Google Pinyin Alternatives

Google Pinyin is described as 'IME was an input method developed by Google China Labs. The tool was made publicly available on April 4, 2007. Aside from Pinyin input, it also includes stroke count method input. As of March 2019, Google Pinyin has been discontinued and the download page tools' and is an app. There are four alternatives to Google Pinyin for Android, F-Droid, Google Chrome, Windows and Web-based. The best Google Pinyin alternative is Google Input Tools, which is free. Other great apps like Google Pinyin are Unistroke Keyboard, My RIME and Trime.

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  1. Google Input Tools icon

    Google Input Tools

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    Switch to typing in a different language with the click of the mouse, and switch back just as easily. The Google Input Tools extension provides virtual keyboards for over 90 languages, full IMEs or direct transliteration for over 30 different scripts, and handwriting input for...

    5 Google Input Tools alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Google Chrome
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    • Google Input Tools is the most popular Windows alternative to Google Pinyin.

    • Google Input Tools is the most popular free alternative to Google Pinyin.

    • Google Input Tools is Free and ProprietaryGoogle Pinyin is also Free and Proprietary
  2. Unistroke Keyboard icon

    Unistroke Keyboard

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    Unistroke Handwriting Input Method for Programming.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
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    • Unistroke Keyboard is the most popular Android alternative to Google Pinyin.

    • Unistroke Keyboard is the most popular Open Source alternative to Google Pinyin.

    • Unistroke Keyboard is Free and Open SourceGoogle Pinyin is Free and Proprietary
    • Unistroke Keyboard is Lightweight and Privacy focusedGoogle Pinyin is not according to our users
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    My RIME

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    Online input methods with support for various Han Chinese variants, such as Cantonese, Wu, and Mandarin

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
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    • My RIME is the most popular Web-based alternative to Google Pinyin.

    • My RIME is Free and Open SourceGoogle Pinyin is Free and Proprietary
  5. Trime icon

    Trime

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    Trime is originally a frontend of open-source Android Traditional Chinese IME, based on RIME input method framework and written in Java/Kotlin with JNI. It is designed to protect the native language of various local dialects of Chinese and is a universal shape-based and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
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