Open source alternatives to Gboard
2 projects on starwire do the same job. Ranked by how much of what Gboard does each one covers, read from its README and website. Ties go to the most active.
What Gboard does
- On-screen typingcore
- Autocorrect and predictionscore
- Glide typing
- Voice typing
- Many languages and layouts
- Emoji, GIFs and stickers
- Clipboard
Each dot in the table is one job, in this order. Square dots are core jobs and count double. Full means yes, half means partly. "See the evidence" under a project shows the line behind each one. Coverage is what a project documents, not how well it works or how hard it is to move to. How we score this
| Project | Covers | Stars | Commits, 12 weeks | Last release | Closed vs opened | Setup | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 AnySoftKeyboardOffline on-screen keyboard for Android with support for many languages |
Replaces it83% | 3.4k+1 | 2 months ago | 62% | Install like an app | Apache-2.0 | |
Covers all 2 core jobs. Partly: Emoji, GIFs and stickers. Not shown: Clipboard.See the evidence
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 fcitx5-androidFcitx5 input method framework and engines for Android |
Not checked yet | 5.9k+5 | 4 months ago | 65% | Install like an app | LGPL-2.1 | |
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