AnySoftKeyboard

A nice try. If you really have a problem with |Google or Microsoft, this would be an alternative. Otherwise the project is quite backward and very primitive. The interface is ugly for 2019. Text prediction is very bad. Swipe is unusable. I apreciate there are no ads, but here ends the usefullness of this app.

My dissatisfaction is with gesture typing. It's not working well. I know it's in beta but still, I expect word prediction to be better. Auto learning new words is not working(?) but also words in dictionaries seem to not get recognized. I gave 3 stars for a great potential and a number of options. When gesture typing gets better, especially for languages other than English, I'll switch full time. Until then I'll keep it installed to check it occasionaly but continue with Gboard 😕.

Really hard to get around. It would take a few time to adjust the app according to your liking. I wish there was a easy way to setup and move around the app. Else, great app, lots of features. Wish the emoji settings bar / switching to normal keyboard bar was below, not at right side. Lots of feature also means lots of clutter and to move your head in that clutter. Its nice that it has word save option While Typing 😀. But the blue button press color is annoying for me, hope there was option to

Loved the app Performance wise I personally feel it is faster than gboard probably due to no network requirement. Also writing through this keyboard is super smooth and fluid. Layouts are somewhat different from gboard but one can easily adapt that. But all it lacks is the perfect UI/UX for main app (not the keyboard). The space bar in keyboard could be a bit wider may be at expense of other unnecessary symbols. Also emoticons name was unnecessary and could be avoided.

I really wanted to like this app, but 36 frustrating hrs later I've given up. Time & again I set it up, used it for a while, then things would start going wrong - keys would change, glide typing would stop working, suggestions would stop or be completely unrelated to the word being typed. Apostrophes would sometimes be inserted, sometimes not. B&R wouldn't work with 'custom' path. It seems a lot of work has gone into this app's appearance & features, but it lacks reliable functionality.

It's close to being as good as GBoard, but it misses the mark. You really have to dig through the settings after you first install it to get things just right, so I think many users will be driven away by that. The UI is starting to feel very outdated. Overall, it's decent but I think the settings should be organized more like Swiftkey or GBoard and have a search button as well to make things easier.

I like it because the keyboard has a lot of nice features, without the excessive permissions. But it has code maturing to go. Mispelled words display with a red line underneath. I tap it correct, then hit space and it reverts back to mispelled word. I have to tap somewhere for correct word to stay. Swipe is very inaccurate for some basic words.

No it isnt a perfect keyboard that does exactly what you wished for, but it is the best open source keyboard I have yet to encounter. Many reviews are comparing this keyboard to other keyboards like Microsoft's Swift keyboard or Google's Gboard but understand, you must always sacrifice something when moving away from big name products, and that should be expected. It has served me well for over a year. And if there are any nuances, you get used to them fairly quickly.

Swipe is terrible. The word "probably" always becomes "provably", and doesn't show up in the alternatives. Adding custom words to dictionary does not work for swiping. Do i really need to go back to that data thieving Google gboard? At least that just works... I really like open source and all that, and I'm willing to pay for non-spyware options, but it's just a barren landscape...

So I do like this keyboard, but the swipe is still needing work on word prediction. On also having issues where the keyboard will just stop working and freeze my screen to the point I have turn screen off and back on. Please review this! I love the customization though and everything you can change. If they fix those things, its a gboard contender for sure. A possible add is selecting what to delete with delete key. Thank you!

Great! Very configurable and due to its open source nature we know that our keystrokes are not transferred to anybody. The utility keyboard that you can get by swiping up on space (by default) is awesome. You don't need to fiddle around trying to get to the typo that you just made; you can just use the arrow buttons. The only option I am missing and were not able to find is to adjust the size of the keyboard by an arbitrary value.

Wide range of layouts, including exotic ones like Dvorak, and a staggering choice of customization options. But works out of the box. No dubious data permissions. Only criticism is that auto correct occasionally replaces legitimate common words, both in English and German, and prediction is not as good as on the Samsung keyboard. Occasionally it freezes the phone for a few seconds when loading. Other than that it's perfect.

