I switched to Heliboard

I think it’s always been pretty bad, tbh, but it seems to have gotten especially bad in the past year or two. It’s always screwing up “if” and “of”. You’d think it would know which would make sense contextually.

I want to replace it, but I can’t find any decent keyboards that types Japanese.

It keeps on autocorrecting words to some totally irrelevant wrong word, much more often than it used to. Previously it would just fix the occasional spelling mistake and ignore most capitalized words. Now it regularly changes proper names to other random words, replaces it’s with its or your for you’re (or the other way round) but it’s almost always wrong even though I typed it correctly. I’ll go back and try to fix it, only to find it’s chosen some other random words to use instead of what I actually typed. It replaces correct words with incorrect words now way more often than it actually helps my spelling.

I thought I was just getting old and incompetent

I switched to heliboard 3 years ago with the added swipe library. Heli is working on their own swipe now.

HeliBoard or FUTO keyboard

It sucks

When one of my devices started complaining it was low on space, I noticed the Gboard was consuming half a gigabyte of storage. I tried a different keyboard, which annoys me very much, and I might go back to Gboard.

Why would Gboard require so much space? For a keyboard? How does that make sense?

Yes. Just switched to the Samsung built-in keyboard for now.

It was very good on predicting the word and the next word, then it it started to act like it’s guessing randomly.

Notice an increase on battery drain too.

all keyboards have gotten worse for me. I tried swype when it was new and it was getting better and better until it suddenly tanked. I’m not sure if it was before or after it sold. Then I tried swiftkey and gboard and idk what else but almost every closed and open source keyboard that was free and not obviously malicious.

Gboard was great for a while and I used it for looking up kanji by thumb writing them with typical stroke order and having it deduce usually the correct one while playing ace attorney vs layton back when they said it would never get an english version. It got an english version in the end. The swipe inputs for english and Spanish were excellent but English at least seems to have gotten worse to the point of needing 5+ attempts per word. Also disclaimer: Idon’t actually speak spanish. Manual typing is just mentally draining due to recurring typos that get automatically added to suggestions but not a deletable dictionary entry as far as I can tell. I also don’t trust google at all.

Almost everything else is equally untrustworthy and/or bad, with at best on par manual typing. The foss options with swipe input literally use closed source google modules and are all equally crappy as google.

I was using a ghetto usb knockoff blackberry keyboard for a while but while it is nearly perfect as far as typing goes, it’s also an immensely inconvenient extra accessory that eventually snagged on something and broke.

Basically everything sucks and its still the fault of billionaires like everything else.

I once had the thought of a back of phone mounted backhand stenography input, but I feel like it would also suck.

Yup, way more typos. Used to be able to swipe with very little error, now having to correct several times along the way. I don’t type on my phone often enough to be that annoyed yet, but maybe I should look into other keyboards too …

It’s Google, so it’s intended to get worse over time. They design their products against you. I suggest switching to a different one not under a big tech company.

Thanks to parent for posting this. I’m now in the market for a new keyboard because I just hadn’t paid enough attention but gboard is complete garbage.

Yup. Steady decline in accuracy when swiping, words/names I use everyday (and have added to a custom dictionary) aren’t chosen from the swipe, and even on actual touchtype it corrects to words I never/rarely use.

HeliBoard.