Thumb-Key is no longer on Google Play. It was there for 3 years, until September 2026. It was a niche app, with 370 installs. It had too few ratings to say what users thought.
Thumb-Key is made and published by
Dessalines.
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About Thumb-Key
Thumb-Key was a productivity app developed by Dessalines. It was removed from Google Play Sep 19, 2026.
Install Statistics
Thumb-Key had been installed 370 times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
Thumb-Key was rated 4.60 out of 5 stars, based on 45 ratings.
App Information
Thumb-Key cost $19.99. The app size was 3.50 MB. The last available version was 5.1.17. The last update was on September 8, 2026.
Technical Requirements
The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play since June 2023.
Description by Dessalines(from Google Play)
Thumb-Key is a privacy-conscious smart keyboard, made specifically for your thumbs.
It features a 3x3 grid layout, and uses swipes for the less common letters. Its easy to learn, and designed for fast typing speeds.
Instead of relying on profit-driven, privacy-offending word and sentence prediction for accuracy, as do most popular phone keyboards like Gboard and Swiftkey, Thumb-Key uses large keys with predictable positions, to prevent your eyes from hunting and pecking for letters.
As the key positions get ingrained into your muscle memory, eventually you'll be able to approximate the fast speeds of touch-typing, your eyes never having to leave the text edit area.
This project is a follow-up to the now unmaintained (and closed-source) Message Ease Keyboard, which is its main inspiration.
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Deleted Messages, came here instead. I would like to see: 1. Adding '+' to the end of a string and hitting 'backspace' capitalizes the first letter: eg 'george+' & 'backspace' becomes 'George'. 2. adding '-' to the end of a string and hitting 'backspace' deletes the whole string: eg 'George' & 'backspace' = ''. 3. 'Underscore' is optionally used instead of the space bar (or set select your own symbol); 'return' is then a swipe down from 's'; more space, less keyboard.
★★★★★Todd Schroth· Mar 5, 2024
I like it. Similar to messages keyboard. Ability to use messages layout as well as the Thumb-key layout a definite plus. Cheers!
★★★★★Skyler Madison· Feb 25, 2024
I've used Messages for 16+ years now. But now that it's gone to a subscription model, I abandoned it completely. I tried a variety of other keyboards... but nothing could compare. After googling for a while, I found thumb-key. It has the same key configuration, but the letter, are arranged differently. I was so pleased to see that I could arrange the keys to be the same as message ease, in the settings. So... I didn't need to have a learning curve. There are minor differences, most good
★☆☆☆☆Kirsanov Dmitry· Dec 22, 2025
Update from december 2025 breaks things. Now all letters on my custom keyboard are hidden. How to downgrade app?
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