Very handy app; very responsive developer  
By: rosevines - Nov 10, 2008
Version: 4
TouchType gives the iPhone a keyboard designed for non-minuscule fingers. You can use the app to send tweets to Twitter, create new emails and - despite what some other reviewers have said - reply to emails you receive. To do the latter, simply click Reply in the Mail program, hit the Home button, load TouchType and type your reply, then hit the Send button. Your reply will be automatically inserted into the email ready for you to send. It's a little clunky, but I blame that on Apple and not the developer. The update last week had some problems, but the developer was very quick to correct them.

Writing app  
By: SteveJeeper - Oct 29, 2008
Version: 2
We need this for ALL writing applications. We need cut and paste. I will be writing to Apple to beg for these on a regular basis, I suggest that you do the same; perhaps a majority voice will be heard. Also, scrolling the on screen text is strange, it moves unexpectedly from side to side at the same time which is odd and unecessary. This said; it's a great app well worth having. The developer has made some useful improvements and I highly reccomend it. If only it could be used to text......

Easy Workaround: Auto-Complete Bubbles Disappearing  
By: Fledermaus-R-Us - Oct 17, 2008
Version: 1
Simply begin each message with 2 or 3 'returns', then move your cursor back to the top with the 'bubble'. Once you have reached the point where the auto-complete bubbles disappear beneath the keyboard, use a quick finger-flick to move the text up a line, and now your auto-complete bubbles have room to appear. Yes, this should be fixed in a future version (it is annoying, after all) but once I figured out this workaround the problem disappeared for me. Other than that, this is a good app and has worked consistently well. I'm happy with it, and would recommend it to all.
Fledermaus-R-Us

Landscape mode in iPhone's Mail rocks!  
By: Walt Basil - Oct 10, 2008
Version: 1
TouchType allows you to write an email in landscape mode, giving you better control and more accurate typing results. It doesn’t actually let you type within Mail on landscape mode, rather it let’s you compose an email, and when you hit “send,” it opens Mail and composes the new email for you using some hidden copy & paste functions that the average user doesn’t have access to. You can also use it to reply to an email. In Mail, select the email you want to reply to, hit the reply button, push the home button, open TouchType, write your reply, hit send, and TouchType will open Mail for you and insert your text into your reply email. For a mere dollar, this adds a missing feature to your iPhone’s Mail.
I think it’s too much work for a simple 1 or 2 line email or reply, but is great for those “novella” emails. Well worth your dollar.

Why they didn't make the mail this way in the first place is beyond me.  
By: Farrid - 5-Jun-2009
Version: 7.4
The only reason that Apple left things like these out of the basic components of the phone is stupid!! This app is great and I do love it but still we should not have to but the basics. This app is well worth the price but again Y? My critisism is directed at Apple not this app. This is another example of underhandedness by finding cheap tricks to get more out of our pockets. I don't mind paying for dictionaries or translators and games but COME ON!!! Cheap tricks like these take away from the phone as far as making it a fast and simple tool to do business when other phones at half the price come with these features built in. Shame on you Apple Additional note: I use this to type long emails. It crashes when I try to send to email and I loose everything. Arrrrrg!

Why they didn't make the mail this way in the first place is beyond me.  
By: Farrid - 26-May-2009
Version: 7.4
The only reason that Apple left things like these out of the basic components of the phone is stupid!! This app is great and I do love it but still we should not have to but the basics. This app is well worth the price but again Y? My critisism is directed at Apple not this app. This is another example of underhandedness by finding cheap tricks to get more out of our pockets. I don't mind paying for dictionaries or translators and games but COME ON!!! Cheap tricks like these take away from the phone as far as making it a fast and simple tool to do business when other phones at half the price come with these features built in. Shame on you Apple

BEYOND MY EXPECTATIONS!  
By: CopperTop 187 - Aug 16, 2009
Version: 7.4
I have used just about all of the apps avaliable for email editing/spell checking. Would have to say that this app is by far the most superior app of them all. Very user friendly and has an instructional video for those who may be worried about functionality. Does all the major functions such as spell check, reply, copy/past, and much more. If I could give it more then 5 stars I would. Thanks you to the app developers for finally listening to the people that actually use these apps. Feels good to be heard.

