What is the difference between Flikzi and Fleksy?

Fleksy was a gesture keyboard known for swiping to add spaces, delete and move through suggestions, and for reading where a tap landed so that imprecise typing still came out right. Its consumer app is discontinued: it is no longer listed on Google Play or the App Store, and its maker turned to selling a keyboard kit to app developers. Flikzi is a QWERTY keyboard on a honeycomb of hexagon keys, free to download with a one-time Pro upgrade, where flicks and swipes replace the shift and backspace keys, autocorrect reads where each tap landed, and nothing you type leaves your phone. If you miss Fleksy's gestures, Flikzi is built around the same idea.

Flikzi vs Fleksy: a Fleksy alternative

Q: Is Flikzi a good Fleksy alternative for privacy?

Fleksy is no longer available, so its handling of your typing can no longer be checked, and it gets no updates through Google Play. Nothing you type in Flikzi leaves your phone: it has no internet permission, so it cannot send your typing anywhere.

At a glance

	Flikzi	Fleksy
Availability	In active development; on Google Play	Discontinued. No longer listed on Google Play or the App Store; fleksy.com did not load when we checked.
Internet permission	None, so it cannot send what you type anywhere	Not checkable: the listing and website are gone
Layout	QWERTY on a honeycomb of hexagon keys with no gaps, in rows of 10, 9 and 7; no shift key and no backspace key	QWERTY, AZERTY, QWERTZ, Dvorak and Colemak
Deleting	Swipe the space bar left to delete and right to bring back; keep holding to keep going	Swipe gestures to delete text
Autocorrect	Reads where each tap landed. Your letters stay as typed until you press space; delete straight after to get them back	Read tap locations, not the letters hit, so it tolerated imprecise typing
Capitals	Flick a letter up; flick up on the right of the space bar to step a whole word to Capital or ALL CAPS; automatic at sentence starts	Shift key
Languages	23, including Chinese, Japanese and Korean; one free, all of them with Pro	82 when it was available

Fleksy details checked on 13 November 2026 from the sources below.

Privacy and data

Fleksy's app, website and privacy policy are no longer available, so its data practices cannot be checked today. An app that is no longer listed also gets no updates through Google Play.

Nothing you type in Flikzi leaves your phone. Flikzi has no internet permission, which Android requires for any network access, so it cannot send what you type anywhere. Its two optional permissions, Microphone for voice typing and Contacts for your contacts’ email addresses, stay off until you turn those features on. You can see both on your own phone in Settings, Apps, Flikzi, Permissions.

Typing

Fleksy was known for gestures: swipes to add a space, to delete and to move through suggestions, so fewer keys were needed. Flikzi takes a similar path on a QWERTY layout. There is no shift key and no backspace key: flick a letter up for its capital and down for the digit or mark drawn under it, and swipe the space bar left to delete and right to bring letters back. Keep holding after the swipe and it keeps going, faster the longer you hold.

Flikzi’s keys are hexagons on a honeycomb with no gaps, so every touch goes to the nearest key. Its autocorrect reads where each tap landed and allows for a neighbouring key, a missed letter, an extra tap or swapped letters. Your letters stay as typed until you press space. If a correction is wrong, delete straight after and your own letters come back.

The flicks take a few minutes to learn. Try every gesture in your browser before you decide.

Choose Fleksy if

You still have Fleksy installed and it works for you. Bear in mind it no longer gets updates from Google Play.
You are an app developer: Fleksy's maker offered its keyboard as a kit (SDK) for other apps.

Choose Flikzi if

You liked Fleksy's gestures: in Flikzi, deleting and restoring are swipes on the space bar, and capitals, digits and marks are flicks on the letters.
You liked typing roughly and letting the keyboard work it out: Flikzi's autocorrect reads where each tap landed.
You want a keyboard that is still being developed and updated.
You want what you type to stay on your phone.

Switching from Fleksy

Install Flikzi from Google Play once it launches, turn it on in Settings, and choose it as your keyboard.

Your Fleksy dictionary does not carry over. Flikzi starts from its own built-in dictionary and learns your words as you type.

Flikzi vs Fleksy