Grammarly bc it makes really good suggestions bc i word oorly.
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Used Swype until cancelled. Tried many gesture keyboards and Gboard is best now.
Simple Keyboard app from F-Droid (Minimal App)
I'm similarly picky and have been unable to leave SwiftKey.
But good news, the beta version recently added image support to the clipboard.
SwiftKey... Been using it for years now.
Any FOSS keyboard recommendations that support simplified Chinese?
I've liked SwiftKey a lot more since they added the bing/ai/chatgpt button. Although I'd say about 25 percent of the time it refused to answer my question claiming I was being argumentative or the answer would be unfair.
Still there's tons of themes and the suggestions while not brilliant I'm sure do speed up my typing a lot.
I use Openboard. I migrated from iOS and found Openboard to be the most familiar, with key borders turned on in settings.
I love the features and customisability of samsung keyboard.
Google keyboard by a mile but before that Samsung keyboard which I still love, anyway I have zero interest in trying other keyboards
Minuum Keyboard master race!
I remember using and loving minuum when it came out especially because I had a smaller phone at the time. But it hasn't updated in quite a while.
Are there any other keyboard apps out there that have the same layout options?
Sadly no other keyboard with the same layout yet. I'm still hoping for a patched version, maybe Revanced or for someone just to recreate it as an open source release.
I don't really have a favourite. I use OpenBoard but it has it's issues. Hopefully Floris will improve enough to become my default.
I still use Gboard the most. My wife uses Samsung keyboard and prefers it over Gboard.
I don't have s Samsung phone so I can't test that.
For customizability, I currently use AnySoftKeyboard, and also like Florisboard (although waiting on next word suggestion).
I tried SwiftKey for about a week or so a month ago but I'm too used to GBoard to make the switch.
What I like about GB that SK doesn't have or is too different:
- speech to text integrated into the keyboard. The Bing app is probably the best at this, especially for my non-native English accent, too bad SK doesn't have its own implementation
- I can set up the keys to show their long press symbols
- the colon character is at an awkward place for my finger to reach
- GB's swipe function can figure out much more easily what language I wanted to type in
- SK shows every possible accented version of the character that I long pressed on, and the one that I wanted was usually at an awkward place to reach. GB on the other hand sorts those of my native language right next to the original character, and only offers a few that I never use.
I like Gboard, Swiftkey was my favorite for a long time before Gboard seemed to outpace it. Clipboard functionally, both history and images, swipe to delete, text input, it's just a tight experience most of the time.