AppUpdate – WritingPad

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On November 5, 2008

This is one of those apps that has fascinated me from day one. WritingPad offers an amazingly different text input method. Instead of tapping away at the touchscreen you…

enter text into the iPhone by tracing word shapes rather than typing letters. Each shape traced on the soft keyboard with your finger is recognized as a word. Error correction is fast and easy.

Slide your finger from one letter to the next to create words?? Souns too good to be true, right? Amazingly enough…  it actually works remarkably well.

This update is a minor, but significant, one. The "add word" prompt now appears whenever the cursor is positioned above an unrecognized word. As a result, creating a customized dictionary is much easier. That, in turn, means the app will quickly become much more accurate.

While WritingPad has not become my input method of choice, as a free app, it is worth a look. It might be the right input method for you.

You can get WritingPad HERE in the App Store for free.