MessagEase

MessagEase is an input method and virtual keyboard for touchscreen devices.

It relies on a new entry system designed by Saied B. Nesbat, formatted as a 3x3 matrix keypad where users may press or swipe up, down, left, right, or diagonally to access all keys and symbols.

[3] The keyboard supports multiple user dictionaries, used for word prediction and correction.

The 9 most frequent letters in English texts: ETAONRISH, are placed on the keyboard so they can be accessed on a single click.

For example, the letter V is typed by dragging the finger from A to O, and the letter D by moving from O to E. The moves producing special characters, which includes 38 characters including accents and punctuation marks, are displayed on a complete keyboard showing up when the user drags the space bar upwards.

It was also originally a competitor to the T9 predictive input method, on a 12-button phone, with 9 number buttons.

[14] In this first iteration, because many letters required two presses, it was not significantly faster than the Multi-tap input method.