Based on data about popular sentence structures and data about how you’ve used the keyboard in the past, it creates genuinely useful predictions that get better over time. The interface is the same as on Android, with a choice of three words appearing above the keyboard as you type.

Yes, this minimal app is best thought of as a SwiftKey for iOS tech demo. You can’t, however, edit any existing documents that you didn’t create within the app. All your notes are synced with your Evernote account and there’s support for saving to any notebooks that you already have set up there. Still, it’s nice that you can now try SwiftKey somehow on iOS, so how does it fare? As an app itself, SwiftKey Note is a pretty simple app that hooks into Evernote. Here, SwiftKey is simply bolting its tech and interface on top of the stock iOS keyboard.

This is to be expected – whilst SwiftKey has an iOS-compatible software development kit, it’s not that much use unless Apple allows third-party keyboards to be used across the operating system. SwiftKey Note is a new note-taking app that allows iOS users to try the predictive keyboard technology that has got everyone raving, but unlike on Android, the keyboard’s not available system-wide it only works within the app. Today that changes – but with a huge caveat. One thing that has been mentioned in almost every piece we’ve published about SwiftKey‘s excellent smart keyboard for Android over the years is ‘But it’s not available for iOS’.

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