Keybee Keyboard | Open Source Apk
Latest version 2.1.1
06 Mar 2025
Apk Infos
| Version | 2.1.1 |
| Rating | 3.4/5, based on 1,769 votes |
| Size | 8.4 MB |
| Requires Android | Android 5.0+ (Lollipop) |
| Author's Notes | Discover how to type easy fast and ergonomic on smartphones touchscreen devices |
About Keybee Keyboard | Open Source APK
Table Of Contents
Description
We live in a World where the keyboard is the most used mobile application, but we type with a layout which belongs to something else.In 1863 Christopher Sholes wanted to fix the jams on typewriters. So he moved to the opposite the most frequent letters and letter-pairs to improve typing with both hands. The qwerty keyboard was invented. The success of qwerty was so huge that the same layout is still used today as input device on computer keyboard.
In 2007 the mobile world became touch friendly. Smartphones became our daily pocket computer and the touchscreen was introduced to use the phone with one hand.
But typing on a physical keyboard and on a touchscreen is not the same:
- different number of fingers necessary to type: ten vs one
- different gestures: no-swipe vs swipe
So sharing the same qwerty layout is not efficient.
This incompatibility created an usability problem because the device was adapted to the keyboard. How?
- Less space: limited key size and useless gap between keys
- Low speed: no swipe friendly, slow typing because floating fingers through the borders
- Less comfort: no ergonomics and uncomfortable typing, we are forced to type with two hands or switch the phone to landscape.
To fix this problem we adapted the keyboard to the device. How?
- we optimized the space by using an hexagonal structure the most efficient structure in Nature, which increases the key size in the same device area up to 50%
- we increased the typing speed up to 50% by making more swipe friendly connections between letters and letter-pairs and by removing the gaps between keys
- we improved ergonomics by arranging the layout around the center of the screen to type easily with just one finger. No need for two hands for typing.
Discover the new way of typing. For free. Forever.
Thoughts from the founder
The Qwerty on touchscreen is like using a steering wheel on a bicycle: just because I can turn it doesn’t mean that the controller should be like this. A bicycle needs a controller designed for it: the handlebar. A touchscreen needs a keyboard designed for it: Keybee Keyboard.
I want to give Keybee Keyboard for free because the keyboard is the basic human - device interaction and because it is universal. It involves all People in the World, no matter the age they have, the language they speak or the place they live. And all the greatest tech innovations are free.
I would like to thank all the Keybee Keyboard users who gave me the strength to continue this project even without external investments through their messages, reviews, previous subscriptions and purchases.
From 2025 Keybee Keyboard became full free, ads free and Open Source with the permissive license Apache 2.0. I hope that the dev Community can make this project awesome and together we can reach the visibility that Keybee Keyboard deserves. I mean, we don’t have to go to Mars with the qwerty layout, right?
Marco Papalia.
Keybee Keyboard main features
- Twipe typing gesture (swipe on adjacent keys)
- 20+ Keybee themes
- 1000+ Emoji compatible with Android 11
- 4 original layouts (English, Italian, German, Spanish)
- Custom layout
- Custom letter pop-up
- Totally free and ads free
Latest updates
What's new in version 2.1.1
First release as Open Source project.How to install Keybee Keyboard | Open Source APK on Android phone or tablet?
Download Keybee Keyboard | Open Source APK file from ApkClean, then follow these steps:
Update Phone Settings
- Go to your phone Settings page
- Tap Security or Applications (varies with device)
- Check the Unknown Sources box
- Confirm with OK
Go to Downloads
- Open Downloads on your device by going to My Files or Files
- Tap the APK file you downloaded (it.keybeeproject.keybee-v2.1.1-ApkClean.apk)
- Tap Install when prompted, the APK file you downloaded will be installed on your device.
Older Versions
| 2.1.1 (27) | 8.4 MB |
| 2.1.0 (26) | 8.7 MB |
| 2.0.9 (25) | 5 MB |
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User's Reivew
5 ★Amazing Keyboard!
5 ★Im so happy they made it free!!!
4 ★I've been using this for years and I love it but lately the backspace button keeps either randomly getting stuck and erasing everything or the backspace button doesn't respond at all. I can't even use it anymore. Please fix this :(
5 ★its actually good the only feature id like to have is auto-correct
5 ★YOU GUYS WON'T BELIEVE, I ALREADY USE THIS KEYBOARD FOR ABOUT 5 YEARS NOW since 2018! I like it so much, funny that all people who saw my phone had different reaction to my keyboard. I explain that Keybee is a better built for 2 finger typing than Qwerty that's for 10 finger. ALSO FOR DEVELOPER PLEASE I NEED UPDATE! PLEASE CONTINUE THE KEYBEE!
2 ★I understand, but the issue is that as a product, Gboard is your app's competitor. You are a one man company competiting with Google. Though I wouldn't have given this a 2⭐ review if the app was open source, because then a part of the responsibility to improve it would be on myself too. You are already financing it using the donation system, why don't you consider making it FOSS? Then you won't be barring the entire burdon (at least in theory though 😅). Something to consider I guess.
5 ★𝙸 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚒𝚝 𝙸 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚒𝚝 𝙸 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚒𝚝
3 ★Please update this apps,it have bugs in android 11..I have been using this keyboard for more than 5 years now,it feel a bit awkward when i tried the qwerk keyboard again..
1 ★Subscription needed to customise? Lol no thanks, Been there done that
2 ★I would've given it a 5 star review but I can't because there are no qualitie of life options. If they made it to where you can change the actual positions of the letters so I can have the qwerty letter layout in the keybee hexagonal phrame then this would easily be a 5 stars, but till now I don't think its worth learning a whole new letter layout just for you to use the old on again when you start using a laptop. If they ever make this change then I will be pleased and give it 5 stars.
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