this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2023
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I've been using SwiftKey for over a decade now, and I didn't really realize how potentially horrible it is for privacy. What are some good alternatives you guys can suggest, ideally open source?

My ideal keyboard includes swipe to type and a notepad (to paste certain emoticons like shrug emoji and such).

Thank you!

Edit, for any future lemmings/internet people who want the definitive answer (so far, as of October '23), OpenBoard works great.

Download the latest release apk from here

And if you want swipe typing as well,

Download the "libjni_latinimegoogle.so" file onto your phone from here

Then when you open OpenBoard, go to Advanced and select "Load gesture typing library". When it asks you to select a file, select the "libjni" file and swiping should work just fine.

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[โ€“] M_Djallo@feddit.it 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Different apporach: use the keyboard you like and block its internet access using invizible pro/netguard/afwall.

I had the same problem, after using openboard for a long time, and now I'm doing this, using gboard and blocking it with invizible pro.

[โ€“] Ashen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I'll look into this, thanks for the suggestion!