Does what the iPhone cannot do!!! UPDATED  
By: jessica. - Jun 23, 2009
Version: 7.4
****UPDATE****
This application is wonderful and only continues to get better. However, I am using an iPhone 3G and there seems to be a bug. No amount of restarting, restoring, or powering off and then on fixes it.
When I write a new message using ToughType I tried out the subject line for the first time. I completed my message and hit the icon that would normally send the text to an email. This did not happen. I tried a few times and then opted to remove the subject line. It suddenly worked.
I tried again where I was replying to an e-mail. I changed the subject line and again faced with the icon that should send the message to e-mail but it doesn't. No warning or error, just doesn't happen. I believe there is a bug there somewhere. A bug I can live with all the same, but a bug.
Honestly, this program rocks enough for me to actually not care about the silly subject line.
**** old review ****
Interesting that we must pay for a feature that one would think is something Apple would have just included. However, if I have to pay for it then I want functionality and TouchType is as functional as it comes. Yes, you can pay more for the three other apps that do this and get one or two other gimmicky features, but this is simple, easy to use, and easy on the OS as a whole, and just works.
I think my only request for a possible update would be to completely erase all text at once. This is a function on another landscape e-mail application and it seemed like it would be nice to have.
For those confused about the app (developer's website seems to be halfway down) this app is intended to be launched, you write the body of your e-mail in TouchType, then hit "send to mail" using the standard "forward" button in the upper right hand corner of the screen. It then launches mail where you type in your recipient’s e-mail address and the subject and hit send. It's very easy and very fast.

Does What It Says...  
By: ljneal - Jun 18, 2009
Version: 7.4
This app is cool! It does exactly what it says...you can compose and reply to emails with the landscape keyboard (which is crazy to think apple did not add this option already). Well worth $0.99!!
Did not give it 5 stars because i wnat to see what this "super secret" feature is going to be with the new update. I cant lie...I was sold just on that teaser alone. I hope the SMS option will be added very soon!!

My first app that I paid for  
By: G_Iphone - Feb 5, 2009
Version: 7.4
Hi,
I got my iPhone for Xmas and have loaded over 70 FREE apps. I figured that if I see an app where I want more functionality I'll pay for it. Hey, it's only 99+ cents and it's a one time fee.
Well, I want a spell checker for emails, landscape keyboard for emails, landscape keyboard for texting and a cut and paste function.
This apps takes care of the first two. At first I had to use to opening the app first and then sending it to email.
I'm happy with the app and don't regret spending 99 cents for it.

Works like the video says.  
By: MrPig17 - Dec 31, 2008
Version: 7.2
when replying to a message, the orignal message does not get imported into TT...so you have to remember what was said, cannot scroll through original message. not described in video...
spell checker was "one off"...typed in "suee", then spell checked, and selected "sure", and TT filled in "Suez"...one below "sure"...not sure why...probably some indexing issue.
landscape "true SMS" would be great. not the landscape SMS via EMAIL like everybody currently has.

this is incredible  
By: defactoITguy - Dec 28, 2008
Version: 7.2
I slightly envied friends who have competitor touch screen products because of the wider keyboards on those units. But this definitely solves that problem. Makes me wonder why Steve J didn't just make email available in the landscape mode??? Could this app be more streamline? I suppose it could be better integrated with the iPhone email software...this app requires some opening and closing of email and apps to get replies done and emails sent. Nevertheless, those extra keystrokes are WELL worth it for this wider keyboard. I can actually use my thumbs again, instead of my only my right index finger. Absolutely no reason to go back to Blackberry now!

Retired  
By: gdadstub - Nov 17, 2008
Version: 4
I bought Touch Type because I am a poor speller or at least my english major wife says I am. This app gave me the extra benefit of having the landscape keyboard. However, I am most pleased with the response I received by Michael Schneider, the developer. I purchased a new Iphone and first synced it with Itunes. After downloading Touch Type I attempted to send out some messages and they got hung up in the e-mail outbox and would not go out. I sent a message to Michael and received an immediate response. It seems that I had four e-mail accounts on my computer and they all synced with the Iphone. For some reason, one of the out of state accounts became the default e-mail account and the messages would not go out from my current location. Michael immediately identified the problem and had me on my way.

New features need to come after basics  
By: NinexPoundHammer - Nov 7, 2008
Version: 3
I'd been happy with thos app since day one, but recently switched to EasyWriter for the simplicity of it. Frankly, I could live without spell check or the ability to update a Twitter account. It really shouldn't have taken so long to fix the obscured suggested word problem, and, in this update, if we couldn't adjust font sizes, you shouldn't have told is we could (Has anybody figured how to do it, or is the capability simply not there?). For such a program to work, we really need such basics first. One example: The pleasure of a landscape keyboard is that it, indeed, allows for real E-mails, in which we write longer, and writing longer means we get to think in entire paragraphs. To actually see a paragraph, you'd think, would be a no-brainer, a simple shrink-zoom gesture would fix that. All the great-and-fancy features in my new Volvo are delightful, but they wouldn't mean anything at all if Volvo made a windshield you had to strain to see through. I'm looking for every reason to keep this program--I sincerely don't want four or three or two E-mail programs--and I still give it four stars, on the promise of things to come. Maybe before you throw effort into a fresh icon (the previous, I thought, was classier, but such a tiny matter) or some integrated typing tutor, or even before you offer capability that would allow users to, say, use Touchtype as a viable replacement for Apple's Notepad, maybe first take a look at the simple stuff people need. Font sizes, color even, different fonts, background colors for better contrast...what have you. Gentlemen, and Ladies, there's a program out there called EasyWriter that has the basics down in the first release, and the developers are giving it away. I loaded it. It works well. And I can see all through the windshield.

