HeliBoard has been my chosen SwiftKey replacement: https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard

Features I value:

• Multilingual typing (as someone who writes EN, PT and dabbles on DE and NL daily, having to check which language I'm on and switch keyboards/layouts every time sucks)
• Glide typing (with optional closed source library)
• Clipboard history
• Comprehensive layout customization
• Autocorrect (with customizable level of confidence)
• Emoji selection and history

It does suck to see an app that I loved and paid for (yes, I used it for THAT long) get enshittified and try push AI* down my throat.

Not to mention M$ owning my typing history (which I kinda could live with).

RIP SwiftKey.

Since I run GrapheneOS, I just install any keyboard I like, and deny it network access in the permissions panel to disable any privacy invading features.

I would rather be running a fully open source keyboard, so I'll be watching this thread for better solutions.

I'm using Florisboard: https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.patrickgold.florisboard/

It can be a bit rough around the edges, but it's got the features I want.

HeliBoard is the best so far for me

I'm using thumb key. It takes some getting used to, but I like it very much and it is easy to use one-handed especially one large devices.

I used to use Swiftkey for a long while and switched to AnySoftKeyboard 2 years ago and for single language Swype capable keyboard it's the best replacement I've found.

I personally use an expected keyboard. Really nice, especially if you use termux. FCITX5 for Android is another good keyboard if you like the more AOSP style keyboard that supports other characters

https://github.com/fcitx5-android/fcitx5-android?tab=readme-ov-file#supported-languages

Looks like I have some keyboards to try out. I'll try sample all of these but I'll probably fall on one I like and not think about moving on from there

I've never encountered a keyboard app with UI/UX comparable to Fleksy, so that's what I use (and UI/UX is everything for a keyboard).

The settings became a bit silly in terms of UI in the course of updates though, I mean specifically the keyboard itself.

I use Hackers Keyboard from f-droid repos.

Does anyone know a keyboard where you swipe up on a letter to capaitalize and swipe down on it to do the underlying number/symbol? That's what I've got at the moment on my keyboard, but it was removed from the play store years ago, so would like to move on

Give a try to typewise

I just switched to HeliBoard. I was using OpenBoard, but I don't think it was getting updated. The worst part of OpenBoard was it would autocorrect email addresses, so it would turn myemailaddress@gmail.com into "my email address mail come" or something, and if I forgot to hit delete right after it did so, there was no way to undo the autocorrect. HeliBoard seems to recognize the @ and stop autocorrecting it.

I just discovered that HeliBoard has an undo button! I can't count how many times I've deleted whole sentences or paragraphs by accident while editing a large block of text.

It has a bunch of other new features and preferences that OpenBoard doesn't have. For instance, you can swipe up/down from the keyboard in the same way you can swipe left and right to move the cursor.

It just needs an emoji search.

I just got swiping to work in Heliboard, which is nice. Works and looks just like Gboard. You just have to go to the advanced settings, scroll all the way to the bottom, then load the required library manually.

This is a direct link to the library if you have an ARM 64bit v8 phone. Otherwise, you can find different version in that same repo, I think. Just use the 3-dot menu to download it:

https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard/tree/master/app/src/main/jniLibs/arm64-v8a

I found the link to that file in this reddit thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/fossdroid/comments/15j3m2a/openboard_updated_dual_language_custom_dictionary/