Good keyboard. Some comments: I wish it was possible to disable the speech-to-text feature (the microphone button). I don't want to use the feature, and if you accidentally click the button, it will remove the text you just typed. Super annoying. Another bug is that the keyboard doesn't always default to the same language. I want it to ALWAYS default to Danish and then I can manually switch to English when needed, but it seems pretty random which language is used at startup.

It seems the original developer of this keyboard is no longer? I realize the keyboard is open source and all but it is a bit disappointing that it hasn't seen an update since almost six months or more ago. The colored navigation bar hasn't worked correctly ever since Android 11. Not a complete deal breaker but it definitely makes the keyboard feel more in sync with the device without the ugly black bar on the bottom.

Overall a pretty nice keyboard, it takes a while to get used to the layout of symbols, but that's to be expected. My biggest issue is that I cannot add 1 letter words to my dictionary easily (I type it, it usually suggests something else, I click on the correct version, but even when it says 'touch again to save', it doesn't save it)

Needs some polish but very good overall. There are a handful of built-in themes that should appeal to many users. It took some tweaking but I found a good combination that I like and will keep trying it further. The settings really need some reorganization. Also, if you keep the number row on top all the time, you will get two rows when you switch to the symbol keys. That's just wrong. Honestly, it isn't quite as good as Gboard for functionality but it is far more private!

I really like this keyboard a lot and I feel that this keyboard will quickly be my main keyboard to use. Its really customizable and simple to use. One thing I do wish was implemented better is the gestured option to delete.For example, I feel like whenever I swipe left to delete it is hit or miss. I usually end up selecting text instead of deleting a word. It needs to feel more sensitive. To be entirely honest I am not sure if there is an option for this since there are a lot of options available but not organized that well. Overall I would say it is still the best keyboard out there.

It's OK. So far the best alternative I've found for privacy. Swype input still needs some tweaking, keyboard language randomly changes from what I had it set at. Autocorrect is somewhat limited and sometimes doesn't know what I mean when I'm only one letter away from a word and when you go back to correct a word, you have to watch because ot only looks at the part you just fixed instead of the whole word and tries to correct that.

The spacebar was super tiny, which I didn't like, and the long press options made no sense to me. Not bad, just not what I'm used to and I didn't want to spend that much time relearning a keyboard layout. The theming options are (some form of) dark / white or an auto theme with your app that might be a truly obnoxious color. But otherwise I liked how you could customize the strength of the feedback, and the rest of the options looked interesting too

It's a decent keyboard but it's difficult to configure; there are too many settings screens and even some settings within settings. Also the spacebar is way too small and I can't figure out how to change that. The autocorrect doesn't work well, "were" doesn't suggest "we're", "ill" doesn't suggest "I'll", and capitalizations are lost when autocorrected (first word of a sentence loses capitalization).

Highly customizable keyboard with split keyboard feature in landscape mode which I need. Has no swipe capabilities and the layout of the settings is like a complicated labyrinth but if you find them all you can design a great keyboard for yourself. Some bugs have been ignored for years but it is an open source project so who am I to complain? Good job all around.

Negative 1 for COVID ad on top of keyboard. Really not needed and is destracting. Cant find a way to get rid of it. Ultimately uninstalling because of that. Otherwise OK keyboard as far as privacy keyboards go, but still like openboard better. This has more customization (and I really like the animation), but spell check doesn't seem to be as good. It also takes a little bit to get use to the layout (not too long though)

Could be perfect but is missing basic functionality: Need to be able to use one keyboard layout with multiple (2 to 3) language dictionaries merged together in predictive text. I shouldn't have to hit a language key to swap dictionaries. This function, along with privacy, is my highest priority as a user. I'd be happy to pay for the app once this capability is implemented. Edit: apparently it finally supports multilingual text prediction...but not via the settings menu. Wth.

Very nice, especially for those not wanting to broadcast everything they type back to some company. You should take the time to customise it, and also, know that it takes a little time to adapt to you. Swipe/slide typing is an option, as well as voice typing ( which may still send data off your device) .

It would be a decent keyboard if only it stuck to what it is supposed to do. At some point, the app began to cover a part of the word suggestions with a crimson blot that directs my web browser to WHO's COVID19 advice page. Clicking it takes me to a web page that hasn't been updated for weeks now, and it does nothing to remove the blot, nor is there an option to turn it off. The developer's condescension is palpable, and it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I'm switching to another app.