SwiftKey, the company behind Android's most popular keyboard, has teamed up with Evernote to launch its first iOS app, SwiftKey Note.
The note-taking app rolled out Thursday and, unlike SwiftKey's flagship Android app, is free.
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The app combines Evernote's cloud-backed platform and SwiftKey's ultra fast predictive keyboard to create a simple note-taking app that can sync your notes across all your connected devices.
The app comes on the heels of Evernote's recent news that its Sync service is now four times faster.
Unlike Evernote's mobile offerings, SwiftKey Note takes a more minimalist approach to note-taking, one that emphasizes usability and typing speed over formatting and other advanced features.
"Evernote has a platform that allows developers to work quite deeply into the way in which you store notes and back them up," SwiftKey's chief marketing officer Joe Braidwood said in an interview with Mashable.
"But one of the things the default Evernote apps aren't necessarily great at is quick simple note entry. This idea that you could quickly create a note and it shows up in the Evernote platform and it you can use it on any of your devices was something that got quite a lot of momentum with Evernote."
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Until now, SwiftKey has only been available to Android users as a paid app. Rumors of a potential iOS app surfaced last week when photos of SwiftKey Noteleaked on Twitter.
For now SwiftKey's iOS debut is limited to SwiftKey Note, but Braidwood said the company is open to potentially letting outside developers work with the tools they've developed.
"We have an SDK that other developers can use and we are really open to creative ways of putting that to use," he said.
SwiftKey Note is available in English, German, French, Spanish and Italian, with applicable regional variations (e.g Canadian French, British English). The company has plans to add more languages in future updates.
The free app is available in the App Store.
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Written by Mehedi Hasan
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