Swype Keyboard is an app available for Android and it definitely beats the basic keyboard pre-installed in the OS.
Swype allows you to choose your own style of writing, from “Swype,” “Tap,” “Dictate” and “Type”. Swype, the main feature of the app, allows you to drag your finger to each of the letters in the word you want to type and the word is formed for you. This, added with the intelligent spacing and word recognition, can help you type twice as fast as you did normally.
Swype has advanced speech recognition which I can say is the best I've used so far for a keyboard and very intelligent voice-to-speech conversion. This means you can dictate really fast and still have Swype catch all your words perfectly. The advanced grammar Nazi programmed into the app punctuates your sentences almost perfectly.
For tablets, Swype can split the keyboard into two halves on either side or a mini keyboard in one corner for more screen real estate and type comfortably with your thumbs instead of fumbling over half of the screen. The keyboard itself has as many options as the Android keyboard and a few added personalisation options, and also auto-correct and auto-capitalisation.
The app supports bi-lingual typing, which means you can type in two languages at once without switching and the auto-correction won't bother you. Swype supports over 70 languages and 20 dialects. It automatically capitalises and punctuates everything you type, and perfectly covers up your sloppy typing or Swyping. Swype constantly keeps updating itself with the way people talk including popular phrases, names and terms from pop culture, thus you don't have to worry about fighting autocorrect when you write a new 'in' term. The app also adjusts itself to how you talk and type, making it more efficient. It even predicts the next word you might use for you to make typing faster.
Oh, and the world record for the fastest written text was broken by someone using Swype. It's on the Techland 50 Best Android Apps 2013 list, and is said to be a must-have. So the world's fastest, most accurate and most customisable keyboard, with such awesome features, how much could it be worth? A mere $3.99 on Google Play, but there's a free version too, which only works for 30 days. But the app is definitely worth buying, so I suggest you get it.
Also, iOS has a similar app called Path Input Pro, which is $3.99, but with a Lite version available. But all it can do is Swype. And you have to type everything on the app and then copy it to the app you want to use the text in, and that's a lot of work.
Developer: Nuance Communications Inc.