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So, up front, I'll admit I'm one of those guys that gets hung up on tiny, largely irrelevant quirks in apps. Yeah, I'm great fun at parties.

So, what's your favourite keyboard app? I keep coming back to SwiftKey. I feel like it's the best typing experience for me, with fairly accurate prediction and correction β€” although it's far from perfect, of course. I've seen plenty of people complain about it, and apart from Microsoft adding Bing to it, it's not received much in the way of innovation or useful updates since they bought it.

I particularly like that a long press on the backspace key will delete one whole word at a time, speeding up the longer you hold it down. I simply haven't found the backspace methods on Gboard or the Samsung keyboard (which used to be Swype I guess?) to be as predictable or reliable. Gboard's swipe back doesn't feel predictable in what it will do, and Samsung's backspace is more like iOS.

I also find SwiftKey to be the best at remembering sequences of words; if I start typing my address, it'll generally remember each successive word and offer it as the main prediction on the top row. Samsung and Gboard both do that to some extent, but I just haven't found them to be as reliably predictable in the results.

On the other hand, I hate that SwiftKey doesn't can't add an image to its clipboard. Copying and pasting images is a breeze with both Gboard and Samsung's keyboard, but with SwiftKey I pretty much have to download/screengrab and upload any image I want to insert in a chat or post.

So, that's it. Rant over! What's your favourite keyboard app, and does anything irritate you about it?

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 1 year ago

Hacker's Keyboard. It's the only one other than Gboard I ever use, as it was the only one I had found with a full desktop keyboard. I do terminal and remote desktop shit a lot, so I sometimes need the keys that aren't typically available on a phone keyboard.

[–] Sabakodgo@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Used Swype until cancelled. Tried many gesture keyboards and Gboard is best now.

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Minuum Keyboard master race!

[–] MariaShima@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] shaggymatt@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Glad to hear Minuum is still up and running. I couldn't get super comfortable with it, but I love the concept... and I still remember that first, awful announcement video with the poorly mixed vocals that made it sound like the founder's name was Will Wompwomp.

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still think it's the future of keyboards. I will die on the hill that QWERTY makes zero logical sense for touchscreen keyboards and that not utilising machine learning for fuzzy typing is a waste of processor.

[–] communist@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm gonna say messagease is totally better.

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 1 points 1 year ago

Ooh, just seen one of the developers of Lemmy made a successor for MessageEase https://www.f-droid.org/packages/com.dessalines.thumbkey/

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 1 points 1 year ago

I never got into it 😞

[–] Teknikal@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] sag@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Simple Keyboard app from F-Droid (Minimal App)

[–] Spendies@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm confused about your issue with copying and pasting images with swiftkey. I do it all the time with no issues. Long press copy image - > long press paste. I just tested it copying it into text messages and emails to make sure I'm not insane and it works flawlessly.

[–] Palerider@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

SwiftKey... Been using it for years now.

[–] Ultra980@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I love the features and customisability of samsung keyboard.

[–] Carter@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Im28xwa@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago

Google keyboard by a mile but before that Samsung keyboard which I still love, anyway I have zero interest in trying other keyboards

[–] mintiefresh@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] flyingjake@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] sibloure@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I use Openboard. I migrated from iOS and found Openboard to be the most familiar, with key borders turned on in settings.

[–] anowhere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

For customizability, I currently use AnySoftKeyboard, and also like Florisboard (although waiting on next word suggestion).

[–] blueskies@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Any FOSS keyboard recommendations that support simplified Chinese?

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