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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Here's a couple of FOSS keyboard alternatives in no particular order:


Unexpected Keyboard - fdroid

  • GitHub Repo
  • License: GPL-3.0
  • Permissions:

    control vibration
    run at startup

FlorisBoard - fdroid

  • GitHub Repo
  • Apache-2.0
  • Permissions:

    control vibration

Thumb-Key - fdroid

  • GitHub Repo
  • AGPL-3.0
  • Permissions:

    com.dessalines.thumbkey.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION


Notable Extra Notes:

I've used Unexpected Keyboard and FlorisBoard and I'd say that they're great introductory FOSS apps for most users (users inexperienced to sudden changes)


  • Unexpected Keyboard uses Nix in their codebase :D

  • Thumb-Key is maintained by dessalines whom is a Lemmy dev

  • Florisboard is starting to convert their codebase to Rust,

    • literally their commit to main yesterday:

      "Switch native code to Rust"

    so this is pretty awesome to see!!

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

For gestures/swipe-typing I do know that all 3 have that feature
unfortunately I can't provide reviews on it as I still tap to type, haven't had time to retrain unfortunately

For Florisboard's features I really like their sea of options for customizability:

  • it gives me Arch Linux vibes as it give you plenty to fiddle around with like:
    hinted symbols/number row, built-in Incognito mode, undo&redo, built-in dev tool toggles, customizations backup&restore, etc
  • gripes wise is wanting remap keys but this is such an insignificant gripe considering all the features they've implemented
    • I'd imagine that this is a potential feature down the far future

For Unexpected Keyboard, the features it provided was actually unexpected:

  • like I didn't expect to get a Ctrl, Fn, ESC button, like wtf that's pretty awesome!
  • it also has a single button arrow d-pad!
  • essentially this has all the keys on a desktop keyboard
  • gripes wise I wish there was a language indicator for when I'm switching between dvorak, qwerty, and Korean
    • this is also a very small nitpick that will probably get implemented later on

I haven't used Thumb-Keys but I've seen good reviews about it so it's worth a shot as well 👍

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