Hey guys, im just got rid of gboard and im already missing the autocorrect and swipe to type features. I know there has to be a privacy friendly option out there. Thank you for your help; im fat fingering every other key, pls save me
Heliboard would be my recommendation. Been using it for more than a year now. Started using it when OpenBoard was basically dead in the water and it was merely a fork rather than its own thing and I can safely say it’s the best privacy friendly keyboard I’ve used. Tried so many, FUTO, FlorisBoard but I found Heliboard to be the best. If you want Swipe-to-type features then you can download a proprietary library from the github of Heliboard iirc and load it in the settings of Heliboard.
Oh and did I mention it’s very customizable? Oh yeah. I think you’ll love it, give it a try :D
Florisboard is also amazing. One of a very few that dont actually track what you type. The other one i know of with no tracking is anysoftkeyboard.
I’ve used both and liked them a lot. Florisboard is what I’m using right now. I like how it can use it’s own clipboard that’s separate from the system clipboard other apps can access.
If you are exploring, I’d suggest giving Unexpected Keyboard a try. You might like it even though there is no autocorrect.
Heliboard is decent
If you want to try something totally different, I can recommend Thumb-key. There’s a bit of a learning curve, but once you get used to it, it can be quite fast to type with.
I use helioboard and floris board for other languages. Been liking it, very customizable. I changed the spacing on the keyboard to fit my fingers, so i make less mistakes.
I miss inserting gifs from gboard. Does anyone have a solution to that?
FUTO Keyboard is hands down the best option.
If you have philosophical objections to the FUTO license, then your options are Heliboard and Florisboard. Heliboard is currently better, but Florisboard has promise.
FUTO: the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog
… I was planning on testing them all here but that’s so good I’ll think I’ll stop there! I see from recent reviews they are working on improving swipe even more :D thank you so much!
Giving this a try myself. Interesting that it’s in the Play Store but not F-Droid.
AFAICT their license does not fulfill the OSI definition and is therefore ineligible for inclusion in the main F-Droid repo.
They have their own F-Droid repo:
https://app.futo.org/fdroid/repo/
The repo is also pre-included in clients such as Droid-ify, which I use anyway because I like it better than the official client.
Doesn’t even detect I am glide typing about half the time. Unusable on my Google Pixel 4a.
I’ve been trying it but the swipe to text is absolutely atrocious I spend 90% of my time going back and correcting.
I like the FUTO keyboard, but it’s just so annoying that it doesn’t support multi-lingual typing and the swipe just isn’t as good as Gboard.
It does support multilingual typing. Rather recent addition.
Why did I not know this, I’ve been suffering for so long. Makes it 50 times better. If only the swipe worked better now.
I just use Gboard and block network
Another user said they used GrapheneOS to block network, what’s your method?
Same here. But I believe it is possible with netguard as well, maybe other apps as well
Netguard’s fork, Tracker Control is another option.
I really like heliboard. It works without network permissions, has autocorrect, and can do emojis
I cannot see it in the Play Store.
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