HeliBoard
Customizable open-source keyboard
| AppID: | helium314.keyboard |
| Author: | Helium314 |
| License: | GPL-3.0-only |
| Donation: | LiberaPay |
| InRepoSince: | 2024-02-15 |
| LastRepoUpdate: | 2025-01-13 |
| LastAppUpdate: | 2025-01-12 |
| LastVersion: | 2.3 |
| Categories: | System |
| APK source: | Github |
| Google Play: | Check if it's there |
HeliBoard is a privacy-conscious open-source keyboard, based on AOSP / OpenBoard. Does not use internet permission, and thus is 100% offline.
Features:
- Add dictionaries for suggestions and spell check
- build your own, or get them here, or in the experimental section (quality may vary)
- additional dictionaries for emojis or scientific symbols can be used to provide suggestions (similar to "emoji search")
- note that for Korean layouts, suggestions only work using this dictionary, the tools in the dictionary repository are not able to create working dictionaries
- Customize keyboard themes (style, colors and background image)
- can follow the system's day/night setting on Android 10+ (and on some versions of Android 9)
- can follow dynamic colors for Android 12+
- Customize keyboard layouts (only available when disabling use system languages)
- Customize special layouts, like symbols, number, or functional key layout
- Multilingual typing
- Glide typing (only with closed source library ☹️)
- library not included in the app, as there is no compatible open source library available
- can be extracted from GApps packages ("swypelibs"), or downloaded here (click on the file and then "raw" or the tiny download button)
- Clipboard history
- One-handed mode
- Split keyboard (only available if the screen is large enough)
- Number pad
- Backup and restore your settings and learned word / history data
WhatsNew:
* Allow customizing number row, toolbar codes, icons, spacebar text, bottom row for emoji and clipboard views
* Decouple icon style from keyboard style
* Disable remove redundant popups by default (and add a small fix)
* Less aggressive addition of words to personal dictionary
* No vibration in do not disturb mode
* Improve performance when copying large texta
* Fix partially broken punctuation popups
* Fix some of the issues where text is duplicated
* Minor things and more bug fixes
Hint: This app is available in both, F-Droid Main and IzzyOnDroid repos. For details on this, please see here.
While you can download the APKs here directly, you should preferably use an F-Droid client so the app stays up-to-date on your device. Some clients have this repo enabled by default, e.g. Neo Store, Droid-ify, or, of course, the IzzyOnDroid client by Sunil. With others (like the official client) you'll have to add this repo manually (see the hint on top of the package list for how to do that).
