Settings
Open the Flikzi app to change settings, or tap the Flikzi mark at the left end of the strip above the keys, from any app. Changes apply straight away. Try them in the test field near the top of the screen.
From top to bottom, the screen has:
- the setup card Two steps to start (it disappears once Flikzi is on and chosen),
- the test field,
- the Flikzi Pro box,
- the free part: a guide to the gestures (Letter keys, then Space and enter gestures), Typing, Keyboard, Language, Help shape Flikzi, About Flikzi and Reset settings.
Flikzi Pro
The Flikzi Pro box shows where you are: Trial with the days left, On, or Not on. Pro is a one-time US$4.99 purchase, and every Pro feature is on for the first 14 days after you install. The box holds the six things Pro adds, in this order:
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Several languages | Free Flikzi types one language. With Pro, tap this for the languages screen: a switch for each language, and Guess words in once two languages that are on use the same letters (English and Spanish, say). Move between them with a flick up on the left half of the space bar. Your languages |
| Split keyboard | Two halves on wide screens: Auto, Always or Off. Foldables and tablets |
| Clipboard keys | Two small keys at each end of the space bar, one above the other. Left: Copy over Cut; hold it to undo. Right: Paste over Select all; hold it for the clipboard history. Tap Clipboard keys to change them (below). Without Pro the space bar takes the full width. |
| Voice typing | Shows the mic at the right end of the strip above the keys. Tap it and speak; your voice is turned into text on the phone. The first time, Android asks to allow the microphone. Voice typing |
| Clipboard history | Keeps the last 20 things you copy for an hour, and the ones you pin for good. Open it with the clipboard button above the keys, or by holding the Paste key. The switch turns it off and clears it. Clipboard history |
| Text shortcuts | Your own short words for longer text: type addr, tap your address. Text shortcuts |
Under them is the button Keep Pro (during the trial) or Get Flikzi Pro (after it).
After the trial, Flikzi keeps working with one language, and without the split keyboard, voice typing, the clipboard keys, the clipboard history and text shortcuts. The purchase goes through Google Play and belongs to your Google account, so it comes with you to a new phone. Flikzi checks it with Google Play each time you open its settings.
Everything below the Pro box is free, always.
The Clipboard keys screen
Each of the five places can hold another action or your own text:
| Place | As it comes |
|---|---|
| Left key, top | Copy |
| Left key, bottom | Cut |
| Left key, held | Undo |
| Right key, top | Paste |
| Right key, bottom | Select all |
Tap a place and choose Copy, Cut, Paste, Undo, Redo, Select all, Cursor left, Cursor right, Type text… (your own text, such as your email address) or Nothing. Holding the right key always opens the clipboard history. Back to the usual keys puts all five back.
Typing
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Suggestions | The words in the strip above the keys: the word you're typing, words to finish it, and likely next words. |
| Emoji suggestions | Emoji for the word you type, like pizza → 🍕. Needs Suggestions on. |
| Autocorrect | Type roughly: space and punctuation fix the word. Delete straight after to get your own letters back. Off, space keeps your letters as typed. Autocorrect and suggestions |
| Glide typing | Slide a finger over a word's letters and lift to type it. On to begin with; taps and flicks work as before either way. Glide typing |
| Capitalise sentences | A capital letter at the start of each sentence. |
| Double space for full stop | Tap space twice to end a sentence with a full stop. |
| Singlish words | Adds lah, lor, shiok, makan, paiseh and other Singlish and Malaysian English words to English. On from the start when your phone is set to Singapore or Malaysia. Singlish |
| Contacts' email addresses | Offers your contacts' email addresses in the strip as you type one. Off until you turn it on; Android then asks to let Flikzi read your contacts. They are read on your phone only. Your email addresses |
| Forget learned words | Clears what Flikzi learned from your typing, in every language: your words, which word you type after which, the email addresses you typed, where your thumbs land on the keys, and the pinyin readings you picked. It is stored on your phone only. |
Keyboard
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Key height | Makes keys shorter or taller, from 80% to 130%. |
| Vibration | A light buzz on key taps, holds and each delete step. |
| Key sound | Your phone's own click on each key. Off to begin with, and quiet while the phone is on silent or vibrate. Themes and key sound |
| One-handed mode | Off, Left or Right: a narrower keyboard against one edge of a phone, for one thumb. One-handed mode |
| Theme | Phone (light or dark keys as your phone is), Light or Dark. Themes and key sound |
| Accent colour | Amber, Blue, Green, Rose or Violet, for the space bar's outline, the best word's outline and the marks under the letters. |
Language
Free Flikzi types one language. This part says One language at a time and lists your language; More languages shows all 23, and a tap picks one.
With Pro, the languages are on their own screen instead, opened from Several languages in the Pro box. This part of the settings is then called Chinese and Japanese and shows only while one of those languages is on. Your languages
While Chinese or Japanese is on, there are two more options:
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| English words in Chinese and Japanese | English words for the same letters appear among the Chinese or Japanese candidates, and come first when the letters aren't pinyin or romaji. |
| Space around English words | Puts a space between an English word and the Chinese or Japanese around it. Needs the setting above on. |
Help shape Flikzi
Tell us what to build next. This card is how:
- Suggest a feature opens an email to hello@flikzi.com in your mail app, ready for your idea.
- Something not working? opens an email with the Flikzi version, Android version and phone model already filled in, so we can look into it. Nothing you typed is included.
- See the ideas list opens flikzi.com/ideas: what's planned, and what shipped because people asked.
Flikzi itself sends nothing. You see each email in your own mail app and decide whether to send it.
About Flikzi
The Flikzi version, privacy information, Email us, and the open-source licences Flikzi uses.
Reset settings
Puts the Typing and Keyboard settings, the split keyboard and the Chinese and Japanese options back as they came. Your languages, learned words, clipboard keys, text shortcuts and recent emoji stay.