I use futo board. I like that it had the ability to process speech to text locally. I personally also disable the clipboard
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I only use FOSS ones. I hop between florisboard and unexpected keyboard, and I gave heliboard a shot again recently because it has the swipe/glide typing but I couldn't stick with it because I was missing other features, so I'm back on floris.
Since I only use open source keyboards, I'm not really concerned about privacy...so no blocking of internet access.
I also thought about trying out the clipboard history, and also am wondering if it's safe...
If you want to try FOSS keyboard again, HeliBoard is your best bet.
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I use HeliBoard because I have to switch between 5 languages (German, Polish, English, Swedish and Korean) constantly and it does it for the most part (other than the korean) automatically for me.
I didn't think of clipboard history yet, but I know that Keepass2Android deletes the copied passwords after a while, that's kind of good enough for me.
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Heliboard. It don't have trackers.
Tried them all. Floris, Heli, Futo, Heli wins.
FUTO keyboard. It has the best swipe-typing and voice to text out of all source-viewable ones. (Not fully open source due to the license)
For reference, here is the license. I'm curious which part makes it "not fully open source".
First realize what is being talked about is the generally agreed upon open source definition https://opensource.org/osd
While it seems they have simplified the license removing some reasons it's not to be considered open source, it's still restricting commercial uses in the following two restrictions:
"You may distribute the software or provide it to others only if you do so free of charge for non-commercial purposes.
Notwithstanding the above, you may not remove or obscure any functionality in the software related to payment to the Licensor in any copy you distribute to others."
In short open source would only require the software be distributed with source under the same licensed as recieved, thus can't restrict it to non-commercial, nor prevent the changing of payment details.
Obviously it's a reasonably permissive license, and possibly won't impact you from using it as an end user. It's just has some restrictions for the creators to request payment, and to prevent third parties profiting off the product. Think Creative Commons, share alike, non-commercial for software. (While most will consider this fair its not quite fully open)
One reason they went this route was to prevent third parties form distributing their software with ads and using it in systems they are actively attempting to provide alternatives for (ie software that may spy on your system useage/and call home) the non-commercial clause has more teeth than say MIT where it would be relicensed, or GPL that while the software source would need to be provided might still be embedded in a ecosystem.
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You have to be able to redistribute commercially, but the FUTO license only allows non-commercially.
This has no effect on us users so it is essentially just as good as open source, but technically it is not open source.
So the open source community has a very clearly defined definition of "open" - open does not mean that you can just read the source code. Just reading helps with some trustworthiness, but in order to be afforded all of the protections and benefits of the word "open", they require some form of ability to fork the code, and to be able to do useful things with that fork. No fork = not open. There are a ton of good reasons for this that I won't dig into here but you can certainly find by looking up the free software foundation or the open source initiative.
Futo is considered "source available"
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I use FlorisBoard for pure functionality.
- I've been working with an odd app where you type at length but the message gets eaten sometimes. So I follow up everything with instant hits of the select-all + copy buttons
- I find the < and > arrows to navigate text much more ergonomic than holding on space to edge around, especially for long strings (webpage forms lol)
- Private clipboard is a measurable peace of mind. Had a heart attack when a private SSH key got autosuggested on the stock keyboard. Not sure if it ever gets TLS transferred anywhere though, e.g. for autocorrect training.
I do switch back to the stock keyboard for emoji search though.
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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.
I bought it before it was Microsoft, great kb.
Same. It overly corrects sometimes and can be a bit laggy, but in mixed language sentences it's unmatched by a wide margin IMO.
I am currently using FUTO keyboard.
Heliboard,, sourced from F Droid with the clipboard enabled.
I used to use Openbaord fom F Droid
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3 that I use for different purposes. Gboard is my default.
Then I have Keepass2android for when dealing with passwords.
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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.
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
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.
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Florisboard but it may or may not have your language.
I think it is configured so that you can add languages tho
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 use swiftkey. I type in 3 different languages daily (even in individual conversations) . Swiftkey does this very simply and automatically. Almost no fucking around with changing languages. It just does it by itself.
Would love to use other keyboards, but none of them comes even close if you need multiple languages all the time.
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Fossify Keyboard
Enough for my needs. No autocorrect function, which helps me practice my written English. The clipboard function is interesting, as it allows for instant copied text or fixed text, but I seldom use it.
Inkwell , it's a florisboard fork , gonna install Heliboard instead... yes I enable clipboard history and even pin items
Heliboard has a clipboard and a lot of other useful stuff.
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
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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.
I simply use the default iOS keyboard.
Apple keyboard and I hate it. Gboard for Apple is lame, and most of the others available are paid but I also suspect could be lame, so I don’t want to take the risk.
I use Gboard because of it's customizability. I like adding words to the dictionary to make it easier to type usernames. Gboard lets you pin things so you can save for more than one hour. Never copy OTPs, always type them manually.
I use SwiftKey and switch off the app access to the Internet.
Also trying out FUTO keyboard. Seems pretty good.
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