The FUTO Keyboard is excellent 

I figured out the issue with the web payment. The website error said it couldn't generate the payment request, but the issue was the email address I used. Apparently, their payment system didn't like my email alias (e.g. name+futokeyboard@email.com). Possibly it's just something where it doesn't allow non-alphanumeric characters or something, but doesn't generate an error on the email input field... it just breaks when they try to generate the payment. Using a non-aliased email did work on their website, but the in-app system still doesn't work. Further, when I got the activation email, the button to activate the app didn't work. I checked in the app, but didn't see anywhere to put the key in... you click the "I already paid" button a couple of times and then it just says thanks for using the paid version. At any rate, I was finally able to give them my $5. :-D

I wrote a single character wrong in "futo keyboard" and now I have a new research material about human biology to study.

Thank you for the kind words! All feedback will be taken into consideration... and we'll work out the issues with the payment system!

bro you should toss lou's face on the thumbnail and make the big text caption "LET ME PAY YOU" lol

I downloaded the FUTA keyboard and it looks weird.

i downloaded it yesterday and it's surprising how good it is right away, I think it only "lacks" the ability to move the cursor by long-pressing of the spacebar but they also got the edit mode so it's not a big deal. I can't wait for the custom themes to be available

Using the Futo keyboard now and I LOVE it already in the 5 minutes that I've used it for. Thanks for telling me about this awesome thing.

I don't even know why the algorithm recommended your video to me but this is exactly what I was looking for in the past. I just stopped searching for keyboard alternatives and settled for Swift Key a long time ago. I will now immediately try FUTO and am excited about the possibility of a always offline keyboard. Well made video, good info. Thanks!

I bougt it 3 times for all my devices. The voice input works amazingly well. Finally the alternative I was longing for so long 🤩

I'm enjoying it so far. Very intuitive to use and no issues yet. "Swiping" is the only word it has had trouble with so far for me

Barely 30 seconds in and I've already got it installed! I was looking for a privacy focused keyboard for ages!

Just downloaded. We'll see if it ends up replacing Swift Key long-term. Thanks for making a video about it!

Thanks for the review. It seems to have everything I need. Installed, will try and pay immediately should I decide to keep it, which seems likely. All the power to Louis!

Just downloaded it. Saw the huge buttons. Immediately uninstalled the Google keyboard I was using till now. Finally. Amazing.

Just installed and typing this comment with FUTO now. Working great!

The fact than you can add local offline AI models oprimized for mobile just by importing file is amazing. Installed. I was swiftkey user until microsoft forced copilot. Same about edge on mobile.

I was searching for a privacy oriented keyboard a while back and was upset i couldn't find a decent one, I'm so glad your video popped up in my recommended feed. I just installed it and was surprised by how simple yet functional it already is, it's great! The only thing I'm missing from Gboard is the built-in translator.

Swipe typing entirely depends on you tapping the correct word when it guesses incorrectly to learn. After you do that for a bit, it's pretty much spot on every time.

Yes it is. Is so amazing that I need this for my Desktop PC (for any Linux Distro) as a virtual keyboard and to use the voice input.

Thanks for the recommendation! Typing to you on my freshly installed FUTO keyboard. It's a relief knowing that one more hook is pulled out of my data.Thank you and thanks FUTO!

Amazing find, thank you for finding this, thank the algorithm for bringing you to my feed, new subscriber for you!

This is the AOSP keyboard fork that I was waiting for: fully offline, with support of Material You and pretty basic for the essential needs. Actually, I'm using the LineageOS default keyboard that uses the Material You theme and I expect that FUTO keyboard get the recognition that deserves.

Looks really good. I like all of the customization options. I really like that it all works locally. My favourite keyboard of all-time is the BlackBerry 10 virtual keyboard. I loved the way you could flick up directly from the keyboard. Miss that thing.

I'm on graphene os and I've just lived without voice input to preserve my privacy. This has offline voice input so I'm back in business! Thanks for promoting this!

Thanks a lot for the demo! I'm a long-time SwiftKey user who is more and more worried about its privacy as well, and this keyboard is an alternative in a long time that feels really great from my first impression! I'll keep using it for the coming days/weeks and see if it holds up. If it does, I'm happy to pay as well.

Just instealled it and used it. Instantly love it.

The settings UI is a bit unpolished but so far this is amazing work and way better than Swiftkey. You even get a local ML model which handles suggestions and everything feels smooth and advanced. It's great.

Wow! This keyboard looks absolutely incredible. I love it. ❤

OMG I've been looking for SwiftKey replacement for a while now. Will try this one.

