EFKey – Swipe & AI Keyboard
Fast & private. Pro tools.
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
New in 2.1.3: cleaner settings, AI rewrite with one swipe, contact names in suggestions, your own clipboard categories and Afrikaans.
EFKey types like the keyboard you already use. It has the parts that one is missing.
Typing runs on your phone, in 77 languages, and stays free.
GESTURES INSTEAD OF PAGES
Hold any key and its second character comes up. @ # % € sit in the corner of every key, so the numbers page stays where it is.
Flick left on the delete key and it erases whole words.
Hold the spacebar and the keyboard turns into a trackpad. Slide, and the cursor lands where you meant it.
Glide over the letters and the word types itself, accents and apostrophes included. Pick another word once and the next identical swipe follows your pick.
Double-space ends the sentence.
77 LANGUAGES, TWO AT A TIME
Turn on two languages and write in both in one sentence: dakujem becomes ďakujem while dont gets its apostrophe. Nothing to switch.
26 languages are fully verified. 51 more are in beta: they work, a native speaker just hasn't checked them yet. Afrikaans is one of them, and Portuguese comes in two versions, Portugal and Brazil.
The app itself speaks 26 languages.
QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY, Dvorak, Colemak.
A number row that adds a row instead of shrinking your keys.
CORRECTION THAT READS THE SENTENCE
Autocorrect looks at up to three words of context. "i said hat" becomes "that"; "red hat" stays as it is.
It fixes a word with three mistakes in it and leaves alone the one that was already right.
Type germany or iphone and get Germany and iPhone.
Names from your contacts show up in suggestions and in swipe. No contacts permission needed.
Prediction learns how you write. Give it a few days.
Fix a word once and press backspace: it never touches that word again.
THE TOOLS. EFKEY PRO.
Clipboard history with your own categories, pinning and search.
Translator. Type in one language, insert the other, without leaving the keyboard.
Dictation. Speak and it types, translated if you want, with a Live Activity in the Dynamic Island.
AI edits. Rewrite, fix the grammar, change the tone. Or swipe down from the spacebar and the whole field gets rewritten.
GIF search, a calculator that answers in the suggestion bar, text shortcuts, My info autofill, one-handed mode, typing stats.
Shortcuts on the keys: hold C to copy, H for clipboard history, D for dictation. Remappable.
Your own colours and saved themes, key press animations, more swipe trail effects.
iCloud sync of learned words and settings.
One purchase. No subscription. Seven days free when you start the trial yourself, no card and no account. Typing stays free either way.
Translation, dictation and AI edits run on-device where iOS supports it. Or bring your own API key (Anthropic, Gemini, OpenAI, Groq, OpenRouter). It stays in your Keychain, and your text goes only to the provider you picked.
MADE TO FEEL RIGHT
Native down to the pixel, light and dark, and it follows the appearance of the app you are in.
Multi-touch that keeps up at full speed. No dropped keys.
Emoji with search, skin tones and suggestions as you type.
Settings you can search. Type a word and it takes you to the switch.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No keystroke logging. No analytics or tracking SDKs. No server of ours anywhere.
Typing, prediction and autocorrect work offline. iOS never lets a custom keyboard into a password field, and when a password is shown in plain text, EFKey stops correcting and learns nothing from it.
The only things that leave your phone are the ones you switch on yourself: GIF search, your own AI key, iCloud sync (learned words end-to-end encrypted, settings through your private iCloud). efkey.app/privacy says what, where and when.
Full Access is optional. The keyboard types at full strength without it. Only the tools that reach outside the keyboard need it.
Your learned and blocked words export and import anytime.
LIGHT ON STORAGE
Every language except English downloads when you enable it. Nothing you don't type in sits in your phone.
Set it up in a minute.
Questions? dev@eef.sk · efkey.app
Version 2.1.3. Cleaner settings, swipe that learns from your picks, and work on almost every language.
