Looking for an alternative Keyboard app

Android@lemmy.world – 63 points – 12 months ago

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!

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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.

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

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!