Hacker GitHub

← All repos

dessalines/thumb-key

View on GitHub ↗ ★ 1,567 Kotlin

A privacy-conscious Android keyboard made for your thumbs

21 mentions on Hacker News by 19 people: 2 stories, 19 comments · first 2023-04-24 · latest 2026-09-07

Mentions per year 21 mentions · busiest year 2025 (7)
20082026
AllStoriesComments NewestTopOldest
  1. On the other hand, I use Thumb Key ( https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key ) and think Unexpected Keyboard doesn't go far enough.
    comment by Gander5739 · 2026-09-07 · in GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard
  2. …rather than a gesture encompassing a whole word, then things like Thumb-Key become options. * https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key It has a similar sort of ' It doesn't have to have 26 keys on something the size and shape of a mobile…
    comment by JdeBP · 2026-06-24 · in FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model
  3. …keyboard cut my typos by ~90% (though i was particularly bad at using phone keyboards, lol). [0]: https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key
    comment by mackeye · 2025-12-11 · in iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]
  4. Were you inspired by thumb key at all? https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key
    comment by Krastan · 2025-12-11 · in Show HN: A 2-row, 16-key keyboard designed for smartphones
  5. …aspect, since there are only 2 characters per key. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MessagEase 2. https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key
    comment by AAAAaccountAAAA · 2025-12-10 · in Show HN: A 2-row, 16-key keyboard designed for smartphones
  6. for phones, have a look at thumbkey https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key (messagease like) I also recommend dactly (see also https://ryanis.cool/cosmos/ for a more generic keyboard generation)
    comment by yehoshuapw · 2025-09-03 · in Untangling the myths and mysteries of Dvorak and QWERTY (2023)
  7. …fewer. The em dash is a first class citizen on the "writer" layouts in ThumbKey, for example. * https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key
    comment by JdeBP · 2025-08-30 · in Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT
  8. for/from a phone: https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key
    comment by yehoshuapw · 2025-06-03 · in Ask HN: Options for One-Handed Typing
  9. Reminds me of Thumb-Key: https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key I'd be interested to try a full-featured Android keyboard like this.
    comment by spiffytech · 2025-04-05 · in Show HN: iPhone 2005 weird "Blob Keyboard" simulator
  10. …before they go subscription based and now I use Thumb-Key[1]. [0] https://www.exideas.com/ME/ [1] https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key
    comment by glacierSong · 2024-12-16 · in Unexpected Keyboard
  11. Japanese flick input is closer to thumb-key ( https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key I just discovered in another comment), and even that's a bit different as you get to input a consonant+vowel pair at a time (e.g. ka-ki-ku-ke-ko on a…
    comment by 3r7j6qzi9jvnve · 2024-12-13 · in Unexpected Keyboard
  12. How long does it take to learn https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key ? Is it like retraining yourself to use Dvorak? Or more like learning the Palm strokes?
    comment by rahimnathwani · 2024-12-12 · in Unexpected Keyboard
  13. …[^2], which has a similar swipe feature. [^1]: https://f-droid.org/packages/juloo.keyboard2/ [^2]: https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key
    comment by SpaghettiCthulu · 2024-06-30 · in FUTO Keyboard
  14. There's an open source reimplantation in case the original stops working: https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key
    comment by wilted-iris · 2024-06-30 · in FUTO Keyboard
  15. …[3]: https://zmk.dev/docs/behaviors/macros [4]: https://github.com/urob/zmk-nodefree-config [5]: https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key
    comment by autumn-antlers · 2023-12-05 · in Designing a Symbol Layer (2021)
  16. …T9 was pretty sweet as you could type without needing to look at the device. Maybe this layout? https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key/issues/263 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i6scYO3PHnyvA_JwB09W...
    comment by mikecoles · 2023-09-25 · in Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem
  17. See this, it has the T9 input method too: https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key
    comment by gatane · 2023-09-25 · in Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem
  18. …and I've watched someone who has become comptetent at it (which i haven't) type elegantly on it. https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key But I always wonder why noone has tried building a hardware chord keyboard for a phone. It seems…
    comment by nanna · 2023-09-24 · in Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem
  19. …a different input method entirely. I used Messagease for years, and I've switched to Thumb-Key now, https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key (same concept, just Open Source and maintained). My thinking is that if you throw a full keyboard…
    comment by kadoban · 2023-05-19 · in Switching from QWERTY to Colemak and Back