I use the following keyboards:
- Florisboard (supports 한굴)
- FUTO Keyboard (supports voice input, although not very polished)
- Typewise Offline (proprietary, best keyboard layout, good dialect support)
this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2025
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After trying couple of keybords (mostly AnySoftKeyboard and TypeWise [proprietary]) I have settled on Unexpected Keyboard due to easy switch of keybords to get to japanese keyboard and tts button.
FlorisBoard
I've been using FUTO Keyboard and I'm very happy with it so far. EDIT: It's not FOSS but the source code is available and you are allowed to copy/modify it, just not to make money from it. That's good enough for me.
I love it, but it has some fairly big annoying things about it and I'm disappointed to see how little movement there is to fix them in GitHub. The dev seems very insactive.
Damn it's not FOSS? Time to jump ship
I use Fcitx5 for its Chinese language support.
I used to use Gboard for Cantonese input. I downloaded fcitx5 reading your comment and tried it for some time. There are some features noticeably missing compared to Gboard.
- top numeric row
- single-hand mode
- simplified and traditional characters selection#
# Found it. It's in the settings bar at the top of the typing area. Click it open and go deep inside it.
What Gboard and fcitx5 both don't have for Jyutping input is glide typing. I wish fcitx5 have it because it is really what could make me switch and not look back. Gboard in general has better finger tap detection/correction because duh Google had more data to train on. But I will definitely start using fcitx5 because being open source is sufficient for me to switch.
For languages that isn't supported by its plugins like Japanese, I have to keep using Gboard though.
Preference for AnySoftKeyboard.
Why is there so many censored posts about keyboard apps?
Heliboard which is an active fork of OpenBoard.
I've been using Heliboard for a while. It does most that gboard does, but the predictions aren't as good of course.
Yeah, I've been using it for about a year now. It's a little frustrating that it will learn my misspellings before it suggests a proper replacement, but otherwise I have no complaints. Direct upgrade over the stock AOSP keyboard.
ive been using heliboard for a while now. no complaints.
Florisboard beta is what I use. Extremely customisable. I think the biggest things that lacks are custom background photo and text-gliding (I ~dont use any of these though).
I made it almost identical to the gboard theme I was using previously and it's so cool.
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I like HeliBoard. It automatically switches between the languages I write in.
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I love the fulliness of unexpected keyboard
Unexpected keyboard is just the best!
I don’t know, but Thumb-Key is written to by a core Lemmy developer, dessalines.
what a fantastic way to indicate my turbo nerd status to my friends and family!
I like Fossify's, but I won't recommend it - it has no predictive text and no symbols on its main keyboard, the first which is a huge deal for almost everyone. Not sure if they're working on those or if it will never get those features, because if it had those two it would be the perfect keyboard because it's so great in every other sense.
I've actually tried everything that was recommended here, but AnySoftKeyboard still fits me the best.
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