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(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?

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[–] WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago (10 children)

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.

[–] arirr@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

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