I use Gboard.

The main things I like about it are:

  • Very customizable (I like having number row always visible, and having long press for symbols on each letter).
  • Has gif support built in.

My biggest pain point is:

  • It auto corrects words that are spelled correctly to other words. I type “our” and it changes to “out”, I recently typed “purpose” and it changed it to “purple”. Autocorrect is awesome and necessary, but I hate that it corrects words to other words and not just typos. I wish I could find a keyboard that has the things I like without this annoyance.

Am I looking for a unicorn? Let me know! 😄

  • Angel@ani.socialEspañol
    6·
    3 months ago

    I’m using Heliboard a few months ago, I prefer privacy over personalization

  • Copythis@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 months ago

    I’ve been using SwiftKey since like, 2012?

    I just like the custom keyboards, and it learns my mistakes when I swipe. I always carry 2 phones, so I was able to sync the 2nd phone so my swipes are already learned on that phone.

    Also, there’s a snow keyboard that collect snow at the bottom of the screen as you swipe.

    • Tryasimightalright@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      Has your autocorrect been getting worse? I use swipe and it seems to be mixing up words way worse than it used to.

      Or am I just getting bad at typing lol

      • Meeech@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 months ago

        100% been getting worse. I was just talking to a buddy about how bad SwiftKey has been getting and I want to look for an alternative.

  • jg1i@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    I use Gboard. I really want to like the FUTO keyboard, but it unfortunately sucks for typing. Not sure what magic secret sauce Gboard has, but with the FUTO keyboard I basically mistype almost every word. Maybe Gboard has some tap target corrections or something? I’ve tried pushing through with the FUTO keyboard for about a month, but I think I’m ready to uninstall it. )`:

  • TheBest@midwest.socialEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    Ill be the lone user of Anysoft in this thread. Its on F-Droid and the playstore. Open source. Came from gboard, but realized that during all of the states banning porn thing I don’t want google to know everything I type.

    Its customizable and a good replacement for gboard IMO. It was a slight learning curve to be slightly more precise with my typing. Gboard you can just randomly mash and google seems to know what you’re going for. I also found the autocorrect to be worse until I added enough of my own slang into the dictionary, but now its fantastic.

  • cordlesslamp@lemmy.today
    3·
    3 months ago

    I fucking hate Gboard spelling correct feature, it’s completely useless. I often ended up google the word (ironic isn’t it) to get the correct spelling.

    A little context, English is not my native language so sometimes I got trouble spelling some words. For example the other day, I couldn’t remember how to spell “aesthetic”, I did type in “asthetic” along with a few other variation, but all I got from the “suggestions bar” was “authentic” “asthenic” “asthma” “asthenia”.

    So I gave up and type “asthetic” in Google and it knew immediately and correct it to “aesthetic”.

  • lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca
    2·
    3 months ago

    Keyboard Designer.

    It allows me to put the numbers on the bottom row and the space bar on the 2nd row and the backspace next to the L where it belongs.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    I used Swiftkey until I noticed that Microsoft is adding weird shit to it and so I deleted it and now I just use the built-in Samsung keyboard because none of the others will be any better.

    • MiDaBa@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 months ago

      The Samsung keyboard definitely looks better but underperforms both gboard & SwiftKey when it comes to swipe typing, auto correction and spelling. I very much wish it was the best because I’m getting tired of the other two trying to force AI features on their keyboards.