Why this keyboard never autocorrects
Most keyboards decide for you, then leave you to repair the damage. This one does the opposite: it offers, and you decide. Here is why — and what the other way costs, measured.
The principle, in one sentence
The keyboard coaches and suggests. It never acts in your place.
A keyboard that changes a word you just wrote takes two things from you: the word, and the time to put it back. The second costs more than the first — and that is where most keyboards get the arithmetic wrong.
What does fire on its own, and why that is different
Your rules. They fire without asking, because you are the one who wrote them. “dont” becomes “don’t” because you decided so, one day, in ten seconds. The keyboard is not deciding: you are, ahead of time.
It is the only automation in the app. It is also its most powerful part, and the reason it never has to guess anything.
What never fires on its own
Everything else. A spotted typo, a learned correction, a tip: each arrives as a suggestion, and one tap accepts it. Do nothing, and your text stays exactly as you typed it.
So there is nothing to undo. No screen in the app offers to reverse what the keyboard just did — because it does nothing you did not ask for.
The arithmetic, with real numbers
This is not a matter of taste. Two public studies put numbers on it.
Repairing an unwanted correction costs 5.5 seconds on average, across 170 observed people. A correct autocorrection never gives you 5.5 seconds back: it saves you a few keystrokes. The arithmetic settles itself.
A word suggestion costs about two seconds to save 3.43 characters. Reading it and deciding takes longer than typing would have. That is why this keyboard does not interrupt you while you write.
A sleeping rule is not clutter
Keep adding rules and some will sit unused for months. That is normal: typos do not come back on a schedule. That reserve is the app’s intelligence — three months later, when the same typo returns, the rule is already there.
So the app will never suggest cleaning up your unused rules. They are not a problem to fix.
What we refuse to call a success
Typing more keys, firing more replacements: that is activity, not progress. Celebrating it would be manufacturing a fake record.
The only wins the app celebrates are measured time gains: typing faster, and backtracking less. Everything else is shown as a neutral fact, never as a victory.