FUTO Keyboard

“FUTO keyboard itself is also not open source but rather source available, which is not ideal imo.”

“Futo only produces source-available proprietary software. They most certainly are not Open Source”

“runs entirely on-device and has extremely good STT accurary, especially with the 70M parameter model”

“It seems like work on voice recognition has halted entirely though.”

“futo is running whisper to transcript and it is local only”

“FUTO Keyboard or Heliboard (both FOSS) will give you key symbols without shifting”

“Their somewhat recent update to their swiping library really changed the game”

“It is not open source. They use a custom source available license.”

“Futo can have similar problems, but there are a lot more options to tweak and the defaults aren't so bad.”

“take a look at FUTO keyboard's transformer model for their keystroke prediction/autocorrect which operates in near real-time”

“on android I use FUTO Keyboard with voice input”

“FUTO has gone from tolerable to pretty great over the past year-ish”

“No silly childish gifs that I can accidentally click on is a great feature.”

“the big problem I have with futo key board is that it can only do one language at a time”

“Their local voice transcription is top notch and proper swipe gestures would be icing on the cake.”

“it's the best free & private keyboard I found”

“the first android keyboard i've used that I don't feel like i'm compromising vs GBoard”

“it can't swipe type in multiple languages without switching every time”

“FUTO and GBoard has the feature you're describing and I use it all the time”

“The voice recognition is built on Whisper, and is amazing.”

“it does have that feature, as well as swiping, speech to text and much more”

“Both work more or less well for English and a few major languages”

“Check out FUTO keyboard with the larger 250 MB model”

“futo just can't seem to be able to switch to other languages consistently”

“on most keyboards the swipe functionality is much worse than GBoard but this one seems to work pretty well”

“FUTO finally provided a good text prediction/correction pair + that simply better feeling the Gboard has”

“I actually find I prefer it to gboard now.”

“Supports swiping and voice recognition models.”

“FUTO has a superb Android keyboard with on-device voice transcription using a fine-tuned Whisper model”

“I've switched away from Gboard to Futo on Android”

“Commercial use doesn't only mean payment. If you modify FUTO, you can't use it at work for example.”

“FUTO not being FOSS means that the community cannot fork and maintain the keyboard in case of a rug pull”

“All offline, customizable design, good speech recognition, tolerable swipe typing.”

“It's good but unfortunately doesn't support the same swipe features of fleksy.”

“some people use Android and also remove Google from the equation, so finding an alternative for Gboard is valuable to them. I'm one of them and I really like Futo.”

“They are just shipping the same whisper-small that everyone else is using, and did not much to improve their models since release.”

“I have been using this one from Futo for quite some time and love it”

“I can install any keyboard I want and the issue would likely be gone”

“I use software every day written by organizations doing evil.”

“The swipe-to-type isn't as good as SwiftKey or Swype (RIP) but it's good enough for daily use.”