I've been looking for a 3rd party keyboard that gives me a 4th row of numbers and for which I do NOT have to give full access to in the iPhone's settings. My primary use case is for an iPhone 13 mini in portrait orientation using the English language.

In my every day typing I found several things in Typefinity to be lacking. Typical English text makes heavy use of the question mark, apostrophe, and hyphen (which is also used for negative numbers) but none of these characters are too convenient on Typefinity. You could argue that the hyphen and question mark are available, but I found the swipe-up gesture on those keys to be quite problematic. Additionally, the number row I was strongly after had tiny buttons (both in height and width) and having to swipe up on such a small target was an additional level of pain.

I also found the low usage Settings key (with the gear icon) to be an inefficient use of precious space and I also found the < and > navigation keys to be somewhat useful, but just not worth the precious two key spaces they consume. Those two navigation functions can be redundantly achieved by long pressing the spacebar and dragging to move the cursor, or you could just touch and drag on the text you are typing. I also found that when repeatedly tapping the < or > keys my finger drifted position a little and I ended up hitting spacebar or carriage return keys etc. For just a couple left/right cursor movements you could perhaps implement a swipe left/right on the spacebar.

To solve these issues, I started tweaking the keyboard layout using screenshots and a primitive drawing package on my Mac - I'm not artist, and most of this was just selecting graphics from various screenshots and pasting them elsewhere. My understanding is that you can't tweak the area at the bottom containing the globe and microphone icons because Apple doesn't allow it.

Anyway, I have attached a screenshot of the graphics I've been working on and hope it kicks off a discussion.

Couple random points before I conclude:
- I don't see an easy way to select the emojis like on Apple's keyboard. Is there a way to get easier access to that (maybe as an option when long-pressing the option key or maybe swiping down instead of up on the option key?)
- On the original Typefinity keyboard I noticed the width of the keys on the middle "asdf..." row to be a bit wider than the others.
- Finding Typefinity in the App Store is almost impossible unless you search for the exact word "Typefinity". I stumbled across this app by accident in reading another article...

Regards,

Mick