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.

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

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

I downloaded the FUTA keyboard and it looks weird.

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Just instealled it and used it. Instantly love it.

Just bought this. It's incredible

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!

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.

Amazing video!

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.

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

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

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

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.

Thanks for showing it, I may wanna try it myself

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

just installed it, looks nice!

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.

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.

Perfect keyboard I'm using it right now

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.

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

Just what I needed

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

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

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.

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

Thanks man this is great

Couldn't come at a better time. Copilot is a real threat, Simple got sold to an ad farm and Fleksy isn't going anywhere fast. The FUTO keyboard feels real good!

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.

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!

Got it since 2 days. All good so far 😀

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="100">1:40</a> 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

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

Regarding the payment not working for you: Aren't you offline?

This is awesome

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.

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

Swiftkeyer for like 10 years here. I tried futo's, but press-and-hold specials and a better Dvorak layout keep me with Swiftkey for now.

Hows the swipe tying compare to GBoard?

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

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.

Well, I also finally installed it. Really nice.

thanks, very useful

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

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.

Downloaded. 😁

loved it

does it have it's own separate clipboard?

Looking forward to the FUTA keyboard :)

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

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 <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="347">5:47</a>. Weird place for it imo, it should be in typing prefs)

Instantly uninstalled MS Swiftkey after installing Futo and trying it for 2 minutes. Really good.

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

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

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

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

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

does it have language support for other languages like Cebuano, Tagalog, Japanese, etc? otherwise, I'll stick to SwiftKey for this

Great catch. Swiftkey has been having issues for awhile. Will give Futo a try. Did you see the other apps the developer is working on?

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

does voice writing really doesn't requires internet? my mum don't have data in its plan and because of an injury she can't type.

i love louis he is amazing!

Does it have a tab key?

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

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

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!

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.

How does one reduce its size? Its the only thing holding me back. Nvm, found it

Does it have a way to make it bilingual bc I usually have SwiftKey on the Swedish keyboard but I write I'm both English and Swedish without changing the keyboard, is it possible?

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??

Samsung Keyboard with good lock additions is the best keyboard out there. Has some awesome features that integrate with the OS like no other. But i will probably get angry comments to this, oh well. But I really like the idea of a fully offline keyboard.

seems like a cool keyboard, I didn't notice any issues myself when using it however I noticed there aren't any options for Japanese, Mandarin or Korean. I hope they add these languages soon though I understand the wait seeing as hey require an IME to function properly

I am using AnySoft Keyboard for a while. It looks like it's foss and it has decent support of languages (it is crutial for a keyboard). Also I like the multiple layouts of symbols and an ability to open a numpad in any context. No fancy features like swiping or voice type. But I'm an old-school mobile user enough, so I don't miss them. 😂

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.

I 110% support what they're doing, and it's about time someone used an ML prediction engine, which should have been the first use case for LLMs. But I wouldn't rep it too hard at this point. I used it yesterday and went straight back to SwiftKey (a keyboard I loathe), for three+ very important UX reasons. ~~Yes, FUTO has big edit controls, but you have to toggle a button at the top and scroll to the end of a top action bar to get to it. TO MOVE THE CURSOR~~ Okay, the placement is still terrible, but apparently touch and slide on spacebar (instead of hold and slide) works for cursor adjustments. Thanks for clarification, person in comments. -relevant to needing to edit: It doesn't really understand when you type two short words together and miss the space bar (which you have to hit a lot more than SwiftKey), so it just results in a mangled, misspelled aglutinated mess. Same thing with a single word with a single stray character at the end. * The swipe backspace just deletes a random amount of characters, making it useless. Long hold to delete last word in SwiftKey is absolutely vital to my typing. * The dictionary still won't suggest the word that I have actually typed (with a single character error), but suggests two others that are less orthographically similar. SwiftKey itself is also terrible about just not having thousands of basic vocab words, and that's the main reason I hate it with a burning passion, despite using it right now.

I also stopped using Microsoft Swiftkey the moment they started suggesting stuff based on my input and clipboard. I mean, why do I need to Bing whatever that is that I'm typing?

I have been using it for couple of days I love this keyboard. It is peach of mind knowing that my keyboard is not connected to internet and it was not made by tech billionaires.

Any word on if this will ever come to iPhone? I’ve been watching Louis for years and would like to support this product.

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