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It is so disappointing how terrible all the keyboards are theses days. I moved to Gboard because Swiftkey's predictions just kept getting worse and worse (and wouldn't fix by resetting the learning), but GBoard refuses to capitalize "I" for me, and its predictions are only marginally better than Swiftkey's. Other keyboards are missing required features such as swipe typing.

What happened to the early days of Swiftkey and Swype where you could be wildly off and it would still guess your word correctly almost every time?

https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard

FOSS replacement for GBoard, with multilanguage typing. Swype can be achieved by sideloading a lib directly from the app itself (read app description).

I didn't find it significantly worse than GBoard.

Former swype user here as well. I need it back. I use Gboard for swyping now but it's not same and def keeping my info

I use Thumb Key. https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key

It's a privacy-conscious keyboard for your thumbs written by one of the creators of lemmy. It uses a 3x3 grid similar to the old t9. The idea is that you can touch-type much easier with only 9 buttons so you don't need to autocorrect.

I use Gboard with the one handed option always enabled, so I can keep my keyboard exactly where I want it on the screen.

Some health issues make excessive keystrokes painful, and my phone is big enough already. I have it adjusted to about the keyboard size of a Galaxy S2 on screen keyboard, and to the right.

I keep Hacker's Keyboard if I ever wind up playing something old school, though I usually wind up playing Pathos if I get an itch for NetHack on the go.

If anyone has a good option for keyboards you can force to keep on top for Accessability/gaming purposes, though, let me know.

AnySoftKeyboard, of course

i write in 3 languages. Keyboard should be flexible, customizable (i prefer QWERTY for French, for example) and it shouldn't have any trackers.

I use OpenBoard. It's great!

I started using Thumb-Key after MessagEase began charging a subscription. It had an "english symbols messageease" layout that was basically the same one I'd used for years.

Florisboard

Open source, no autocorrect, yet - but they're working on it.

I'm not using it as a daily driver yet because of the autocorrect. But I like the accuracy - for some reason I mis-type less with it than Swiftkey or Heliboard.

Smartkeyboard was my go-to for years (still have it), but it was abandoned.

Also Heliboard, as mentioned by others. Damn good, though I mistype on it more for some reason

BlackBerry Keyboard.

I've used it since 2014 on BlackBerry and 2016 on android.

My daily driver is a zFold 4. The device itself has as much to do with a keyboard being useful as anything else. I put up with Swype not handling a foldable well because of it's other features. I can say that Samsung's native keyboard (obviously) handles being used between two different screens well, but if Swype began magically working again, i'd drop the native keyboard immediately.

• Phone - Samsung zFold 4
• Primary-use Keyboard - Samsung Keyboard
• Preferred Input Style - Swipe, Gesture
• Preferred number of hands involved in typing - One (mostly have to use two with Samsung keyboard)

I've been through quite a few keyboards both open source and closed and they pretty much all suck. In the end I found Gboard to be the only viable option.

I did go into settings and disable all the data sharing, uploading/downloading options so in theory it should send nothing to the cloud.

It's swipe typing is also best of the rest at the moment. I swipe type 99% of the time

Gboard in general. Tasker switches to unexpected for me when using juice ssh.

There was this keyboard called Mon Key or KeyMon and it was a dual swype keyboard so one could use swipe gestures with both thumbs simultaneously. I loved it but support ceased and the app died.