Brevity - The Ultrafast Text Editor app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: UnderWare LLC
First release : 14 Mar 2011
App size: 4.38 Mb
How can you write "magnificent" with 3 letters? Brevity.
Brevity helps you write text several times faster. It works on the principle that most words can by uniquely identified using less letters than they actually contain and it lets you write them that way. Just start typing a word using the first letter or first consonant and continue writing any letter in the word in the proper order. Brevity will automatically list all the possible matches, which you can then select (e.g. you can write "misunderstanding" by just typing the following sequences: "msndr", "miudr", etc). If a word is not already present in a dictionary, simply write it out and Brevity will remember it the next time you type it. It also remembers the frequency of words you use and sorts all matches accordingly, letting you write most words using 1, 2 or 3 letters. Not only is Brevity great for native speakers of the supported languages (see the list below), but also for non-native speakers as you dont need to know the exact spelling in order to write the word. It also saves time with languages that use diacritics as you will be able to skip them in most cases.
Features
- Word Completion - Write entire words with just a few letters.
- 11 Supported Dictionaries - Built-in word lists containing thousands of words for the following languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Czech, Swedish and Danish
- Auto-expansion - Any words not contained in the word lists (e.g. slang) are automatically added as you type and any capitalization is remembered
- Dynamic Sorting - Brevity remembers how often you use words and offers the most frequently chosen options to you first
- E-mail Support - Send e-mails from directly within the application
- Text Message Support - Send text messages from directly within the application
- Text Copy - Easily copy your written text to any other application using the clipboard
- Undo button to cancel word adding during composition
- Possibility to save messages
- Settings with the following features:
-- Remove misspelled or unwanted words
-- Set prediction font size and window transparency
-- Switch automatic spaces on/off
-- Set whether the most common words are listed from the top or bottom of the prediction window
Latest reviews of Brevity - The Ultrafast Text Editor app for iPhone and iPad
Not a fan of so-called text completion apps, but this is sweet and, as Maude Lebowski would say: thorough. So easy and useful to use, youd be remiss not to try!
This is one of the most useful aps available today! What a fine idea and quite practical. I recommend this highly.
Great app. Does what it says. Very easy to use. Too bad this cant integrate directly with iMessage, as I wish other apps could.
Great for bad spellers
This would be a great app with some refining. When I started to type the word last that word did not come up until I typed las. When I typed la, I got a choice of las which is not a word. The concept is great, especially for individuals with fine motor difficulties and with refinements and settings would be worth paying for.