# Flexpansion Keyboard

> Advanced custom word prediction doubles your typing speed!

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.flexpansion.android](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.flexpansion.android)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.flexpansion.android`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Flexpansion Ltd
- **Category:** PRODUCTIVITY
- **Downloads:** 76,842
- **Rating:** 3.70 / 5 (642 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.194
- **Last updated:** 2024-10-20
- **First published:** 2011-08-01
- **Publisher country:** GB
- **Size:** 5.30 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-16
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flexpansion.android)
- **Website:** [http://www.flexpansion.com/](http://www.flexpansion.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://flexpansion.com/wp/privacy-policy/](https://flexpansion.com/wp/privacy-policy/)

## Description

Flexpansion Keyboard is an innovative typing assistant that dramatically increases your typing speed across all apps by using advanced custom word prediction and abbreviation expansion. It intelligently learns your personal style, adapting quickly to your writing habits with features like editable user dictionary, autocorrect, and next word prediction.

This free app supports phones, tablets, and hardware keyboards and offers unique capabilities such as flexible text expansion that understands common abbreviations (e.g., 'wd' for 'would', '2mrw' for 'tomorrow'), personalized shortcuts for frequently used phrases, and themes for both visuals and sounds. Derived from PhD-level AI research, it ensures privacy by storing all data locally on your device. Available in multiple languages including English, German, Spanish, and French (beta), Flexpansion enhances typing productivity with an intuitive, customizable experience.

## Rankings

- #249,405 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.MANAGE_ACCOUNTS`
- `android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE`
- `android.permission.READ_USER_DICTIONARY`
- `android.permission.USE_CREDENTIALS`
- `android.permission.VIBRATE`
- `android.permission.WAKE_LOCK`
- `android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE`
- `android.permission.WRITE_USER_DICTIONARY`

## Review summary

Flexpansion Keyboard is praised for its strong and personalized predictive text capabilities and some convenient text expansion features. However, users frequently complain about the lack of recent updates, outdated appearance, and limited customization. Prediction accuracy issues and difficulties managing the dictionary and expansions also detract from the experience. Overall, it offers excellent predictive features but suffers from usability and maintenance shortcomings.

### Pros

- Strong predictive text feature with a high number of available word predictions.
- Ability to predict only words previously used by the user, enhancing personalization.
- Some useful text expansion capabilities including swipe back to delete a full word.
- Responsive development team that has addressed some issues in the past.
- Support for special characters in languages like French even without dedicated language keyboard.

### Cons

- Lack of recent updates and modernization, with the last update being in 2018 leading to an outdated interface and missing features.
- Issues with prediction accuracy, including incorrect or nonsensical suggestions and difficulty in correcting wrong predictions.
- Limited customization options, including no ability to edit text expansions or adjust keyboard themes.
- User interface problems such as forced capitalization of expansions and issues with placing spaces after punctuation.
- Problems with dictionary navigation, such as scrolling challenges and unexpected resets when deleting words with uppercase letters.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.flexpansion.android)