Typing fast is a valuable skill, and even more helpful when one can do it on a mobile device in today’s fast-paced, multi-tasking world.
OftenType, a keyboard application for iPhones running on the iOS 8 operating system, helps users master this skill. It simply lets one create quick keys with frequently used text.
Costing $1.99, the app has been downloaded around 50,000 times, half of which by American-based users.
The brainchild behind the app is 30-year-old marketing specialist ArtemPochepetsky.An iPhone user with no coding skills, he found a team of several Ukrainian developers and designers who devised the app for him, investing $10,000 of his own money along the way.
He found it annoying to always having write emails and complete application forms with the most common information like first name, last name, address, company name, phone number and the links to social network profiles.
“I wanted to make some kind of an application that would let me just click one button with my email on the keyboard instead of typing it again and again,” Pochepetskysaid. “The idea came to me in the beginning of 2014 and in December we released the app in the App Store.”
One of the app’s users, Erick Santoso, sent Pochepetsky an email with feedback on the app, saying that it’s easy to use, and “even configuring it literally takes no effort, thanks for the fluently-made app.”
Two billion Internet users around the world use mobile devices and smartphone users make up 80 percent of them, according to data provided by smartinsights.com.
In the future, OftenType will be available free with the possibility of making in-app purchases.
Kyiv Post staff writer BozhenaSheremeta can be reached at [email protected]. The Kyiv Post’s IT coverage is sponsored by AVentures Capital, Ciklum, FISON and SoftServe.
