I use Gboard, as I’m on Android.
Do you use Gboard or the clipboard feature? Or use a similar feature of an other keyboard app?
Do you use apps like NetGuard or TrackerControl to restrict net access to the keyboard apps?
Have tried some FOSS apps some years ago, but didn’t stay on them because, Malayalam(my mother tongue) and the handwriting mode(which is quite good), is not available in most other apps.
I had thought about turning on the clipboard history option and am thinking about the privacy/security aspect behind it. As per Gboard, it remembers history for 1 hour and there seems to be no sync option. So it seems sort-of safe. Thinking about such things since I do copy-paste OTP’s.
Heliboard. It don’t have trackers.
for quite some time I am using Florisboard, a FOSS and privacy-respecting keyboard that has a ton of features. clipboard, undo/redo and copy/paste buttons etc. very useful when writing longer texts.
I just tried the FUTO keyboard and it’s almost perfect, but it doesn’t detect swipe language automatically. Still, it’s a nice option.
Also using this, but the swipe prediction is garbage sometimes.
In the sentence above, it didn’t predict 3x words, nor give me the correct one as an option, and I had to type it manually.
If I swipe really slow, it performs a little better. But who wants to do that?
Maybe in doing something wrong in the settings.
What I like about it: it isn’t google, and I can use a QWERTY layout, with number row, and the shift+number matches that of a standard keyboard. Couldn’t get that to work with other FOSS keyboards,
It gets beggar! I’ve been using it for a few months now and I’m only having to sop and root wiz a few times per sentence
Oh boy, where do I start. FOSS mostly
- 8Vim - when I’m drunk or moving a lot
- DotDash - when I wan’t to write with morse code just for fun.
- Hackers keyboard - for SSH terminal stuff
- Unexpected keyboard - for SSH terminal stuff and when I need a lot of special characters.
- Thumb-key - when I really have only one hand to write
- Traditional T9 - when I write English and want a good auto-complete.
- Kboard - for my kamoji needs and often reoccurring short messages.
Thumbkey.
Microsoft Swiftkey no matter what mobile device I’m on (iOS or android). It has a very forgiving autocorrect and great memory. It’s super crashy whenever a new iOS update comes along. But they fix it real fast.
Same. It overly corrects sometimes and can be a bit laggy, but in mixed language sentences it’s unmatched by a wide margin IMO.
Inkwell , it’s a florisboard fork , gonna install Heliboard instead… yes I enable clipboard history and even pin items
Florisboard but it may or may not have your language.
I think it is configured so that you can add languages tho
FUTO keyboard
Just installed it today. Significantly improved voice typing over Google and its processed locally on your device, not server side like everything Google.
You can upgrade your voice typing model anytime over their website.
I use Gboard and I absolutely loathe it. It constantly suggests words that are not words, and if I remove them, they don’t actually get removed. I’m constantly minimizing the keyboard or recording audio and I have no clue how. I have yet to find anything better
OpenBoard. FOSS. No predictions or swiping though.
IIRC Openboard is not maintained, move to heliboard.
Oh. Thank you for the information and recommendation. Will have to update.
3 that I use for different purposes. Gboard is my default.
Then I have Keepass2android for when dealing with passwords.
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.ɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ uᴉ ʞɔɐq ʎlᴉɯɐɟ ʎɯ oʇ ƃuᴉʞlɐʇ uǝɥʍ ɹoHeliboard has a clipboard and a lot of other useful stuff.
I simply use the default iOS keyboard.
