[Deprecated] 5-TILES Lite
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THE KEYBOARD DESIGNED FOR TOUCHSCREENS
The 5-Tiles Keyboard takes up 70% less of your phone screen than the QWERTY layout. The 5 keys are much larger and easy to reach, resulting in way fewer typos. You can easily type on touch screens of any size with just one finger or thumb. And it's fast. With a bit of practice, you'll soon be beating your old typing speeds on the phone.
Thanks to the space-efficient layout and easy-to-master logic of the 5-TILES Keyboard, this is the only keyboard you'll be able to use across ALL of your touch screen devices - no matter how small.
If you're multi-lingual, you also no longer need to switch between dictionaries to use a range of special characters. We support 8 languages at the moment, for both word prediction and letters - check out the Cheat Sheet to find your most commonly used characters. Typing is so much faster when you don't have to switch back and forth....
STOP using the keyboard invented over 150 years ago to prevent the jamming of mechanical arms - and START using the fast and efficient keyboard designed for the future!
HOW IT WORKS
Letters have been grouped on the 5-TILES Keyboard in alphabetical order, with only a slight re-ordering so that the letters that you need the most often (and the space key) are the quickest to type.
The underlined letters and the underlined 'space' are just a single tap.
All other letters are a slide across the keys - starting from the key that they are written on.
To know which way to slide, look at their location in the row of letters on the key where they are written. Is the letter you need the first in the row on that key? Slide from that key to the first = BLUE. Is the letter you need the last in the row on that key? Slide from that key to the last = RED.
An easy way to practice this is to activate the Learning Mode (LM) by sliding your finger upwards on the yellow key. Now when you touch a key, the keyboard will show you where you need to slide to. (Slide up on yellow again to turn it off).
There are some other slides-up: to delete slide up on blue (del), shift is on green, the letter u is on orange, and the letter z is on red.
There are also some slides-down: to delete a full word, slide down on blue (del word), enter is on green, move left is on yellow (arrow), and move right is on red (arrow).
And now for some more magic: slide down on the orange key to activate the Cheat Sheets (CS). VOILA! all of the sequences for numbers, punctuation, editing, special characters, and emoticons at your command!
DICTIONARIES
The 5-TILES Keyboard can be used with or without (multi-language) dictionaries. To switch the dictionaries on and off, use the combination of yellow-blue-green.
With the dictionaries active, the 5-TILES Keyboard “learns” your writing patterns to improve autosuggestion options. You can also add your own words to the dictionaries’ memory.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES
Type using national characters. Languages currently supported: English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish and Swedish.
Edit text and issue commands: move between text input fields, highlight, copy and paste, even control your phone's ringing mode!
ACTIVATING THE 5-TILES KEYBOARD
Once you've downloaded the app, simply launch it from the Play Store, or from the home screen of your phone, or from your Apps list. Our handy menu will allow you to activate it on your phone in one simple step, as well as select it as your preferred keyboard and change your settings.
PRACTICE
To get the hang of typing with the 5-TILES Keyboard, we've put together a handy "Training" App, which will take you through easy-to-follow, short lessons. Additional tutorials are available for unique national characters, such as Polish.
The speed test mode will dramatically improve your typing speed while you practise typing the most common words and pangrams.
The 5-Tiles Keyboard takes up 70% less of your phone screen than the QWERTY layout. The 5 keys are much larger and easy to reach, resulting in way fewer typos. You can easily type on touch screens of any size with just one finger or thumb. And it's fast. With a bit of practice, you'll soon be beating your old typing speeds on the phone.
Thanks to the space-efficient layout and easy-to-master logic of the 5-TILES Keyboard, this is the only keyboard you'll be able to use across ALL of your touch screen devices - no matter how small.
If you're multi-lingual, you also no longer need to switch between dictionaries to use a range of special characters. We support 8 languages at the moment, for both word prediction and letters - check out the Cheat Sheet to find your most commonly used characters. Typing is so much faster when you don't have to switch back and forth....
STOP using the keyboard invented over 150 years ago to prevent the jamming of mechanical arms - and START using the fast and efficient keyboard designed for the future!
HOW IT WORKS
Letters have been grouped on the 5-TILES Keyboard in alphabetical order, with only a slight re-ordering so that the letters that you need the most often (and the space key) are the quickest to type.
