Thumb-Key vs Whisper+
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
Thumb-Key
Thumb-Key is a privacy-conscious smart keyboard, made specifically for your thumbs. It features a 3x3 grid layout, and uses swipes for the less common letters. Its easy to learn, and designed for fast typing speeds. Instead of relying on profit-driven, privacy-offending word and sentence prediction for accuracy, as do most popular phone keyboards like Gboard and Swiftkey, Thumb-Key uses large keys with predictable positions, to prevent your eyes from hunting and pecking for letters. As the key positions get ingrained into your muscle memory, eventually you'll be able to appromixate the fast speeds of touch-typing, your eyes never having to leave the text edit area. This project is a follow-up to the now unmaintained (and closed-source) MessagEase Keyboard, which is its main inspiration.
Whisper+
Whisper+ is an input method editor (IME) with voice recognition based on Whisper It can work as standalone app and also offers an IME which can e.g. be activated via the microphone button in HeliBoard. At first start it needs to download the Whisper models from Hugging Face. Voice recognition works completely offline. As standalone app Whisper+ can also translate any supported language to English. To get the most out of Whisper+: Press and hold the button while speaking Pause briefly before starting to speak Speak clearly, loudly, and at a moderate pace Please note that there is a limit of 30s for each recording
| Feature | Thumb-Key | Whisper+ |
|---|---|---|
| License | AGPL-3.0-only | GPL-3.0-only |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHubIzzyOnDroid | F-DroidGitHub |
| Categories | ProductivityBrowserKeyboard | ProductivityKeyboard |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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