I use anysoft keyboard cause I thought that it was the only foss option at the time and got used to it.
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Heliboard, very customisable and doesn't send all my typing to a MAGMA company's servers.
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I use FlorisBoard Beta with the Material You theme. It looks amazing.
FUTO Keyboard also looks very pretty, but it's a bit bloated.
I use Gboard because I can't find another keyboard with good japanese 9 key flick typing.
Mostly Thumb Key, but I'm trying out Heliboard right now thanks to the recommendations here and it's pretty nice. I haven't used a good swiping keyboard for a while.
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OpenBoard. 100% foss. You can find it in F-Droid
I will hypocritically say that I use Gboard. I love Emoji Kitchen.
The day it comes to FUTO keyboard I'm outta this spyware.
The amount of people on here that are okay with a corporation phoning home everything you type is a bit scary. Googles Gboard and Microsoft’s SwiftKey are a privacy nightmare. Check out FUTO: https://keyboard.futo.org/
- always offline
- voice input
- swipe typing
- predictive text
- auto correct
- personalization
Thank you!
I dropped gboard for privacy, switched to an open source option but struggled to get on with it .
Now typing on Futo and immediately loving it. Much appreciated.
If this is as good as it seems at first glance I'll definitely be paying for this.
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Swift key with auto correct cranked to 11. Haven't found any other keyboard yet that lets me smash any nearby keys and have it fix it just fine.
It took a few weeks to get used to it and a few more to get comfortable, but now I don't think I can go back. Before when I messed up, I would keep repeating the mistake until I was forced to slow down. Now I can get 40-50 WPM when I try.
I do miss some things but they really aren't deal breakers:
- Clipboard History
- Emoji Search
- Autofill Integration
Just installed it and am finding it very slow going so far. Why are all the letters randomly placed?
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SwiftKey. Yes, I hate it being from Microsoft. But has most of the pros already mentioned in this thread and a some important features (for me) that I haven't found with other keyboard:
I text a lot in Spanish, Portuguese and English; sometimes in French. I can use any of those languages with any preferred layout (qwerty, azerty) or as I do, Spanish layout as a base but from there, I get all characters needed to write properly such as ñ, ç, æ, ê.
Prediction is outstanding, I can start a phrase in one language and continue with other and still get very accurate suggestions. It has been my default keyboard long before Microsoft acquired the company and, for now, big corporate enshittification has been slow. En conclusión y para sumarizar: j'aime bien le SwiftKey clavier, ele tem funções que nenhum outro tem.
Samsung default one seems to get the job done just fine
Gboard but with network permissions turned off. Works great. Haven't had any issues with an autosuggest and swiping. I don't use autocorrect.
I'm surprised to hear that it doesn't get angry at you!
Probably ignores the setting
It's not a setting, it's a permission. Android will just not allow an app to connect to the internet if it doesn't have that permission.
On regular Android you can't disable this one though, but on GrapheneOS for example you can.
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i used to use touchpal, because I liked that I could swipe up on a key to get the upper case version of the letter, or swipe in other directions to get other variants.
They enshittifies the product a few years back by inserting ads into every app i was using.
These days i just use the android default, but I miss the functionality touchpal had.
Software is in such a sad place these days. Everything is in a constant state of decay it feels like.