SwiftKey comes to iOS, but plays within Apple’s rules


Sometime during the last week, we brought you information that SwiftKey will be coming to iOS pretty soon. That rumor has just transformed into official information and SwiftKey have released their application on the App Store and it is live. The application is not a stand-alone keyboard app that it is and as seen on the Google Play Store, but is more of a note-taking app.

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SwiftKey comes as SwiftKey Note in iOS and as the name suggests, it is a note-taking application. SwiftKey Note brings the goodness of SwiftKey’s popular predictions to iOS, but in a way that keeps Apple happy. Apple has never really opened up its iOS platform and despite Tim Cook’s hint that the platform may open up in the future, we haven’t seen anything so far. However, SwiftKey folks have found a little workaround. They have introduced a note-taking app that has a row of prediction words just above Apple’s iOS keyboard.

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Unlike its Android counter part, SwiftKey on iOS is just a stand-alone app and has the prediction features just within its application for now. SwiftKey has an iOS compatible development kit that others can use to integrate SwiftKey inside their application. Meanwhile, the stand alone note taking application that SwiftKey Note is, syncs with Evernote and it is great news. SwiftKey Note is compatible with both iOS 6 and iOS 7.

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