SETTINGS
• EFKey had grown too many options in too many places. Every screen was reviewed: each language has its own page, the dictionary is one row, diagnostics is one switch. Your values are kept, and search finds everything in its new place.
NEW
• Swipe down from the space bar: AI rewrites the field or the selection, or the keyboard hides. Tap the bar to get the original back. Pro, off by default.
• Swipe up from the space bar: the translator opens and translates right away. Pro, off by default.
• Delete all: drag from backspace into the left third of the keys and let go. Undo brings back the whole text.
• Names from Contacts in suggestions and swipe. Never applied on their own.
• Clipboard categories of your own, for text and images, with labels.
• My Themes: save up to 12 custom themes.
• Letter size from 85 to 130 %, bold key text, three key shadow styles.
• Key press animations with adjustable speed, 15 swipe trail effects. Pro.
• Haptic presets plus five of your own. Swipe-delete haptics have their own switch.
• The " key types the quotes of your language: “ ”, „ “ or « ».
• The emoji panel opens on Most used. Couples take a skin tone per person, each emoji remembers its tone, and the default tone is in settings.
• OpenRouter as its own AI provider.
• Scrollable suggestions, up to 12 in a row. Beta, in EF › LAB.
• Support EFKey: an optional tip in the EF tab. It unlocks nothing.
• The app follows light or dark mode, or your pick in the EF tab.
SWIPE AND TYPING
• Pick another word after a swipe and the next identical swipe follows your pick.
• Contractions (you're, I'll), two-letter words, plurals, long compounds and imported words swipe. "I am" no longer comes out as "I an".
• Neural swipe runs again on 76 MB devices like the 13 mini.
• Autocorrect off: nothing changes after you type. The bar still offers the fixes.
• An accent you type is never removed automatically.
• The bar follows shift and Caps Lock. Shift-cycling works in the middle of a word.
• Slide from ABC, #+= and shift the way you slide from 123.
• Single-letter words can be learned. Import accepts hyphenated words.
• iOS text replacements expand on their own again, also m2 and CO2. The Shortcuts screen no longer needs Pro.
LANGUAGES
• Dictionaries in 31 languages grew by more than 370,000 words.
• English: names capitalize (mike → Mike), "i" offers "I", words like resubmits swipe. English (UK) shows as EN unless both variants are on.
• German: weiß and groß swipe with ß, "im" stays "im" next to English, Grüße instead of grouse, 165 colloquial words (gibts, habs).
• French: optional apostrophe key on every layout, a context key for accents.
• Portuguese (Portugal): typos are corrected again, 1990 spelling first (receção, ação).
• Italian: perché and più instead of perche and piú.
• Dutch: English words and predictions removed, foto's and m'n added.
• Slovak and Czech: 11,371 and 10,905 new words, towns included.
• Polish: 58,828 spoken forms back (siedzę, spoko).
• Russian: 40,255 more word forms. Ukrainian and Belarusian keep the apostrophe (п'ять).
• Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Indonesian and about 20 more correct more typos.
• Afrikaans is new, in beta. Arabic has a tashkeel key. Telugu has 57 words confirmed by a native speaker.
• Basque no longer turns itself on after install.
FIXES
• No more blank keyboard after switching apps. The emoji panel works without Full Access.
• A setting applies on the first try; iCloud sync no longer reverts it.
• The translator reads the whole field.
• Return in a search field sends what you typed. An empty search field shows a grey Return.
• Safari's address bar no longer starts with a capital.
• Native theme on iOS 27: translucent keys like the system keyboard.
• Bar hidden: no empty strip, and the top row stays inside the rounded edge.
• Redeeming an offer code shows the result. The app rotates on iPad.
The developer, Peter Feranc, 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.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Peter Feranc
- Size
- 99.6 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. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 25 more
- English, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- EFKey Pro $12.99
- EFKey Pro — Early Bird $5.99
- Huge tip $17.99
- Big tip $8.99
- Nice tip $3.99
- Small tip $1.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Peter Feranc
