Basically, what the title says. Do you use any app, that is proprietary, but either has no OSS alternatives or they're all not good enough? If there is an alternative, what keeps you from switching?

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

A keyboard with swipe typing, multilingual autocorrect and speech to text support that actually works.

Other than that, my only proprietary apps are from commercial services I use and pay for (banking, Spotify, Carsharing and public transport). I'd love for them to become open source, but it's probably not ever gonna happen, cause they rely on verifying my identity.

[–] Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I've had a good experience with HeliBoard

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago

Japanese has been an open issue for months now, so it's a nope from me.

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

X2. I don't like it, but I still use that libswype Google blob to get swipe-writing. I wish they could produce their own in the future.

[–] Kasupke@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

HeliBoard in combination with FUTO Voice Input is recommended. Unfortunately, the word prediction isn't too good.

[–] chebra@mstdn.io 1 points 2 months ago

@Kasupke are we recommending proprietary software here in the open-source lemmy community?

[–] jsnfwlr@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried openboard? Admittedly it doesn't the text to soeech

[–] superkret@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

yes, tried it.