spell check. yay!  
By: adinaMom - Oct 21, 2008
Version: 2
I just changed my phone service from verizon's Dare to apple's iphone, and couldn't believe the iphone didn't have landscape mode!! The Dare had it!!! I don't have large fingers, but they do shake slightly sometimes, so I make a LOT of mistakes in the tiny portrait orientation. So I've been searching for the perfect landscape app.
They all seem similar in their basic functions, and all have a backwards way of being able to reply to email...but some had a stand out feature or two.
I checked out "Wide Email", and it's stand out features were that the orientation rotates (so you can even turn it upside down), and it saves drafts (this is HUGE to me, with a new baby I only have moments here and there to write things down.)
"Sideways" has more vertical space on the viewing screen..but a reviewer complained that there was a transfer limit of 100 words. (This is a deal breaker for me...I'm a bit wordy...if you can't tell. lol)
"Compose" says their next upgrade will have the ability to post to different accounts (twitter, facebook, etc). yay!
"Big Keyboard Email" is able to change font sizes, and supports keyboard characters in different languages.
I even looked into note taking apps that have email function like "iNote" (ability to catagorize), "WriteRoom"
and "iSheet" (create tables). "Spreadsheet" and "TextGuru" (text editor) looked good to.
After all my searching, I realized the most important feature to me was spell check. I can't spell worth a darn! The only app I found with spell check was "Touchtype".
If I could just find a landscape app that could also send attachments...
Now I just need to get faster at typing...maybe I'll buy "typing dojo"
:)

Apple, WTF?!?!?  
By: TJ Bx. - Oct 16, 2008
Version: 1
This is a great app only u can't text with it! My friend has the dare phone and it came standerd! All I've got2 say is, apple, WTF? This should have been a standerd feature, I mean after paying $400 for an iPhone. Also should be useable with AIM. And come on, who emails with their phone anyway? Maybe a handful of people, the most people use a keyboard is for SMS and AIM, come on is it really that hard 2 notice?

Great app  
By: strange invader - 08-Oct-2008
Version: 1
Within limitations of the developer platform, it does what it says on the tin, nicely, and what a change it makes to be able to type emails in landscape. Really speeds things up - a great useability enhancement.
One small gripe - when I have written a new email in landscape in the TouchType app, and then send it via Mail, my default signature seems to get doubled up. Not sure why this is happening, but the sig is only there once when you leave the Mail app to open TouchType, but shows up twice when you flick back to the message in Mail. Odd.

Easy to use but...  
By: Jazz at home - Oct 10, 2008
Version: 1
This app does exactly what it claims: allows you to access a landscape QWERTY keyboard for doing emails. The only thing I don't like is having to open the email, then open TT. Due to Apple's restriction on not allowing apps to run in the background TT is limited by Apple, not by itself. Perhaps in future versions of the OS they can give the user a choice of keyboards to use as a default keyboard.

Does as advertised but not too streamlined due to lack of full integration with MobileMail  
By: jfmsam - Oct 8, 2008
Version: 1
Works for sending or replying but don't expect for it to be totally streamlined b/c it is not fully integrated with MobileMail.

In other words, to compose you need to exit Mail, compose and return to Mail, and choose your account if you use multiple accounts. To reply it is the same; you hit reply on your MobileMail, exit and enter TouchType, type your reply, then send through TT by exiting back to MobileMail to ultimately send your message.
It does not work for SMS,
APPLE Needs too urgently add this feature direcctly to their native Apps....

Finally!  
By: howiedi2 - Oct 8, 2008
Version: 1
Finally, I can type emails in landscape mode. I have been complaining to Apple about this since the first day I owned an iPhone (over a year!). My only issue with this app is that it there doesn't seem to be a way to reply to an email using TouchType. I can live with that since the app only costs 99 cents. When I clicked the link on the app store for support for TouchType, it took me to a 'page not found' error.