Heliboard the best gboard alternative

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I’ve been using gboard for few years but now i decide to trying it’s popular alternative
called heliboard
at first i don’t believe there is such good keyboard exist but after trying heliboard it now become my main keyboard completely replacing gboard

advantage of heliboard:

  1. Keyboard layout that exact 100% same like gboard
  2. suggestion / dictionary / correction is near to google

the only downside of heliboard that i found is
heli can’t fix a word based on setence
so i would encourage you to try heliboard you probably will like it too

link download to Heliboard:

thanks for reading and contribute i really appreciate it :pray:

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I completely agree. I have been using the HeliBoard for almost a year+ now. It is the best till date tbvh.

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Also Even my keyboard is built reproducibly | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

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Thank you for your recommendation. I’ll try Heliboard. And I’ll let you know my impressions. Although I think Heliboard will have a hard time beating Google Board.

I assume Heliboard is in the F-Droid repository. But if not, please tell me where I should look for the app. Thanks.

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yes heliboard literally super good
and it’s rare for open source project have such good feature and micmic to their popular competitor :grin:

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It is in the fd repo itself. BTW, it is far better compared to gboard and I believe OSS can be much better compared to proprietary ones. Only reason prop ones get more traction is the bundle of money and those named firms behind them. They get dedicated resources, whereas we thrive OSSs on donations and funding.

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Thanks for responding. I’ll be back with my experience and ratings.

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It’s not best unfortunately :frowning:
For swipe typing you need external library, and then it works pretty well. And it’s very configurable.
It lacks voice typing, so I’ve tried Futo, there’s repo to add to your f-droid client. Futo is in alpha, that’s why works lame, I hope it will improve.

Because of flawless voice typing thx to Voice recognition APK, Gboard works flawlessly, and even improved on my old tablet mentioned in the thread about dark mode extensions, before some updates it was unusable - mistaken languages, lags…
Thx to Gboard I don’t have to install any other spying app.

I also have AOSP keyboard delivered with lineageOS for that tablet, I don’t even know where to download it to try on another devices, but works good and features swiping too.

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I hate voice access, so that part I cannot confirm for myself. rest all I do use and it works perfectly oob.