Frequently asked questions

Flikzi is a keyboard app for Android with hexagon keys and flick gestures. Instead of shift and delete keys, you flick a letter up for a capital and slide a space key to delete. It has no internet permission, so autocorrect, suggestions, Chinese pinyin and emoji all run on your phone.

Not yet. Flikzi is in testing and is coming to Google Play. Join the waitlist and we will email you once when it launches. We plan to invite early testers from the list before that.

Flikzi will be a paid app with no ads and no data collection. The price is not set yet; people on the waitlist will hear it first, before launch.

No. Flikzi is an Android keyboard. It works on Android phones, foldables and tablets running Android 7.0 or newer.

Flikzi is made by Huper Technology Pte Ltd, a small software company in Singapore. You can reach us at hello@flikzi.com.

No. Flikzi is a closed-source paid app. Its English and pinyin engines come from the Android Open Source Project under the Apache License 2.0, and the full credits are on the licences page and in the app.

No. Flikzi does not request the Android INTERNET permission, so it has no way to connect to the internet. Suggestions, autocorrect, pinyin and emoji predictions are all computed on your phone. How the privacy works.

Open Settings, then Apps, then Flikzi, then Permissions. Android lists every permission an app has asked for, and for Flikzi the list is empty. On Google Play you can also check "App permissions" in the listing's "About this app" section.

Android shows the same warning for every keyboard you add, because any keyboard sees the text you type. The warning does not say whether a keyboard can send that text anywhere. Flikzi cannot: it has no internet permission.

Not yet. Today Flikzi uses a built-in dictionary and remembers only small things, such as your recent emoji and skin tones. Anything it learns in future will be stored on your phone like everything else.

Flick the letter up. Flikzi also capitalises the first letter of each sentence for you, and flicking up on the right space key capitalises the word you are typing.

Slide left along a space key to delete one letter per step, and slide right to undelete. To delete bigger pieces, hold the space key first: it turns orange for whole words after 1.6 seconds and red for sentences after 3 seconds, then slide left to delete and right to undelete. Slide up to cancel. A quick swipe left on any letter deletes the last word, and a swipe right brings it back.

Hold a letter and slide left or right to pick the number or symbol in its corner: q gives 1 and %, a gives á and @. Slide further right for accents. There is also a symbols layer (?123), an optional number row, and a number pad on wide screens.

Yes. Flikzi suggests words as you type, predicts the next word, and corrects typos when you press space. It also fixes missing capitals and apostrophes, such as i to I and dont to don't. If a correction is wrong, swipe left straight after it to undo it.

English and Simplified Chinese (pinyin). Flick up on the left space key to switch between them. More about pinyin.

No. Flikzi has no glide (swipe) typing and no voice input. Voice input would normally need the internet, and Flikzi is built to work entirely offline.

Yes. The emoji panel has categories, recents and skin tones, and Flikzi suggests emoji for the word you just typed.

Yes. On wide screens, such as an unfolded foldable, a tablet or a phone in landscape, Flikzi splits into two halves for your thumbs with a number pad between them. Foldables and tablets.

Yes. You can change key height, turn the number row, autocorrect, suggestions, emoji suggestions, sentence capitals, the double-space full stop and vibration on or off, and choose when the keyboard splits.

Yes. Flikzi follows your phone's light or dark theme automatically.