I gotta say the "SwiftKey is dead" drew my attention, I just realized SwiftKey also has the "drag from delete key" function, but apparently Futo's works better.

Excited to try it out. Listened to Louis talking about it too.

Currently other languages are kinda broken, symbols not working properly, app crashing, so I'll stick to Swiftkey and Gboard for the time being, but I'm very interested, as it works perfectly in English

Just bought this. It's incredible

thank you for shouting this out - it is definitely interesting and some of the features are good, unfortunately the swiping input just isn't good enough yet to switch. but when that does and when custom themes are available, I'm for sure switching

THanks a lot, had few happy months with HeliBoard and this comes at the right moment, wish I could add voice for Spanish, this might be my new main keyboard so I´ll give it a try

Great video, I have been a SwiftKey user and hadn't changed because I liked the layout, I will be trying this one out to see how it goes for me!

After the video I saw who the keyboard was made by. Rossman has been slowly earning my trust the last few years, so I installed it and I'm trying it right now. If I still like it by the end of the week, I'm gonna buy it.

just installed it, looks nice!

Thanks for showing it, I may wanna try it myself

Downloaded it as soon as it was announced. Currently replying using it. I was also a user of swift. One time it was soooo good at predicting texts that I used to type just a few words and write the whole sentences but after few updates it deteriorated significantly and i learned it was recording everything I was typing (FOREVER!) which led me to an an open source option.

Thank you so much, was swift keyboard fan too, but I don’t like co pilot. Just installed and it is so responsive. Love it and will definitely buy it, because it is offline 🙏😎

Cool! Will try it out. Watching from the Philippines.

this deserves more attention ❤

honestly the backspace swiping is pretty neat, more keyboards should have it

Amazing video!

THANK YOU! I've been searching for the perfect keyboard ever since the gboard got weird(randomly stops working for no apparent reason). I am very particular in terms of layout and the other keyboard's rendition of Dvorak has been horrible so far. This one's a breath of fresh air, it's basically gboard without all those loading error, simple enough to use, and has some pretty nifty features to boot. Once again, thank you for showing this keyboard! loving it so far.

Got it since 2 days. All good so far 😀

Just what I needed

I use Futo absolutely love it. It gets better over time as you use it. Could just be me getting more used to it, but it works great and the speech to text is my favorite feature. My only complaint is sometimes i use swipe when i type with one hand, and the suggestions are more often wrong compared to default android. Every other feature is better though!

thank you for making this video SPECIFICALLY for me lmfao i'm exactly in same situation as you, used swiftkey from early days and its been sad to see it go down in grasps of microsoft i tried out FUTO and just the fact that you can manually maintain your models and dictionaries was already a hard hands down sell for me, lets see how it fares with time!

This is absolutely great.

Perfect keyboard I'm using it right now

What I want to know is How do I use the json from Microsoft to make a dictionary that the futo keyboard can understand? Someone help me please.

Thank you for this.

Thanks man this is great

Well, I also finally installed it. Really nice.

It works quite well this was very slopeppy written (you can see how bad I wrote by the word it couldn't correct). I am impressed.

Downloaded. 😁

bro i wanst aware that i needed this keyboard so much

I used heliboard as a good alternative, enjoyed it,gonna try futo now

Is Louis working on an privacy-oriented Android spin? I'd be down for that! The dude definitely has earned my (out) respect and trust over these many years.

I love it, one thing to improve is noise supression in noisy environments like a car, that way it doesn't hang after you have finished speaking.

Omg I was using one called OpenBoard for years for this same reason but the maintainer abandoned it and the new one is struggling to handle the issues last I looked. So, I'm definitely trying this one!

Using it since its announcement. It still needs to improve multilingual support (automatic recognition and switching) and a few small aesthetic tweaks, but overall it's solid.

1:40 and then there are psychos like me who use florisboard. it has no: - autocorrect - text predictions - emoji serch - stickers - pretty much nothing fancy, it's like a computer keyboard in that sense what it DOES have however is what keeps me on it and i dont intend to switch to anything else; it's got an insane level of customisation over how it functions: - select all, copy, cut, cursor nudge left/right, paste, clear clipboard, clipboard button shortcuts - lets you change a lot of stuff down to a milisecond or a pixel - heigh offset for when i feel like using gestures instead of 3 button nav bar, that way i keep all the keys at the same height and retain all my muscle memory for typing fast (around 85wpm) - gesture shortcuts that work more precisely than other keyboards; moving the cursor while holding space can jump to characters, whole words, you can change the sensitivity on that (i find gboard to be annoyingly unresponsive), then theres swipe to delete which can delete whole words, letters, characters, whatever, change sensitivity of both of those down to how fast you swipe... (also annoyingly unresponsive on gboard) - i somehow forgot to mention undo and redo buttons in the smart bar how silly of me - ofc theres a backup and restore for settings, else it would be hell to set it up every time lol

