A SwiftKey alternative for iPhone

So the order matters. Rescue the file first, choose the keyboard second, because the second decision is reversible and the first one is not.

SwiftKey on iOS has moved twice.

Microsoft pulled the iOS app from the App Store in October 2022 and put it back a few months later. Then, on 31 May 2026, standalone SwiftKey accounts were retired and the data on them deleted. Sign-in is a Microsoft account now and the backup lives in OneDrive.

Neither of those is a reason to leave on its own. Both are a reason to know where your words are kept and who can turn that off.

Your dictionary is one file.

What SwiftKey learned from you sits in the backup as vocabulary.txt, a plain list of words. That file is the part worth rescuing, and any keyboard that can read a word list can take it.

If you were on a standalone SwiftKey account and never moved it to a Microsoft account, the cloud copy went with the account in May 2026. In that case there is nothing left to open, and whatever you pick next starts from scratch.

How to get your words out.

Four steps, and the first one decides whether the rest are possible.

1. Open OneDrive and sign in with the Microsoft account SwiftKey uses.
2. Find the SwiftKey backup and take vocabulary.txt out of it.
3. In the keyboard you are moving to, look for a dictionary import that accepts a plain word list.
4. Afterwards, check that the import added to your dictionary instead of replacing it. An import you cannot undo is worse than a dictionary you have to rebuild.

Where EFKey fits.

EFKey reads that file directly: Settings, Dictionary, Import words, and pick it. The import only ever adds, so a wrong file costs you nothing and the words you already had stay put.

Two smaller things matter to people arriving from SwiftKey. Apostrophes have three settings and one of them is SwiftKey-style, so English its still becomes it's the way you are used to. And there is no account: nothing to sign into, nothing to migrate, nothing that can be retired out from under you.

For languages, EFKey corrects two at the same time inside one sentence and keeps five ready behind the 123 key.

Where it does not.

SwiftKey runs on Android and EFKey does not. If you carry both an iPhone and an Android phone, your dictionary stops being one thing, and no import fixes that.

SwiftKey has also been reading you for years, and an imported word list is not the same as that. It gives EFKey your vocabulary, not your habits. The habits take about three days. Syncing what it learns to a second iPhone or an iPad is part of Pro.

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