I use cleverkeys keyboard and futo voice for superior typing experience. The suggestions are simply unbeatable by anyone.
this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2026
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I found cleverkeys to be terrible at swipe/gesture typing. It would fail at even simple, common, seemingly unambiguous words. Heliboard + gboard swipe lib was orders of magnitude better.
I still use cleverkeys for termux though as the key gestures are brilliant.
If I'm reading this correctly, it sounds like you get gboard's swiping without Google's spying. This could be exactly what I'm looking for. I've tried foss keyboards but none of them swipe worth a damn yet.
Will have to give this a shot. It's been one of the things keeping me from jumping to Graphene or something.
That's been exactly my setup for a while. Tried with all the others (Futo Keyboard / Whisper+ etc etc) and THIS setup you listed is the most versatile, reliable, multi-lingual setup I've managed to run on AOSP. Thanks for mentioning it!
You can also use Whisper+ from F-Droid in place of Futo
FUTO has ties toΒ Curtis YarvinΒ just so y'all are aware.
I dig Transcribro from the Accrescent app storestore, personally.
Whisper seems just a tiny bit better except I don't like having to hold the button down.
My big gripe with heliboard is that I can't change key size. (Unless you can and I missed it please tell me) Going from Gboard to heliboard I struggle to get the right words with swipe due to the size difference and it's frustrating.
I have to use gboard on my work phone so there's no just getting used to it unfortunately.
Edit to add changing keyboard height has helped quite a bit. I'm still a little off but this is much more usable.
Same here
I actually was able to get it pretty freaking close after posting this by changing the scale to 109% and bottom padding to 174%
Go to Settings > Appearance > Keyboard Height Scale. Is this what you're looking for?
I needed bottom padding a smidge too
I had the same issue, I set it to 110% on my phone. It would be cool if someone put together a guide on common configurations to help it match other apps.
Keyboard height 109% and bottom padding at 174% is what I set it to after posting this and it lines up within a pixel or two or gboard. IDK how that scales across different phones but this is a pixel 8.
U can totally customise it but I need to go in deep and mess with the layout json. I did it so I have a tab key on my main keyboard mainly for quick auto complete in terminals.
Able to share/point me in the right direction?Β
Question to those that use it: Does heliboard have a floating mode like GBoard/SwiftKey/FUTO have? I have a tablet and a full-screen keyboard just feels very weird once I got used to floating.