Finally dumped SwiftKey after being served with an ad for OneDrive inside the fucking keyboard itself. I’m still pissed they sold-out to Microsoft. (Been using it since long before that acquisition)

Now I need something to replace it, but I’ve not explored other options much.

  • mortalic@lemmy.world
    10·
    5 hours ago

    FUTO Keyboard is what I’ve been using for a while. It’s no where near as good as Gboard, but it also isn’t stealing literally everything I type.

  • BloodMuffin@lemmy.caEnglish
    281·
    8 hours ago

    well, GBoard is definitely the best,

    but I use heliboard because it’s open source.

      • overcast@lemmy.zip
        9·
        8 hours ago

        this. HeliBoard is quite good, it even has theming options to make it cute if you want to

        • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caOPEnglish
          1·
          4 hours ago

          This seems to be kind of the consensus. I’m not interested in moving from one theiving shitstain of a company to another. So gboard is a no-go.

          I can’t get voice input to work on Heliboard though. The option is there in toolbar settings, but the button doesn’t show up on the toolbar and there’s no microphone permissions…

            • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caOPEnglish
              2·
              3 hours ago

              Thanks! That seems to integrate into Heliboard nicely, activating with the voice button that’s now on the toolbar where I expected it.

              I wasn’t expecting this to be two separate components/apps, but I guess that makes sense.

  • Pixel_Jock_17@piefed.caEnglish
    5·
    6 hours ago

    This is really trippy, just today I also got pissed at Swiftkey for the onedrive bs. I’ve just installed HeliBoard after many recommendations I on other threads.

    So far it works really well but took me some time to set up how I like it. I’m getting used to having 0 typing data though and it not autocorrecting my awful typing so I have to type out slower and more back tracking to fix my fat thumbs pressing the wrong letters.

    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      Do you have to do something to make voice input exist?

      It’s listed as an option in the toolbar settings but the button doesn’t appear on the toolbar. Even with everything else disabled and just the voice input button enabled: the toolbar is totally empty…

      There’s also no microphone permissions…

    • SatyrSack@quokk.auEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      This is a great secondary keyboard to keep installed so I can quickly swap to it when I am doing something where I need a lot of special characters or complicated cursor placement or something. For general use, I tend to prefer Heliboard, but there are a few things that Unexpected Keyboard is just much better at.

  • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    8 hours ago

    used to use anysoft keyboard, but development seems to have died a while ago. so I got on the heliboard train like many others. preferred anysoft because of flexibility, but heliboard is open and works well enough.