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Your keyboard is the most invasive app on your phone. Gboard is good — genuinely good — and I’m not here to argue otherwise. My only problem with it is that it’s owned by an advertising company that’d love to know everything about me.
I stuck with it for so long because I couldn’t find an alternative that matched it without being owned by another tech giant. Then I stumbled onto FUTO Keyboard, and that excuse stopped working.
Do you trust Gboard with everything you type? 79 votes Yes, but I have nothing to hide 22 % Not really, but I use it anyway 46 % No, and I've already switched 19 % I've never thought about it 14 %
FUTO Keyboard gave me the peace of mind Gboard never did
Pankil Shah / Android Authority
Everything you type — your passwords, your bank details, and even your personal messages — passes through your keyboard first. And that’s exactly why using Gboard, or any keyboard that collects data under the guise of “usage statistics” or “diagnostics,” is a problem.
Just head to Gboard’s “Data safety” section on the Play Store and you’ll see what I mean. Sure, most of it is optional and allegedly anonymized, but that’s still not comforting. Above all, when another keyboard can match it feature for feature while being genuinely privacy-friendly, it’s hard to argue the case for Gboard.
I no longer second-guess what I type. That mental overhead is just gone.
Unlike Gboard, FUTO Keyboard doesn’t ask for any faith. While it isn’t fully open-source, it is source-available — which means anyone can inspect the code if they want to verify how the app works under the hood. FUTO doesn’t ask you to create an account simply because there’s no need. You also won’t find any telemetry toggle buried three menus deep or constant “help improve FUTO” prompts. FUTO’s approach is closer to what a keyboard should’ve been from the start: a local tool that does its job and keeps its mouth shut.
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