• Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    I had switched to HeliBoard in order to de-Google as much as possible. I’m not militant about it, but if there’s an alternative I’ll take it.

    Decided to try out FUTO because I felt like I was missing swipe typing. And it’s good. But for me it’s just too much. It turns out I didn’t really miss swipe typing, and (possibly just a me issue) that extra feature was making FUTO much less responsive than Heliboard. So back I went.

    I guess for me, simple and fast is more important than replicating my old Gboard experience. But each person is different.

    • Aido@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Heliboard has swipe typing? Just go to the settings and tap on “Gesture Typing”. I believe you have to download a proprietary library for it, though.

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      6 months ago

      I’ve had no responsive issues with FUTO so far, just the occasional typo from the ever so slightly different layout.

    • falx@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      Just learned about heliboard. Thank you! Wrote this with that keyboard and glide enabled as the others have said. Loving it!