Hi friends. My quest to remove Google products from my life continues.

I’ve always been very fearful of swapping keyboard apps. I can think of no better way to track someone than to bug their keyboard. How can I trust any keyboard software, really? My wishlist:

  • Something that addresses my privacy concerns
  • Supports both english and portuguese dictionaries at the same time
  • Has a dark theme
  • Is available on some sort of store, so I don’t have to download APKs for every single update

Thanks!

  • Bebo@literature.cafeEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    Same here. I use it on all my devices and I am so used to it, that I can’t use another keyboard. Also, for me autocorrect on SwiftKey is way better than on gboard.

    • TedZanzibar@feddit.ukEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      Also same. Sometimes it decides typos are things that I want in my custom dictionary and will start replacing real words with gibberish, and then I have the same dilemma as OP, trying out a ton of different keyboards before eventually reverting to a clean install of SwiftKey.

      Weird typo corrections and MS ownership aside, I really like how SwiftKey works and struggle to use anything else.

      • canEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        You can just long press on the gibberish and it won’t suggest it again.

      • Bebo@literature.cafeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Talking about autocorrect weirdnesses, my keyboard (SwiftKey) seems to have a strange fascination with apostrophe s. Whenever I type a plural version of a word which is ending in s, it will autocorrect to apostrophe s!