Simple Keyboard
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Small open-source keyboard with minimal permissions offers adjustable height, number row, navigation keys, customizable themes, and no ads, emojis, spell check, or swipe. Ideal for those preferring basic functionality without extra features or background data use.
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Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Privacy focused
- Customizable
Features
- Dark Mode
- Multiple languages
- Built-in themes
Tags
- keyboard-replacement
- Keyboard Layout
- virtual-keyboard
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What is Simple Keyboard?
Features:
- Small size (<1MB)
- Adjustable keyboard height for more screen space
- Number row
- Navigation keys
- Custom theme colors
- Minimal permissions (only Vibrate)
- Ads-free
Feature it doesn't have and probably will never have:
- Emojis
- GIFs
- Spell checker
- Swipe typing
Application is open-source. Licensed under Apache License Version 2.
Simple Keyboard information
Developed by
Raimondas Rimkus Licensing
Open Source (Apache-2.0) and Free product.Written in
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52 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
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- 1,442 Stars
- 304 Forks
- 63 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Love it! Does what it promises. Super simple, super lite and super fast keyboard without unnecessary features.
My previous keyboard. It's pretty good and I love the swipe-to-delete feature (can't live without it). If you are happy with it and you don't need what, say, OpenBoard offers - then good for you.
However, I found that OpenBoard was more polished and had more features.
Simple Keyboard is great but over the few years I had it there was some occational jankyness and bugs that made the experience less than ideal. Haptic would sometimes drop out and be inconsisten and weird. It would sometimes lose track of the text input field requiring you to re-activate focus. It also lacks emoticons (which is intentional because the creator feel like it's unecessary and want to offer a simple and lightweight app).
Personally, while I'm not using emoticons much, they are good to have.
I'd really like to give it 3.5/5 but it's definitely closer to a 4 than it is to a 3. If you look past the lack of emoticons and the occational jankyness, it's great. Keep in mind I used this for a few years while being happy with it. I guess it goes to show that its pros overweigh the cons.
Only keyboard I think is better is OpenBoard, which is a solid step up. If You like Simple Keyboard, you're gonna like OpenBoard.
I like it. It is excellent.