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.
Thumbkey.
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 futo board. I like that it had the ability to process speech to text locally. I personally also disable the clipboard
Inkwell , it’s a florisboard fork , gonna install Heliboard instead… yes I enable clipboard history and even pin items
At the moment I don’t use any keyboard app. I haven’t found any that I really like. I used to use gboard which was nice before I became privacy concious and realised gboard could be tracking every key press I make.
If I am going to use a keyboard app I wouldn’t use anything unless it is FOSS software.
Try heliboard. It’s FOSS, and it’s based off the keyboard in AOSP, which should basically be gboard.
So how do you use your phone? Every time you type something you use a keyboard app. It might just be the one that was shipped with android (Samsung keyboard, gboard, etc)
Fair point didn’t think of that. I do use the default keyboard app I guess. Is it possible samsung records keyboard information keystrokes etc?
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.
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.
Heliboard, sourced from F Droid with the clipboard enabled.
I used to use Openbaord fom F Droid
Heliboard was the closest to Gboard imo. It would be better though if it supports Japanese input.
Same here. I use Heliboard.
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.
Florisboard looks nice - I’m using Unexpected myself due to customizability but Floris seems plenty customizable while being a little nicer and simpler. Will have to test it a bit
Thank you.
Will look into Heliboard. Does it have a Handwriting mode?I have Heliboard and it works great.
Not sure if it’s different but I use swipe on it and I love it.
Unfortunately no.
I don’t think there is a FOSS one that supports it.
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 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 am currently using FUTO keyboard.
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
