An Android keyboard that pairs visible, swipe-through post-typing correction with full spacebar gesture control — the Fleksy power-user combo no FOSS keyboard fully replicates

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Multilingual power users who relied on Fleksy (pulled from the app stores around 2024 and now crashing) want a keyboard where you scrub through and accept or delete word suggestions with up/down swipes after typing, where the spacebar both moves the cursor and switches languages without hiding the suggestion bar, and where word-delete is an accelerating swipe — all in a borderless, minimalist UI. Gboard, HeliBoard, FlorisBoard and FUTO each deliver pieces but none the whole combination. The asker says it doesn't have to be FOSS if it's private, polished and reputable.

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The non-obvious win isn't yet another swipe keyboard — it's making correction visible and gestural (scrub suggestions, save or delete a word with up/down) while keeping the spacebar doing double duty for cursor and language. FUTO already proves users will adopt a paid-philosophy keyboard here; match its language handling and beat it specifically on post-typing correction UX.

landscape (4 existing solutions)

Fleksy set a power-user bar — visible correction scrubbing plus a multi-function spacebar — that the FOSS successors are converging on but none has fully matched. The unmet need is the specific combination, not any single feature, which is why a heavy Fleksy user who has tried five keyboards still has no home.

FUTO Keyboard Closest and actively improving — now shows 3 post-swipe alternatives and supports spacebar language switching — but per FUTO's own docs, disabling spacebar-language-switch hides the suggestion bar, so you can't cleanly have both spacebar cursor movement and language switching, and post-typing correction scrubbing is still limited.

HeliBoard Applies autocorrection blindly without surfacing selectable options alongside the toolbar; swipe-delete is limited to the backspace key; spacebar can't simultaneously handle cursor movement and language switching.

FlorisBoard Word-correction system still immature/non-functional for this user; no cursor-movement gestures; theming is CSS-based and too complex to configure.

Gboard No visible, gestural post-input correction control; minimal theming; clunky text selection; closed-source and tied to Google.

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other https://lemmy.world/post/48207814 "Looking for a keyboard app with excellent UI to replace Fleksy" 2026-06-15

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