Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Customizable
- Lightweight
- Support for Themes
Features
- Ad-free
- Dark Mode
- Multiple languages
- Swipe Typing
- Spell Checking
- No Tracking
- Touch Gestures
- Works Offline
HeliBoard News & Activities
Recent News
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I've been running HeliBoard as a local-only replacement for GBoard on my phone for a couple of months now. I still have the clumsy-thumbs problem, but at least it's no worse. Unlike Fossify Keyboard, it does have auto-correct and auto-suggest, which helps. It's super-customizable and supports a ton of languages (notably missing Japanese and Chinese).
It's a bit of a pain to download the gestures library, and that part's not open source. But it does make it more of a drop-in replacement until...
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What is HeliBoard?
HeliBoard is a fork of 
OpenBoard , continuing the project from where it stopped.
This opensource keyboard software enhances typing experience with various features. It can load the Glide typing library, which can be extracted from GApps packages or downloaded from specific sources. For security-conscious users, a 'nouserlib' build variant is available. HeliBoard supports multilingual typing and allows users to load external dictionaries from designated sources. It also offers theme customization, including style, colors, and background image. It can adapt to the system's day/night setting on Android 10 and above, and dynamic colors on Android 12 and above. The software also provides a split keyboard, an optional number row, a number pad, and a backup option for learned words or history data. Custom keyboard layouts can also be added.
HeliBoard information
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Helium314Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
Rating
Average rating of 4.7Alternatives
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Comments and Reviews
Easy to use and privacy-respecting. The UI is customizable, and the default settings are very sensible. Includes a handy toolbar with actions (such as paste, select all, undo/redo, voice input, etc.) that you can add or remove.
To enable gesture typing, download Google's gesture typing library at https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard/tree/master/app/src/main/jniLibs/arm64-v8a and then import it by opening the OpenBoard settings app, going to "Advanced", and then choosing "Load gesture typing library". Note: Google's library is proprietary and not open source.
I've been running HeliBoard as a local-only replacement for GBoard on my phone for a couple of months now. I still have the clumsy-thumbs problem, but at least it's no worse. Unlike Fossify Keyboard, it does have auto-correct and auto-suggest, which helps. It's super-customizable and supports a ton of languages (notably missing Japanese and Chinese).
It's a bit of a pain to download the gestures library, and that part's not open source. But it does make it more of a drop-in replacement until they finish writing their own swiping support.
Good overall, but doesn't have a search bar for emojis, and no native open-source way to swipe type (there's an option, but it's proprietary)
For everyone looking at an alternative, I recommend FUTO Keyboard
Its Gboard but without Google
Currently, it does not have Chinese and Japanese support
It's a perfect replacement for Gboard (gesture typing, multi-language without switching, etc.) in my case! Thank you so much!
I've been using AnySoftKeyboard for nearly 4 years and I'd never thought about replacing it. But there hasn't been a release for over 3 years now and I'm a bit worried about security. On Helioboard I've found lots of great features like the toolbar and better integration of FUTO Voice, but I've also lost some very good ones, like the suggestion ribbon and the abbreviation expander. I also liked one of the themes (with red, blue and light grey tones).