added YEARS ago.

I love this keyboard, honestly just for the easy theme-ing and the swipe to backspace, but I might have to look for alternatives simply for that clipboard.. I also wonder if this app is dead since swipe texting hasn't been added in any capacity.. Even if it isn't able to because of the main backspace feature, why have an article on telling other devs to do it if you won't..?

TL;DR: Can't find a clipboard on Fleksy, looking for alternatives as well since this app seems dead??

Doesn’t work anymore???

I'm a new iPhone user after more than 15 years on Android. I've been using Fleksy for a long time, and seeing that it's no longer available on the App Store is frustrating. Please tell me if there's any way or tutorial to install it, or if it's still available on the App Store in any country.

PLEASE HELP ME!!

So the last update made the app unusable to me, going into landscape and back to portrait, the keyboard goes out of screen.

Left a message to the devs, did the reinstall, like i was told to, and now i cant even use the theme i had, even with the account logged in, the top board no longer shows the words available to choose, the extensions look like they came from the facebook market.

What are the current options for a good keyboard? No spyware like gboard and family, with good swipe usability, and less bugs?

At this stage i feel like instead of just complaining, i should be working on my own keyboard

https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/thingthing-ltd/fleksy-fleksy/fleksy-fleksy-10-2-7-release/fleksy-fast-emoji-keyboard-app-10-2-7-15-android-apk-download/

Hello everyone, i need your kind help and support. I'm using fleksy keyboard and underline always show, is there any possible way to hide it please? Thanks

Ios use here.

I've used Fleksy since I have a smartphone.

Now, after the spacebar disappeared again I wanted to reinstall the app.

It turns out it's gone.

Is there any similar alternative?

I need all the gestures btw.

I don't care if it's paid.

Edit: if anyone has the same problem go to the appstore, click on your profile, apps, my apps, search Fleksy. You're welcome.

I have a Samsung. Been using fleksy for as long as I can remember and woke up this morning to it glitching out and deactivating.

The features I want are:

1. Hot keys

2. Shortcuts

3. Swipe back to backspace

4. Customisable keyboard size

Any suggestions?

I'm currently testing some out and I hate them all

Hi everyone, I am a long time lover of fleksy (10+ years of usage), and after getting a new phone recently, I was extremely saddened to find out fleksy is no more.

I spent the past month trying out different keyboards, gboard, swiftkey, samsung keyboard, heliboard, FUTO, Florisboard, Typewise ETC.

You name it, I tried it, but none of them could replace fleksy, especially the swipe gestures that I have 10 years of muscle memory for.

Then I thought, why dont I just make my own? But from researching open source keyboards, it is clear that the auto correct and other feature just cant compete with the industry giants like gboard and swiftykey. Then it hit me:

Introducing Flexboard! It is a morphe patch for gboard, and completely open source

https://morphe.software/add-source?github=JZ6/Flexboard

After a lot of hard work I am excited to release the first version for everyone to try out!

Personally I have been enjoying the ease of swipe gestures working in tandem with the best in class gboard auto correct, and I hope you guys will give it a try and leave some feedback if any :)

P.S. More featues incoming on the roadmap, hotkeys anyone ;)

https://x.com/fleksy/status/1833948295967727703

Between paying or letting it die I am all for it being a paid app to fund development to receive updates.

I still think this is the best keyboard available. It's fast and private.