Good time for FOSS keyboard apps to get some more love
Heliboard and Futo were the recommendations from what I remember?
this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2025
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Futo has been my favorite so far compared to other keyboards. I haven't used Heliboard yet, but it also looks like a good option.
Futo works really nice! Glide is pretty decent, though not as good as gboard's. Wish it had custom background images though...
I use the futo keyboard as well, but autocorrect and swiping is not good at all. correctly spelt words constantly gets changed for me, clipboard doesn't see what I copy too many times and swiping inaccuracy is too frequent.
only reason I put up with it is for the futo microphone. mic app is in a league of it's own
I had the same problem, but I found that turning up the advanced Parameter Values in the Text Prediction settings helps to keep everything spelled correctly. I'm currently at 10.4 for the transformer strength and 8.3 for the autocorrect threshold and I'm noticing a lot less issues.... I haven't tested out turning it up all the way yet.
I also have the Transformer fine tuning enabled.
The swipe feature definitely needs some attention.
They do have a crowdsourced way of helping to improve their swipe prediction, more info on the link here: https://swipe.futo.org/
You'll notice that even the swipe prediction for Heliboard comes from a closed source library.
Damn imma have to save this comment
I'll take a look at this tonight, thanks buddy
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Heliboard is basically the same, but has the ability to add glide. Plus suggestions/corrections are already implemented, so I prefer it over Floris (which I used for months before finding heliboard)
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Try giving us back a fucking physical keyboard. Touchscreens fucking suck.
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I wanna switch to FOSS alternatives but swiping is either funky (FUTO) or not available for now (Floris). I ended up downgrading gboard to an older version since all this emoji stuff (especially the bitmoji sticker nonsense) really grinds my gears.
Did you try Heliboard? It can be setup to swipe, though I mostly tap type. When i have used the swipe it has worked well though. I have been using it for over a year now and really like it.
Swiping seems to work fine on Heliboard (I guess because it uses the same proprietary library as gboard)
See, I guess my problem is I never liked gboard's swipe algorithms back when I used gboard. Cause man heliboard's swiping with the gboard library really pisses me off sometimes lol
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I like this. But this should be an option.
Looks awful
All I want is for gboard to stop hijacking my default keyboard. I set futo for a reason and I meant it.
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