TouchPal

TouchPal is an alternative input method for mobile devices, designed and developed by Shanghai-based CooTek.

In June 2019, it was revealed that CooTek, the developer of TouchPal, was bundling malicious adware with its keyboard software and taking steps to conceal its involvement.

It also added support for several European languages, such as English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch.

TouchPal v3 English version was released in April 2008, together with extra European input languages.

With its SDK, users can self develop the supported input languages, the skins, and change the keyboard layout.

In November 2008, CooTek started to release TouchPal for Android devices with its initial version (v4) mainly shipped for manufacturer.