MessagEase decided to go subscription-based, here's some alternatives

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2 years ago

MessagEase[1] is an Excellent alternative keyboard for mobile that I've been using for years... but it's not very maintained, and the maker recently decided to go subscription-based in a very messy way[2].

As an alternative I found thumb-key[3], which provides the same basic idea but the differences BREAK MY BRAIN and after some back-and-forth with the dev I realized that he doesn't intend to bridge the gap. So I decided to fork it and implement the features myself[4]. If someone knows Kotlin and is interested, any help will be appreciated =)

Another alternative I found is Unexpected Keyboard[5], someone made a MessagEase-like layout[6], but it's the same problem of your brain breaking because of missing or misplaced things, so this one is also a no-go for me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MessagEase

[2] https://twitter.com/_ragingdawn/status/1753840734602686825

[3] https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key

[4] https://github.com/asdkant/open-thumb

[5] https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard

[6] https://lemmy.ml/post/7576039

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