I use Gboard, as I’m on Android.
Do you use Gboard or the clipboard feature? Or use a similar feature of an other keyboard app?
Do you use apps like NetGuard or TrackerControl to restrict net access to the keyboard apps?
Have tried some FOSS apps some years ago, but didn’t stay on them because, Malayalam(my mother tongue) and the handwriting mode(which is quite good), is not available in most other apps.
I had thought about turning on the clipboard history option and am thinking about the privacy/security aspect behind it. As per Gboard, it remembers history for 1 hour and there seems to be no sync option. So it seems sort-of safe. Thinking about such things since I do copy-paste OTP’s.
Heliboard has a clipboard and a lot of other useful stuff.
since I do copy OTP’s
OTPs*
Yep. Will edit that
I use swiftkey. I type in 3 different languages daily (even in individual conversations) . Swiftkey does this very simply and automatically. Almost no fucking around with changing languages. It just does it by itself.
Would love to use other keyboards, but none of them comes even close if you need multiple languages all the time.
SwiftKey on Android I’m guessing? iOS version only allows two concurrent languages sadly.
Heliboard I believe, installed the google swiping .so, I believe you can set it to ignore saving inputs or forget them after a time. I like the customization options, I can have solarized dark everywhere including my phone.
Apple keyboard and I hate it. Gboard for Apple is lame, and most of the others available are paid but I also suspect could be lame, so I don’t want to take the risk.
I am currently using FUTO keyboard.
OpenBoard. FOSS. No predictions or swiping though.
IIRC Openboard is not maintained, move to heliboard.
Oh. Thank you for the information and recommendation. Will have to update.
for quite some time I am using Florisboard, a FOSS and privacy-respecting keyboard that has a ton of features. clipboard, undo/redo and copy/paste buttons etc. very useful when writing longer texts.
I use Gboard and I absolutely loathe it. It constantly suggests words that are not words, and if I remove them, they don’t actually get removed. I’m constantly minimizing the keyboard or recording audio and I have no clue how. I have yet to find anything better
What else have you tried?
Ms swift key and some others. After half a dozen I just kind of gave up. After going through this thread I am now trying out heliboard. But it also suggests gibberish.
I use Gboard because of it’s customizability. I like adding words to the dictionary to make it easier to type usernames. Gboard lets you pin things so you can save for more than one hour. Never copy OTPs, always type them manually.
I use futo board. I like that it had the ability to process speech to text locally. I personally also disable the clipboard
At the moment I don’t use any keyboard app. I haven’t found any that I really like. I used to use gboard which was nice before I became privacy concious and realised gboard could be tracking every key press I make.
If I am going to use a keyboard app I wouldn’t use anything unless it is FOSS software.
Try heliboard. It’s FOSS, and it’s based off the keyboard in AOSP, which should basically be gboard.
So how do you use your phone? Every time you type something you use a keyboard app. It might just be the one that was shipped with android (Samsung keyboard, gboard, etc)
Fair point didn’t think of that. I do use the default keyboard app I guess. Is it possible samsung records keyboard information keystrokes etc?
I use SwiftKey and switch off the app access to the Internet.
Also trying out FUTO keyboard. Seems pretty good.
What do you use to switch off the internet access for it?
Certain Android versions… when you go into any app settings you can disable mobile data or WiFi if you don’t want the app to access.
Tap and hold on the app -> app info -> network access -> block whatever you want.
Thanks, it doesn’t look like the stock pixel supports it.
