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.
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.
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.
any app is prob fine as long as you turn its internet access off. they literally have access to everything you type.
Heliboard. It don’t have trackers.
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.
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)
Try heliboard. It’s FOSS, and it’s based off the keyboard in AOSP, which should basically be gboard.
I am currently using FUTO keyboard.
3 that I use for different purposes. Gboard is my default.
Then I have Keepass2android for when dealing with passwords.
Finally I have Irregular Expressions for DoInG👏🅂🅃🅄🄿🄸🄳 ̶k̶̶e̶̶y̶̶b̶̶o̶̶a̶̶r̶̶d̶̶ 𝖘𝖙𝖚𝖋𝖋
.ɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ uᴉ ʞɔɐq ʎlᴉɯɐɟ ʎɯ oʇ ƃuᴉʞlɐʇ uǝɥʍ ɹoOpenBoard. FOSS. No predictions or swiping though.
IIRC Openboard is not maintained, move to heliboard.
Thumbkey.
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?Unfortunately no.
I don’t think there is a FOSS one that supports it.
Florisboard but it may or may not have your language.
I think it is configured so that you can add languages tho
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.
It seems with Heliboard you have to switch between languages rather than having it detected automatically. It also doesn’t support swiping so not really a replacement for Swiftkey yet, for me at least.
You set up which languages you want to have there and then it switches between them when you just start writing automatically.
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.
I bought it before it was Microsoft, great kb.
I’m going to check it out
Thank you.
Will check it out. Does it have handwriting support?
