The perfect keyboard for big thumbs - type faster and more accurately with intuitive swipe gestures!
Wurstfinger - The Keyboard for Fat Fingers
Tired of typos? Wurstfinger is a privacy-conscious keyboard with large keys and swipe gestures. Based on the proven MessagEase layout, it replaces the cramped QWERTY grid with a 3x3 layout optimized for thumb typing.
Unlike mainstream keyboards, Wurstfinger doesn't rely on invasive word prediction - instead, it achieves accuracy through ergonomic design. Large, well-spaced keys mean fewer missed taps, and the gesture system lets you access all characters without hunting for tiny buttons.
FEATURES:
• Large 3x3 Key Grid - Optimized for thumbs, not precision pointers
• Swipe Gestures - Access 8 additional characters per key by swiping
• 26 Keyboard Layouts - Arabic, Croatian, English, Estonian-Finnish, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese (Hiragana), Japanese (Katakana), Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Spanish-Catalan, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Ukrainian, Urdu, and Vietnamese (with Telex input)
• Compose Rules - Create accents through combinations (e.g. ' + a = á)
• Circular Gestures - Draw a circle for uppercase letters
• Cursor Control - Drag on the space bar to move the cursor, drag on the delete key to erase continuously
• Haptic Feedback - Customizable vibration intensity
• Fully Adjustable - Scale keyboard size to your preference
PRIVACY FIRST:
• No data collection
• No network access
• No word prediction tracking
• All processing happens locally on your device
Wurstfinger requires training - expect a few days to build muscle memory. But once you've crossed that threshold, you'll never want to go back to a standard keyboard. The gestures become second nature, and you'll type faster and with fewer errors than ever before.
Your fingers will thank you!
I saw this version of a keyboard a long time ago and really wanted it for iOS. I’m glad to see that someone made this possible. Im not very good at it yet, but its fun to learn.
It's become a really handy keyboard!
KinamiT
This has become my main keyboard now for English and French, alternating with the original MessagEase. Because the square layout truly is best for typing on a phone.I appreciate that the developer is serious about making this keyboard ever better. Many early issues are now fixed. Being able to move the cursor in 2 dimensions is very much appreciated.One issue: the Korean setting needs a Shift key, to type letters like ㅉ and ㄲ .
Developer Response
Thanks for the write-up.Long-press for numbers is already in, it's just off by default: Settings > General > Type Numbers by Holding. Drag to resize I left out on purpose. Everyone I asked, myself included, had only ever used it to fix MessagEase's size settings, never to resize while typing. Size and position sit in Settings instead, under Size & Position. If those don't cover what you need it for, please open an issue at github.com/cl445/wurstfinger/issues and say what for. That's the quickest way to change my mind.
Solid, keep going please!
MrAce100
Just migrated from Android and was used to FlickBoard. Generally, I’d support taking a page out of their book! The particular things I miss are an emoji shortcut, an ability to toggle select mode and select text by dragging on the spacebar, an option to allow long pressing a key to type uppercase letters, and the mini single column numpad always on on the lefthand side of the keyboard.Solid keyboard overall. Would love some more features. Thank you!
Developer Response
Thanks, that's a useful list.Dragging the space bar to move the cursor is already in, either continuously or one character per swipe (Settings > General). Selecting text that way I can't build. iOS only lets a keyboard move the cursor and read a selection the user made, never set one. Android's input API does allow it, which is why FlickBoard can.The emoji shortcut is in progress. Uppercase on long press is a reasonable option, though long press already types each key's digit. The always-on numpad column is doable as well, it just doesn't exist yet.For those last two, please open an issue at github.com/cl445/wurstfinger/issues so they don't get lost.
thank you
llmadrama
thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you
Developer Response
You're welcome, six times over.It's a one-person project, so a message like this lands harder than you'd think.
Version 1.4.1
New:
• Optional gesture trail — a soft stroke follows your finger while you swipe and fades out when you lift it. Off by default, under Settings › Gestures
• New app icon: Liquid Glass on iOS 26, with depth on the Home Screen
Improved:
• Fast flicks are recognized as swipes again instead of typing the key's center letter
• Characters that could not be typed at all on the new layouts: Thai ฬ ฒ ฑ ฏ and ฿, the Japanese 、 and 。 with the small kana, the half-space in Persian and Urdu, Arabic-script punctuation, the Hindi ₹, the Hebrew ׳ and ״, and the voiced kana iteration marks ゞ and ヾ
• č ď ě ň ř š ť ž are directly reachable: the caron now sits on the return swipe of the ^ key, replacing the stand-alone circumflex accent that swipe used to type (the ^ itself is unchanged)
• Diagonal drags on the delete key delete instead of doing nothing
• A long press held across a mode or language switch no longer types the old key's digit
• Double-space types a period only on two consecutive spaces, and inserts the sentence mark of the script you are typing
• Forward-delete and capitalize-word respect an active selection
• Coming back from another app applies settings changed in the meantime before the first keystroke, and the app switcher no longer shows an empty gap where the keyboard was
• VoiceOver reaches the shift, punctuation and mode keys, and offers swipe-only actions such as copy, cut, paste and hide keyboard through the rotor
• Key labels stay inside their key at the smallest keyboard sizes
• Size & Position was shown in English whatever the app language, and is translated now, along with 70 corrected translations
• Leaner rendering leaves the keyboard more memory headroom
Version 1.4.1
The developer, Akator GmbH, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
Seller
Akator GmbH
Size
7 MB
Category
Utilities
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
