(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?

  • WolvenSpectre
    13·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • tias@discuss.tchncs.de
      61·
      2 months ago

      I want something that runs a small local LLM for text prediction, but there’s no proprietary alternative for that either.

      • WolvenSpectre
        1·
        2 months ago

        I would like one with GIF and Meme support as well. I can live without it though, but it would be nice to have!

    • arirr@lemmy.kde.social
      3·
      2 months ago

      FUTO keyboard is about as close as it gets so far. Anysoft has swipe too IIRC. And finally Floris beta has it.

      • WolvenSpectre
        1·
        2 months ago

        FUTO swipe isn’t there yet, but last I looked it was damn near what I was looking for, but the Swipe was useless. I should check it out again. And I don’t like using beta software for something as important as the keyboard. I don’t think I have tried Anysoft Keyboard before… I will have to check that one out.

        Update Anysoft Keyboard doesn’t have swipe typing and it obviously wasn’t developed with English in mind. Typing in some of my secure passwords would have had me hopping between multiple screens. Great for some people but not for me.

        Nice try and thanks for the suggestions. Futo is is still in Alpha and my old phone is still down so I won’t be testing it either. Thanks for the suggestion.

    • deadcatbounce@reddthat.com
      2·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • WolvenSpectre
        1·
        2 months ago

        To quote the Features; “Glide typing (only with closed source library ☹️)”