TouchType’s text prediction app, SwiftKey, has topped 100,000 downloads in its first week on Android Market, following several enthusiastic reviews. According to the Android and Me blog, SwiftKey was the most downloaded Android app last week.
“The last week has been phenomenal,” says Jon Reynolds, TouchType’s co-founder and CEO. “We started TouchType because we knew there must be a better way to type on a touchscreen phone. As well as exceeding all download expectations, we have been overwhelmed by the positive feedback about SwiftKey. It has already established itself as a market-leading text entry solution.”
SwiftKey uses patent-pending language technology, which understands how words are combined within sentences and continually learns as a user writes.“We’ve analysed over 50bn words in nine major languages to build the models that drive our prediction engine,” says Ben Medlock, TouchType’s chief technical officer. “SwiftKey is the first text entry app on the market to harness the incredible power of statistical language processing. It takes predictive text to a whole new level, resulting in an unparalleled user experience.” 
The beta is currently available for all Android smartphones. TouchType says it is working hard to make a series of enhancements in response to beta feedback before a full paid launch later in the year. The first update to the beta was released yesterday.