The underlined letters and the underlined 'space' are just a single tap.
All other letters are a slide across the keys - starting from the key that they are written on.
To know which way to slide, look at their location in the row of letters on the key where they are written. Is the letter you need the first in the row on that key? Slide from that key to the first = BLUE. Is the letter you need the last in the row on that key? Slide from that key to the last = RED.
An easy way to practice this is to activate the Learning Mode (LM) by sliding your finger upwards on the yellow key. Now when you touch a key, the keyboard will show you where you need to slide to. (Slide up on yellow again to turn it off).
There are some other slides-up: to delete slide up on blue (del), shift is on green, the letter u is on orange, and the letter z is on red.
There are also some slides-down: to delete a full word, slide down on blue (del word), enter is on green, move left is on yellow (arrow), and move right is on red (arrow).
And now for some more magic: slide down on the orange key to activate the Cheat Sheets (CS). VOILA! all of the sequences for numbers, punctuation, editing, special characters, and emoticons at your command!
DICTIONARIES
The 5-TILES Keyboard can be used with or without (multi-language) dictionaries. To switch the dictionaries on and off, use the combination of yellow-blue-green.
With the dictionaries active, the 5-TILES Keyboard “learns” your writing patterns to improve autosuggestion options. You can also add your own words to the dictionaries’ memory.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES
Type using national characters. Languages currently supported: English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish and Swedish.
Edit text and issue commands: move between text input fields, highlight, copy and paste, even control your phone's ringing mode!
ACTIVATING THE 5-TILES KEYBOARD
Once you've downloaded the app, simply launch it from the Play Store, or from the home screen of your phone, or from your Apps list. Our handy menu will allow you to activate it on your phone in one simple step, as well as select it as your preferred keyboard and change your settings.
PRACTICE
To get the hang of typing with the 5-TILES Keyboard, we've put together a handy "Training" App, which will take you through easy-to-follow, short lessons. Additional tutorials are available for unique national characters, such as Polish.
The speed test mode will dramatically improve your typing speed while you practise typing the most common words and pangrams.
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What's Changed
This version is deprecated and it will be un-published, please download the pro version for free.
This version is deprecated and it will be un-published, please download the pro version for free.
Name changed Name changed! 5-TILES Keyboard LITE now is known as [Deprecated] 5-TILES Lite.
Name changed Name changed! 5-TILES lite now is known as 5-TILES Keyboard LITE.
Name changed Name changed! 5-TILES keyboard free demo now is known as 5-TILES lite.
Version update [Deprecated] 5-TILES Lite was updated to version 5-Tiles
What are users saying about [Deprecated] 5-TILES Lite
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but I need to see other character sets (Greek) before I try it on for size.
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even for a demo. it doesnt work in the slightest bit. I have yet to be able to type a full word. Nor can i backspace. Its horrid. Please make a functioning free version or get this crap off the play store
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by U####:
Thanks for app! I will buy with Russian alphabet!
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I appreciate your work for trying to create a new thing that wasn't in the market before .. but writing on this keyboard is harder than solving maths! I can't even write a single correct word and while I type most of the time on my phone I can't use your product until you find a creatif but more realistic way of typing .. even so I'm rating 5 stars cause I really like the idea of a new types of keyboards .. But please try to make it more convenient.
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by C####:
by C####:
but I need to see other character sets (Greek) before I try it on for size.
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Relearn everything you know, but it gets quicker surprising easily. Trouble doing capital F tho, and the auto—complete is a bit dim. But I am going to persevere.
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by C####:
by C####:
I appreciate your work for trying to create a new thing that wasn't in the market before .. but writing on this keyboard is harder than solving maths! I can't even write a single correct word and while I type most of the time on my phone I can't use your product until you find a creatif but more realistic way of typing .. even so I'm rating 5 stars cause I really like the idea of a new types of keyboards .. But please try to make it more convenient.
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by C####:
Love the idea although it's a bit difficult to use. And it would be great if it could support greek as well.
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Needs some serious work
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by Z####:
I appreciate your work for trying to create a new thing that wasn't in the market before .. but writing on this keyboard is harder than solving maths! I can't even write a single correct word and while I type most of the time on my phone I can't use your product until you find a creatif but more realistic way of typing .. even so I'm rating 5 stars cause I really like the idea of a new types of keyboards .. But please try to make it more convenient.
