Swipe Keyboard Simple is a gesture-based input tool for iOS designed to provide an alternative text entry method.
Product velocity
Dormant
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Productivity
Sentiment
1.6
11 reviews
Nemesis
Fragmented field
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire this app to speed up text entry via swipes, but the current failure to request system permissions prevents the keyboard from working, leaving the job-to-be-done unserved.
For Mobile users seeking alternative text input methods for standard device keyboards.
What does it look like?
Key features
Keyboard control via swipe gestures for text entry, intended to expand ad-impression inventory.
Keyboard availability across all installed applications, currently non-functional due to missing system permission requests.
How much does it cost?
The app is free to download and monetizes through ad inventory, as evidenced by the recent bug fix for ad display.
Velocity
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Swipe Keyboard Simple has been inactive for over 520 days, placing it firmly in the zombie category. The last release was a minor update focused on bug fixes, and there has been no development activity or feature expansion since. The lack of updates over this extended period indicates the app is no longer being actively maintained.
Who built it?
Giacomo Guglielmi
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What do users think recently?
The recent review mood reads upset.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- The swipe-to-type gesture recognition fails to register input, forcing users to tap individual letters manually
9 of 9 recent reviews analyzed · limited sample · Upset overall
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How's the Productivity market?
The app maintains a 1.63-star rating on the iOS platform, signaling significant functional failure. The 17-month gap between updates confirms its status as a zombie asset in the productivity category.
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Key takeaways for Swipe Keyboard Simple
Where is it heading?
The app remains in a zombie state with no meaningful feature development for over a year. Without a fundamental rebuild of the permission-handling logic, the app will continue to lose the few users who attempt to install it.
- Persistent failure to request system permissions prevents the keyboard from functioning, which guarantees high churn and negative sentiment.
- The latest update only addressed ad-related bugs, leaving core functional swipe recognition and permission issues entirely unaddressed.
The SWOT
- Implement standard system permission requests to enable basic keyboard functionality
Next best moves
Rebuild system permission request flow because the app currently fails to function in any other application → restore basic utility
The counter-intuitive read
The app's failure is not a lack of features…
Read the full takeSince the last report: The app remains non-functional and stagnant, with the analysis now more clearly defining the product as a zombie asset.
Bottom line
Swipe Keyboard Simple fails to deliver its core utility because it lacks necessary system permissions, so the developer must prioritize a functional permission-request flow to prevent total user abandonment.
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