FUTO just launched their privacy focused keyboard app. I know there have been quite a few posts about keyboard recommendations, so this might be worth checking out if you’re not happy with your current one.
Every day I get more frustrated with swiftkey. This sounds worth a try.
Aaaaaand not available for iOS. Womp womp.
Privacy and Apple are two opposites
Hard to believe anyone makes apps for iOS, considering the hoops you have to jump through just to make it available to download.
They keyboard is one big reason I left iOS after only ~3 mos. trying it. It’s absolutely atrocious and I can’t believe anyone uses that…
Gboard is amazing, and this app (in pre-Alpha) is a close second. They just need to nail down Swype typing and prediction.
It also has FUTO Voice built-in, which is fully offline voice transcription with punctuation added as well. Works amazing.
Truly a phenomenal product.
Hard to believe anyone makes apps for iOS, considering the hoops you have to jump through just to make it available to download.
This is something I’ve heard, and assume is the case, but I don’t know the specifics of. What kind of hoops are there?
Please correct me if am wrong since I have never made any mobile OS applications.
There’s the $100 fee or whatever to join the developer program even if your app is free. There is a slow manual review process. You have to share a 30% cut with Apple of any profit. Most of the tooling for iOS requires a macOS machine which is another massive money sink as well as being proprietary with no source available. I believe GPL or similarly licensed code isn’t allowed on the App Store either due to ToS conflicts.
Most privacy-friendly things take an source available, open source, free software, or other (post-open, copyfarleft) approach that conflicts with Apple’s model for software, but also developers are likely to be on Linux or BSD + a Linux or Android phone where everything will be more arduous to build & test while not even being a device they or their friends would use so why both building if likely you aren’t even getting paid for it.
