Finally dumped SwiftKey after being served with an ad for OneDrive inside the fucking keyboard itself. I’m still pissed they sold-out to Microsoft. (Been using it since long before that acquisition)
Now I need something to replace it, but I’ve not explored other options much.
I use Heliboard.
FUTO Keyboard is what I’ve been using for a while. It’s no where near as good as Gboard, but it also isn’t stealing literally everything I type.
well, GBoard is definitely the best,
but I use heliboard because it’s open source.
+1 for heliboard.
GBoard has good recognition, but I’d rather my keyboard didn’t just siphon off whatever I type.
this. HeliBoard is quite good, it even has theming options to make it cute if you want to
This seems to be kind of the consensus. I’m not interested in moving from one theiving shitstain of a company to another. So gboard is a no-go.
I can’t get voice input to work on Heliboard though. The option is there in toolbar settings, but the button doesn’t show up on the toolbar and there’s no microphone permissions…
FUTO voice input, I use for voice. It seems to work fine so far. But that isn’t (F)OSS, just source available.
I also use heliboard, though I think the autocorrect is trash compared to gboard.
its a tradeoff I’m willing to put up with for the privacy though.
I like Unexpected from the F-Droid store but takes a little bit to get used to it.
So if you are a ride or die swipe user, the only real alternative is heliboard with the google library? I vaguely recall someone saying you could use microsoft keyboard but then use a firewall to block it from phoning home?
AnySoftKeyboard has swipe support able to be turned on, it is full FOSS.
Has 50-60 languages supported.
HeliBoard free and open source
Oh no, no swiping?
