Every year or so I try one or more privacy focused keyboards. I always end up right back on SwiftKey after a couple of weeks because most of the keyboards I try have the same problem: the predictions suck.
Ok, I get that surveillance is good for predictions. Put another way, predictions are tough without collecting everything everyone types. Is there a best-of-both-worlds keyboard out there? I’d be patient enough to give it some time to learn how I type and get better.
Closest I got was Florisboard because of the customization options
The main things I’m looking for (in order) are
- predictions
- better support for emojis and gifs
- built in translations
Google Keyboard works really nicely and it’s hard to give up on some of that
Can you link me? Searching it in the Play Store turns up some weird results.
confused mechanical keyboard noises
I like AnySoftKeyboard but it also doesn’t have great predictions. They’re very customizable though, so maybe you can get something out of it?
I assume you must’ve tried openboard. What issues did you have with it? The predictions have been more than satisfactory in my experience.
Doesn’t seem to have swipe typing, which is important for me. Otherwise it’s great.
There’s a fork that supports it, though it looks like it has become inactive, if you care about that https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard
I have OpenBoard too and the predictions suck for me. What do you do that makes it not suck for you?
I use openboard and it does exactly what I want it to do: it displays characters I can type out myself. I don’t use swipe typing, predictions or autocorrect as those never work well enough, usually exclusively giving shit suggestions or corrections. I also use three languages daily, so I’d have to constantly switch the keyboard language, if I had autocorrect/predictions/swipe turned on.
I do understand that my use case is not the norm, but I still wanted to give my two cents.
Ah, okay, yeah if you don’t use it I don’t see it acting up on you. Lol.
What do you do that requires 3 languages? I’m genuinely curious.