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by C####:
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Needs some serious work
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by Y####:
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This is the future!
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by Y####:
by Y####:
This is a great idea in theory but it relies on you learning the keyboard all over again. For some people okay but for ne it was useless.
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by Y####:
by Y####:
Love the idea although it's a bit difficult to use. And it would be great if it could support greek as well.
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by Y####:
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Worst piece of crap ever. Even fake flappy bird game is a better keyboard.
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5 for innovation. 1 for usefulness on my device. The seems like a good alternative over the matrix keyboard, not really over querty and especially not over swype.
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by P####:
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Rubbish. Gestures are far too hit and miss to be usable.
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by R####:
by R####:
Love the idea of using tiles. But this is too poorly implemented and difficult to use
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by P####:
by P####:
Some characters like the digits are far too hard to enter. Think about all those PIN codes you've to type. The free version has far too many characters blocked to really learn the tool before deciding to buy it. Conclusion: just a gimmick.
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by T####:
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Really good idea but the learning curve is too long and I'm not convinced that the average person would find this a better substitute for their qwerty keyboard as it takes too long and too much thought to type
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by A####:
by A####:
Basic instructions are missing as I can't seem to write the most basic words. I know how to do individual letters- very slowly- but words would be nice!
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Once you learn this its an epic way to enter text
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Htc M8
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The concept is good but it takes a lot of time to understand and learn the techniques..specially the symbols and numbers..! Tried to put too much in a small space..! If you could just simplify it, that would work like a charm..! All in all a good idea..! Liked it..
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by R####:
by R####:
but I need to see other character sets (Greek) before I try it on for size.
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by R####:
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It's not intuitive enough. It has trouble understanding what I want it to type. And you can't correct mistakes efficiently enough. Even one you get the hang of it, it's still slower than swipe keyboard which is built into Android phones now.
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by R####:
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I loved the idea of this up until I was trying to get a friends phone number and handed them the phone and they were unable to type in a simple number. Perhaps a pop up number pad for emergencies?
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The best choice for smart watch!)
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by S####:
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Needs some serious work
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by Y####:
by Y####:
Nice to see someone apply Englebart's 5-finger keyboard to current technology. But this demo really shows why it never caught on in the first place. It can take almost as much effort to do one character as it does to do one word with Swype. And the learning curve is huge. Too bad - seemed like a great idea.
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by G####:
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I feel like the delete key should be on the other side.
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It's gorgeous, awesome I'm impressed.
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nice
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by S####:
by S####:
The letters aren't that hard to learn. Numbers aren't even so bad with learning mode on. It REALLY needs a popup with seperate punctuation and symbol keys, though. 5★ if you add that. I appreciate you providing a trial so I didn't have to buy it to realize it has such a learning curve. I'll keep it for now.
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by U####:
by U####:
even for a demo. it doesnt work in the slightest bit. I have yet to be able to type a full word. Nor can i backspace. Its horrid. Please make a functioning free version or get this crap off the play store
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by I####:
by I####:
Needs some serious work
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by S####:
by S####:
Nice app
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by U####:
by U####:
Thanks for app! I will buy with Russian alphabet!
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by S####:
by S####:
I like that Etaoi takes up such little space on my 7" Samsung tablet. The five, visually different touch tiles make it easy to mentally group which letters are on them (they are printed there, of course, but when you get going, you can sort of judge by color where you want to press or slide. It is very stable, and registers my touches and swipes really well. What I dislike is that some letters need to be swiped from one end of the tiles to the other. It would be nice to see a way to change the height and width of the tiles. I would also like to see a way to reorient the groups of tiles: when in landscape mode, the tiles default to my left-hand side of the screen. I would like to be able to be able to switch the side it defaults to (you are able to do this in a similar program called MessagEase). My biggest gripe comes from the various swiping patterns you need to use to create punctuation. It would be nice just to have a simple swipe up or down from a tile to place a period. Overall, though, it's a cool idea that works well. I'm not very fast at it, but I'm sure the speed could be built up with time.
by G####:
Some characters like the digits are far too hard to enter. Think about all those PIN codes you've to type. The free version has far too many characters blocked to really learn the tool before deciding to buy it. Conclusion: just a gimmick.