AnySoftKeyboard

AnySoftKeyboard

About this app

Any Soft Keyboard is an open-source, on-screen keyboard with multiple languages support with emphasis on privacy.
This is one of the most customizable keyboards available.

To activate: Launch 'AnySoftKeyboard Settings' App, and follow the instructions.

Main features:
* Multi languages keyboard support via external packages.
* Completion dictionaries for multiple languages.
* Also completes your typed words from you contacts names (Android 2.0+)!
* And, learns your typing behavior to provide next-word prediction.
* Multi-Touch support (as in, pressing SHIFT along with other characters).
* Extension keyboard (swipe your finger all the way up out of the keyboard).
* Voice Input support (Android 2.2+).
* Compact/Phablet Mode.
* Gesture support:
** Experimental Gesture-Typing (enable in the Settings app).
** Swipe left or right to switch layouts.
** Swipe up to shift.
** Swipe down to close the keyboard.
* Theme support (comes with a few built-in skins, and more available in Play Store).
* Night Mode: Quiet, Dark keyboard at night time (enable in the Settings app).
* Power-Saving Mode: No vibrations, sound, suggestions and a dark theme (enable in the Settings app).
* Build-in user dictionary words editor.
* Build-in abbreviations dictionary: create shortcuts for words and sentences.
* Utility keyboard (swipe up from space-bar):
** Clipboard actions copy, paste, select-all, select selectively (long-press select and use arrow keys).
** Voice input
** Arrows
* And many more features!

Support at: https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard

Ratings and reviews

this keyboard would be absolutely incredible if it had any layout option that allowed you to actually access all the keys. However, the ''bottom row'' options force you to lose either the emoji button, the ''rest of your symbols'' button, the apostrophe button, or the period. Apostrophe would be acceptable if you could access it anywhere else, but you can't. This would be an incredibly simple fix, too.

Honestly I love this keyboard, it's private, it has autocorrect, and its easy to navigate symbols/letters. A couple of quality of life things though: I'd love for the apostrophe/period and the question/comma buttons to be consolidated so there can be a bigger space bar, and also a theme to get rid of the arrow keys, I generally don't need those so it'd be nice to have it an optional toggle so I can have a shorter keyboard. Other than that the switch to this keyboard has been smooth!

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)

What’s new

* Support for Android 15.
* Clipboard support improvements.
* A few Settings app navigation fixes.
* Vibration fixes.
* Suggestions pick and order fixes.
* Improved pop-up keys order.
* Gesture-typing improvements.
* Support for Direct-Boot devices.
* Reduced installation size (for supporting devices).
* Updated translations from the community (at crowdin.net).

More here: https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard/AnySoftKeyboard/milestone/94