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Recommended keyboard for Android (lemm.ee)
submitted 7 months ago by tombruzzo@lemm.ee to c/android@lemmy.world
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I've been using SwiftKey since before the Microsoft acquisition, but now I want to move on because it's pushing copilot.

What do you recommend? I'm fine with the play store or F-droid, and I'll pay for a good one if necessary

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[-] tinsuke@lemmy.world 42 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

HeliBoard has been my chosen SwiftKey replacement: https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard

Features I value:

  • Multilingual typing (as someone who writes EN, PT and dabbles on DE and NL daily, having to check which language I'm on and switch keyboards/layouts every time sucks)
  • Glide typing (with optional closed source library)
  • Clipboard history
  • Comprehensive layout customization
  • Autocorrect (with customizable level of confidence)
  • Emoji selection and history

It does suck to see an app that I loved and paid for (yes, I used it for THAT long) get enshittified and try push AI* down my throat.

Not to mention M$ owning my typing history (which I kinda could live with).

RIP SwiftKey.

[-] takeheart@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Just tried this one and it seems decent. most of all I'm noticing that it's way quicker to load than SwiftKey which has become soooo bloated.

[-] dhhyfddehhfyy4673@fedia.io 5 points 7 months ago

Happen to know if it's going to be on f-droid at some point?

[-] pacmondo@sh.itjust.works 14 points 7 months ago

It's not in the default F-droid repo, but you can get it on fdroid in the izzyondroid repo

[-] tinsuke@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

The latest release hints towards F-Droid availability: https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard/releases/tag/v1.2

Just updating 1.1 APKs would have created issues with incoming F-Droid build.

[-] takeheart@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

If you add Izzy-on-Droid as a source to f droid you can install it from there.

[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I downloaded it using Droid-ify. It's like F-droid without the F-droid drama, which i forgot the details of. Someone convinced me to switch and it was painless.

[-] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

It's on froid

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