(cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19917523)
Basically, what the title says. Do you use any app, that is proprietary, but either has no OSS alternatives or they’re all not good enough? If there is an alternative, what keeps you from switching?
SwiftKey Keyboard. There are OS keyboards and even swipe predictive text keyboards but I wish there was one that had the skinability and functionality that learned from my typing without monitoring my clipboard and reporting it to Microsoft. Yet every other keyboard I have tried has left me disappointed.
I just want a foss keyboard with gif support.
FUTO keyboard is about as close as it gets so far. Anysoft has swipe too IIRC. And finally Floris beta has it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.futo.inputmethod.latin.playstore
Link for the lazy
I want something that runs a small local LLM for text prediction, but there’s no proprietary alternative for that either.
Take a look at FUTO: https://keyboard.futo.org/
This. Loved it but stopped using it when it was bought by Microsoft (it was swiftkey that Microsoft bought, right - I’m getting old and it’s late here)
Ironically I’m using gboard now, kinda given up looking for keyboard a while back.
I have to fuck about on F-Droid again for a bit I think.
Even HeliBoard?