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Basically, what the title says. Do you use any app, that is proprietary, but either has no OSS alternatives or they're all not good enough? If there is an alternative, what keeps you from switching?

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 21 points 11 months ago (4 children)

A keyboard with swipe typing, multilingual autocorrect and speech to text support that actually works.

Other than that, my only proprietary apps are from commercial services I use and pay for (banking, Spotify, Carsharing and public transport). I'd love for them to become open source, but it's probably not ever gonna happen, cause they rely on verifying my identity.

[–] Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I've had a good experience with HeliBoard

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 4 points 11 months ago

Japanese has been an open issue for months now, so it's a nope from me.

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

X2. I don't like it, but I still use that libswype Google blob to get swipe-writing. I wish they could produce their own in the future.

[–] FuryMaker@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I went with FUTO Keyboard. It's the only keyboard that ticks all my boxes to replace GBoard so far.

I wish the swiping predictions were a bit better though.

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Does the futo keyboard allow you to paste content yet?

I briefly used it but found the lack of content pasting too much of a hindrabce.

[–] FuryMaker@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Has options for pasting, and even a clipboard history feature? Although have not enabled that or tested it.

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

By pasting content, I meant pasting images. I've just checked it and it doesn't do it yet. I often will take a screenshot but only copy the image because saving it pointless.

[–] jsnfwlr@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried openboard? Admittedly it doesn't the text to soeech

[–] superkret@feddit.org 3 points 11 months ago

yes, tried it.

[–] Kasupke@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

HeliBoard in combination with FUTO Voice Input is recommended. Unfortunately, the word prediction isn't too good.

[–] chebra@mstdn.io 1 points 11 months ago

@Kasupke are we recommending proprietary software here in the open-source lemmy community?