Show HN: Effected Keyboard 2 – Effects as You Type
Effected Keyboard 2 is an Android keyboard app that enhances typing with visual effects and gesture-based shortcuts, offering a more immersive and stylistic alternative to standard keyboards. Built on Anysoftkeyboard since 2013, it features customizable layouts, themes, and interactive effects like flying letters and immersive animations. While it lacks AI-powered typing prediction and advanced spell correction, it prioritizes user experience and aesthetic appeal over functional automation. The app includes both free and paid features, with three $5 add-on packs for themes and visual effects.
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Have you ever heard of Cafe keyboard from Samsung’s app store? It’s very similar to it, but here there are effects that… Make you feel like your phone is on steroids, and in a good way.Effected Keyboard 2 feels convenient when you press the keys with its gentle feedback (if you disabled heavy animations), it feels more mature and natural with its look and feel, has multiple languages, easy gestures that trigger useful features: if you swipe left from spacebar you have two different layouts of symbols, on swipe right from spacebar you change language and on swipe up from spacebar you get a mini popup keyboard where you can find undo/redo, select text and copy/paste with a clipboard.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ycombinator.