Is there any proprietary Android app for which you wish there would be an open-source alternative? (lemmy.ml)

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(cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19917523)

Basically, what the title says. Do you use any app, that is proprietary, but either has no OSS alternatives or they're all not good enough? If there is an alternative, what keeps you from switching?

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[-] WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago

SwiftKey Keyboard. There are OS keyboards and even swipe predictive text keyboards but I wish there was one that had the skinability and functionality that learned from my typing without monitoring my clipboard and reporting it to Microsoft. Yet every other keyboard I have tried has left me disappointed.

[-] arirr@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 2 months ago

FUTO keyboard is about as close as it gets so far. Anysoft has swipe too IIRC. And finally Floris beta has it.

[-] spegin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.futo.inputmethod.latin.playstore

Link for the lazy

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