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Traditional T9

Dimo Karaivanov

A T9 keyboard inspired by the classic Nokia phones of the 2000s.

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Opens the official F-Droid page

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About Traditional T9

TT9 is a Nokia-style 12-key T9 keyboard. It provides predictive text input in 40+ languages, configurable hotkeys, clipboard, undo/redo, and extensive customization. It works on touchscreens, physical keypads, and TV remote controls. And best of all, it doesn't spy on you!

Supported languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Simplified Chinese (Pinyin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati (phonetic), Hebrew, Hindi (phonetic), Hinglish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese (Romaji), Kiswahili, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (European and Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Moroccan Tamazight (Latin and Tifinagh), Thai, Toki Pona, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Yiddish.

Philosophy:

- No spying, tracking, telemetry, reports, or data collection of any sort.

- No ads or unnecessary bells and whistles. It only does its job, typing.

- No unnecessary network connections. The Full version operates entirely offline, and the Lite version connects only to download dictionaries from GitHub. Voice Input may require Internet access, depending on the available voice services.

- Open-source, permitting you to verify all the above yourself.

- Created with help from the entire community.

- Things it will (probably) never have: QWERTY layout, swipe-typing, GIFs, and stickers.

- Not intended as a clone of TouchPal, Sony Ericsson, KaiOS, Samsung, etc. While it captures the feel of the classics, TT9 offers its own experience and won’t replicate any device or app exactly.

Note: the Google Play version is almost identical to the lite version, except that it includes extra "premium" features that are closed-source. Nevertheless, none of the extra components compromises the principles outlined above.

How to install Traditional T9

  1. Tap Download — the app's official page on F-Droid opens.
  2. Install it with the F-Droid app (recommended, for automatic updates), or use the download button on that page.
  3. If Android asks, allow the F-Droid app or your browser to install apps, then tap Install.
  4. Open Traditional T9 from your app drawer.

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