Thanks, the only thing I was missing from my phone's stock samsung kb was the symbols on keys - your video showed me where the setting is. I already preferred FUTO and now I'm not compromising on anything. (if anyone needs to know, it's in themes, scroll all the way to the bottom, as seen here 5:47. Weird place for it imo, it should be in typing prefs)

It's awesome! The only things I wish it had were the option for arrow keys and an intext translator into another language.

I can confirm it works on my one plus open while folded open!

This keyboard is what I have wanted for so so so long. They use the same long-press symbol layout as gboard which has been my favorite for that and the voice typing is amazing! It is faster than google voice typing and just as convenient as in gboard. My only issue is that the haptic feedback doesn't feel quite right, being more of a buzz vs a tapping feeling, but I may just not be getting the settings set up right.

Can you import your SwiftKey words (from the add to dictionary feature) to FUTO Keyboard? I've got years of manually added words that I'd rather not have to do again.

One of my favourite features with this is the voice typing. It add punctuation! Google voice typing as well as a few others just do run on sentences and wont add punctuation unless you specifically say "comma", "period", "question mark" and things like that.

I notice on the keyboard my phone came with that it keeps autocorrecting to misspelled words even. Or just sees my button inputs wrong. Might try this

thanks, very useful

I'm using this keyboard now, and let me tell you the voice to text although takes a moment to process, is spot on! A huge quality of life change for me. I stopped using voice to text because Google Keyboard was horrible in my opinion. This new keyboard is in its own league. I wish I could actually help with the development of this keyboard, but for the last year, I've been working on a messaging app with the same goal as this. Gonna shake up the game. We own these devices, we need real privacy.

Is there any reason to switch to this if I've already got GBoard behind a firewall?

It is an incredible keyboard and will only get better with time.

I'm using FUTO with Microsoft Swiftkey, shockingly enough. I love its voice dictation!

Also supports cursor movement from swiftkey ( swiping across the space bar )

Is there an option to have 2 languages at the same time like on gboard? I usually have English and Polish so that I can swipe type anything in both languages or even both at The same time

I wanna try it, but I'm worried I'll miss features like the bar over the keyboard wkrh things like my clipboard.

I install within minute I came across his video and it was amazing, the gboard was hanging much .

Main reason I use Swift is because it detects which language I am currently using, and I don't have to change it in the settings, do you think this is possible in Futo??

Exact same here, swapped over from SwiftKey and no regrets so far. I always liked the idea of voice input but avoided it because I really don't like the idea of all that data being uploaded to Microsoft / Google / Whoever. Now I don't have to worry about it, can just do it locally on my phone. Hurray!

I can't import the multilingual model for it, the import just does nothing. FUTO Voice input, a separate app, already comes with this model, and it works great, but FUTO keyboard doesn't want to use it for some reason.

My guess is, of is brought out of alpha and beta into an official version, the payment part will also work. I'm using it now.

Seems to work pretty well except for when swiping. May need some time to learn. Installed it pretty much immediately upon seeing this video lol

currently I'm waiting on a way to migrate my clipboard and personal dictionary over from gboard, because I cannot be bothered to move all of that over manually

i installed it and will be using it for a while, but i couldn't find a resize option. i don't like my keyboards taking half of the screen, i need to scale it down [edit] nevermind, found it scrolling below all the themes

I was using Yandex but I'm giving futo a try typing this comment. It seems a little sluggish but still very usable. Thanks for the recommendation

Yep im really liking this. Already installed it. Though im noticing if you type too fast it cant quite keep up. Doesnt register all the touch inputs.

Looking forward to the FUTA keyboard :)

This is awesome

Been using this keyboard for a few days. It's definitely not as good for me. Glad to hear it's working well for other folks

Long press to delete by word and smaller font size are the only options I want that are missing

I works great and it feels fantastic almost like the Windows Phone 10 Keyboard, which was one of the best ones.

One thing I like is you can put the courser controls above the keyboard.

I'm still using HeliBoard because it has more customizability. On Futo I can't customize the layout to what I'm used to and I don't want to re-learn the exact button positions.

Really hope they add japanese and korean soon,would love to switch to it

I'm typing on Google Keyboard but thank the RU-vid Algorithm for recommending me this video. Instantly sold on this FUTO keyboard!

i love louis he is amazing!