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?
I use Gboard because it just works. I would like to move to a FOSS keyboard but every one I've tried become frustrating to use.
If you just want to distance yourself from Google, give OpenBoard a try. It's GBoard without the G. It's been working just the same for me, except for some reason it spontaneously decided to stop automatically capitalizing "I".
I'm replying with open board, let's see how it does.
There's a fork of OpenBoard that enables Glide typing, in case you're in interested in that:
https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard
Thank you for that recommendation. Was using AnySoftKeyboard for ages and got very frustrated with autocorrect and space bar position. Now, I can ditch it for something that works.
Yep. Much as I hate to say it, GBoard just feels good in a way that none of the other major swipe keyboards have for me.
GBoard without internet access is good compromise for me.
I agree. I've tried so many FOSS keyboards and no matter how hard I try, I just have to go back to gboard. It's wild how hard it is to find a good keyboard. I can't even use the stock Samsung one anymore
Same, I scrolled too far to find another gboard user lol.